Special guest Carol Guess...

...guest posts over at FlashFiction.net. Check out her 13 Ways of Looking at a Manuscript here and get her book Tinderbox Lawn here.

Mary Hamilton recommends some reading...

...over at the Recommended Reading blog. See?

Ben Tanzer interviews Mary Hamilton...

...for the Orange Alert blog, where they talk about freaks, the cuteness of Theo Huxtable, the sublime appeal of thunder and lightning, and the tragic life and death of Egon Schiele, among other things. Read the whole interview here. Thanks, Ben!

The Rumpus says that We Know What We Are...

...by Mary Hamilton is "vivid, surreal, experimental, funny, and emotionally devastating." Also, that "The author gets more done in those few pages than many writers could in a trilogy of novels. Hamilton’s work is genuinely, refreshingly experimental; it forgoes a polished sheen of innovation in order to take actual stylistic, structural, and cognitive risks." Agreed.

Thanks to Brian Beglin for the review, which you can read all of here.

Last night at the Whistler...

...We Know What We Are by Mary Hamilton was officially released. Mary did original, short short introductions for her talented fellow readers... ...including Caroline Picard... ...Natalie Edwards... ...and Jill Summers... Then Lindsay Hunter did a short short introduction of Mary herself: Afterwards, Mary signed many a copy of her chapbook for many an admiring fan: Special thanks to Martin Seay for helping to man the book sales table... ...and to Jason Behrends and the Orange Alert Reading Series for hosting the release party! Stay tuned for Release Party Part II on Saturday, September 11 at StoryStudio.

Mary Hamilton's writing is densely tactile and nonlinear...

...says Melissa Albert in this week's issue of TimeOut Chicago. Check out the whole wonderful profile here! Thanks Melissa!

And if you're in or near Chicago this weekend, be sure to come check out the launch party for Mary's chapbook We Know What We Are in the Orange Alert Reading Series at the Whistler on Sunday, August 15 at 6:00 pm.

RMP is "definitely a press you want to keep track of..."

...says Dan Wickett over at the Emerging Writers Network where he gives a lovely write-up of We Know What We Are by Mary Hamilton. Thanks, Dan!

Dan and Gary got jointly interviewed...

...by Linwood Rumney of Redivider, and the results are up on the Redivider blog right here. Thanks, Linwood.

The Outsider Writers' Collective...

...says that The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry "is an ambitious and remarkably well-executed concept." You can read the rest of David Blaine's extensive and thoughtful review here. Thanks, David! And thanks to the Outside Writers' Collective for their committed support of "The independent and micro-presses, the bloggers, and the scribblers united by the source of their motivations: passion."

Jim Harrington asked us Six Questions...

...and Abby & I provided Six Answers over on the Six Questions For... blog. See? Thanks, Jim, for inviting us to provide some As to your Qs!