Horse Less Press

I promised we’d add a chapbook to our 2014 line-up if our Kickstarter reached $2000, and it did, and we are! We are so excited we get to publish WHAT KIND OF HOWLY DIVINE, a first chapbook from Jessica Comola. Jessica Comola’s poems have previously appeared in Anti-, Everyday Genius, Painted Bride Quarterly, Eccolinguistics, and BOAAT. Today some poems of hers appeared in an amazing issue of Smoking Glue Gun, which also includes work by Horse Less authors and friends Lauren Gordon, Gina Abelkop, Jenn Marie Nunes, and more. As I was typing this update, a poem of hers appeared at Moss Trill. Who knows where she will have published by the time this is posted! 

We will release WHAT KIND OF HOWLY DIVINE this month! If you contribute $15 or more to our Kickstarter, you’ll receive a copy automatically! I am also adding a new $10 reward to our Kickstarter, so you can pre-order Jessica Comola’s WHAT KIND OF HOWLY DIVINE individually. We only have three days left of our campaign, so place your orders now!

Did you know that our summer chapbook line-up will include TO INSIST ON THE “SOMENESS” OF EVERY ASSEMBLAGE by Kristi Maxwell? Her full-length book PLAN/K is forthcoming from the awesome GOLD WAKE PRESS this year. You can listen to recordings of Maxwell reading at Pennsound.

Did you know that our fall chapbook line-up will include LIFE IS TO BLAME FOR EVERYTHING by the poet laureate of Philadelphia, Frank Sherlock? Sherlock’s full-length book SPACE BETWEEN THESE LINES NOT DEDICATED was just published by press-friend IXNAY PRESS. You can listen to recordings of Sherlock reading at Pennsound.

Subscribe to our summer or fall chapbook series for $30 each or get the whole year of chapbooks for only $75 at our Kickstarter campaign. Only three days left!

If you submitted a manuscript for our spring open reading period, or if you’re just curious to see what we’re up to, we’ll be making final decisions and announcing those titles in the next several weeks! Thank you for your work and your interest and your patience. We are so excited about the manuscripts (over 100) we’ve gotten a chance to read this year.

Our spring Kickstarter campaign has met and exceeded its goal: hooray! We’ve already agreed to add a chapbook to our 2014 line-up in response to that overflow. But we’d love to add one more goal. If we can reach $2400 (we’ve raised $2000 so far), we’ll add a full-length e-book to our 2015 book catalog, in addition to the print books we have already budgeted for. We always have to turn down manuscripts we wish we could publish; if you haven’t subscribed or pre-ordered through our Kickstarter yet, take advantage of the deals and help us make even more poetry happen!

Tim Earley will be reading in D.C. on Friday, June 13 with Michelle Dove, Michael Flatt, Rachel Katz, and Sara Nicholson. More info here; go hear and see them! You can check out a recent reading of Tim’s here. 

We have run out of copies of Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery again, which is a great problem to have; new copies are on their way from the printers. If you order a copy through our current Kickstarter campaign, you won’t be sorry! We are only $8 away from our first stretch goal; if we reach $2000, we’ll add another chapbook to our 2014 line-up. Additionally, if we can make it to $2400 in the next four days, we’ll add a full-length e-book to our 2015 line-up! Tell all your friends! Help us make more things! 

Mr. Sikkema and I had a great time being Horse Less Press representatives at the Midwest Small Press Festival in Kansas City this year. We saw friends and met great people and sold some books and bought some books and read some poems and had some poems read to us. Big huge thanks to all the organizers and participators and hosts.

While we were away, our Kickstarter campaign surpassed its $1700 goal – we’re currently resting at a little over $1800. Thank you all so much! We will contact folks to get addresses and such as soon as we’re able. In the meantime, we wanted to offer a stretch goal and see if we can make use of the five days of Kickstarter we have left; if we reach $2000, we’ll add a chapbook to this year’s run, and we’ll add an extra goody to everyone’s package. Please pass the word along to anyone who might be interested in getting some fabulous books and supporting a little press with a big engine.

Have you picked up a copy of Pattie McCarthy’s brand new book nulls yet? Did you know that you can order it via our current Kickstarter campaign and help Horse Less Press out at the same time? Read some poems from the book over a VOLTA, and then get yourself a copy.

First, thank you SO MUCH for your Kickstarter orders; we have met our funding goal! We still have a week to go, however, and our subscriptions and book packages are a great deal. Get the one that makes sense for you! 

We are so excited to be publishing a chapbook by Tony Mancus this fall. You can check out some of his recent work in ILK, 1111, Apartment Poetry, and Nightblock, and then subscribe to our fall chapbook run, which also includes books by Judith Roitman, Frank Sherlock, Dan Brady, and Lauren Gordon. 

This post is coming live from the Midwest Small Press Fest in Kansas City, Missouri, where even the poetry smells like BBQ. 

We’re about to send John Duvernoy’s first full-length book, SOMETHING IN THE WAY // OBSTRUCTION BLUES to the printers! Keep an eye out for an official release date sometime in June. You can check out John Duvernoy’s Poet’s Sampler in Boston Review, introduced by Timothy Liu, here. 

HR Hegnauer is responsible for this book’s stunning design. You can still pre-order a copy via our spring Kickstarter campaign! If you’d buy direct, there’s also a pre-order link on our page.

Friends, thank you so much for your support so far. We are almost 60% funded, with about ten days to go to raise $700. 

Did you know that we will be publishing Kirsten Jorgenson’s first full-length book, SEDIMENT & VEIL, this September/October? Kirsten Jorgenson is from Salt Lake City, Utah, via Chicago, Illinois. She is also the author of two chapbooks, Deseret (Horse Less Press, 2011) and Accidents of Distance (Dancing Girl Press, 2012), and coauthor of the poetics chapbook Country Music (DoubleCross Press, 2013). She lives in Western North Carolina with her son, dog, and partner, Nathan Hauke, with whom she coedits Ark Press and cocurates the Ark Press Summer Reading Series.

You can read her talking about writing and hear her read some new work in this interview we did with Pepper Luboff at OmniVerse. You can also see an excerpt from SEDIMENT & VEIL here. Please visit our Kickstarter page and pre-order your copy of SEDIMENT & VEIL today!   

MOSS TRILL is featuring so many horse less authors, editors, and friends right now! Check out work by Megan Kaminski, Tim Earley, Michael Sikkema, Stephanie Anderson, Nava Fader, Carrie Hunter, Mary Kasimor, rob mclennan, and more more more!