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 2008-09 Chapbook decision

The info on this years chapbook contest and finalists--

The four finalists (in no particular order were):

Martin Arnold from Greensboro, NC
Andrew Zawacki from Athens, GA
Farid Matuk from Dallas Texas
Adrianne Kalfopoulou from Athens Greece


Second Place was Elizabeth Robinson whose chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press.


Elizabeth Robinson has been the recipient of grants from the Fund for Poetry and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her book Pure Descent won the National Poetry Series in 2002, and Apprehend won the Fence Modern Poets Prize in 2003. Her most recent collection of poems is The Orphan & its Relations. Robinson co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks with Colleen Lookingbill and Instance Press with Beth Anderson and Laura Sims. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at Naropa University.


The winner of the Pavement Saw Chapbook Contest for 2008-09 was Brian Teare. In addition to winning $500, he will be given 50 copies of the collection. His chapbook will be published by Pavement Saw Press in a run of 435 copies by the end of 2009.


Brian Teare is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and MacDowell Colony. He has published poetry and criticism in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter, Seneca Review, Verse and VOLT, as well as in the anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn. His first book, The Room Where I Was Born, won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His second book, Sight Map, is out from University of California Press; his third, Pleasure, will be published in 2010 by Ahsahta Press. He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches and makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.