RMP authors all over the internet

Jim Goar's The Louisiana Purchase got a lovely recent write-up in The Barn Owl Review in which reviewer Eric Morris writes "The fortunate part, though, is that this new frontier, this new midriff of America, is a pleasure to wander, a pleasant place to be lost in, if only to discover we were never lost at all." Read the whole thing here. And Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson's I Take Back the Sponge Cake got not one but two lovely recent write-ups, one in Curbside Splendor in which Joey Pizzolato calls it "an incredible coffee table book—and I mean that in a good way. Guests can read it from beginning to end in minutes; but the book also offers the possibility of a deep, intensive read on par with your favorite novel," and one by Horse Less Press in which Jen Tynes and Megan Burns write the authors a collaborative open letter. You can read both of the reviews in their entirety here and here. Last but not least, Kelcey Parker got interviewed by the Southeast Review and discussed, among other things, her forthcoming Frank Lloyd Wright-focused novella in flash, Liliane's Balcony. You can read the whole thing here.

Jim Goar's U.S. Tour... and Video!

The Louisiana Purchase author Jim Goar just completed an East Coast reading tour with events in Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, Providence, and Boston. Thanks to all who came out to hear Jim read from his linked series of poems offering an alternate and personal history of Lewis and Clark's journey through the Louisiana Purchase. Thanks also to D.C.'s In Your Ear reading series, Brooklyn's Stain of Poetry series, Providence's CousCous Sur L'Herbe reading series, and Boston's Dirty Water reading series for including Jim in their line-ups!

If you couldn't make it out to his readings, check out the below video of Jim reading at the DC Arts Center. Also, catch Jim reading this July 7 in Raleigh at the So and So reading series.

Round up!

Rose Metal Press titles and authors have been buzzing up the internet in a variety of places, including:

Necessary Fiction which contains this excerpt from the "Janie" section of Kelcey Parker's forthcoming novella-in-flash, Liliane's Balcony.

Poet as Radio which featured Carol Guess, Jim Goar, and Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson last month--you can hear the program here.

New Pages which lists I Take Back the Sponge Cake by Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson among their New & Noteworthy books here.

And the Seattle Channel's Art Zone with Nancy Guppy TV program, which included I Take Back the Sponge Cake--you can see the book's appearance around the 21st minute here.

The Chicago Tribune has done a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Interview...

...with lyrical choose-your-own-adventure authors Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson, authors of I Take Back the Sponge Cake. You can read the interview here. Thanks to Courtney Crowder for conducting the adventure.

Gaper's Block likes I Take Back the Sponge Cake...

...and they say so here. "It is this "serious playfulness" that makes the book unique. If you've got a spare hour set aside for daydreaming and (preferably) a hammock, I suggest you pick it up and have a go at this surreal adventure," writes Kelly Reaves.

The Second Annual Independent Publishing Conference at Berea College...

...took place last weekend, and was hosted once again by Loreal Bell (in the purple shirt) and Vicky Hayes (in the plaid) of the college Learning Center, and it featured more presses than last year, including Sarabande represented by Caroline Casey (in the stripes) below:
There was a poetry slam held in a converted movie theatre, which Abby and Kathleen helped judge...
..and afterwards, there was rollerskating (with glowsticks), along with Anthony DiFiore of InGroup Press:
On Saturday, Abby taught a seminar about the various types of editing and how to find careers in the field..

...and Kathleen taught one on assorted kinds of hybridity making innovations in the publishing field:

Thanks to the students for attending...

...and the Learning Center for hosting!

Mel Bosworth of Outsider Writers Collective and Press..

..completely gets the choose-your-own-adventure structure and charm of I Take Back the Sponge Cake by Loren Erdrich and Sierra Nelson. See?

"At the end of each poem and image pairing, the reader is presented with a fill-in-the-blank sentence and must choose between two homonyms to determine the next step of the experience. The construct is clever, not to mention relevant and culturally adaptive in this age of hyperlinks and touch-screen devices, and the worn interface of printed page and reader is injected with new life. The book is looping and fast, two traits that lend to its compulsive readability and also to its power to move the reader to begin again and again, hungry to try different routes."

Read the whole review here. Thanks, Mel!