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THE GRAND PIANO: PART 8 by Hejinian, Armantrout, Bernheimer, Perelman, Watten, Benson, Harryman, Mandel, Silliman, Robinson, & Pearson (Mode A/This Press)
EVEN THE DOG WON'T TOUCH ME by Tom Bradley (Ahadada Books)
CALYX VOL. 25 NO. 2 SUMMER 2009 edited by Ahrens, Eberman, McFarland, Silver, Smith (Calyx)
UTTERMOST PARADISE PLACE by Laura McKee (The American Poetry Review)
SHAMING THE DEVIL: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES by G. Winston James (Top Pen Press)
OULIPOEMS 2 by Philip Terry (Ahadada Books)
LES POEMES D'UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS OF A LOST LIFE by Hugh-Alain Dal (New Native Press/La Main Courante)
CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT by Timothy David Orme (BlazeVOX Books)
POOR MANNERS by Adam Halbur (Ahadada Books)
HUNTING AND PECKING by Rich Murphy (Ahadada Books)
THE BRISS by Michael Tregebov (New Star Books)
GODZENIE by Marcus Slease (BlazeVOX Books)
DESOLATION OF THE CHIMERA by Luis Cernuda (White Pine Press)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SETH by Kazim Ali (Etruscan Press)
THE POEMS OF VIKRAM BABU by Jesús Aguado (Host Publications)
GRAPPLING WITH THE GRUMBLIES by Deborah Miller (Bayeux Arts)
SLEEP NOT SLEEP by Harvey Ellis (Wolf Ridge Press)
INTO THE GOODHUE COUNTY JAIL: POEMS TO FREE PRISONERS by James P. Lenfestey (Red Dragonfly Press)
THE ARSENIC LOBSTER: A HYBRID MEMOIR by Peter Grandbois (Spuyten Duyvil)
ANNA IN-BETWEEN by Elizabeth Nunez (Akashic Books)
CONFESSIONS OF A EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED MUTHA by Melvin Van Peebles (Akashic Books)
THE CREEPY GIRL AND OTHER STORIES by Janet Mitchell (Starcherone Books)
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 1, POETRY & NONFICTION edited by Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff (Fence Books)
A BEST OF FENCE: THE FIRST NINE YEARS, VOLUME 2, FICTION & NONFICTION edited by Rebecca Wolff and Fence Staff (Fence Books)
LES POÉMES D'UNE VIE PERDUE: THE POEMS OF A LOST LIFE by Hugh-Alain Dal (New Native Press/La Main Courante)
NEIGHBOR by Rachel Levitsky (Ugly Duckling Presse)
TA(L)KING EYES by Jacque Vaught Brogan (Chax Press)
THE DOORS OF THE BODY by Mary Alexandra Agner (Mayapple Press)

SPD Poetry Bestsellers May/June 2009

1. FACE by Sherman Alexie (Hanging Loose Press)
2. ZAATARDIVA by Suheir Hammad (Cypher Books)
3. CLAMPDOWN by Jennifer Moxley (Flood Editions)
4. BREAKING POEMS by Suheir Hammad (Cypher Books)
5. FROM UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY by Craig Santos Perez (Tinfish Press)
6. DURING MY NERVOUS BREAKDOWN I WANT TO HAVE A BIOGRAPHER PRESENT by Brandon Scott Gorrell (Muumuu House)
7. THERE'S THE HAND AND THERE'S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaž Šalamun (Counterpath Press)
8. TO HELL WITH SLEEP by Anselm Berrigan (Letter Machine Editions)
9. FROM DAME QUICKLY by Jennifer Scappettone (Litmus Press)
10. YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM by Tao Lin (Action Books)
11. NEW DEPTHS OF DEADPAN by Michael Gizzi (Burning Deck)
12. THE BRITTLE AGE AND RETURNING UPLAND by René Char (Counterpath Press)
13. MAXIMUM GAGA by Lara Glenum (Action Books)
14. THE BASKETBALL ARTICLE by Bernadette Mayer & Anne Waldman (Shark Books)
15. HYPERGLOSSIA by Stacy Szymaszek (Litmus Press)
16. NETS by Jen Bervin (Ugly Duckling Presse)
17. PLEASE by Jericho Brown (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
18. DICK OF THE DEAD by Rachel Loden (Ahsahta Press)
19. HECATE LOCHIA by Hoa Nguyen (Hot Whiskey Press)
20. LIGHT LIGHT OR THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH by Harriet Zinnes (Marsh Hawk Press)
21. THE TANGLED LINE by Tod Marshall (Canarium Books)
22. THE BOOK OF FRANK by CAConrad (Chax Press)
23. A PLATE OF CHICKEN by Matthew Rohrer (Ugly Duckling Presse)
24. SOMETIMES MY HEART PUSHES MY RIBS by Ellen Kennedy (Muumuu House)
25. INCUBATION: A SPACE FOR MONSTERS by Bhanu Kapil (Leon Works)
26. POEMLAND by Chelsey Minnis (Wave Books)
27. PRAYERS LIKE SHOES by Ruth Forman (Whit Press)
28. STATIONS OF DESIRE: LOVE ELEGIES FROM IBN 'ARABI AND NEW POEMS by Michael Sells (Ibis Editions)
29. THE SELECTED POEMS OF STEVE CAREY by Steve Carey (Subpress)
30. WAR AND PEACE 4: VISION AND TEXT edited by Judith Goldman & Leslie Scalapino (O Books)

Thursday was a stellar day for visitors at SPD.

Suheir Hammad, author of the SPD blockbusters, ZAATARDIVA and BREAKING POEMS, came in with Elmaz Abinader. Suheir was teaching for Elmaz at a recent Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation workshop.

















Kasey Mohammad and Lacey Hunter also appeared suddenly. Kasey is fresh from teaching a conceptualist poetics class for Small Press Traffic. His most recent is BREATHALYZER. Lacey hails from UC Merced.