PWP Releases FOR LINCOLN by AUSTIN ALEXIS. 3/28 Book Launch at Bengal Curry!

FOR LINCOLN & OTHER POEMS by Austin Alexis ISBN 978-0-9841844-3-9 soft cover - saddle-stitched - 36 pp. $10 (+ $1.50 S&H) Poets Wear Prada Release Date: March 2010 Austin Alexis contemplates the way time's passage alters our sense of artists such as Chopin, Haydn, Poe, and Martha Graham as well as, among others, grandparents, Einstein, and presidents Lincoln and Obama. The way the poet cultivates sound, sense, and form, he grows, as he writes George Sand did for Chopin, "the branch he needs / in order to soar." — George Held, author of Phased, Grounded, and other poetry collections By use of precise imaginings, Austin Alexis allows us an intimacy with select artists: Chopin, or a street poet, or Lincoln, that great artist of rhetoric and vision. An engaged and observant poet, Alexis reveals grace, connection, legend and mortality. This book is an ode to all of us. — Sarah Sarai, author of The Future Is Happy The poet's vision enables the reader to see connections between Einstein and Merce Cunningham whose choreography "penetrates... the mysteries of space time [and] weight," and how Lincoln's last day actually culminates in another with the inauguration of Barack Obama: "each verse a fetus / waiting to be born / in the heart of a reader." — Linda Lerner, author of Something is Burning in Brooklyn, and thirteen other collections About the Author Poems and stories by Austin Alexis have appeared in journals such as Six Sentences and Tuesday Shorts and in the chapbook Lovers and Drag Queens (Poets Wear Prada, 2007). Recently he served as a panelist for The Bronx Council on the Arts Literary Fellowships. One of his poems won a prize in the 2008 Poets for Forest Competition. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of anthologies, including Bowl of Stories (Oregon Council of Teachers Anthology Winners Publication), Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), Dinner with the Muse (Ra Rays Press), Art's Buoyant Felicity: Art/Healing/Creativity (Lickle Nine Press), and And We the Creatures (Dream Horse Press), among others. Meet the Author at the Following Events: Sunday March 28 5:30PM - 7:30PM Phoenix Reading Series ~ presents ~ *Linda Lerner & Austin Alexis* @ Bengal Curry 65 West Broadway (Between Murray & Warren Sts. 11/2 blocks South of Chambers) New York, NY 10007 212.571.1122 $3 Donation Dinner, Snacks & Soft Drinks Available for Purchase Open Reading Hosts: Michael Graves & George Spencer Take A, C, 1 to Chambers or E to last stop WTC Saturday May 1st 4PM-6PM (Note: open mic sign up ends at 5PM) The Shout Out ~AUSTIN ALEXIS~ Otto's Shrunken Head 538 East 14th Street Between Avenues A&B Hosted by Hobo Bob and Obsidian $3 Hobo Fee (and please patronize the bar!) Time Square Shout Out!: timessquareshoutout.blogspot.com Hobo Bob: theadventuresofhobobob.blogspot.com OBSIDIAN: obsidianthemystic.blogspot.com A SHOUT OUT AT OTTOS! Anthology Blogsite: theshoutoutatottos.blogspot.com Monday July 12th 7:30PM till 10PM Saturn Series ~AUSTIN ALEXIS~ Nightingale Lounge 213 2nd Avenue at East 13th Street New York, NY Age 21 & up Open Reading $3 Suggested Donation + 2 Drink/$10 Minimum at the Bar Hosted by Su Polo & David Elsasser http://www.supolo.com/ * * * POETS WEAR PRADA C/O Roxanne Hoffman 533 Bloomfield Street - 2nd Floor Hoboken, NJ 07030 http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/ http://poetswearprada.blogspot.com http://thesmokingbook.blogspot.com/ POETS WEAR PRADA is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey devoted to introducing new authors through limited edition, high- quality chaplets, primarily of poetry. New press, great authors, a publisher who is one miracle short of sainthood.-Angelo Verga, Poetry Curator of The Cornelia Street Cafe Poets Wear Prada is a poetry publishing house with excellent poets and affordable books with beautiful covers. Have you had your poetry today?-Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers Stylistically, these beautifully designed and produced chaplets bear their own distinctive signature.-Linda Lerner, Small Press Review Proud Member of CLMP http://www.myspace.com/poetswearprada http://www.youtube.com/pradapoet http://gcast.com/u/pradapoet http://twitter.com/pradapoet http://twitter.com/flordelconcreto