FOLKS, WE HAVE A WINNER...

SPD declares four way winner to Make SPD Famous Contest!

We were deluged with so many entries for our Make SPD Famous contest – okay, we got four – that we decided to award any SPD book (under forty bucks) to each of the talented contenders. Winners are

Patrick Dugin

Steven Fama

Mike McQuillian

Dan Glass



Below are the winning poems:



Untitled
by Patrick Durgin

I do small, press the issue. I think big
About us, our "we" little locution.
We supercede the same sensate instinct
And ready each their distribution.
You lie in wait for proper reflection
Of this amorous determination.
To each their own totality and each
Another's fond retaliation.
I know you know, I do the do; what's more
Is what repeats. Like "nothing" else, "nothing,"
No likeness invents a seed, a spore,
No one. From many comes none, but rushing.
In any sound resemblance we mistook
Identical digits built for a book.


Untitled
by Steven Fama

bantam press distribution, diminutive press distribution, dinky press distribution, dwarf press distribution, dwarfish press distribution, itty-bitty press distribution, itty-bitty teeny-weeny press distribution, itty-bitty teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot press distribution, infinitesimal press distribution, little press distribution, meager press distribution (or meagre press distribution), micro press distribution, microscopic press distribution (also microscopical press distribution), midget press distribution, miniature press distribution, miniaturized press distribution, minute press distribution, petite press distribution, pint-size press distribution (or pint-sized press distribution), pocket-size press distribution (or pocket-sized press distribution), puny press distribution, pygmy press distribution, scant press distribution, scanty press distribution, scrubby press distribution, skimpy press distribution, slender press distribution, slight press distribution, slim press distribution, small press distribution, smallish press distribution, stunted press distribution, teeny press distribution, teeny-weeny press distribution, teeny-weeny yellow polka-dot press distribution, tiny press distribution, underweight press distribution, undersized press distribution, wee press distribution


Poesy of Shivers
by Mike McQuillian


Small Press Distribution

Mails her books upon books upon books.

All unfamiliar to me, until their pages

Lasso me, an unruly pig that she has given her

Life for a while. After I shower, she reads me

Poetry that pushes my mind outwards, rumbling

River overflowing its banks. I feel the poetry

Every time I touch her, hear it in her

Shivers. We have our fingertips, parted lips, and mail from

Small Press Distribution


Untitled
by Dan Glass

Sauntering cities caper
iMagining scale models:
giAnt systems for small
saiLs on the Bay. Which
swalLows measure? If it
says Please though then
maybe Reason’s a friend
& you hEart acronyms; I
NYC yourS SPD I’ll just
say it. IS history your
BFF? Let iDentity count
for absent Indochina or
this BaronesS we met in
1973 among SiTuationist
bookstores, a Revealing
map of 1885 agaInst the
wall, & their amBulance
-back exchange doUbling
as a street. Then The a
was de, as we love Inky
burning night, the sOur
urbanism, a revolutioN!