It's alive!

OK folks, so check it out: First things first, we're brand new at this, so this blog should be changing quite a bit in the next few days. A few bits of tantalizing KO news:

(1) Todd Boss's first book, Yellowrocket, was just released by W.W. Norton. You can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Yellowrocket-Poems-Todd-Boss/dp/0393067688

Todd's also doing a pair of readings in the Bay Area next week. You can catch him here:

MONDAY 02-23-09 at 6:30 P.M.
AT BOOK PASSAGE, 1 FERRY BUILDING (NEIGHBORHOOD EMBARCADERO),
SAN FRANCISCO: http://www.bookpassage.com/

and here:

AT BLACK OAK BOOKS: TUESDAY 02-24-09 at 7:00 P.M. 1491 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley. http://www.blackoakbooks.com/

TODD BOSS: http://www.toddbosspoet.com/

(2) Tim Nolan's new book, The Sound Of It, was just released from the fine folks New Rivers Press. (Incidentially, Brett used to work there as an undergrad). You can pick the book up here: http://www.amazon.com/Sound-Many-Voices-Project/dp/0898232414

Also check out: http://www.newriverspress.com/

(3) If that weren't enough, these two fine fellas were just nominated for a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry along with Heid Erdrich and KO-friend Margaret Hasse. Check out more about that here: http://www.thefriends.org/news.htm#21stfinalists

(4) This list isn't definitive by any means. I'll be updating this list as soon as I can.

(5) In case you didn't know, we're giving 5% of our proceeds from our second issue (which was just released) to charity. We're donating to The Trevor Project (the Trevor Project), an organization that seeks to prevent suicide in the GLBTQ population. Check 'em out: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/.

(6) To that end (and just for the fun of it) we designed a few Knockout T-shirts, magnets, buttons, and so on. Again, proceeds from these products will go to KO and to our associated causes. So pick one up. A few of the designs are just silly. For these, you may blame Brett. (Yes, he likes dinosaurs. Especially this one: http://www.cafepress.com/knockoutpoetry.358218131.)

Check them all out: www.cafepress.com/knockoutpoetry

--OK, that's it for now. And spread the word about KO. We're doing our best to do good.

--Brett