Peaches and Bats was a handmade poetry magazine from 2006 to 2012. There were 10 issues; see links on sidebar for details. Several back issues are still available. Feel free to write to peachesandbats at gmail.

I hope to make PDFs available soon, and to start a new magazine once my kid is old enough to help me collate, fold, and sew.

Meanwhile, some things are happening here:
thefirmandaerie.tumblr.com (a blog)
Airfoil Chapbooks (edited by Sam Lohmann and David Abel)
Spare Room Reading Series

Want to buy my books? OK then. There's Stand on this picnic bench and look north (Publication Studio, 2011) and Unless As Stone Is (eth, 2014) and Day Use Area (Couch, 2014).

Thanks for looking!
--Sam Lohmann

Publication Fair, Sunday 12/16/12

Publication Fair

December 16th

Noon to 6 pm

The Cleaners at Ace Hotel

SW 10th and Stark in Portland

I'll be hawking Peaches and Bats, Airfoil chapbooks, c_L chapbooks, Abandoned Bike zines, and Rolling in the Easy Circumstances, a brand new poetry collaboration by James Yeary and myself. Come say hello.

Other vendors include: Ampersand Gallery & Fine Books // Poor Claudia // Bad Blood Reading Series // Octopus Books // IPRC // Floating World Comics // Nationale // Amahita Jamali Rad/AAB // Tin House // Container Corps // Division Leap // Publication Studio // Dill Pickle Club // Gobshite Quarterly // Social Malpractice Publishing // Sharpstuff // Passages Bookshop // Bedouin Books // Table of Contents // Perfect Day Publishing // Monograph Bookwerks 

Beer & Putnam, 12/2/11

Sunday, December 27

at 7: 30 pm

Spare Room presents a reading by

C. E. Putnam

&

John Beer

Division Leap

211 SW 9th Avenue, Portland

(between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation

Abel & Wolsak, 9/23

Sunday, September 23

at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a reading by

David Abel

&

Lissa Wolsak

Division Leap Books

211 SW 9th Ave., Portland

(downtown between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation

Issue 10 launch party at Division Leap Books this Thursday!

Thursday, September 20

at 7 p.m.

come to a launch party for

Peaches and Bats #10

with readings by

Endi Bogue Hartigan

Jac Nelson

Elizabeth Pusack

David Weinberg

and music by

Activity Universal

(Eric Matchett & Jake Anderson)

Division Leap Books

211 SW 9th Ave, Portland (between Burnside and Oak)

(917)922-0587

New Issue!

Peaches and Bats #10

(Fall 2012)

features poems by

Andrew Bartels

Andrew Durbin

Whit Griffin

Endi Bogue Hartigan

Laura Henriksen

Jac Nelson

Denise Newman

Elizabeth Pusack

Judah Rubin

Jared Stanley

Sara Sutter 

Dan Thomas-Glass

David Weinberg

Karen Weiser

McCloud Zicmuse

and visual work by 

Kristin Fialko

Morgan Ritter

David Weinberg

64-page handsewn zine with letterpress cover and foldout color poster insert

$5
(includes shipping in North America)

email peachesandbats AT gmail DOT com
or use Paypal button below

Weekend Readings in Portland

Saturday, September 15

7:30 pm

David Meltzer

Julie Rogers

Mother Foucault's Bookshop

523 SE Morrison St.

503-236-2665

$5 suggested donation

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Sunday, September 16

7 pm

Lindsey Boldt

Steve Orth

Sam Lohmann

Publication Studio

717 SW Ankeny St.

free

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Bay Area magic is coming our way this weekend, some of it in "Starcraft."

Johnson & Yeary, 9/9

Sunday, September 9

at 7:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

James Yeary

&

Mark Johnson

Division Leap

211 SW 9th Avenue, Portland (between Burnside and Oak)

$5 suggested donation

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This will be the first event at the brand new Division Leap bookstore. Division Leap is also having an opening party tomorrow, Friday 9/7, from 5-8 p.m.

James Yeary and Mark Johnson both have new chapbooks out from Editions Plane.

Naka Pierce, Pusateri & Vincent, 8/12

drawing by Stephen Vincent, courtesy of The New Post-Literate

Sunday, August 12th

at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents 

a poetry reading by

Michelle Naka Pierce

Chris Pusateri

&

Stephen Vincent

The Waypost

3120 N. Williams Ave., Portland

$5 suggested donation

Preternatural Poetry Week in Portland, 7/23-7/31

There's a lot happening this week.


