Monkey Puzzle #9

Reading Monkey Puzzle is like plunging into dark waters needleworked with piranhas and coming away raw and stripped and blowing and laughing, discovering a honeyed mystery deep in the heart of your most cherished bloodied escapade.

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"Reading Monkey Puzzle is the literary journal equivalent to listening to Jim Morrison scream 'COME ON!' before the guitar solo in 'Five To One" . . . or driving to Woody Creek Tavern for the first time and spending the entire afternoon getting loaded while sitting in Hunter Thompson's old chair."

- Rob Geisen, author of Paper Thin


"Reading Monkey Puzzle is like plunging into dark waters needleworked with piranhas, and coming away raw and stripped and blowing and laughing. Reading Monkey Puzzle is like discovering a honeyed mystery deep at the heart of your most cherished bloodied escapade."

- Shane Joaquín Jiménez, Author of It Can Be That Way Still

"Monkey Puzzle gives light to the resurgence of poetic inspiration and ingenuity."

- Olatundji Akpo-Sani, Baobob Tree Press

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- Anonymous Drunk, The Tavern, Houston, Texas

Monkey Puzzle #9 features the following works of prose:
Uncle Mort by Lee Ann Grossberg
Text One: For Dam & Corn by Carolyn Zaikowski
Cracked Open by Sarah Cooke
I Can't Fly Fat by Bryan Jansing
The Boss of My Body by Kathy Conde
Finer Than Prayer by Nathan Antar
Ms. Frisky Is Expecting by Ralph Bland
Men In Uniform by Michael Cohen

and the following works of poetry:
omne vivum ex ovo by Jennifer Aglio
noisy alien mirror by Jack Collom
As If We Didn't Know by Tim Z. Hernandez
Aquariums, NY by Get in the car, Helen
untitled by Kai Forrest Brown
"i" by Suzanne DuLany
unto a good land by Jennifer Aglio
Man Walking on "R" by Jack Collom
Notes by Ming Jung Oh
Until that Tuesday by Travis Macdonald
reversed iteration by Brandon Arthur
Yellow by Jordan Antonucci
Three Gods In One by Kade Alexander Jensen
Heartwood by Jennifer Aglio


with photography by:
Andrew Antar
Jennifer Hamilton
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
Jeremiah Johnson
Nate Jordon
Alexandra Parsons
Brandon Gray
Jon Olsen

and artwork by:
Samuel Jablon

Product Details
Paperback: 62 pages / 6 in. x 9 in.
Published: May 2010
ISBN-10: 0-9801650-9-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-9801650-9-8

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