People visit. People people and often poet people and writer people. Ever book-loving people, mostly.*

YESTERDAY:
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BONUS

* Sometimes it's complicated.

Books Just In! (So new they may not have a description or cover scan.)
Zero Readership: An Epic by Filip Marinovich (Ugly Duckling Presse)
City of Corners by John Godfrey (Wave Books)
The Surface of Motion by Rebecca Goodman (Green Integer Books)
The Number before Infinity by Zack Rogow (Scarlet Tanager Books)
Abortion & Life by Jennifer Baumgardner with photographs by Tara Todras-Whitehill (Akashic Books)
Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Volume 24, Number 3, Summer 2008) 32^nd Anniversary Issue with New Full-Color Art Section

Strangely Marked Metal and Flamingo Watching are back in stock.

The first two books, both published by Copper Beech Press, by Bay Area poet Kay Ryan, just named to be the 16th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Congratulations, Kay.

JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Just In! New titles from Gallery 16 Editions!
BILL by Bill Berkson & Colter Jacobsen
The Boy Who Would Be Tsar: The Art of Prince Andrew Romanoff by Andrew Romanoff
Good Times: Bad Trips edited by Cliff Hengst & Scott Hewicker
People Who Look like Me by Alice Shaw
James F. Miles Is a Boyfriend and a Girlfriend with Harrell Fletcher by James F. Miles
Postcards from Vermont by Tucker Nichols
Victory Gardens 2007+ by Amy Franceschini

Books Just In! (So new they may not have a description or cover scan.)
Dear Ra by Johannes Göransson (Starcherone Books)
Anatomic by Ali Lawrence (Small Desk Press)
D.C. Noir 2: The Classics edited by George Pelecanos (Akashic Books)
Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics edited by Lawrence Block (Akashic Books)
Falling into Velázquez by Mary Kaiser (Slapering Hol Press)
Listening to the Rhino: Violence and Healing in a Scientific Age by Janet O. Dallet (Aequitas Books)

Books Just In! (So new they may not have a description or cover scan.)
Absolutely Eden by Bobbie Louise Hawkins (United Artists Books)
Pain Plus Thyme by Joe Amato (Factory School)
Red Noir by Anne Waldman (farfalla press / McMillan & Parrish)
Brainlifts by Tom Savage (Straw Gate Books)
The Midnight Blade of Some Honey by Eric W. Bragg, with illustrations by Ribitch (Oyster Moon Press)
The Somnambulist Footprints: A Collection of Surrealist Tales by Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Shibek, Andrew Torch, J. Karl Bogartte, Xtian, Merl, Mattias Forshage, Mariela Arzadun, Eric W. Bragg, Matt Rounsville, Daniel Boyer, Ribitch, and Philip Kane (Oyster Moon Press)

Check out SPD's BESTSELLER list in The New York Times!

Books Just In! (So new they may not have a description or cover scan.)
The Turning by Maxine Chernoff (Apogee Press)
Winged Wows by H.D. Moe (Beatitude Press)
Dogstar and Poems from Other Planets by Garrett Lambrev (Beatitude Press)
Borders, edited by Susanne Christensen & Audun Lindholm (ChainLinks)
Arc: Cleavage of Ghosts by Noam Mor (Spuyten Duyvil)

New SPD Blog!

Check out "SPD Today" for updates on new books, events, and people at SPD!

Here is a photo of Alli Warren, Lindsey Boldt, and Neil Alger, beloved SPD staff members, who have now moved on, as they say, to other glorious opportunities. This is at their departing ceremony at the house of board member Juliana Spahr. The cake was delicious.