Horse Less Press

We are so excited to announce that we will be adding one more book to our 2015 full-length book catalog! In addition to our winter/spring titles by Nathan Hauke, Sara Peck and Jared Joseph, Nikki Wallschlaeger, and Anne Cecelia Holmes, in fall 2015 we will be publishing PLAN/K by Kristi Maxwell!

Kristi Maxwell’s books include That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia Books, 2014), Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia, 2009), and Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta, 2008), and horse less press published her chapbook To Insist on the ‘Someness’ of Every Assemblage. Kristi teaches at the University of Tennessee and for National University’s MFA program and serves on the board of KnowHow Knoxville, a youth empowerment and social justice organization in East Tennessee.

You have a little more than five days left to submit your full-length book or chapbook manuscript to Horse Less Press. We’d love to read what you’re working on!

Nikki Wallschlaeger’s forthcoming book HOUSES is on Marisa Crawford’s “15 Books I Can’t Wait to Read in 2015” at WEIRD SISTER, alongside some other great titles from our poet and press friends. It’ll be several more months before you can order HOUSES singly, but you CAN subscribe now to our 2015 full-length books, which includes HOUSES as well as books by Anne Cecelia Holmes, Sara Peck & Jared Joseph, and Nathan Hauke.

TIm Earley is speaking a new poem over at The Continental Review this week, We’ve mailed out several new orders of his POEMS DESCRIPTIVE OF RURAL LIFE AND SCENERY this morning, but there are still some left for you, if you still need to pick up a copy! 

Horse Less Press will be reading book and chapbook submissions for eleven more days! We’re also currently reading for the review and for a special chapbook release reading series. Get all the details here and send us something good!

New poems by Jessica Baer up today at Horse Less Review!

Jessica Baer received her BA in Creative Writing from Georgia State University in 2011. She currently lives and works in Chicago. She translates poetry from Portuguese and loves horses. Her work has previously been included in Fruita Pulp.

Up today at OPEN: Ruth Foley reviews Gary L. McDowell’s book Weeping at a Stranger’s Funeral. 

Thanks to Shanna Compton for mentioning Carolina Maugeri’s chapbook many a holy and obsequious tear as part of a discussion about “faux finishes” over at the really exciting new Real Pants.

We are looking at first proofs of Nathan Hauke’s Every Living One right now, scheduled to be released in February, and we are so excited. We’ll be sharing the cover image soon. In the meantime, did you know you can pre-order Every Living One? See Hauke’s work at the Lost Roads blog, TYPO, SPORK, and E-RATIO and read more about ELO below; then secure your copy! 

Composed through the accumulation and solve of discrete interwoven series, EVERY LIVING ONE attends to presence rent by attachment and loss—creation entrusted to itself, further bewildered by text(s) and belief. It picks through the razor briar of “born-again” religious rhetoric and junks the abstraction of transcendentalism to embrace visionary experience, cleaving to practice grounded in relinquishment and acts of salvage that accompany the transformative threshold of edges.

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“What if the secret heart of rural America were a still waiting, an all-but-silent psalm?  These lyrics are delicate, involuted fossils of a trance-like attention that somehow does not exclude chronic underemployment, neighbors up on assault charges, and other vicissitudes of contemporary rural living.  In the tradition of C.D. Wright, besmilr brigham, and perhaps Lorine Niedecker above all, these are poems ‘learning the mirror and field guide,’ becoming ‘a process of mapping’—not just of place, but also of being-in-place, an angled consciousness that pares itself away even as the lines all but dissolve on the reader’s sympathetic eye-tongue.” —G.C. Waldrep

EVERY LIVING ONE will be released in February, 2015. Pre-order your copy now via Paypal.

Up at Horse Less Review #18 this morning, an excerpt from Carrie Bennett’s Expedition Notes. 

Carrie Bennett is the author of biography of water and chapbooks A Quiet Winter, Animals in Pretty Cages; her third chapbook The Affair Fragments is forthcoming from dancing girl press. Her poems have most recently been published in Small Po[r]tions and Anchor, and her flash fiction in Fairy Tale Review. In 2012 she was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship. Carrie currently lives in Somerville, MA with her family and teaches writing at Boston University. She co-curates a new experimental performance series— phantom phantom— which will begin cross-discipline performances this winter.