The Line extends in a series of interlocking prose poems, creating a strobe-like effect of intensely imagined moments shifting between sleeping and waking.  Sharp, satirical, lush, or clear, the narrative voice twists through, seeking a line through time to braid its selves together.  Moxley's intrepid language tosses us into the swim--into a bracing intimacy with the writing consciousness.  

These prose poems tell the story of sleeping and waking, of this very bout of writing, of the search for the line of time and the poet's immortality.  The Line feels like a classic already, with its just words and its images "suggested by sound and experience."  It is a poetics but also a real, readable  tale.
                    —Alice Notley  

We're in the state between sleep and waking, where consciousness resists the tasks of reason and routine but instead views, from the perspective of darkness, the whole span from newborn promise to the old mammals’ erosion of muscle.  Moxley's usual keen intelligence here comes with an oneiric fluidity as it hunts through the perplexities of life for THE LINE from past to future, the line for words to form and, implicitly, the ideal line of verse these prose poems play against with their amazing leaps, sly humor, and complex inference.  You'll wish the morning sun would not win out, the book not come to its end
                    —Rosmarie Waldrop  

Via Jule Gardner of the Washington City Paper. Posted May 10, 2007.

Laura Brylawski-Miller is not exactly the picture of a struggling writer. She answers the door of her corner penthouse in Rosslyn impeccably dressed in a brown wrap dress, artful jewelry, her silver bob cut by someone who knows her way around a pair of scissors.

“They say you get tired of the view,” she says with an Italian accent, in the center of her glassed-in living room. “But I don’t think that’s possible.”

Brylawski-Miller, in her 70s, is the author of two novels and a book of poetry published through the Washington Writers’ Publishing House (WWPH), a small press collective that chooses two books—one novel and one book of poetry—each year.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , spotlights New York's Turtle Point Press:

This has come to be the season of the small press, at least as far as this column is concerned. Several months ago, I initiated a series of articles about Dryad Press, which is run out of Maryland by poet Merrill Leffler pretty much all by himself.

Then, when I was in the midst of reading, writing about and glorying in those titles, I was contacted by the public relations organization that represents Turtle Point Press, another small operation run out of a tiny office in New York City pretty much singlehandedly by Jonathan D. Rabinowitz. He identifies himself on his business card as publisher, but he manages to do just about everything else when it comes to his extraordinary line of books.

Rabinowitz, who is in his early 60s, but who sounds on the phone like a man in his 30s, with all the spirit and energy that that implies, fell into publishing -- head first, you might say. He began his working life at his family's chemical company in his home state of New Jersey not long after his graduation from Columbia University, where he'd majored in art history. He and one of his brothers had each inherited a portion of the business in 1966 after their mother's death. (The business had been founded by his father and an uncle).

Kate Casper of The Daily Iowan examines Iowa City's Impetus Press. Impetus Press is the brainchild of Willy Blackmore and Jennifer Banash, located in Iowa City, IA. They publish serious literary fiction with a pop edge that falls in-between the worlds of experimental and commercial publishing.

Jennifer Banash and Willy Blackmore have taken their small publishing house from an unknown, shoestring concern to an independent press that attracts half a dozen unsolicited manuscripts from across the country every day. Impetus Press, founded in August 2005, will even host a reading this month in Manhattan and another that will be broadcast May 29 on satellite radio.

With a lust for literary pop fiction, a great-grandfather's legacy, and fresh voices to be heard, Banash's and Blackmore's press is proving itself after a difficult first year in business. In January, Impetus passed a key small-press benchmark by signing on with a national distributor specializing in books from independent imprints, Biblio Distribution. The distributor handles storage, shipping, and bookstore marketing.

Nationwide distribution also brought Impetus attention on the literary scene. Across the country and on the Internet, book reviews, interviews, and features on Banash and Blackmore have drawn attention to this Iowa City press.

Writers' Notes announces the winners of the 2007 Eric Hoffer Award for Books, defining excellence in independent publishing.

Each year, The Eric Hoffer Book Award (formerly The Writers' Notes Book Award) seeks excellence in independent publishing. Entries come from academic, small, and micro presses, as well as self-published authors.

"We are very excited about using our international award program to honor the memory of one of America's greatest freethinkers," Christopher Klim said from his New Jersey office. "The Hoffer estate gave us their full blessing."

Klim is the senior editor of Writers' Notes, the international free resource tool at Writer's Notes that facilitates the annual Hoffer Award. He is also the praised author of several novels (Jesus Lives in Trenton, The Winners Circle, etc.). His upcoming novel, Idiot! (Fall 2007), has garnered high praise and competitive interest in Hollywood.

"Due to the economics, many publishers have simply given up on worthy books," said Klim. "An increasing number fall to independent presses. These presses are filling a void, no longer rivaling the larger presses."

While there is little question that larger book releases have become generic, independent press books are typically viewed on only a regional basis. Writers' Notes helps to introduce new titles to the larger reading public.