New at Horse Less Review today: seven poems by Nathan Wade Carter!
The ocean documentary
Said we are the bottom dwellers
Of the land world
We fish to extinction
I cry
Icy
Find the cypher
Crack jokes
A symbol of cyprus
A cygnet feather
How to build anything (read more)
Emily Brandt is interviewed at H_NGM_N about her Horse Less chapbook, SLEEPTALK OR NOT AT ALL!
Today at Horse Less Review: four poems by Danielle Susi!
With a blossom in the throat Body begs an oscillating storm. Decorated tornado siren. The emblem of the commonwealth is one gold man and a raised blade. (read more)
New today at Horse Less Review, three poems by Amy Jo Trier-Walker!
At ice houses a little fishbone affects me as I think of the long December cat on my December bones
What old holed tarps think at heart I do not know, yet her plastic wounds at night water me
Prescribed canals shatter me, solar ash birds lighten; in a rift in the line, fadeless, a curtain suffers (read more)
You can now also order Amy Jo Trier Walker’s new chapbook Trembling Ourselves Into Trees!
Today at Horse Less Review, an excerpt from Alt Vices by Michelle Dove!
When I am confident and able to communicate the need for communication lessens. And won’t who listens listen? I stutter before handing someone a kite who hates the nip of the wind. Tendencies for contextual agreement jeopardize our group interactions. Most days I can compose a meaningful story or write a factual report. But who’s determining fulfillment? My greatest flaw is that I’m no longer anxious when checking the mail. (read more)
We are so excited to say that we have sent the files to the printers, and Kristi Maxwell’s full-length collection PLAN/K will be forthcoming from Horse Less Press in November! Thank you to Alban Fischer for his amazing design work. Now is your chance to pre-order your own copy, for $14 and free shipping! Your pre-orders help our small press offset the cost of printing – we couldn’t do it without you!
About PLAN/K, Tyrone Williams writes
Following in a long line of acts of piracy by women writers (Kathy Acker’s Pussy, King of the Pirates), Kristi Maxwell proves herself a masterful ventriloquist. Slipping her hand into through a card game (Royalty), a children’s book, historical documents on sea pirates, and Treasure Island, Maxwell speaks, strikes, through double entendres, puns, homonyms, and jokes—all the devices scorned by the “original” pirates of linguistic, cultural and political power.
Up at Horse Less Review today, two new poems by Tyler Gobble!
You are a person, not a tangle of lures.
You can explain yourself whenever you’d like. (read more)
Trembling Ourselves Into Trees
Amy Jo Trier-Walker
Amy Jo Trier-Walker received her MFA in poetry at Columbia College Chicago, and she lives and works on a tree and herb farm in Indiana. Her work can be found in or is forthcoming from Forklift, Ohio, Handsome, LEVELER, Word For/Word, and Timber, among others, and she is the Poetry and Arts Editor at Black Tongue Review.
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At HLR today: four poems by Christine Scanlon!
falling into the pattern
of a yawn
to stay there
deep and secret
like an animal or almond
hitched to the horse
of one idea (read more)
Up at Horse Less Review today: three poems by Kenzie Allen!
The Emilys shake
my hand, they cocktail
and taffeta, they descend
the spiral stair and pause
long enough for a group
photo. Each Emily
adds every other Emily
on the Facebook.
For aren’t they all good
friends, those born
of the floodplains and
in the fertile years
after disaster. (read more)
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