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Monday, January 14, 2008
We have some exciting changes to announce here at Swerve hq - most notably the addition of Elizabeth Zuba to the masthead as Associate Editor. Elizabeth has been "around" the magazine since its inception. She will be Swerve's eyes and ears (and feet and hands) in the U.S. Elizabeth's keen eye and broad reading tastes will help immeasurably. You may be hearing from her. In fact, you may already have heard from her. Both Elizabeth and I had eventful 2007s - she had her second child in the summer and moved into a not-quite-rehabbed house in Prospect Heights in December after some stressful family-of-four couch-surfing. She survived, the new kitchen has been delivered, and she's ready to start reading poems again. I upped stakes and moved from Brooklyn to Germany in August. I made it, my wife made it, the cats made it, my German is improving from impossibly bad to comically bad, and we're settled enough to start thinking about the next issue of the magazine. More on that as it develops. Happy new year. Fred.
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Friday, May 11, 2007
 The Big News - Swerve 16 lands in your mailbox next week! Really exciting long poem cycles from Kate Hall, Juliet Patterson and Lynn Xu, plus a batch of new poems from Chris Hosea. Artwork by Adam Chapman. Issue is 48 pages in two sections, single-sewn into a 9"x7" cover (with a pleat in the cover... Swerve: "saving the accordions for Cinco de Mayo"). So, we're assembling the issue May 12-13 in Brooklyn. If you're interested in coming through to witness/sew, drop an email to swervemagazine@earthlink.net for details. This will be the last assembly party in New York for the foreseeable future, because Lily and I are moving to Germany this summer (buried lede alert!). Swerve will keep going from Kassel, joining other English-language literary journals operating in Europe. The printing press was invented in Germany, right? Okay, good. Landing on fertile soil. So a shout out to all Swerve's European readers and poets, send word!
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Emerging from the bunker to give you a little update on Swerve and other things: ...Swerve 15 is available over the counter, without a prescription, at ADAM'S BOOKS in Brooklyn. If you haven't been to this new shop, it's a real gem. New and Used. ...If you don't know about it (and I didn't until recently... the downside of living in a bunker...), check out Shanna Compton's DIY Publishing Webring for links and reviews. More paper than you can handle. ...Dear friend and Swerve 9-10 art collaborator M.P. Landis underwent a successful kidney transplant yesterday. You read that right... Fellow Brooklyn artist Tom Abbs was a match and donated a kidney to Landis. For those interested in donating to the M.P. Landis transplant fund, visit HERE. ...I was recently contacted by a poet who is also an editor at Versal, an English-language magazine out of Amsterdam. Click through for more about what's happening in continental Europe. ...Gearing up for Swerve 16... I was originally planning an issue of contemporary poets in translation, but have tabled that theme for Swerve 17. More on Swerve 16 as it unfolds. ...In other news...  ... Lily performed this weekend ... ... She will spend the spring 2007 as a guest artist with Johannes Wieland at the StaatsTheater Kassel, Germany. Feel free to invite me over to dinner any time from the end of January to the beginning of July. ...  ... Robinson and I ran the NYC Marathon last month. Crazy day, when New Yorkers come out and yell for you rather than at you. We squeaked home just under 2:48. I'll post a photo when I find one that doesn't look like it foretells my death.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006
All you subscribers keep an eye on your mailboxes - Swerve 15 ships tomorrow - via Media Mail in the U.S. and airmail overseas. The issue was held up slightly while I solved a printing problem (of my own making) and ironed out a couple design elements (how to punch a hole. How to cut an oval.). Big thanks go out to folks who helped assemble the issue: Addie Juell, Eric Kjensrud, Elizabeth Zuba, Lynn Xu, m loncar, Amanda Schafer, Dennis Potami and the official Swerve 15 stew-chef, Lily Stillwell. Dennis has an ultimate set of power tools, which allowed us to make a steel oval cutting guide for the cover. Eric's encyclopedic knowledge of welding tools led me to the punch which was used to create the thumb-pull on the cover. I tucked a copy in my bag this morning for the commute. It's a treat.
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Monday, July 24, 2006
Okay, so Swerve joins the land of the blogs... A little bit on Swerve 15... The issue will be five folios stacked in an open-sided wrapper, 8"x7.25", 44 pages, 150 copies. The folios slide in and out. I got the idea for the design from a French poetry magazine from the 1970s called TERRIERS. The wrapper features artwork by Addie Juell, a photo of cloud stickers. white on white. subtle. The issue features poems by Brian Engel-Fuentes, Karin Wraley Barbee, Brenda Coultas and James Grinwis. Today I received paper samples for the issue. Yeah! More on that soon. Addie prints the covers next week. Assembly is very simple. No sewing. I expect them to hit the mail in the first half of August.
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