Many many thanks!

Dear Tavern fans--just a quick thank-you note for the support you've given the press lately. There are many myths in the book world that we've always found ridiculous. One of the big ones is that nobody buys poetry books. Well, the proof is in the pudding--this is just one mail day at the Tavern Books home office. And most of these are limited-edition pamphlets. We have faith in the books we publish, and we're delighted to see that you do, too! Cheers, and many thanks!

Book drive for rural libraries, 501(c)(3), and the future!

Greetings, Tavern fans. Just a quick update to let you know that, as of last week, we filed our 501(c)(3) application for charitable, not-for-profit status with the IRS. We're excited to transition into the nonprofit world, and we have a ton of plans for both future publishing and community outreach.

One project we're particularly excited about is building and sustaining the poetry collections in rural Oregon libraries as well as the libraries and/or community centers of Oregon’s indigenous peoples. You can help us get these projects rolling by sending us your used or new poetry books, poetry anthologies, and books pertaining to poetry and poetics. No donation is too large or too small. Every book counts! We will acquire these books and redistribute them to rural libraries and indigenous communities. Tavern Books is committed to making great works of poetry available to the reading public.

Feel free to send your book donations to:

TAVERN BOOKS
attn: Carl Adamshick
20 NE 30th Avenue
Portland, Oregon
97232

Many thanks! Feel free to forward this link to anyone who might take an interest. Cheers, and happy reading!

George Hitchcock, The Last Poems

George Hitchcock (1914-2010) is one of the true inspirations in the landscape of postwar poetry in the United States. If you haven't already, head down to your local antiquarian bookseller or rare books librarian and check out some back issues of Hitchcock's kayak magazine (1964-1984). Take a seat, because these issues of kayak are, bar none, the most forward-thinking and brilliantly edited (and decorated) magazines in recent poetic history.

We are thrilled to announce that we'll be printing Hitchcock's posthumous work 6-Minute Poems sometime this fall. 6-Minute Poems will collect the final poems George was writing as he entered his 96th year.

For further reading, check out the Hitchcock omnibus One-Man Boat edited by Robert McDowell and Joseph Bednarik (Story Line Press, 2003). Click here to read Mr. Hitchcock's New York Times obituary.

Cheers!

Notes On Sea & Shore flying out the door!

Tavern Books has been filling book orders and marching to the Post Office every day (literally!) in July since we released Greta Wrolstad's Notes On Sea & Shore. We are thrilled to have Greta's book in our catalog, and, as with all of our titles, we will keep this book in print for all to enjoy. Happy reading!

Zach, Wrolstad, and Buson books hot off the press

We've just added three great new titles to our catalog: Greta Wrolstad's Notes on Sea & Shore; Yosa Buson's Buson : Haiku (translated by Franz Wright); and Natan Zach's The Countries We Live In (translated by Peter Everwine). All three titles mark a first. Notes on Sea & Shore is the late Greta Wrolstad's first book publication. Buson : Haiku is the first time any of Franz Wright's Buson translations have been in print. And The Countries We Live In, in addition to being the most comprehensive Zach book in print, is the only book of Natan Zach's poetry available in English.

Also added to the catalog are new broadsides by Natan Zach, Zubair Ahmed, and Yosa Buson.

Currently in the works are books by Else Lasker-Schüler (Eavan Boland, trans.), Tomas Tranströmer (Samuel Charters, trans.), and David Wevill.

Cheer's and happy reading!

Congratulations Tavern author Zubair Ahmed!

Congratulations are in order for Zubair Ahmed, whose first full-length collection, City of Rivers, has recently been accepted for publication by McSweeney's and will appear as a title in their forthcoming McSweeney's Poetry Series. Zubair's chapbook, Ashulia, is soon to be published with Tavern Books. You can find some of Zubair's handiwork in forthcoming issues of The Believer and Tin House.

Cheers!

Many titles just around the corner!

The months of June and July will be big for Tavern Books. Among our forthcoming titles is the book featured here, Buson : Haiku, a collection of 39 Buson poems (including the last poem Buson wrote) translated by Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright.

Hot off the press is Peter Everwine's translation of Natan Zach's early selected poems, The Countries We Live In. We should receive those books from the printer in the next two weeks.

Cheers!