Monday, July 23, 6:30 pm

Kaia Sand, Dana Hynes, Donna Prinzmetal, Judith Pulman, Dan Raphael, & Rob Freedman 
Readings in various genres by instructors in the Multnomah Arts Center Literary Arts Program

Poetry on the Piazza -- Judith Pulman, host
Director Park 
SW Park & Taylor 

***

Tuesday, July 24, 7:00 pm

Kyle Schlesinger, Robbie Dewhurst, Cindy St. John
Three visiting poets, hosted by one of Portland's newest specialist booksellers
Division Leap -- Gallery, Rare Bookstore, and Publisher 

425 SE 3rd #303 (Oak Street Bldg.)

***

Wednesday, July 25, 7:30 pm

Rodney Koeneke, Eileen Joy, David Hadbawnik, Dan Remein, Jen Coleman, & Mark Owens  
Wordsmirch, hosted by Chris Piuma, with visiting writers (in town for the New Chaucer Society conference) and local favorites
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 

523 SE Morrison

***

Thursday, July 26, 7:30 pm

Cindy St. John, Lindsay Allison Ruoff, & music by Chanticleer Tru

If Not for Kidnap reading series

3968 SE Mall St. (upper floors)

***

Sunday, July 29, 7:30 pm

Chris Piuma & Jared Stanley
Spare Room cofounder Piuma, now in Toronto, and Jared Stanley visiting from Reno

Spare Room reading series 

Open Space Cafe 

2815 SE Holgate

***

Monday, July 30, 6:30 pm

Escritorio Publico / Plaza of Public Writings
Based on the Plaza de Santo Domingo in Mexico City, the public will be invited to work with the plaza’s scribes to turn a plea, pledge, rant, declaration, seduction, or curse into a letter, lyric, poem, song, prose, or other creative work; also instant bookmaking and performances

Poetry on the Piazza -- Rodney Koeneke and Jen Coleman, hosts
Director Park 

SW Park & Taylor 

Brown, Warren & Wiatr, 7/1/12

Sunday, July 1

at 7:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents

a poetry reading by

Brandon Brown

Alli Warren

&

Zosia Rose Wiatr

The Waypost

3120 N. Williams Ave, Portland

$5 suggested donation

Dan Thomas-Glass & Phoebe Wayne, 5/26

Saturday, May 26th

at 7:30 pm

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Dan Thomas-Glass

&

Phoebe Wayne

The Proper Salon

715 SE Grand Ave., Portland
[please note change of venue]

$5 suggested donation

Russo and Lohmann at The Switch, 5/17

Thursday, May 17th

at 7 p.m.

Linda Russo

&

Sam Lohmann 

will read poems for

The Switch reading series

Switchyard Studios

109 SE Salmon St., Portland

Sunday, April 29th

at 7:00 p.m.

Spare Room presents

a poetry reading by

Andrew Joron

Brian Lucas

Joseph Noble

and music by

Cloud Shepherd

(Joron, Lucas, Noble, and Mark Pino)

The Waypost

3120 N. Williams Ave., Portland

$5 suggested donation

Gone East

I'm doing readings in Hadley, MA and New York next week, and there's a Peaches and Bats release party in Brooklyn. Here are the details:

***

Amaranth Borsuk

Gretchen E. Henderson

Sam Lohmann

Flying Object

42 West St., Hadley, MA

Wednesday, April 11th

9:00 p.m.

***

Peaches and Bats #9

East Coast outing

with readings by

John Coletti

Andrew Hughes

Glenn Mott

Eléna Rivera

Unnameable Books

600 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY

Saturday, April 14th

6:30 p.m.

***

Megan Burns

Jessica Fiorini

Sam Lohmann

Zinc Bar

82 West 3rd St., New York, NY

Sunday, April 14th

5:30 p.m.

Publication Party for Peaches and Bats #9!

Sunday, March 4

at 6:30 p.m.

Spare Room presents

"Speeches and Pabst"

a publication party for Peaches and Bats #9

with readings by

Chris Ashby

Maryrose Larkin

James Yeary

and editorial interrompules by

"The Firm & Aerie"

kindly hosted by

Mother Foucault's Bookshop

523 SE Morrison St.

Portland

free

Peaches and Bats 9

Peaches and Bats #9

features writing by

Chris Ashby

Laynie Browne

Allen Edwin Butt

John Coletti

Andrew Hughes

Sarah Kelly

Maryrose Larkin

Glenn Mott

Sheila E. Murphy

Eléna Rivera

Linda Russo

Cindy St. John

James Yeary

and drawings by

Nate Orton

64-page handsewn zine with letterpress cover

$5

(includes shipping in North America)

Order via Paypal:

or email peachesandbats AT gmail DOT com

new Airfoil chapbook!

J. A. Lee's beautiful, mysterious and hilarious chapbook, Words That, is now available from airfoil!

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WARNING LABEL

Trees eat books; books eat people.

The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest: a marathon reading, 2/11-2/12

YU & Spare Room present

a marathon reading of

The Collected Poems of

Barbara Guest

in the kitchen at YU

808 SE 10th Ave., Portland

Saturday & Sunday

February 11 & 12

3-8 p.m. each day

come and go freely

Joseph Lease and Jamalieh Haley, 2/5

Sunday, February 5

at 7: 30 p.m.

Spare Room presents a poetry reading by

Joseph Lease

&

Jamalieh Haley

Open Space Cafe

2815 SE Holgate Blvd., Portland

$5 suggested donation