New Virgogray Web Promotionals

Posted by virgograypress on February 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

  We are pleased to share a new set of Virgogray Press web promotionals featuring some of the latest releases currently available. The set includes Doctori Sadisco, Gillian Prew, Chris D’Errico and Subhankar Das. If you’d like to purchase any of these titles online, click this link:   Virgogray Books. Please feel free to save … Read more

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“By the Banks of the Ajoy…” Reviewed by Federica Nightingale

Posted by virgograypress on January 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

The last poetry collection by Subhankar Das, “By the Banks of the Ajoy, Jaideb Vanishes into the Blue”, is a true jump into a world of images and stunning views of ordinary life. Edited by Virgogray Press, the book is printed bilingual, in English and Bangla. The title poem of the book alludes to authors … Read more

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Video: Marc Olmsted @ Quiet Lightning

Posted by virgograypress on October 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

The following is Marc Olmsted reading his poem “Hong Kong Bardo” as part of Quiet Lightning, a summer reading series at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on September 5, 2011. The video is by Evan Karp. More information can be found at http://www.litseen.com/  

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Peter Magliocco on Chris D’Errico’s Vegas Implosions

Posted by virgograypress on October 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

    “One of Sin City’s best poets, Chris D’Errico displays superbluesy intellectual verve     & formal dexterity in poems exploring the aboveground & underground facts of     life/death in Vegas, where implosive humanity vies with the insect pestilence he     exterminates … Question is, which side is winning?”   Peter Magliocco writes from Las Vegas, … Read more

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Michael Aaron Casares speaks with Gregory Miller on Voice of the People Radio

Posted by virgograypress on September 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

         Publisher, poet and editor Michael Aaron Casares will be a guest on Voice of the People Radio on Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 7 PM Central / 8 PM Eastern. The program will simulcast live on UPRN 105.3 FM New Orleans, LA, as well as on the Exogeny Network on the Internet. Michael Aaron previously appeared as a … Read more

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    • Dr. Yogesh Sharma - Two Poems February 23, 2012
      Death -A New BeginningO! Death don’t scare your children,One may doubt the existence of god,But can’t doubt your reality,Omnipresent death is always with me,But I don’t fear the mightiest of all.There is a mysterious door,But where are the keys, nobody knows;Looking impatiently and praying to God,Life keeps on moving and without stop,Age keeps on running and […]
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      Elected to the Needlesa room.scene 2.bare.light bulb.the females rest boneless in the boudoir.sound of nails scraping the labeloff of a methadone bottlewhite soiled plasticpale stained digitsfluid orange somewhat palebare.style of forgetting wanting to get thereunblinkingblack felineno opinionsurveyingfood swallowed without incidentvomited back upwithout pai […]

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      Public Health Proposal What if it was in the water? Hope, I mean--added like fluoridefor our health! It would be pouredinto baby bottles,mixed with formula,so that at an early ageit would become a part of us,stored in our cellsfor later. In schools,it would flowfrom the water fountains--leading teachers to trust studentsto never give up! We would bathe in it […]
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