BoneWorld Publishing

To all of our faithful readers who have been waiting breathlessly for the January issue of Barbaric Yawp--Hark!  We've transformed the issue to February, we printed copies this weekend & will mail them out SOON.  Sorry to everyone who's waited; I thank you for your patience.  It's a good issue, certainly worth waiting for.  To everyone who's submitted chapbooks & other sundry items for future consideration, please wait until the semester's over for any intelligent ...

I was good in 2010.  As proof I offer the fact that Santa delivered to me, quite as a surprise, a set of acrylic paints, a sketchbook, like two dozen brushes, & six small canvases.  My first creation was painted on Christmas Day.  I call it "Future," & it's rather bleak.

Not much to say.  Holidays are a nasty, brutish time.  I'm paraphrasing Thomas Hobbes here, & he was talking about something else.  I rather like the holidays, if th...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Okay, here is the official tally on our nominations for the next Pushcart Prize, chosen by the good Pushcart people in April of next year.  If we don't hear by May, then it looks like we've lost...again....

Anyway, the nominees are: Julie Ann August for her marvelous story "The Cultivator" in the January 2010 issue of Barbaric Yawp. 

Pamela Klein for her heavy poem "Testing Gravity...

What a Sunday!  We've gone through all the chapbook submissions & have made most of our selections.  Letters will go out this week.  And last Tuesday (irrelevant detail) we made our picks for this year's prestigious Pushcart Prize.  Once all the nominees have been notified I'll post the names in a future blog.  As publishers we're allowed to nominate no more than six pieces each year for the Prize.  We've never had a winner, so maybe this year w...

Advertising works!  Just two weeks ago I posted our great Clearance Sale offer of $2 for a sample copy of Barbaric Yawp, & that includes the postage.  Well, we've already sold one!!  But we've plenty more so don't wait.  Order your 1/2-price copy of Barbaric Yawp today!

We haven't quite gotten to our Pushcart Prize picks yet, but we've scheduled a big meeting for Tuesday night to make final decisions.  Again, I will announce our selections right ...

Another four months hath passed.  Well, three & a half.  I swear on the blood of my German & Polish ancestors that I'll visit this blog & add to it w/ increased frequency.  Okay.  Things are going well in BoneWorld.  For everyone waiting for the October issue, we've just finished printing them this weekend & I'll commence to mail the sweethearts out soon.  I love the new cover.  And the contents have a particularly varied tone & style.
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Yeah, now four months later....

Hey, big news to all our readers in the NYC Metro area.  BoneWorld authors Francine Witte & Thaddeus Rutkowski will give a reading together tomorrow night, that's Monday, July 19th, at 7:00, at the Nightengale Lounge on the corner of 13th Street & 2nd Avenue, in dear old Manhattan.  Francine is quite an accomplished poet, although she's mostly known for her flash fiction.  And Thaddeus, well, the guy is a reader of great...

I had planned to update this blog every couple of weeks, & here it's been two months. 

I guess the big news in BoneWorld is that Nancy Henry's poem, "People Who Take Care," will be republished by Longman Publishers, a division of Pearson Education, in what will be a fat (1,256 pages) college textbook, focusing on literature & the writing process, set for publication soon.  We published this poem in Nancy's chapbook, Hard, back in 2003.  ...

Okay, I'm settling into this blog thing.  What a curious word, blog, apparently a shortened version of the original "web log".  We spent the Christmas holiday in Virginia.  Two highlights.  Saw the film Avatar at the IMAX in Hampton, Virginia.  What an experience, my first time at an IMAX; the nearest one to us here in northern New York is roughly a two-hour drive.  I found Avatar simply overwhelming, both visually & audially.  David Denby,...

Isn't that a great word, Gazebo?  It sure is, & that's where the next SLAP meeting will be held, this Tuesday @ 6:30, June 23rd, 2009, at the Gazebo in Ives Park in Potsdam.  If you don't know where the Park is, look past the parking lot directly across from the Roxy Theater & keep walking.  And bring your assignment, which is to write a soliloquy, as though you were a character in a play, like Hamlet or Lear.  But write your soliloquy in a poetic style, like sweet...