Paper ShreddersOrange Ocean Press, in addition to Next... Magazine, publishes anthologies on "unpoetic" subjects, and an occassional book by an individual SoCal performance poet. Books can be ordered from Orange Ocean Press, Box 13019, Long Beach, CA 90803, or e-mail to
NextMag@aol.com. All prices include postage. Orange Ocean Press is looking for poetry on laundromats and working in restaurants for upcoming anthologies. Submissions can be sent to either of the above addresses. Otherwise, Orange Ocean Press is not accepting unsolicited manuscripts. Most Orange Ocean Press books are bowerbooks, a binding technique invented by SoCal performance poet bowerbird intelligentleman. For more information on bowerbooks, write us. Bowerbooks are individually printed and assembled by hand. Therefore, they can be personalized to the recipient. For information on ordering personalized books, e-mail NextMag@aol.com.Paper ShreddersA collection of poetry and short stories about surfing. Includes work by Sebastian Debovian, Terrence E. Dunn, Charlene Goldman, Mauro Monteiro, Bob Mosley, C. Mulrooney, Richard Nester, Lawrence Schulz, Ward Smith, Christine Trzyna and many others.
A collection of poetry about pollution. Includes Tony Barnstone, Nancy Berg, Hal Bogotch, Diane Dorman, Terrence E. Dunn, Mary Freericks, John Gardiner, Walter Hopmans, Leslie Levy, C. Mulrooney, Richard Nester, Jeff Poniewaz, Scott Preston, Kate Reavey, Lawrence Schulz and others.
Five poems, four poets, three dead opossums, two pictures, one theme, infinite meanings.
A collection of poetry about traveling. Will include work by Bob Holman, R. Eirik Ott, Nicole Panter, Eric Priestley, Jerry Quickley, Juliette Torrez, and many, many others. Scheduled for release in Fall of 1997.
Some Possible PoetsCartoons about poets, with a few poems thrown in, by Walt Hopmans, a cornerstone of the Santa Barbara poetry scene. Many of these cartoons originally appeared in Next... Magazine. Even non-poets find this book hilarious.
"Psycho Boy" Tom Foster tells it as it is, first on the streets, and then home with the kids, in this collection of honest and often hilarious poetry.
American StreetsLawrence Schulz is one of SoCal's best known performance poets. American Streets, his first collection, contains many of his strongest performance pieces. Beautifully illustrated in B&W by Charles Ellik, soon to be a major name on the visual arts scene.
"Say It Strong sings like Paul Verlaine meets Charles Bukowski. Schulz sucks up whole landscapes, but never misses the deep-down rhythms of the street. Like Paul, he makes the skyline sing; like Buk, Schulz says it strong, straight and mean. I love this book." - Lee Mallory, poet, professor, producer extraordinaire.
"Ocean poems" by G. Murray Thomas, editor-in-chief of Orange Ocean Press. The companion piece to Death to the Real World ("poetry sucks" press), now out of print, which contains the "freeway poems."
Hit performance pieces by G. Murray Thomas. Published as part of the Laguna Poets reading series.
John W. Hart III wrote one poem for every day of the 1989 - 1992 LA Dodgers' seasons. This book contains the poems from 1989. An amazing collection any baseball or poetry fan will love. Somehow we have a whole stack of them.
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