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Tim Earley’s LINTHEAD STOMP will be off to the printers soon, with a cover design by Alban Fischer and cover art by Colin McLain. Order your copy now!

“A viscous larynx, dipped in honey and snake shed, singing, images elucidated by the poverty-objects they juxtapose, a smutty sainthood magic revival tent Psalm: Linthead Stomp sends out lines (but I wanted to write vines) that can hardly contain their surging, vibratory syntactical collisions; here is a language that offers all the innards and the heaving, too. Linthead Stomp is a mercy, and not for the faint of heart. Tim Earley is a poet of the American South that I have been waiting to read my entire life.”–Selah Saterstrom. author of Slab and The Meat and Spirit Plan

“Tim Earley is a rascal. And a Roscoe. He levitates beside the great American luminaries. His poetry is fire. And built of the water-giving stone. If folks are not reading Earley centuries from now then they will be a people without eyes. And hearts. For those of you who have been with Earley all along, you will recognize in this collection a culmination. Prophet Earley has always been about bringing rarefied intellect into the gristly grrr of the body. This book takes that intent to epic peaks. New to the Earley dawn and midnight song? I offer your tomorrows to you: you will tousle and dogear this; you will damage it via your love for it; you will clutch it to your ribs and nose; you will stand far too close to a friend; you will lend this Earley; and in lending this; press hard; leave marks. The greats do what? Sear and save. It’s time for Tim Earley to appear in the OED: you are wounded where you heal and healed where you are wounded Amen amen AMEN.”–Abraham Smith, author of Hank and Ashagalomancy

We’re so excited to see Lara Mimosa Montes’ The Somnambulist on its way to the printers!

Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer based in New York and Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in Fence, BOMB, The Third Rail, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Currently, Lara teaches poetry at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and works as a contributing editor for Triple Canopy. She was born in the Bronx.

You can pre-order a copy of The Somnambulist here. Books will ship in October!

“The strange and compelling beauty of The Somnambulist lies in its ‘savvy circumlocution’ of multiple stories in language that the poet herself alternately embraces and fears, loves and reviles. ‘If I look for language to find you, if I let it, language finds me everywhere,’ she writes, and the line is as much of a promise as a threat. The Somnambulist tells, in fragmented parts, the story of the poet’s hustler uncle alongside her own story of becoming a poet. This is a new kind of writer’s memoir—or true crime story, or coming-of- age narrative, or family autobiography—one that navigates the tricky territory of multiple sub-genres with extraordinary skill, sly wit, and subversive splendor.” -Laura Sims

“The Somnambulist, a no-holds- barred monodrama, jolts the reader awake. Lara Mimosa Montes is a startling and powerful poet, who opts for vertigo, and whose greatest virtue may be her ability to perform flamboyantly while abstaining from histrionics—to recuse herself, with the exercise of a triumphant minimalism, from her own virtuoso spotlight. Braiding together numbness and desire, she brilliantly demonstrates, in the close-miked fashion of a cabaret Maurice Blanchot, the weirdness of being a witness, a quietly divulging voice.”  — Wayne Koestenbaum

We are happy to announce our August addition to the chapbook manuscript: ON NOT SCREAMING by Eloisa Amezcua. Amezcua is an Arizona native. Her poetry and translations are published or forthcoming from BOAAT, The Journal, Prelude, Poetry Magazine, and others. You can find her at www.eloisaamezcua.com, and you can order your copy of ON NOT SCREAMING here. 

New today at Horse Less Review: an excerpt from ℵ (the book of moose) by Mark Russell!

New today at HLR: an excerpt from Moss by Michael Rerick!

New today at Horse Less Review: four poems by Travis Cebula! 

New today at Horse Less Review: six poems from Close Your Eyes by Michael Ruby! 

Hear Michael Ruby read from Close Your Eyes here. 

Today at O P E N: Sarah Cook talks with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa!

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New today at Horse Less Review: from Smudgy by John Myers!