AWP Minneapolis: the bookfair haul

So, I’m back home in my beloved Portland, and despite having only carry-on bags for my trip, I’ve still managed to bring home quite a haul.

• Drew Andrews, The Shepherd’s Journals (Blue Skirt Press)
• Allie Marini Batts, Pictures from the Center of the Universe (Paper Nautilus)
• David Breeden, They’ve Played for Timelessness (with Chips of When) (VAC Poetry)
• David Breeden, This Is Just to Say (VAC Poetry)
• Matthew Burnside, Book of If & Ever (Red Bird Chapbooks)
• Matthew Burnside, Escapologies (Red Bird Chapbooks)
• Caroline Cabrera, The Bicycle Year (H_NGM_N Books)
• Chloe Caldwell, Women (SF/LD)
• Jenny Drai, The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow (Black Lawrence Press)
• Franki Elliot and Shawn Stucky, Kiss as Many Women As You Can (Curbside Splendor)
• Grant Faulkner, Fissures (Press 53)
• Molly Gaudry, Wild Thing (The Cupboard)
• Eirik Gumeny, Storybook Romance (Red Bird Chapbooks)
• Tamara Linse, How to Be a Man (Willow Words)
• Wendy C. Ortiz, Excavation (Future Tense Press) (bought from Reading Frenzy in Portland but signed at AWP)
• Liz Prato, Baby’s on Fire (Press 53)
• Amber Sparks & Robert Kloss (illustrated by Matt Kish), The Desert Places (Curbside Splendor)
• Joe Wilkins, Leviathan (Iron Horse)
• Bill Yarrow, Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press)

• American Literary Review
• The Common
• Driftless Review
• Ellipsis
• The Madison Review
• Night Train
• One Story (“Snow Men,” “The History of Living Forever,” and “World’s End“)

I also want to give a quick shout-out to a few of my favorite tables in the bookfair. There were loads, but I honestly didn’t get to every table — the bookfair was dizzying — so I can only highlight a few of the coolest of the ones I saw:

• Blue Skirt Productions, with crayons and music cds and their microfiction contest
• Driftless Review, with a board of paint-penned workshop one-liners
• The Common, with a map on which you could label the places where you told your stories (I pinned Cameron, Louisiana, for Hagridden)
• Broadsided Press, with a very cool set-up of themed micro-broadsides on viewfinder discs(!) and ambient audio on headphones
• The University of Louisiana-Lafayette graduate program, with the Rougarou literary journal (the staff there now have a copy of Hagridden, since we have the Louisiana bayou and the rougarou in common!)
• Zoetic Press, where I got a shot glass filled with St. George’s Terroir gin (new to me, but I liked it! good sipping gin to go with their good books)