Poetry Books x 4: Joris, Owens, Samuels, Dinh
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Four exciting poets of diverse culture and content present new humanistic and challenging books of poetry published by Chax Press.
Backers: 117
Average Pledge Per Backer: $56
Funded: $6,529 of $6,000
Dates: Apr 2nd -> Apr 26th (24 days)
Project By: Charles Alexander, Chax Press founder
Backers: 117
Average Pledge Per Backer: $56
Funded: $6,529 of $6,000
Dates: Apr 2nd -> Apr 26th (24 days)
Project By: Charles Alexander, Chax Press founder
$6,529
current pledge level
Last Updated: April 26 @ 17:45 -0400 GMT
108%
of goal
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Latest News
THANK YOU AGAIN! 
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Now at $6504 ($504 over goal!) with 50 minutes remaining! cheers & love to all of you! fine poetry & books to all of you! (Read More)
ALMOST FINISHED
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi friends, and thank you again. At this point, 90 minutes remain in this project fund drive, and we passed our goal of $6000, but would love to reach $6500, and we are only $16 away from that amount. Over the weekend we will be reaching out to... (Read More)
YES! YES! YES!
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We made it. I stepped away to wrap up some chapbooks to send to a festival in New York, and to send a book out to our friend Elizabeth Willis, and I stepped back to my desk and find that the marvelous ADAM GOODMAN, former Chax intern and forever... (Read More)
going . . . . going . . . .
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We are, as I write this, $113 from reaching our goal and making this project a success! Someone very soon will put us over the top, and we also will roll into the work for the project all funds received over and above the $6,000 goal. Thank you. I am... (Read More)
ONE ONE ONE ONE
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
We now have ONE day (30 hours to be more precise) to reach our goal in this campaign, and as it stands right now, we are $575 away from doing so. We have 100 donors who have given so far. If any of you who haven't already done so (a very few have)... (Read More)
YELLOW BLUE CENTER FALL
April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
This image of the painting by Elizabeth Murray will be the front cover image for Maureen Owen's terrific book, EDGES OF WATER, which we are so glad is part of this Chax Press project. Two more days, plus a little less than an hour, to give or give... (Read More)
Not-Quite-Midnight Train
April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
I sent this message out today in emails & on facebook. Please pass it on to friends! I just heard Gladys Knight & those amazing Pips singing "Midnight Train to Georgia" on the radio while driving home from teaching a play that at one or two... (Read More)
Edges of Water, by Maureen Owen
April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
I like SO MUCH in Maureen Owen's Edges of Water, so it's rather difficult to select something, but here's what I selected. I can only hope kickstarter respects the spacing. antecedently by previouslyborn from before If we walk into a restaurant... (Read More)
Thank you! (and a glimpse of another cover)
April 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you all! 3 days in a row now with gifts over $500 each, and today also began with a beautiful $125 gift. You are making this project happen. 3 more days:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2014940328/poetry-books-x-4-joris-owens-samuels-dinh... (Read More)
MEDITATIONS (a Beautiful Book!)
April 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Here is Nicole Peyrafitte's gorgeous cover for Pierre Joris's book, Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj.Just 4 more days to give to this project, supporting this book & more. Please tell your friends. (Read More)
With A Little Help From Our Friends
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Here's an image Tim Trace Peterson sent around, along with a message, to his email lists, on our behalf, to help us gain more support in this important campaign. We know we are lucky to have such friends. He copied the image he used from our... (Read More)
LINH DINH (correction
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
(correction to the last update) Linh Dinh's powerful work has put him on the American poetry map as an incisive and unmistakable voice and mark we all need. Yet he says, "Without Chax Press, I'd be nearly invisible as an American poet." Here's a... (Read More)
LINH DINH
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Linh Dinh's powerful work has put him on the American poetry map as an incisive and unmistakable voice and mark we all need. Yet he says, "Without Chax Press, I'd be nearly visible as an American poet." Here's a recent photo of Linh in Berkeley. (Read More)
GOING GOING
April 21st - via: kickstarter.com
In the last 21 hours we've had 14 gifts, ranging from $10 to $250. Thank you everyone! Five more days like that and we will definitely make or surpass our goal. And you are making it happen, making books happen, making poetry happen. FIVE more... (Read More)
Thank you!
April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all of you who have dived in. We're definitely headed in the right direction. We need to get farther (deeper?) in order to take some heads off. That is, remembering the words of Emily Dickinson, one of our favorite poets, one who inspired... (Read More)
A Peek Inside Our Studio (with Cynthia Miller)
April 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Hi all, Most of you know that Chax Press shares its warehouse studio space with the visual artist Cynthia Miller, who is on the Chax board (we are a nonprofit, 501c3 organization), and who is life-partner with Chax executive director Charles... (Read More)
Zoe Skoulding on Lisa Samuels
April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
UK Scholar Zoe Skoulding has published an essay on the work of Lisa Samuels, titled "Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities," in the new book, Placing Poetry (Rodolpi, 2013), and you can find out about it by following the link:... (Read More)
Here's a sweet review of Maureen Owen:
April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
"Mel Elberg on the incomparable Maureen Owen for the ides of Exit Strata's 30/30/30 poetry month series. http://www.exitstrata.com/2nd-annual-napomo-303030-day-15-mel-elberg-on-maureen-owen/ Support Maureen Owen's book, and works by Pierre Joris,... (Read More)
7 DAYS
April 18th - via: kickstarter.com
7 DAYS remain! If you've already given, ask someone else to give! Or if you can, give a bit more. Those of you who wait until the last week, this is it! Those of you who wait until the last day or so, get ready! (Read More)
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