BlazeVOX Books
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Geoffrey Gatza |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Buffalo, New York |
| Distribution | International |
| Publication types | Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, eBooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Literary Criticism, Ecopoetics |
| Fiction genres | Experimental Fiction, Metafiction |
| Official website | www |
BlazeVOX Books, often stylized as BlazeVOX [books], is an independent publisher founded by Geoffrey Gatza and based in Buffalo, New York. Since 2000, it has published more than 350 books of poetry and prose, most of which fall within the sphere of avant-garde literature.
BlazeVOX Books also publishes BlazeVOX, a biannual journal of poetry and prose founded in 1999. Authors published in BlazeVOX include Louis Armand, William James Austin, George Bowering, Mitch Corber, Robert Creeley, Lily Hoang, Lisa Jarnot, Hank Lazer, David Meltzer, Eileen Myles, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Simon Perchik, Linda Ravenswood, Steve Roggenbuck, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Lewis Warsh, and Steven Zultanski.
According to the mission statement published by the press, BlazeVOX aims to "disseminate poetry, through print and digital media, both within academic spheres and to society at large," and, more broadly, to "push at the frontiers of what is possible.". Its specific commitment, with respect to its sizable contemporary poetry list, is to "publish the innovative works of the greatest minds writing poetry today, from the most respected senior poets to extraordinarily promising young writers." BlazeVOX has also committed itself to publish works "regardless of commercial viability."
Both BlazeVOX Books and BlazeVox were founded at Daemen College in Amherst, New York, where in 1999 Gatza began publishing an undergraduate literary magazine exclusively online. The first issue of BlazeVOX appeared in the Fall of 2000, featuring work by Lisa Jarnot and Alan Sondheim, while the press's first four full-length collections—by William Allegrezza, Raymond L. Bianchi, Patrick Herron, and Theodore Pelton—were published in 2004. By the end of 2005, BlazeVOX had already published full-length collections by Sondheim, Kazim Ali, Michael Kelleher, and Amy King, whose Antidotes for an Alibi would be a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. BlazeVOX began publishing approximately five books of fiction annually in 2006, and one book of nonfiction literary criticism per year starting in 2010.
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