News From A Bird
J. Townsend and Nicholas A. DeBoer have launched Con/Crescent Press:
“Born on the cusp of the New Year, 2009, Con/Crescent Press is a merging of critical thinking and creative production. Its aim is to release high quality chapbooks from emerging poets, as well as a bi-annual journal focused on the art of critical response, philosophical treatise, political discourse, and discursively formed spaces for theoretical work.
Some points of reference include George Oppen, William Carlos Williams, Barbara Guest, Nathaniel Mackey, Walter Benjamin, Simone Weil, Denise Levertov, Jacques Derrida, Guy Debord and others whose work continues to blur the line between the poetic and the critical.”
Con/Crescent is currently accepting essay and essay-like submissions for the Spring Issue, Con/Crescent 1.
And in other news: 
On Saturday, March 28th, Debrah Morkun, acclaimed poet & gypsy, will be reading somewhere in Philadelphia during the day (more on this later) and I (Patrick Lucy) will be reading along with Ish Klein the same evening at the University City Arts League.
On Sunday, March 29th, the New Philadelphia Poets resume our regular series with an evening of vispo, sound experiments, readings & open mic unpredictability at Germ Books.
