In 2001, Craig Foltz collaborated with visual artist Shelton Walsmith to create an object that is equal parts chapbook and art piece. Published by the notoriously mysterious Loudmouth Collective in a hand-made edition of 150, this booklet unfolds into a mix of surrealist prose, poetry, and visual artwork, streaming out of die-cut pockets...
Read MoreEdited by Christine Hamm, Like a Fat Gold Watch collects artists, poets, writers, and essayists who respond to Plath's life with images, poems, essays, short stories, and academic texts.
Read MorePublished via The Operating System—a radical experiment in open-sourced archival documentation, access to & distribution of print / digital resources, & platform for anti-hierarchical peer-to-peer learning / experimentation / collaboration—IN STILL ROOMS is Jones’ debut print-document, which came into the world on March 4th, 2020.
Read More““Equal parts conjuring, critique, and memorial, the passages in The Return to Viet Nam portray the entrenched hauntings of not only war but also cultural, national, and racial purity, as Hidle inverts shame with an elegiac rawness that holds a truthful mirror to the cultural value of racial purity within Vietnamese societies at home and abroad. By poetically portraying her own multiple transgressions of not belonging both 'here' and 'there,' Hidle's book reveals lifelong commingling of guilt and pride, deprivation and abundance, sacredness and profanity, loyalty and disobedience, rejection and rootedness.” —Julie Thi Underhill, author of Ghosts, Corner Shore, and The Gift Horse of War
Read MoreFeedback Editor Amaya Koss’s debut collection of magical realism, speculative fiction, nonfiction and prose poetry. The collection explores conception, birth, and autonomy in relation to experiences and relationships. The collection tries to balance what it means to coexist with social conditions, primal instinct, and a thirst for a greater understanding. The nonfiction elements of the collection work to tether the more surreal pieces to the physical world.
Read More"Italian dining, as any foodie knows, is a sacred art-one designed to bring the diner to a place of utmost satisfaction and well-being. Laid out like an extravagant ten-course feast, Alysa Levi-D'Ancona's An Absurd Palate pairs poetry and story in mouthwatering combinations menu of beauty, humor and grace. And, like all great meals, you're left bursting with joy and hungry for more." - David McGlynn, author of One Day You'll Thank Me
Read More“In Alight, Rachael Peckham looks with clear eyes directly at the grief, loss, and haunting questions surrounding the plane crash that killed her grandfather and two uncles before she was born. She handles her volatile material tenderly, yet matter-of-factly. Through a collage of prose poems, witness testimonials, excerpts of letters, conversations, vignettes, scenes from her own flying lesson, and the white space between it all, the story shifts and builds like fast-moving clouds in the summer sky. I am in awe of the mind that constructed this book. And yet, overwhelmingly, as I read Alight, I felt it–in my chest, in my lungs, in my eyes as they stung, and I blinked away tears. With keen perception and curiosity informed by the ache of reflected grief that inhabited her childhood, Peckham gently guides the reader into the wreckage and back out again.” - Kathleen McGookey, author of Instructions for My Imposter: Prose Poem
Read MoreThis zine edited by Sarah Peecher is the kind of meal where everyone pitches in. Guests have each set something uniquely delectable on the checker-clothed folding table in the backyard, and we're about to feast.
Read MoreFounding Editor Brantlee Reid's first collection revolves around inherited addictions and cycles of behavior, the loss of innocence and the way in which one experience can influence all others thereafter.
Read More“Whose Hand Was I Holding? is an exploration of the enigmatic and the unsettling, where each story lures you into its eerie embrace. In this collection, you'll find tales that grip your heart with their emotional depth and linger in your mind like haunting melodies.”
Read MoreRepeat After Me is collaboration between poet Tim Stiles and photographer Jay Tyrrell in the centuries long tradition of political cartoons and satire.
Read MorePoetry Editor Kylie Ayn Yockey’s debut cross-genre collection includes cannibalism, love, sex, violence, myth, and power. Whether nature, magic, another person, or a feeling, these poems and stories explore all the ways one can consume and be consumed. It particularly interrogates real and fictitious power dynamics of relationships in romance, the self, and the earth.
Read More“Broken Records is not a neat narrative but a bit of everything --- part bildungsroman, part memoir, part political poetry, part personal pop culture compendium. And while Žabić represents a Yugoslav diasporan subject, her book also belongs to an international generation whose formative years straddle the Cold War and the global reconfiguration of wealth and power, whose lives were spent shifting from the vinyl/analog era to the cyber/digital era.”
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