The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell
THE FAIRY TALES MAMMALS TELL targets the art and necessity of the fairy tale by exploring, with language, its vital energy. With undertones of love and loss, myth and inescapable reality, this poetry collection offers a visceral e...
The Odor of the Hoax Was Gone
With the delicacy and precision of a creative archeologist, Ella Longpre excavates the near illegible language of a lost notebook. Her discoveries will drive a ship through your chest and demonstrate the powerful and eerie impact ...
Burst Fivey & The Egg-Droppers
Combining Jack’s intense drawing kick in 1957 Germany and his favorite writings from 2004, Jack has done it again. He reminds us that form, humor, play and diligence are the necessary ingredients for a brilliant cocktail that so...
Catching On
CATCHING ON gives the reader permission to open the hidden blue highways of their imagination and the strength to understand their complexities and truths. With his virtuosity of language and prowess to frame an impermanent moment...
The Whack-Job Girls
THE WHACK-JOB GIRLS portrays a posse of women who either don't quite fit in or are deeply disconnected from society. Dark humor creeps through these quirky tales.
Culture of Flow
Hernandez puts us in the flow of history, the poems read or spill into us like a chant or a drum beat that opens into older ceremonies, cultures and peoples flow into each other, the ancient pulse under the current of the industri...
A Slow Curve
With the pulse of New York City and the depth of choking oil drills in Texas, A SLOW CURVE digs at, and quivers with, the sentence and its potentiality. Traveling cross-country and into the naked words of close and honest relation...
Seeking Asylum
Dark, humorous, and terribly honest, SEEKING ASYLUM reveals the strangeness in all of us. Fly over the cuckoo’s nest with Alison Iglehart.
Mr. America
'Sir, I think you're telling me a porky.' And so begins Don Riesett’s jaunt through London, Rotterdam, and Antwerp, all the while being interrogated by customs officials, absorbing local culture and white wine, and speeding arou...
Interior Life
Filled with moments of intense transformation, INTERIOR LIFE explores that part of life which exists between words, exposing a lush and sometimes contradictory world.
Body in a Hydrophilic Frame
A rare look inside the complexities of the writer’s cocoon. A body wrapped and smothered, shattered and laced with grit. This, and birth. A raw and intentional exploration of language, space and communication.
The Weekender
A modern day Beat combination of Rocky Balboa uppercuts and Kerouacian human perception, THE WEEKENDER exhibits the greatest fear of all rebellious writers: ending up inside the slammer with the pros.
in the desert
Flecks of dust and wine and words. Lost in a landscape of numbers, businessmen, and the shadows of unrequited love, a young woman finds herself IN THE DESERT.
Zero to Sixty
Sometimes on the road of life it’s not how fast we go that matters, but where the journey takes us. Michael Pogach’s ZERO TO SIXTY shows how fast we travel getting nowhere.
Disparate Pathos
With tooth and nail, Meg Tuite scrapes not under the skin, but under the bone to find the marrow of meaning and purpose in the lives of her characters. Her unique voice and style redefine what it means to be a woman, and to be a w...
Christmas Things
Having believed since childhood that the couple living across the street from my parents—or the man, at least—disliked me, I never expected to be invited over for a Christmas drink. What is the true reason for the season? CHRI...
The Clara Ann Burns Story
THE CLARA ANN BURNS STORY is an expression of child abuse, neglect, and how love conquers all, witnessed through a patchwork of short prose reflections, poems, one minute plays, scholarly studies, and photographs.
The Drowners
The rhythmic streets of SOHO. Neon reflections in office windows. A lying husband. A cheating girlfriend. In matters of fidelity sometimes it’s not what’s said that matters, but what’s not said.
Miracle of Miracles
Growing up in a devout Christian home, one gets familiar with the scripture about sparing the rod and spoiling the child. But what about sparing the child? Eric Day's story spares the child in all of us.
bruisers
Brad McLelland has written a wild, dark and humorous road novel that ignites the senses, burning like Oklahoma wildfire. Hop in the truck with Leo and Jeremy and take the ride of your life.
After the Orange Glow
Sex. Drugs. Poetry. Mark Spitzer has written a humping, yowling, brow-beating memoir. AFTER THE ORANGE GLOW is a must read for anyone who cares about poetry, passion, The Beats . . . apparitions.
Tapeworm
Nick Morris's disturbingly strange and luminous stories move from backwoods Arkansas to concrete jungles, churches to prison cells, from delusions to truth.
expired Rx
A cure for poetic disorders, a remedy for prescribed notions of viewing the quotidian. Arthur's poems investigate how the ‘street rain became horizontal’ and how ‘an iris cranes to the sun.’
Cold Instant
Jack Collom capers with the joy and earnestness of a kid within his wild poetic traceries. His gift to us is to demonstrate that play is the form of wisdom we most urgently need. Surprises here for everyone who loves and studies a...
Searching for Suzi
SEARCHING FOR SUZI is an intrepid journey through sexuality. Natalie’s search is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a forgotten past.
Some Exits
Travis Cebula's poetry is a visual and auditory convocation of images, a celebration of sight and sound both beautiful and tragic at once. From 'interstate to pasture,' an adventure awaits you in SOME EXITS.
Taxis and Shit
Brutal honesty. Nakedness. Jonnny gives us a window into the misadventures - the exploits - of driving a taxi. If Bukowski would have driven a cab, this is the book he would've written about it.
fotographs of bones
Here is a poet who exposes himself, naked and raw, crying and rejoicing with the music of the spheres in its true and metaphorical sense. Adam Perry is more than a wordsmith, he's a word musician.
Shooting the Moon
Diane Klammer observes – with the introspection of a wanderer and the insight of a wise woman – the effects of loss, love, apathy, activism, inertia, and inspiration on the synthesis of human imagination and experience.
The Aftermath, etc.
A rare look at the broken man in his natural environment: a wasteland of pizza, shark flicks, porn, and beer. GITCH's only escape is through the pen, and if it were not so, the fine art of handmade explosives.