featuring 3 poems and an interview with Leigh Stein, Sunsets in Fredonia- a story by Janelle Rinker, Turnbuckle recedamorph- a story by Shyner Nybok, Tone Deaf in Bangkok a book review by Kristianne Huntsberger, the 20th CCACA Conference in pictures (part 2) photos by Aaron Dailey, Wolverine a movie review by Heather Craig, and Playlist #16 compiled by Melanie Uyeda.

Go here: http://thescrambler.com/june09

Enjoy

“Sometimes the lines drop quickly in columns shaped like a syringe or sometimes they break like the brim of a good tumbler. One cannot simply read this book once, drawn back to it by the allure one might associate with an absinthe cocktail. In fact, a kind of esoteric romance haunts these poems—edgy, dangerous, complex. Being that this is Calvert’s first published full-length collection, and the first book by California’s Scrambler Books, readers have much to look forward to from the future of both.

Read that and much more from a new review by Michael Roberson of Trevor Calvert’s Rarer and More Wonderful at Cutbank.

Issue 28 – May 2009 of The Scrambler is now available online at:
http://thescrambler.com/may09

featuring poetry by Paul Hostovsky, Chris Major, and Lyn Lifshin…5 photos by Aaron Dailey…the 20th CCACA Ceramics Conference in pictures…artwork by Aditi Laddha…State of Play & Tell No One a double movie review by Heather Craig…Playlist #15 compiled by Melanie Uyeda

Enjoy.

“I just keep thinking about what I haven’t written.”

From an interview done by Powell’s with forthcoming Scrambler Books author Shane Jones (A Cake Appeared will be out in Spring, 2010).

Scrambler Books author Trevor Calvert read from Rarer and More Wonderful at Crafton Hills College in southern California. Photo thanks to Saudade.

We would like to present Reanimated, Somehow a new book of poetry by Valerie Loveland. Pre-order your copy today at our website for $12 and get free shipping. Pre-orders will be filled and shipped on May 7, 2009.

Also, starting tonight, and every night until the poems run out, we will tweet the 1st line from each poem in Reanimated, Somehow. Get your sneak peek of the poems by following The Scrambler on Twitter.

Thanks for the support.

Exciting news to announce:

Scrambler contributor Sandra Beasley has just won the 2009 Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize. They will publish her new book of poems I Was the Jukebox which will have a poem first published in The Scrambler as The Orchard (to be titled Signs in her new book). Read our interview with her or listen to Sandra read her poems.

Congratulations Sandra and keep up the good work. And if you have not read her first book Theories of Falling, please pick up a copy here. Highly recommended.

We will be announcing a new promo for Valerie Loveland’s upcoming book of poetry Reanimated, Somehow very soon. Stay tuned and you will be able to purchase a copy in the next few days at our website.

The April issue (#27) is now online and available for your viewing pleasure at: http://www.thescrambler.com/apr09

It features an interview with author Shane Jones, poetry by Lisa Veyssiere, R.C. Miller, and Shyner Nybok & Teets Bombo, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven a book review by Kristianne Huntsberger, Monsters vs. Aliens a movie review by Heather Craig, 6 photos by Aaron Dailey, and Playlist #14 compiled by Melanie Uyeda.

I have just sent off the galley copy of Valerie Loveland’s Reanimated, Somehow a book of poetry to be out within a month or so. Here is the cover (front and back):