CM Chapman’s MUSIC & BLOOD: Pre-order form

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Eric Waggoner

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CM Chapman’s collection of three short stories, MUSIC & BLOOD (Latham House Press, 2016) will be released on Feb 21, and is available now for online pre-order via the form below.

Reservation requests will be answered with an emailed invoice. When printed invoice is returned with payment, reserved copies will be mailed out same-day beginning Wednesday, February 22. Latham House Press pays shipping.

CONTENTS:

“Clem, The Cabot County Cannibal”
“Wolves”
“Modest Mussorgsky’s Bluegrass Jug Band Blog”

This is a limited edition of 250 numbered copies.

Cover Art — Music & Blood, by CM Chapman (fiction)

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Eric Waggoner

Music & Blood cover

Music & Blood, a collection of short fiction by CM Chapman, will be the second chapbook release from Latham House Press. Cover art is by letterpress artist Laura Baisden (Camp Nevernice Letterpress Design, Knoxville TN). Book design is by graphic artist Phil McCollam, who also designed the cover and interior layout for Erin Veith’s poetry chapbook I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story (Latham House Press 2014). Music & Blood will include the stories “Clem, The Cabot County Cannibal,” “Wolves,” and “Modest Mussorgsky’s Bluegrass Jug Band Blog.”

CM Chapman’s fiction has appeared in numerous print and online journals, including the Kentucky Review, Bird’s Thumb, and Rose Red Review. Joyce Carol Oates and Albert Goldbarth selected CM’s story “The Moth Under The Stair” as a finalist for december magazine’s 2015 Curt Johnson Prose Award.

A poster print of the book cover will also be available for purchase. The first ten book orders will be accompanied by a free poster print.

See lathamhousepress.com, and follow Latham House Press on Facebook and Twitter, for pre-order announcements. Publication is set for September 2016.

CM Chapman’s MUSIC + BLOOD — forthcoming from Latham House Press, Spring 2016

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Eric Waggoner

MUSIC + BLOOD, a collection of three short stories by CM Chapman, has been selected as the second chapbook release from Latham House Press. CM Chapman’s fiction has appeared in numberous print and online journals, including the Kentucky Review, Bird’s Thumb, and Rose Red Review. Joyce Carol Oates and Albert Goldbarth selected CM’s story “The Moth Under The Stair” as a finalist for december magazine’s 2015 Curt Johnson Prose Award. Publication date tentatively set for Spring 2016.

Order Erin Veith’s _I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story_

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Erin Veith’s collection of poetry I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story (Latham House Press, 2014) is available now for online order, via the form below.

Reservation requests will be answered with an emailed invoice. When invoice is returned with payment, reserved copies will be mailed out same-day. Latham House Press pays shipping.

This is a limited edition of 250 numbered copies.

Latham House Press: Official Launch, 7/7, 7pm

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Latham House Press launches today at 7pm in the Upshur Reading Room at the WV Wesleyan College Library. Erin Veith reads from her book of poems _I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story_, with copies of this limited-edition collection available for purchase at $12.00. On the same reading bill is Jeremy Jones, author of _Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland_ (2014). Come join us!

–& I Said I Am The Hurricane

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Shame is the best way to start: the moment of injury

or the moment after—a synapse—the blood’s path

making itself just for me and the world, a highway

doubling back for the living, aerial view, the sky

dizzying as ever, my pain nomadic, thinly clothed

and wandering. I had to arrive where I first ended,

creep back to the body, hover into a high branch

and nest. Are you troubled? I blink back to July

on a porch, our porch, and you speak in past tense,

my body caught in so many blackout afternoons,

a version of me you struggle to hold onto, but

you do not say we, only then or you were drunk,

like I remember how it feels.

–Erin Veith; from I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story
(Latham House Press, 2014)

Reserve your advance copy of Erin Veith’s _I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story_ (Latham House Press 2014)

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Erin Veith’s collection I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story, the launch publication of Latham House Press, will be published on July 7, 2014. This will be a limited-run edition of 250 numbered copies.

Copies are now available for pre-order via the form below.

Reservation requests will be answered with an emailed invoice. After invoice is returned with payment, reserved copies will be mailed out beginning July 8. Latham House Press will pay shipping.

Please email editor@lathamhousepress.com with any questions.

Headed Home

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Here is the driveway, a row of dogwood. It isn’t lovely this time of year.

The path to righteousness must be paved even before we are ready.

I am recycling a moment: one October evening, little house, cars in the yard.

I long for someone (me, perhaps) to say absolutely.

A woman hands me a coin, presses it to my palm like a prayer.

I have been abandoned. (—scratch that—) I feel like I have been abandoned.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical, thank goodness.

Just so we’re clear, the darkness I’m about to show you is all mine.

–Erin Veith; from I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story
(Latham House Press, 2014)

Latham House Press launch reading: Poet Erin Veith, 7 July 2014

Posted on May 9, 2014 by Eric Waggoner

Poet Erin Veith will read from her collection I Closed My Eyes To Tell That Story on Monday, 7 July 2014, at Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library on the WV Wesleyan College campus, at 7:00pm. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at $12.

The evening reading will also serve as the official public launch of Latham House Press. This event, part of WVWC’s MFA Summer Residency reading series, is free and open to the public.

Veith cover
(Cover design by Phil McCollam)