I was excited to see this in the New York Time’s Book Review yesterday. Yay to Lynn Chandhok, a Park Slope Poet, for being #8 on this list.

It ain’t easy to be a poet. And it’s even harder to get your work out there and published. Congrats to Lynn, who book is immediately available at the Community Bookstore. Until recently it was on the front counter. Lynn read at Brooklyn Reading Works in October.

INDEPENDENTS’ DAY: What are this country’s
best-selling small-press poetry books? Small Press Distribution — a
nonprofit distributor that represents books by some 450 small
publishers — knows. On the friendly S.P.D. Web site (www.spdbooks.org) you can find the following list, which reflects sales for December, the most recent month available.

1) “Sleeping and Waking,” by Michael O’Brien (Flood Editions).
2) “This Is What Happened in Our Other Life,” by Achy Obejas (Midsummer Night’s Press).
3) “Necessary Stranger,” by Graham Foust (Flood Editions).
4) “You Are a Little Bit Happier Than I  Am,” by Tao Lin (Action Books).
5) “Eulogies,” by Amiri Baraka (Agincourt).
6) “The Line,” by Jennifer Moxley (Post-Apollo).
7) “Case Sensitive,” by Kate Greenstreet (Ahsahta).

8) “The View From Zero Bridge,” by Lynn Aarti Chandhok (Anhinga).
9) “Newcomer Can’t Swim,” by Renee Gladman (Kelsey Street).
10) “Lip Wolf,” by Laura Solorzano (Action Books).