el pobre Mouse

Second Collage Art Pahtay

2006-03-02T10:33:00.000-08:00

the first el pobre collage party happened last weekend in kyle's courtyard and was so much fun. we spraypainted
we collaged
we sang the ramones. i'll post some pics tonight.

we are having another one--we still have 100 covers of issue #3 to ART UP!!!

pls come this sunday at 6 pm to sara's apartment for more arty, glittery fun....email sara.maria.larsen@gmail.com for directions.....

xoxo, the Mouse.

V-day is for mice.

2006-01-19T15:01:00.000-08:00

yo kids

the mouse has a HOPEFUL publication date for issue #3!

Valentines Day 2006 --more info coming soon on the collage pah-tays,

and all other super incidentals. until then, paramours....

The Middle of December and We're On

2005-12-08T12:05:00.000-08:00

el pobre Mouse #3 is rolling along with a fine suspension and a little bumpity-bump. Having finished our selection process, we are beginning to design a page layout and send out our response emails.

A Sneak Peak at some of our contributors for #3:

David Larsen Stephanie Young Robert Creeley interviewed by Brent Cunningham Teresa Sparks Ellen Redbird Stephen Ratcliffe Brandon Brown Sean MacInnes Melissa Benham

and many more.

We'll be doing layout and editing in January. I'd love to have this come out in early February - hold us too it, we'll let you know if this is a dream or reality. If you care to maintain that distinction.

Cheers,

Kyle

Doubly Circulatory

2005-11-11T11:21:00.000-08:00

Artifact Press*

is pleased to announce the release of

Sara M. Larsen's

Doubly Circulatory

with cover art by Stacy Elaine Dacheux

Sara M. Larsen lives in San Francisco where she is the co-editor of the literary journal el pobre Mouse, with Kyle Kaufman, and founder of Ampersand Press & Sound. She currently studies with Diane di Prima and writes for the American Book Review. Her work has been published in 3 \2 , Bombay Gin, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Combo, el pobre Mouse, One Less: Art on the Range, and Urvox.

This edition of 150 is priced at $6

& may be ordered through
artifactsf@gamail.com
or sending a check to:
Melissa Benham
2921 Folsom Street Apt. B
San Francisco, CA 94110

sara can be seen reading from the chapbook @:

Saturday, Nov. 12th
Artifact Reading Series
921B Folsom St. (at 25th St.)
BYOB
7:30pm
with readings by
Sara M. Larsen, Laura Moriarty, & Cynthia Sailers

Tuesday, November 15
Friends and Students of Diane di Prima Reading Series presents:

Jenny Jo Wennlund
Todd Melicker
Sara M Larsen hosted by Diane di Prima

7:30 PM FREE

Bird and Beckett Books and Records
2788 Diamond (near Chenery)
(Glen Park BART Station)
Info: 415.586.3733

EL POBRE NEWS

2005-10-25T15:58:00.000-07:00

so i wonder if you wonder what is up with the mouse as of late? here's some news for y'all:

**kyle and i are meeting tonight at our usual coffee place to talk about #3. i think, give or take a submission promised here or there, we have all of the submissions and are about to start the long, fun part of reading and discussing it all. it's definately my favorite part of the whole lit-mag process. we'll also talk about the cover, the cover party, and hopefully set some deadlines, including a FINAL deadline for #3 to go to press.

tho we hope it's been part of our charm, we are hoping to be a bit more organized as we go on.

thanks to everyone who sent us work, art and writing alike!

**the new salon (yet un-named--i'm still pining to call it the Dragons Are Goodlooking Salon) at my house last sunday night (tho it will be nomadic--next one at Shonni's) was awesome. thanks to everyone for coming. we talked poetics, drank wine and saki, and ate lots of cheese. i love poets. just put out some cheese, eventually someone will show up at your house with a manuscript.

**there are alot of amazing readings happening in SF right now. i'll post some upcoming ones when i can--a good source for those in the meantime can be found at www.artifactseries.blogspot.com
also check out kyle's blog: www.werdenfield.blogspot.com for excellent links to other poets and projects.

**in other news, el pobre mouse has actually bought a domain on the internet, elpobremouse.com. we are not very .com-y, we are really more .org-y (or orgy) but what the hell. thanks muchly to jack and the guys at knack design for hosting us and basically putting a fire under the ass of the whole website thing. so blogging days at this site are relatively numbered--though i'm sure it'll take us a while to get it going, we be so sluggin.

much love,
sara

october 15 again again

2005-10-09T19:02:00.000-07:00

hey yous guys.

send us some work and check out the current el pobre if you haven't already. below are some pictures from our collage party for issue #2.

we're planning some similar collective action for the covers of #3.

soft deadline october 15. but not too soft. but soft.

send submissions to elpobremouse@gmail.com 3-5 pgs max prose poetry art whatnot.

el pobre #2 collage pah-tay.

2005-10-09T18:55:00.000-07:00

it was fun to play frogger around the books all spread out on my bedroom rug.

bless 'm, that philip whalen.

o c t o b e r 1 5 , 2 0 0 5

2005-10-09T17:03:00.000-07:00

Hello. All submissions for el pobre mouse #3 are due on October 15th, less than a week off. This is a s*o*f*t deadline. Meaning that it takes us a few days to move into our editing, so being a l*i*t*t*l*e late is no cause for grand concern. But we do get a little scared, so help us out and heed the call.

A couple posts below you'll find what we're looking for. Namely, your work.

Hope you like our new look.

2005-08-17T10:03:00.000-07:00

el pobre ARCHIVES

el pobre Mouse #1: sold out.
el pobre Mouse #2: $5-10 each, sliding scale, postage included.

#2 features:

gayle leyton lee ballentine kyle kaufman matt langley dylan hock dave gardner carl della badia jim goar marlowe fawcett max whetstine nikki widner aaron auslender kari edwards patrick scanlon justin kishbaugh summer rodman melissa r. benham ellen redbird stacy elaine dacheux jenny wennlund john sullivan delia tramontina thomas henwood

Each copy comes with a handmade collage cover, a product of el pobre's San Francisco collage parties. Which are open to all - if you live in the bay area, drop us a line, and we'll invite you to the cover party for #3.

2005-08-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

el pobre Mouse #3

el pobre Mouse invites all manner of innovative, electric, and alarming work for our third issue. we encourage you to send in prose, hybrid, drama, notes, intvws, essays, sketches, diagrams, flowcharts, crumpled miscellania, and of course, poetry and poetics. we are interested in work that can provoke further work: conversation, contemplation, response.

submission deadline: october 15

we accept submissions electronically, or by mail (submission deadline: october 15 ) to

el pobre Mouse / 899 Oak Street #7 / San Francisco, CA 94117

elpobremouse@gmail.com

each copy of our third issue will be hand-assembled, and hand-painted. as always, it is an act of community, and done with love. we look forward to seeing yr work. issue 1 is sold out. copies of issue 2 are available for $5-10 each, sliding scale, from the above address. each copy is a handmade product of our San Francisco collage parties.

yours, the eds,

kyle kaufman and sara m larsen

2005-07-22T16:40:00.000-07:00

hola pobre friends.
we have finally created a teeny little el Pobre Mouse website.
we'll be posting updates on when to submit to the mouse, where you can find it, and
what is happening poetics-wise in the community. a forum, if you will. both me and hopefully kyle will be posting here, semi-regularly. i couldn't commit to my own space (as some of you know from the demise of oakandmercury), so i'm sublimating in the mouse (is that correct usage of "sublimating")? if not, consider it poetic license.

pics of the el Pobre Mouse #2 are forthcoming.
much love, sara*