Three magazines from the Tin House archives for new supporters in the U.S. who give $2 or more per episode (& who in good faith aim to be supporters for at least 1 year)

• A copy of Ethan Chatagnier's much loved and critically acclaimed book Singer Distance for a supporter at the $2/episode level, who has a U.S. mailing address, and who in good faith aims to support the show for at least one year. As Matt Bell says "Singer Distance is one of the rarest and best kinds of novels: a truly thrilling story driven by big ideas and bold writing, whose gripping mysteries only deepen as the plot thickens. You won’t see the stars and the planets above the same way once you’ve experienced this unforgettable book. You won’t look at our Earth the same way either."

• Some of Portland's most vital voices--Lidia Yuknavitch, Fonda Lee, Leni Zumas, Rene Denfeld, Molly Gloss-- have come together to celebrate Le Guin's lasting legacy by writing stories in tribute to her radical imagination. The foreword, exploring the connection between the imagined rebel moon Anarres and the real Portland, Oregon was written by me;  one copy for a new supporter at this level, with a U.S. mailing address, who in good faith aims to remain a supporter for at least one year
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Two issues of Jewish Currents, the remarkable Soviet issue that foregrounds varied stories (other than the dominant one) of Soviet and Post-Soviet Jewry (and which contains the stunning Many Oblivions of Babi Yar) & the touchstone issue that contains the Paul Celan Folio (including the Anne Carson poetry comic) for a new member at $3/episode with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith, to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Receive a copy of Elissa Washuta's chapbook Starvation Mode (along with a bookmark promoting Shapes of Native Nonfiction, an anthology she edited), for a patron at the $3/episode level with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith, to support the show for at least one year
• Access to the bonus audio archive

• A signed copy of the book Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore first appeared on Between the Covers for, Sketchtasy, for a supporter at the $3/episode level, with a U.S. mailing address, who, in good faith, aims to support the show for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Shortly after Blackfishing the IUD came out the press that published it closed its doors so there are only a finite, limited number of these remarkable books out there in the world. Caren signed five copies, one for each of five people who become patrons at the $3/episode level, have a U.S. mailing address, and in good faith aim to remain a supporter for at least one year
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• A signed copy (by me) of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing for new supporters in the U.S. who give $3 or more per episode (& who in good faith aim to remain supporters for at least 1 year)

• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Signed copy of Blood of the Air, winner of the 2019 Northwestern University Press Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize (whose judges included Chris Abani, Ed Roberson and Natasha Trethewey), for a new patron at the $3/episode level, with a U.S. mailing address, who aims in good faith to support the show for at least a year. Blood of the Air in Nadia Alexis' words "explores narratives of women and women figures who have lived, lost, resisted, been subject to breaking and other people’s definitions, and who have reclaimed their breaths and freedom. . .Within Codjoe’s poetry there is blood but there is also hope and the will to live."

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Access to supporter-only bonus audio from each episode (e.g. readings from forthcoming work or work in another genre, craft advice, interviews with translators etc.)

• Your choice of 1 of the following (per availability) : the Tin House Featured New Release or the Back Issue Bundle (for patrons with a U.S. address who in good faith aim to remain supporters for at least 1 year)

• Provisions: Poems Held Close in a Time of Crisis asked writers, including Christina Sharpe, Kaveh Akbar, Hanif Abdurraqib, Laura Mimosa Montes and Wendy Xu (among many many others) to write about a poem that they held close during the early days of the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, for a new member at $4/episode with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith to remain a supporter for at least a year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Gabrielle Bates personalizes one advance copy of Judas Goat with sticky notes on all the poems, sharing thoughts, anecdotes, background, and giving some inside scoop into how they were written, for one lucky new supporter with a U.S. mailing address who signs up at $4/episode and in good faith aims to be a supporter for at least a year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Limited edition reissue of Le Guin's long short story Hernes as a stand-alone book designed by the art press Winter Texts (140 pages; front and back pictured) for a new patron at the $4/episode level with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith, to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Limited edition reissue of three of Le Guin's stories (She Unnames Them, Sur & Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight) along with the poem The Old Novelist's Lament, as a stand-alone book by the art press Winter Texts for a new supporter at the $4/episode level with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Indulge in the surreal worlds of Leonora Carrington's Complete Stories, Cristina Rivera Garza's Taiga Syndrome, & Sabrina Orah Mark's Wild Milk (for a new supporter at the $5/episode level who has a U.S. mailing address, and who in good faith aims to support the show for at least a year)
• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Gabrielle Civil's Experiments in Joy along with the Experiments in Joy workbook (created by black women artists; aimed to help you shift joy from a feeling to a practice) plus a Gabrielle Civil bookmark, for a new supporter at the $5/episode level who has a U.S. mailing address (and in good faith aims to be a supporter at this level for at least one year)
• Access to the bonus audio archive (which includes Civil reading Wanda Coleman)

