Horse Less Press

We are so happy to announce that Horse Less will be publishing the following chapbooks in 2014:

Might Club by Siel Ju

Hours by Mark Lamoureux

Some Body Some Hollow by Scott Hammer

Again(st) Membering by Tony Mancus

We’ll also be publishing chapbooks by Jenny Drai, Nikki Wallschlaeger, Kristi Maxwell, and Dan Brady, as announced earlier this month. We have  more manuscripts to read during our open reading period, and we’re still accepting submissions until the end of the month! Submit your manuscript here.

Dena Rash Guzman writes:

Sara’s father is a wolf. Her dog is a miracle. These little poem-stories are feral in content but meticulous in construction. They are little miracles adding up to the sum of a beautiful storybook.

 

Pre-order Russ Woods’ Sara, or the Existence of Fire and the rest of our 2014 catalog here.

Sarah Vap writes:

In her collection Up The Shinbone Superlatives, with the noun-phantasmagoria of

Gertrude Stein, and the weird-spiritual binary-implosion of William Blake, Emily

Carr opens her stunning throat. And like the Minotaur, she does something that

any hybrid human-animal creature would do when conspired against and trapped

in a labyrinth by the gods—she searches, and so re-defines searching. She

prays, and so re-defines prayer. It’s spectacular, but it’s not pretty. And it’s not

supplicant. And it’s not what you think:

squashed angels splay                                        minotaur wings,

little petticoats of rain shred whatever surrounds.

You can pre-order Up the Shinbone Superlatives, and the rest of our 2014 full-length book catalog, here.

Oracle Or, Utopia by Eleni Sikelianos is our final book in the “excitation of influence” series, which pairs chapbooks by Horse Less editors with chapbooks by our influences and mentors. I am printing & binding this book over the weekend, so we’ll start shipping orders on Tuesday! You can order your copy now.

We are thrilled to announce two more forthcoming chapbooks; in 2014, we will have the honor of publishing Leroy Sequences by Dan Brady and To Insist on the “Someness” of Every Assemblage by Kristi Maxwell.

We are STILL reading chapbook manuscripts for 2014; until the end of the month, you can submit your manuscript here.

It’s also a REALLY GOOD time to pre-order our first two full-length books of 2014, due out this February/March. Go snag your discounted copies of Pattie McCarthy’s nulls and Tim Earley’s Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery while they’re still discounted!

We’re almost finished with Eleni Sikelianos’s chapbook Oracle or, Utopia and hope to release it shortly! We’re also excited to announce two forthcoming chapbooks: I Would Be the Happiest Bird by Nikki Wallschlaeger and : Body Wolf : by Jenny Drai. We are still reading chapbook submissions for our 2014 line-up; send us your fabulous work here!

We were busy over the holidays! In case you missed it, we added three new chapbooks to our catalog: Mutations for Jenny by Lisa Cattrone, How We Know It Is That by Jen Denrow, and Graceries by Travis & JenMarie Macdonald. Visit our catalog to order.

We’re also accepting pre-orders for our 2014 full-length book catalog: first up are Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley and nulls by Pattie McCarthy. Read more about them and pre-order here.

AND, we’re reading chapbook manuscripts for 2014! Submissions guidelines are here.

Lisa Cattrone’s AMAZING chapbook Mutations for Jenny is now available! And silver! Very silver! Visit our catalog and pick up your copy.

Look (!!) at the fantastic cover Alban Fischer designed for Pattie McCarthy’s forthcoming book, nulls. Cover art by the awesome James Mundie. Please pre-order nulls and the rest of our 2014 catalog here.

Juliana Spahr has a little something to say about Tim Earley’s forthcoming book:

“Tim Earley writes the regional lit that an Appalachia that has been screwed over once by industrialization and then again by deindustrialization deserves. It is angry, dirty, and drunk.

Don’t let the John Clare title confuse you. Earley is our hillbilly Rimbaud.”

Pre-order Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and the rest of our 2014 catalog here.