Guerilla Poetics Project

hobart

hobart

I was in my local bookstore yesterday innocently flipping through Kerouac's Book of Sketches and BAM! I found a 3x3 (estimated dimensions) card with a beautiful poem on it. I had been attacked by the guerilla poetics project. Pleasantly attacked, more like being hugged from behind by a friend that you have not seen in a few years. Yeah, like that. So, thanks to Bill and all of your operatives for the underground-smile-providing service.

Cheers and keep it up.
 
xxedgexx

xxedgexx

I filled out the form. I would love to be a part of this. It's a very cool idea. Hopefully you are still accepting applicants for San Francisco and Los Angeles. I go to LA quite a bit.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
The new Broadsides are arrived. They are absolutely beautiful! Justin Barrett must be smiling...

For more GPP: www.quercusreview.com

Featured POETS: Guerilla Poetics Project
with poems by David Barker, Doug Draime, Christopher Harter, Michael Phillips, Ross Runfola, Justin Barrett, Luis C. Berriozabal, Glenn W. Cooper, Tom Kryss, Glenn W. Cooper, C. Allen Rearick, William Taylor Jr., Soheyl Dahi, Michael Kriesel, & Kathleen Paul-Flanagan

Issue 7: Only 8 dollars plus 1 dollar shippingcosts! (Worldwide.)
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
Hey Folks,
For anyone interested.... This release is professionally perfect bound and is limited to only 200 copies. There are only about 40 copies left and we are about a week away from releasing this. We fully expect to sell out of this book at the time of release. All money goes directly to the project to help spread the word. Again, no one in this group makes a dime off of the sale of this book, or any other book that is sold on the website (www.guerillapoetics.org).

The GPP is proud to announce, in celebration of our 1st anniversary:

The GPPReader

Selections From The Poets Of The Guerilla Poetics Project

A beast of a compilation, perfect bound, slick glossy cover with a letterpress dust-jacket title band, 144 pages, edited by Ed Kauffman, featuring work from these talented GPP Poets:

David Barker - justin.barrett - Miles J. Bell - Luis C. Berriozabal - JJ Campbell - Alan Catlin - Leonard J. Cirino - Glenn W. Cooper - Christopher Cunningham - Soheyl Dahi - Dave Donovan - Doug Draime - Nathan Graziano - S.A. Griffin - Christopher Harter - Christopher Kornacki - Richard Krech - Mike Kriesel - Ellaraine Lockie - Adrian Manning - Al Markowitz - Hosho McCreesh - Brian McGettrick - Amanda Oaks - Bob Pajich - Kathleen Paul-Flanagan - Michael Phillips - Sam Pierstorff - C. Allen Rearick - Charles P. Ries - Ross Runfola - William Taylor, Jr. - Don Winter
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You can buy one at the store link on Guerillapoetics.org or by contacting me for a mailing address. The price is $15 post paid.

Thanks,
Bill
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
I've seen the selections and this is a really strong collection. Easily worth a measley $15, and I'd say that even if I wasn't involved.
 
Ponder

Ponder

"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Found the new broadsides today. The black S.A. Griffin poem is a little jewel.

gppbroadside.jpg
 
justine

justine

stop the penistry
Guerilla Poetics Project - The GPPReader: Selections From The Poets Of The Guerilla Poetics Project
A beast of a compilation, perfect bound, slick glossy cover with a letterpress dust-jacket title band, 144 pages, edited by Ed Kauffman--LIMITED TO 200 COPIES! LESS THAN 5 copies left...get it before it is history. $15
 
Father Luke

Father Luke

Founding member
I believe there are many unsung heroes in the GPP. The anonymous renegade printer surely leads the way.

Hosanna in the highest.
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
The secretive printer does resenble me at times, but at other times, it resembles others. The one that was posted by PONDER was not printed by anyone that looks like me. In fact, it was printed by a secretive printer in the Pacific Northwest....

Bill
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
Thanks. I am rumored to be the printer of that black one, although I cannot say for sure if the printer was indeed me or not. Many things are a blur lately. Hell, I don't know.

Anyone that is interested in joining the ranks of the anonymous printers please e-mail me at bill@bospress.net. Be warned, though. We are now up to 1200 broadsides each (twice a month) and double sided, so anyone that is interested should understand that agreeing to print a broadside means 2400 hand fed sheets per broadside (we publish 24 broadsides a year). We are lucky to have found some other like-minded people with great skills at letterpress and they are helping. The more people that we get involved will mean that each person prints less as there will not be the need to print 2 sets a month.

The anonymous printer is rumored to have printed about 18,000 broadsides in a little over a year. That would be 36,000 handfed impressions.

It takes 200 operatives to distribute these all over the world.

All credit for this project goes to the 200 people who believe in the idea enough to not only sign up with their money, but to spend the time that it takes to distribute these and help spread the word.

Best,
Bill
 
hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

Art should be its own hammer.
Moderator
Founding member
alright, I'm in.
$$$$ coming pronto.
does Canada have many operatives yet?
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Not sure how many, but I know there are some. We've had finds up there. I mean GPP has had finds up there. Why on earth I typed "we" is a mystery.

But no one in Nova Scotia, so yes, come on in. We need you.





Damn it, I did it again!
 
jordan

jordan

lothario speedwagon
i just joined, and then i submitted some poems... which makes me seem like i'm just using the GPP to get published- but I SWEAR that i'm not! i've been putting off joining for a year now, just like i've been putting off buying Bottle #5. but now i'm in.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Well, I believe you. But I would also guess that publication is the reason a lot of people joined, and that's fine too.

At least you had a choice. I was rousted from my bed around 4:30 one morning by some characters with nylons over their heads (and I think one had them on his legs too) and drafted into service, all because I innocently suggested that a database would be a useful tool to integrate into the web site to help keep track of everything. Since then I have been working from a solar powered laptop in a 12'x8' shack out in the high desert, and every week I ask them for food and water and every week they tell me, "You can go home soon..."

But I shouldn't complain. It's not all about me, after all.

They keep telling me that too.

And maybe it's the Stockholm Syndrome speaking, but I actually believe them...
 
Father Luke

Father Luke

Founding member
mjp said:
. . . drafted into service, all because I innocently suggested that
Click to expand...
Innocent suggestions sounds deadly. Good thing you were friendly to them.

Y'all watch out for those Guerilla Poets, now. You hear what I'm saying?

WATCH OUT!

(heh)
 
bospress.net

bospress.net

www.bospress.net
All members are encouraged to submit poems. Just keep in mind that they have to be short enough to fit on a 4.25" x 5.5" card. All members are free to vote, but any poems that are too long for the format are culled from the list before voting. Also, the voting is done completely blind. There are no names on poems, so people are voting for the poems, not the poets that they feel loyalty to vote for.

It is an amazing system that our captive (er, I mean webmaster) has created....

Bill
 
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