• A signed copy of each of Mattilda's most recent two books, her own book The Freezer Door, and the latest anthology she edited Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis;  for a supporter at the $5/episode level, with a U.S. mailing address, who, in good faith, aims to support the show at this level for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Nathalie Léger's award-winning trio of books: Suite for Barbara Loden, The White Dress, & Exposition. In each, Léger sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life & research—an archivist’s journey into the self, into the lives that history hides from us (for a new patron at the $5/episode level who has a U.S. mailing address and who aims in good faith to remain a supporter for at least one year)
• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Signed copies of Canadian poet, novelist and composer Gary Barwin's most well-known books of prose, the bestselling novel Yiddish For Pirates, and his most recent novel (a Lithuanian Western!) Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy, for a new supporter at $5/episode with a U.S. mailing address who, in good faith, aims to support the show for at least a year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• David will choose four books for you from the tantalizing new releases, advance reader copies & other books he receives throughout the year (for those with a U.S. address who aim in good faith to be supporters for the following year)

• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Collect all four of the fantastical & philosophical Ravicka novels by writing luminary Renee Gladman (also known for her poetry, essays and art), for a new patron at the $6/episode level, who has a U.S. mailing address, and who in good faith aims to be a supporter for at least a year
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Three signed copies of Canadian poet, novelist and composer Gary Barwin's poetry collections The Porcupinity of the Stars, No TV for Woodpeckers, and his new and selected poetry For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe, for a new supporter at $6/episode with a U.S. mailing address who aims, in good faith to support the show for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Five books by international women writers: a never-before-seen in English collection of essays by Marguerite Duras, the only novel by Rosmarie Waldrop, the debut novel of Austrian writer Marianne Fritz, a novel by Manuela Draeger (a pseudonym for the Russian-French writer Antoine Volodine--which is also a pseudonym!), and a wild and unforgettable (eerie? bonkers? deranged?) book by the British writer Barbara Comyns (for a new patron at the $7/episode level, who has a U.S. mailing address and aims in good faith to remain a supporter for at least one year)
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Signed copies of Mattilda's iconic memoir The End of San Francisco, two of her novels Pulling Taffy & So Many Ways to Sleep Badly, and the anthology she edited Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients, for a new member with a U.S. mailing address at the $7/episode level who aims, in good faith to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• The largest stash available from the Dorothy Project archives, seven books from seven remarkable women writers, each with the most distinctive prose style: Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Joanna Ruocco, Amina Cain, Suzanne Scanlan, Joanna Walsh, Jen George and Nell Zink;  all of this goes to one lucky new patron at the $8/episode level, who also has a U.S. mailing address and aims in good faith to remain a supporter for at least one year
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• The 1994 third edition of the comedic illustrated out-of-print chapbook The Art of Bunditsu (subtitle: How to Arrange Your Bonzo: a form of Japanese Tabbist Meditation) written under the pen name Bunto Ursura
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive
• Eligibility:  for a supporter with a U.S. mailing address who pledges $8/episode and who aims in good faith to be a supporter for at least one year.  Note: given the one-of-a-kind nature of this gift this will be mailed out after 10 episodes of support

• The third edition (1996) of the comedic, illustrated (now out-of-print) chapbook collaboration between Vonda McIntyre and Ursula K. Le Guin (signed by both authors) entitled A Winter Solstice Ritual from the Pacific Northwest
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive
• Eligibility: for a supporter with a U.S. mailing address who pledges $8/episode and aims in good faith to support the show for at least one year.  Note: given the one-of-a-kind nature of this chapbook it will be mailed out after 10 episodes of support

• Advance Reader Copies of 12 Tin House titles, months before the books are released to the public (these will come in 3 bundles of 4 books over the course of the year) for those in the U.S. who pledge $9 or more per episode (& in good faith aim to be supporters for at least 1 year)

