In the first lot of tinysides, we explore movement towards and away, with a distinctly American kick. We start with Jessica Smith's butterflies, which senses migration between continents, between vision and action, and grounds time in its own ephemerality. Next, we take a cross-country trip with Dustin Williamson, feeling the displacement of flight (and counting sevenhundredandtwentyfive baseball diamonds between here and Muncie). Stephanie Anderson, driven by abecedarian fervor, taps into America's love vibration, only to let Jordan Davis equate it to our empty, empty, empty, empty consumerist lives. Finally, Mark Lamoureux gracefully points out that it's not just the people, but the places, that we've let get spooky, what with all our restlessness.

Take a trip across, back, under, over, and through the tinysides. A buck a pop, or all five for a mere $4.50.

And be on the lookout for tinysides 6-10: Games with Animals, featuring work from Ryan Murphy, Barbara Heritage, Daniel Nester, Michelle Detorie, and Kate Greenstreet.

The tinyside project

Big Game Books has a new project underway: the tinysides series. If you like to focus on one poem, but hate the unportable size of broadsides, then tinysides are for you. Each tinyside will be a wee book, cunningly crafted from a single sheet of paper, and containing but six pages. One longish poem or a few small ones. Easy to carry, easy to share.

Big Game is currently accepting submissions for the tinysides. Send your work to reenhead-AT-gmail-DOT-com. Each selected work will be published in an edition of 50, with five copies going to the author.

Smaller is better! Viva la tiny!