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Marc Pietrzykowski's sixth book of poetry licks the wounds of the mangled poetry puppygod, genuflects in appropriate directions and postures, gives thanks to our linguistic facility, and performs all the other gestures poets need do with aplomb. Not so much an exercise insnide absurdity as one might suppose from this description, Straddling the Sibyl includespoems for the modern workplace, fragments for Claudette Colbert, and a long essay in verseabout the effects of modern social networks on the way our brains perceive our bodies.I think you should read it, and so does Marc. With a pastry, in hand, if possible

The lyrical pessimism of Nsah Mala's poetry presents a world characterized by violence, inhumanity and destruction, a world that is sadly too familiar. While many of the poems address contemporary issues in the poet's native Cameroon, much of the human-inflicted damage they describe is not limited to 'CamKingdom'. Although much of the content is negative, many of the poems contain questions. These questions express the cynical voice of this politically committed poet, but behind them lies the distant possibility of a better version of the world in which values of love, peace and unity reign: 'Don't we know, ' the poet asks, 'that violence is out of fashion?' - Professor Nicki Hitchcott, University of St Andrews, U

Poems, stories, plays, essays, words upon words upon even more words, all for your reading pleasure. The Ramingo's Porch is published 4X per year, and it a collaborative effort spanning deserts and oceans.

Surreal and seeping, Sorrel's stories dance through minefields without a sound, explode themselves over silent seas, and leave our galaxy behind on their way into the center of vision. Caramel Floods sets readers on a rowboat and shoves them toward the other side of the pond, where the rushes glow in the moonlight.

Samuel E. Cole's first collection of short stories provides all the hilarity, all the pathos, and all the passion readers of his poetry have come to expect. Bloodwork is full of strange, fascinating characters doing strange, fascinating things to one another, portrayed in energetic, often breathless prose: "Stormie's thoughts overcloud themselves again, this time taking on the scary elements of a rain-soaked evening fifteen years earlier, when her parent's voices collided like thunder and lightning, her father's veiny hands strangling her mother's veiny neck before tossing her to the floor like a stuffed animal, leaving the front door wide open as he drove off as fast as wild rain, her mother's trembling hands leading Mary into the kitchen to sit on lime-green seat cushions, telling Mary, "Now it's time you hear the sad story of how Aprosinia Plakovich met Randall Dunkle. Are you ready?"

A sumptuous, lyrical novel, Gerry Brennan wanders down avenues of politics and philosophy, love and death, art and culture, reading the graffitti along the way, seeking out dead ends in order to scale walls and emerge in courtyards. The novel of ideas lives on in Decresendo, in language as musical as any sonnet.

Scattered Cranes is a bit of an elegy to time spent rodeoing, roughnecking and construction work on bridges across bodies of water large and small in those areas of America that the coastal bound fly over, barely registering the beauty of the farmland patterns and jungles below. Then clouds form a protective layer. There is no protective layer in Scattered Cranes. Some of it is down and dirty, while other passages are dreamlike and aspirational, with a thread of humor. And where there is humor, there is optimism. As the foreword says, it's like rodeo, you're out there with your try. Scattered Cranes is a bustling, dusty arena for Wise's try. Enjoy it. "...a compelling and essential collection of bare-knuckle poetry." Ben Banyard, Editor/Publisher Clear Poetry, UK"Expect Wise's world to stay inside you after you've read it, and roll to the surface for attention like a memory or a dream." Chelsea Laine Wells, Writer, Fiction Editor Hypertext, Hypernova, (b)Oink"Wise's collection is both hauntingly nostalgic and piercingly urgent..." Jen Knox, Author of After the Gazebo and The Glass City

This is book 1 and 2 in the Fred C. Applebaum project. Fred is really Marc Pietrzykowski, but don't tell him and spoil everything.

No one wants to live in the ElderGrove Retirement Community, but Carol Ann DeFazio is doing her best to make it home. If only her own weren't such a mess, and if only the corporation that owns ElderGrove weren't such a pain in the ass, and if only someone wasn't killing her residents, one by one...

John Lambremont, Sr.'s new volume of collected poems, Old Blues, New Blues, may be his strongest collection to-date. The tenor of the poems ranges from folksy to weird, and travel to all points in between. These poems are above all accessible and readable, and not overly burdened with esoteric imagery. The poems deal extensively with reflection and regret, but faith, hope, and understanding are presented as well. Old Blues, New Blues presents a good read not only to lovers of poetry, but to those who may find poetry reading a new adventure.John Lambremont, Sr. is also the author of Dispelling The Indigo Dream (Local Gems Poetry Press 2013) and The Moment Of Capture (Lit Fest Press 2017).

This is the story of a series of bad decisions involving ice cream trucks, Al-Qaeda, bibliomania, college towns, qat, needle-nose pliers, unhappy policemen, glow-in-the-dark bocce, black swans, the witness protection program, frozen pizza, and the CIA (or maybe it wasn't the CIA). Not necessarily in that order.