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          Supporting the art of writing in the Midwest

Our Twenty-Third Year...Over 100 books

Supported by grants from the Ohio Arts Council

 

Bottom Dog Press, Inc. is a non-profit literary and educational organization dedicated to publishing the best writing and art from the Midwest and beyond. We believe in a sense of place and person, in writing that reveals through its directness an essential human story. We also support the history and development of Working Class Literature, and we work to provide outlets for that writing and information on that vital art. See our new webpage:  Cleveland Poetry Scenes Chronology.

Address: Bottom Dog Press/ PO Box 425/ Huron, Ohio 44839 Phone: 419-433-5560 Ext. 20784/ Fax. 419-433-9696 / E-Mail LsmithDog@aol.com Director: Larry Smith. Associate Editors: David Shevin,  Susanna Schwacke, Allen Frost, Michael McMahon See Guideline link below for submission, and other content links. We are founding members of Independent Midwest Publishers and Authors Consortium Our books man be ordered through PAYPAL.  See catalog pages. We are PayPal Verified New:  Comments Welcome on Our New Blog:

Out Now Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology Edited by Mary E. Weems, Nina Freedlander Gibans, Larry Smith Cultural Timeline, Articles, Interviews, Profiles. Big 40 Poet Anthology with statements from poets. Supported by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council (cover design by Jim Lang, photo editor) 304 Pages/ 40 photos/ Cleveland Poetry Archives  web page link "Poetry has a long and living history in Cleveland, Ohio, and this examination of its past through the lens of its vibrant present  is a treasure in and of itself. They're all here, the great ones who showed the way: Langston Hughes, d.a.levy, Alberta Turner, Robert Wallace, Daniel Thompson. They set the bar pretty high. But as the editors demonstrate, their sons and daughters carry on, bringing the word to the city's streets and universities, libraries and coffee houses." -Ron Antonucci, Cleveland Public Library See images posted on Amazon.com   New Item: "i have a city to cover with lines" -d.a.levy t-shirt Pete Dell photo $15 + $2 shipping.   E-mail us to give size and shipping address. Photo image is on back of a gray Ash colored shirt. Recent Gathering of some of Cleveland's Key Poets at the Cleveland Public Library 4/27/2008 Link to this Michael Salinger's for identifications and more photos,   Harmony Series Books Page

Big New Collection d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution eds. Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg Chronology of his life and work, Biographical essays, Photographs, Interviews, Profiles, Statements, Letters, Art Work, Collage, Poems and Critical appreciations of his writing and art levy's “Cleveland Prints” Eight pages in full color Contributors: Ed Sanders, T.L. Kryss, rjs, Karl Young, Allen Frost, Joel Lipman, Kent Taylor, Mark Kuhar, Ingrid Swanberg, Larry Smith, Russell Salamon, John Jacob, Doug Manson, Michael Basinski, Jim Lang, and others Book includes 2006 dvd of Kon Petrochuk’s film   if i scratch, if i write 1-933964-07-3  276 pages $25

Our Way of Life Poems by Ray McNiece 132 pages, paper, ISBN 978-1-933964-14-0 $15.00 Our Working Lives Series    “It's not enough for an artist to be angry. He also has to be good. And Ray McNiece is good and angry in these poems that burn as hot and bright as the extinct blast furnaces of Ohio once did. Whitman, whose ghost is everywhere in these lines, called America "the greatest poem." And I am happy that Ray McNiece's passionate, relentless voice will not stop until he has made us understand how much we have lost.” – George Bilgere, author of The Good Kiss 132 pages, paper, ISBN  978-1-933964-14-0  $15.00

HARMONY SERIES OF BOOKS  (click here to order titles in this series) Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood by Joanne Jacobson “Magically, brilliantly, movingly, the particularity of Joanne Jacobson’s language captures the universal truths of childhood. I devoured Hunger Artist. It is a fresh and riveting memoir of the highest order.”   -Patricia Volk, author of My Dearest Friends 132 pages, paper   978-1933964-11-9, $16.00 “In her stunning debut memoir, Hunger Artist, Joanne Jacobson tells her story of growing up Jewish in a suburban world comprised not only of new houses and bright gardens and exuberant dreams for the future, but also of frustrated longings and unmet hungers. Her prose is at once gorgeous and meticulous…”  -Richard McCann, author of Mother of Sorrows

New from Our Working Lives Series  Bar Stories, edited by Nan Byrne Short Stories by: Mark Higgins, Matt Oliver, MO Walsh, Lou Fisher, Molly Hoekstra, Michael Piafsky,  Bruce Taylor, Karl Elder, GK Wuori, Gary Young, Harlyn Aizley,  Robert Flanagan, Lee Capps, & Lee K.Abbott "Whether you're carousing in LA, New York, or Boise, Idaho, you'll recognize your favorite watering hole in this glorious new book. Bar Stories has all the hook-ups, fall downs, colorful characters, and laughs of a great night of the town." -Chris Lukic, editor of NewYorkOnTap.com. 176 pages  978-1-933964-09-6   $14

