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Books2005 All of our books may be purchased online by using PayPal and clicking on the links listed below. If you prefer not to use PayPal, send us a check made out to "Palm Press" and please add $2.00 per title for shipping.
¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight! Mark Nowak
Mark Nowak is author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down (afterword by Amiri Baraka), and co-editor (with Diane Glancy) of Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings after the Detours, all from Coffee House Press. He is the editor of the journal Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics and founder of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers. His verse play "Capitalization" (about Reagan's firing of striking PATCO workers) won a development grant from the Stage Left Theatre in Chicago, where it premiered in 2004; another verse play about a Teamster organizer, "Francine Michalek Drives Bread", premiered at UAW Local 879 in St. Paul, Minnesota, in March 2003. Nowak's essay on gothic-industrial music and deindustrialization in America's rust belt is forthcoming in Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke University Press). Saddle stapled. 40 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-5-9 (dis)Orient James Thomas Stevens ...and we even traced out from their reports a map of the whole of the new country. Hand-sewn. 28 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-3-2 Birds of Los Angeles Wendy S. Walters
Through gesture and image, Birds of Los Angeles is a modern, metaphysical exploration of the way Southern California’s rich cultural and environmental landscapes are misperceived. Hand-sewn. 32 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-2-4 An Educated Heart Mairéad Byrne
Hand-sewn. 34 pages. $10.00 ISBN 0-9743181-4-0 Political Cactus Poems Jonathan Skinner
Little Dictionary of Sounds: poems written as echoes to recorded sounds, embedded as media (Quicktime) files in this pdf. Open in Acrobat 6 and click on the title of each poem to hear the echoing sound. FOR JONATHAN SKINNER'S Political Cactus Poems: This is Very Good (that's WHY I used it when I taught at Mills, his Little Dictionary Of Sounds--I played the Tape Of The Sounds & GAVE THEM THE POEMS he had written!--I didn't have to TEACH!!) -- 'VOCABULARY' + 'STUDY' (somehow) Evidences THE WORLD AT LARGE in ManyWritten Poems--BRAVO!! --Robert Grenier The fact is, humanity's a drop in the bucket. But only scantily has poetry looked at the rest of the bucket. Jonathan Skinner in Political Cactus Poems makes a wonderful stab in that omnidirection. The language lays out its dynamics "as if" human and nature were one. Jonathan Skinner edits ecopoetics in Buffalo, NY where he misidentifies birds along the Niagara River. His chapbooks include Political Cactus Poems (Periplum Editions) and Little Dictionary of Sounds (RedDLines). Perfect-bound. 120 pages. $12.00. ISBN 0-9743181-1-6 Chapbooks: 2003-2004 things of each possible relation hashing against one another Juliana Spahr
things of each possible relation hashing against one another is a series of poems that opens with the view from the sea and end with the view from the land and are about the ecological hashing that happens as these two views meet in Hawai'i. Hand-sewn. 32 pages. $8.00 ISBN 0-9743181-0-8 Limited edition. Free PDF version of things of each possible relation hashing against one another forthcoming, 2005. Poetry, Politics and Translation: American Isolation & the Middle East Ammiel Alcalay
Based on a talk sponsored by the Cornell Forum for Justice and Peace in the series Critical Perspectives on the War on Terror.
To download a free PDF version of Poetry, Politics and Translation: American Isolation & the Middle East, by Ammiel Alcalay
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¡Workers of the Word, Unite and Fight! examines current crises in the literary landscape and book culture of the 
Borrowing from the North American Jesuit Relations and the Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses of the Jesuits in China, and woven into sensual personal narrative, this long poem focuses on the obsession of charting. 
Los Angeles is known to be the most photographed city in the world, and its deep connection to the movie industry means that it is frequently mistaken for someplace else. 
In juxtaposing poem sequences respective to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the breakdown of a family, An Educated Heart raises again the troublesome question of the relationship between the public and the private, in the specific context of a woman's voice. While the two sequences are clearly delineated, the collection also includes poems which could refer to family 
Skinner's work engages the various meanings of life outdoors, in the shape of a changing response to questions posed by the environments the poet physically inhabits. In part, the poetry operates as an instrument of research into a particular natural environment or a geological formation or species. In exchange, it offers forms of life measured to particular places, an invitation to inhabit the evolutionary imagination of the senses and of those places. His first book-length collection, Political Cactus Poems, which stem from the poet's life in the Southwest, challenges the pristine agenda of nature poetry by hybridizing themes from the lives of humans and cacti. 
Australian ethnohistorian Greg Dening argues that there are two views that define the Pacific: a view from the sea (the view of those who arrived from elsewhere) and the view from the land (those who were already there). 
From Charles Olson's application for a Fulbright to Iraq and his definition of the postmodern to the Black Panther Party's relationship to Algeria, poet, scholar, critic, translator and activist Ammiel Alcalay looks at how poetry and politics affect the way we see ourselves and the way Americans think about the Middle East.