Best Poetry Chapbooks of 2011

These were my favorite chapbooks of 2011

1. Brian Teare: {upward arrow}
2. Mairead Byrne: Lucky (Little Red Leaves)
3. Tyrone Williams: Pink Tie (Hooke Press)
4. Patrick Culliton: Hornet Homily (Octopus Books)
   
5. George Kalamaras: Symposium on the Body's Left side (Shivastan Publishing)
6. Micah Ballard & Sunnylyn Thibodeaux (Auguste Press)
7. Bob Arnold: Forever (Longhouse)
8. Anne Bauer: Fine Absence (PSP)
9. Amy O'Neill: Rhymes with Fever (self published)
10. Juliet Cook: Post Stroke (Dusie Kollectiv)

Writers on this list are openly invited to submit a manuscript for publication (unless one was previously published by us). So far I have read manuscripts from two of these authors. Pavement Saw Press will publish a collection by Patrick Culliton, Horse Ballast, in 2012.


For the next "best of" chapbook list (2012), if you are an author or publisher and want to send a published chapbook for review, all will be read.

Pavement Saw
c/o David Baratier
321 Empire Street
Montpelier OH 43543

Those selected for the "best of" list will be considered for chapbook publication by Pavement Saw. Mailing a physical publication is necessary for inclusion on this list.

Pavement Saw 2010-11 Chapbook decision

Here is the info on the Pavement Saw 2010-11 Chapbook Award

This year was a split decision, the winners are

Anne Bauer from Helena, MT for Fine Absence
(her first collection ever!)
and
j/j hastain from Lafayette, CO, for extant shamanisms

these collections will both be published in a run of 400 copies plus overage later in 2011.

In order, the three finalists are

1. Matt Schumacher from Rhododendron, OR
2. Chris D'Errico from Las Vegas, NV
3. Alexander Dickow from France


Books were sent to all participants back in February. Thanks to all who entered!