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New Bird Dog Publishing, An imprint of Bottom Dog Press. Click on Bird Dog or Book Covers for Details & Ordering

Second Story Woman A Memoir of Second Chances Carole Calladine      A Life in Poems   by William C. Wright         (Bill Wright) Two Hundred Fifty-six Zones of Gray Poems by Rob Smith

Other Recent Bird Dog Titles           Another Life      Collected Poems      by Allen Frost      New book of stories from Larry Smith... His 3rd book of fiction. Depression Days on  an Appalachian Farm New book of Poems by Robert L. Tener Lake Effect: Poems Laura Treacy Bentley At long last, a book of Laura's poems of people and place. Winter Apples: Poems Paul S. Piper Poems of Nature & Family

New from Working Lives Series STREET (click here) Poems by Jim Daniels/ Photographs by Charlee Brodsky Working Lives Series Paperback, Hardcover, Special signed edition  2005         *Winner of the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award         Book of the year 2006  Working-Class Studies Association THE ART OF COUNTRY GRAIN ELEVATORS Poems by Jon Volkner Phtographs by Bruce Selyem

*d.a.levy & the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution* Double DVD   "d.a.levy: Cleveland Rebel Poet: Interview with Ed Sanders"   &       "Remembering d.a.levy: Reading from levyfest 2005"   $17 (postpaid)                       Famed levy book reappears thanks to Russell Salamon & T.L. Kryss Bottom Dog Press is helping distribute this reprint of the d.a. levy classic. $20 for hundreds of pages...b&w artwork poems, letters, reportage, collage, silkscreens

From the Paul Laurence Dunbar Series:    (click here) Escape to the Promised Land: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin Just Out...88 pgs. $12.95 “Martin once again shows his virtuosity as a  poet with a wonderfully tuned ear and a command of the rhythmical line....The poems throughout  show the spirit of the poet at work with his losses and loves, and the result is a book of deeply human and poetical power.”   —Len Roberts

New from Our Harmony Series                    The Lecture on Dust: Poems by Brooke Horvath 104 pages, cover art by James Lahey Out January 2007 Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality Eds. Gerry La Femina & Chad Prevost 31 Poets, 240 pages Profiles, Statements, Poems 120 Charles Street, The Village Journals & Other Writings 1949-1950 by Holly Beye Literary history recovered from daily journals of life in Greenwich Village The Search for the Reason Why: New and Selected Poems-by Tom Kryss  Harmony Series, paperback Special Edition, signed and with and colored print by author   Family Matters POEMS OF OUR FAMILIES                Eds. Ann Smith & Larry Smith                      150 poems/ 100 poets Inviting you to share their families. A Harmony Series Anthology

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********************************************* CARPENTER PRESS BOOKS NEW: Bottom Dog Press is handling Bob Fox's Clice here to review these titles and order through  us.   ********************************************* *Many of our books are published through supporting grants from The Ohio Arts Council. *Our events have been supported by the Ohio Humanities Council.

BEST OF HEARTLANDS: SELECTIONS FROM 15 YEARS OF MIDWEST ART AND LIFE  Special Issue & HEARTLANDS A MAGAZINE OF MIDWEST LIFE AND ART  Volume 4 Published by The Firelands Writing Center Personal Essays--Fiction--Poetry--Photo Essays & Reviews...Being at home with our place.  To Heartlands  Magazine  Homepage

Also Available:  A River Remains, Poems by Larry Smith       252 pages $20  A WordTech Selection                            WordTech Communications  Larry Smith’s A River Remains embodies the waterway of its title: in these poems the world is at once evanescent and  permanent, always changing, yet always there.  A collection of large scope built mostly from brief lyrics, narratives and meditations, it stands as the most compelling work from an  already distinguished career. "A River Remains is Larry Smith's most ambitious book, and his most rewarding; I suspect readers will develop loyalties to particular sections of the book and return to the poems in those sections again and again. Those new to Smith's work will discover the talent, skill, and insight of one of the wise elders of Ohio's poetic tribe, and those who know, and have known, Smith's work will recognize this for wat it is--his finest book yet." Robert Miltner, Ohioana Quarterly (January 2007) Available from Bottom Dog Press direct: $18

Click on Catalog below for fuller listings Contents Catalog of Bottom Dog Press Books & Heartlands Working Class Literature Upcoming Bottom Dog Press Books/ Events/Calls Populist Poems Series  Our Guidelines for Submission Order Mailing Form Also check into these Lit Links: Kenneth Patchen Festival in Cleveland--April 13 & 14th 2007   To See Images from the Patchen Festival, go to this free link. Cleveland Poetry Archive d.a.levy Chronology  His Life & Work and Times Cleveland Poetry Scenes Chronology Beat Chronology (cultural chronology of Beat Movement) Rebel Poets in America Tracing the Places of Kenneth & Miriam Patchen (homepage) Kenneth Patchen homepage on the Web Kenneth Patchen Festival Larry Smith Homepage Ray McNiece Homepage Last Updated on March 6, 2008 by Larry Smith

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