Horse Less Press

We’re happy to see Pattie McCarthy’s NULLS on this list, alongside books by some of our favorite press friends!

Today Horse Less Press posted four calls for submission at Submittable:

Our 2015 chapbook series and 2016 full-length book series open readings, which will be open through the month of January,

Horse Less Review, which will now be read for on a rolling basis, and

a new chapbook series we’re starting, which includes a reading in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2015 and is open to everyone except white, male poets. It will also be read for on a rolling basis.

Check out the details at Submittable and spread the word!

Horse Less editors Jen Tynes and Michael Sikkema also host Poetry & Pints, a monthly reading series in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and we are looking for some readers for 2015! See readers for past events on our Facebook page. If you’re a poet or hybrid-genre writer who might be interested in reading next year, please send a short sample of work to jen.tynes@gmail.com.

Keen by Lauren Gordon and Two: (Ghazals) by Judith Roitman! Two new golden chapbooks just in time for the holidays! You can read more about them and order them individually for $8 each using the links below. OR, you can order the pair for $14. OR you can order our entire Fall chapbook subscription, which also includes chapbooks by Frank Sherlock, Tony Mancus, and Dan Brady, for $30.

Lauren Gordon is the Pushcart Prize nominated author of chapbooks Meaningful Fingers (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Generalization (Yellow Flag Press, 2014). Her poems and reviews have recently appeared with Sugar House Review, [PANK], Smoking Glue Gun, Menacing Hedge, MiPOesias, The Collagist, burntdistrict, and many other wonderful journals and anthologies. She was nominated for two Best of the Net awards this year and is a Contributing Editor to Radius Lit. She lives outside of Milwaukee.

Order Keen. 

Judith Roitman lives in Lawrence, KS. Books and chapbooks include No Face (First Intensity), Slackline (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), Furnace Mountain Poems (Omertà), and Ku: a thumb book (Airfoil). Recent poems can be found in Talisman, YEW, Horse Less Review, Otoliths, Eleven Eleven. 

Order Two: (Ghazals). 

We’ve just sent Nathan Hauke’s book EVERY LIVING ONE to fabulous book designer Alban Fischer, and we cannot wait to see how pretty he makes it. We’ll be releasing EVERY LIVING ONE in January, but YOU can pre-order YOUR COPY NOW at a discount! Please help us offset printing and design costs, and reserve your copy today! 

EVERY LIVING ONE

Nathan Hauke 

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 culls 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 January, 2015. Pre-order your copy now via Paypal.

Horse Less editors Michael Sikkema and Jen Tynes will be reading during the 6 pm hour of Woodland Pattern’s 21st annual Poetry Marathon and Benefit Reading! Woodland Pattern is an amazing poetry and community resource, and we want them to keep it up. Between the two of us, we must raise AT LEAST $70 by marathon day; we’d love to do better than that. If you would like to make a donation in our names/the name of Horse Less Press, please email me at jen.tynes@gmail.com to set it up. Thank you so much!

Happy to see Pattie McCarthy’s nulls on Entropy Magazine’s Best Poetry of 2014 list! 

And check out this interview with favorite book-makers Projective Industries!

Horse Less loves DoubleCross, so we’re sharing their open reading period announcement here!

 

1) DoubleCross Press will be reading manuscripts from December 1st–31st. For this reading period we will be looking for:

• our new all-letterpress chapbook series of tiny poetry manuscripts: 7 pages or less
• our Poetics of the Handmade series of essays on small press culture: this series publishes essays by contemporary hand-bookmakers and writers who engage with the handmade book as publishers, promoters, or curators. With an eye to the book’s past, the series seeks to illuminate the forms, connotations, and communities of the handmade book in early 21st century micropress culture.

Rather than charging a reading fee, we ask that you SUPPORT SMALL PRESSES by buying a chapbook from us or from another small press you admire. 

Please submit manuscripts in PDF or Word formats to: doublecrosspress@gmail.com. We will respond to submissions in the new year!