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Three Poems by Jonathan Dubow now up at Horse Less Review #18!

Jonathan Dubow lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He has recent work in Axolotl, Phantom Limb, Word Riot, and elsewhere.

Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery was on SPD’s December bestsellers list! Hooray!

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum interviews Lauren Gordon about her Horse Less chapbook KEEN over  at Rattle & Pen!

Today at Horse Less Review, Five Sonnets by Phoebe Wayne! 

Phoebe Wayne is the author of a chapbook called Lovejoy (c_L press), an art/poetry collaboration in book form called Aa (with artist Kerri Rosenstein), and poems published in journals such as Trickhouse, Foursquare, With + Stand, and Peaches and Bats. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two sons, and works as a librarian.

We’re trying something different this year, and we’re going to be publishing the Review in installments. Up first is an excerpt from Suelo Tide Cement by Christina Vega-Westhoff. Hear her read from the first page of the excerpt and read the rest yourself here.

Thanks to Christopher Morgan for this review of Sara Woods’ SARA OR THE EXISTENCE OF FIRE!

We are interested in interviewing some collaborative writers and publishing those interviews on our website. If you have a published collaboration and would like to chat about it sometime in 2015, please be in touch with Jen Tynes at jen.tynes@gmail.com.

We are excited to settle down with Dusie #17, edited by Marthe Reed and featuring so many favorites and friends of Horse Less Press, including Megan Burns, Nikki Wallschlaeger, C.S. Carrier, Brenda Iijima, Megan Kaminski, Kate Schapira, and Horse Less editor Michael Sikkema!

The following, fantastic horse less chapbooks will be going out of print at the end of the year so we can have a 2015! If you’d like a copy, order one now:

Encino by Chad Scheel, The Dark Mouth of Living by Jenn McCreary, Dollbaby by Megan Burns, Diesel Generator by Bernd Sauermann, Heartpoems by Jess Rowan, from The Blank Caught Fire by Erin McNellis, An Atomic Fact by Maurice Burford, phylum by Laura Goldstein, Diplomancy by Tony Mancus, Harpsichord Hills by Merrill Gilfillan, Oak Knock by Erika Howsare, Essay on Parts of Day by Molly Brodak, Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now by Nathan Hauke, The Other Hand by C.D. Wright, and Hunter Monies by Jen Tynes

We are so excited to be publishing Nikki Wallschlaeger’s first full-length book, HOUSES, in May 2005. Joyelle McSweeney writes about HOUSES:

“In my father’s house are many mansions,” Jesus promised. In her deftly-aimed, disarmingly poised debut,  Nikki Wallschlaeger leads us phrase by phrase through the many dim and brightly lit houses of our American psyche in this pitiless new century: “Hospitals. Lighted for end times. They run on glossy generators & backup generators, lights of all dreams.”  Her long lines push the phrases into tight proximities which are sometimes painful, sometimes grate up a little spark: “Neighbor, our hearts pumped blood in the same room, looking onto lakes that teenagers drown in.”  I admire the grave persistence of her vision, the precision of her eye and ear. Houses unflinchingly reports the extremity of contemporary existence and presents the “end times” as durational, as just something else to endure. “The bill, they say, is going through the house. Eventually we’ll have to get real.”

Did you know that you can pre-order our entire 2015 full-length book catalog, which includes HOUSES and also EVERY LIVING ONE by Nathan Hauke, THE JITTERS by Anne Cecelia Holmes, and HERE YOU ARE by Sara Peck and Jared Joseph for just $55? We even have a gift option.