• Access to the bonus audio archive

• Ask poet and editor Kaveh Akbar three questions about writing (by email) and he will respond to you by sending you a video with the answers; for a supporter at the $10/episode level, who aims in good faith to be a supporter for at least one year
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• A 30 minute conversation/consultation with poet, visual artist and editor Gabrielle Bates about 2 of your poems (no more than 3 pages total), or alternately, about anything writing/editing/reading-related; for a lucky new supporter at $10/episode who aims, in good faith, to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• A 30 minute conversation/consultation with poet and editor Claire Schwartz about 2 of your poems (no more than 3 pages total), or alternately, about anything writing/editing/reading-related; for one lucky new supporter at $10/episode who aims, in good faith, to remain a supporter for at least one year

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• The 1979 illustrated poetry collaboration between Ursula and her mother, now out-of-print, called Tillai and Tylissos
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive
• Eligibility: for a supporter with a U.S. mailing address who pledges $10/episode and aims in good faith to be a supporter for at least one year.  Note: because of the one-of-a-kind nature of this gift it will be mailed out after 10 episodes of support

• The inimitable poet Vi Khi Nao will consult with you on one of your poems (up to 30 minutes);  for supporters, nationally or internationally, who in good faith aim to remain so for at least 1 year
• access to the bonus audio archive
• A copy of the Tin House featured new release or three back copies of Tin House magazine (for a patron with a U.S. mailing address)

• An email consultation on a poem (up to three pages) with poet, essayist and New York Times poetry columnist Elisa Gabbert, for a supporter at the $12/episode level who, in good faith, aims to continue support for at least one year
• Access to the Bonus Audio

• Past guest, poet & essayist Mary-Kim Arnold reached out and offered this super generous bundle for one lucky supporter.  For a patron who pledges $15/episode or more, who has a U.S. mailing address, and in good faith aims to be a supporter for at least a year you will receive 1)A handmade wall hanging, bojagi (Korean wrapping cloth), or other textile work, created for you. You will be offered a few choices for personalization and Mary-Kim will hand stitch it for you.  2)Signed copies of her books Litany for the Long Moment & Fish and the Dove and 3)some surprise gifts (chapbooks, broadsides, and other ephemera from small presses).  Note: this gift, because of its one-of-a-kind nature, will be shipped after 10 episodes of support
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• A limited-edition hand-crafted and signed collectible hardbound boxed edition of Nikky Finney's collections Rice, The World is Round, & Head Off & Split (everything from the box itself, built by a book conservationist, to the fabric for the cover, to the photographs of Nikky's mother, great grandmother, and herself, chosen for each of the three hardback special editions, were imagined and created with great attention and personal care);  for a new patron with a U.S. mailing address who pledges $18/episode and in good faith aims to be a supporter for at least a year; note: because of the high value of this gift, The Sweet Box of Words will be shipped out after the patron has been a supporter for 10 paid episodes

• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive

• Three out-of-print chapbooks by Ursula K. Le Guin: 1)TILLAI & TYLISSOS,an illustrated poetry collaboration between Ursula & her mother,  2)a comedic illustrated collaboration between Vonda McIntyre and Ursula, signed by both, called A Winter Solstice Ritual from the Pacific Northwest, and 3)a comedic illustrated cat-centric celebration called The Art of Bunditsu
• A signed copy (by me, the co-author w/ Ursula), of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
• Access to the Bonus Audio Archive
• Eligibility:  for a supporter with a U.S. mailing address who pledges $20/episode and in good faith aims to be a supporter for at least one year.  Note: because of the one-of-a-kind nature of this gift, they will be mailed out after 10 episodes of paid support

• David will select five books for you from the  tantalizing new releases, advance reader copies & other books he receives (for those with a U.S. address who aim in good faith to be supporters for the following year)

• In addition, you can choose one gift from the $2 tier, one gift from the $3, and one gift from $4 tier

• Access to Bonus Audio

• Support at this level or above is all about the love.  There is nothing I could offer that would adequately show the gratitude for this generosity.  That said, do reach out and let me know if there is some combination of rewards that would appeal (beyond BTC patron sainthood, that is).

• Access to the bonus audio archive & my undying appreciation

• Not that I actually think someone is going to pledge at $100/episode but one can dream, and maybe you are that dream person, who can and desires to really support the future of the show in this way. dreams do sometimes come true!

• Access to the bonus audio and of course reach out about any of the goodies at various reward tiers that might catch your eye

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