Horse Less Press

Horse Less Press is very excited to announce that we will be publishing Stephanie Anderson’s full-length book, In the Key of Those Who Can No Longer Organize Their Environments, in 2013. We will also be publishing chapbooks by Aubrie Marrin, Emily Carr, Molly Brodak, and Nathan Hauke. Thank you all so much for sending us your fabulous work and supporting our press. We are still working through the submissions for Horse Less Review #12, which will appear at summer’s end and is going to feature some really great stuff, including work by Nava Fader, Leora Fridman, j/j hastain, Sheila Murphy, Seth Landman, Alex Grant, Lisa Ciccarello, & more more more to come!

Between now and July 4, you can order any two full-length books from Horse Less for $25 and free shipping. Don’t forget to specify which two books you want: Scarlata, Froude, Olszewska, or Schapira. Happy Summer!

Don’t forget – we’re only accepting submissions for Horse Less Review through the end of this month. You’ve got a few more days to send your work! 

Horse Less Press is excited to announce that we will be publishing Kristin Abraham’s The Disappearing Cowboy Trick in 2013. In 2012-2013 we are also very happy to be publishing chapbooks Caught a Bad One by Chad Scheel and Hornbook by Jeffrey Hecker.

And we’re not finished yet! If you submitted a chapbook or full-length manuscript to Horse Less this spring and haven’t received a response yet, it is still under consideration. We’ll be making another announcement later in the summer.

New at O P E N: Megan Burns’ open letter video review of j/j hastain’s “new forms and meditations for the pressurized libertine monk.”

Thank you for contributing to our Kickstarter project! Here is your thank you haiku.

Seth Segall

Cage for a cricket
the body keeps suggesting
by turning around.

Paige Taggart

Liking times but not
division, coyote girl
drinks up the profits.

Kristin Sanders

Leftover turtle
shell emits strange sympathy
for busted squirt gun.

Joe Milazzo

Is there a Deer’s Mouth
in butterfly ID book
or’s that a pet name?

Hey Chicago! Daniela Olszewska & Kate Schapira will be reading together at Myopic Books this Saturday, June 16 at 7 pm. Go hear their good stuff! 

The printer has shipped our books, and they’ll be arriving ahead of schedule. Both should be available via SPD in the next week or two; if you’d like to pre-order your copies from us directly, we will thank you with free shipping. 

Thank you so much for contributing to our Kickstarter project! Here is your thank you haiku (summer edition)!

Carrie Olivia Adams:

Spelunker cousin
blowing dandelion fluff
as conversation.

Joe Harrington:

Waking up at five
to transmit the news scratched
costume jewelry voice.

Krystal Languell:

Lonely first lightning
bug, Fiskars clippers night when
all shrubs grow antlers.

Sarah Madsen:

So hot for sprinklers
and dabbler in half-painted
yard sale self portraits.

Zarah:

Box fan black out, leaves
going forest color, trees
cut out of phone calls.

Karl & Bonnie:

One more construction
held together with blanket
folding, cursive mouth.

Rob MacDonald:

A slowing down car
has your name on it, flowers
dirty like beefsteaks.

Adrian Klein:

Sour campers’ headlamps
shoot cross fire, count their unsaid
words like deer sightings.

Pia Simone Garber:

Soft bandana takes
a wrong turn, blue to the gills
with borrowed fire wood.

David Hadbawnik:

Roses, a circus
of ladies willing to touch
up grass’s dead patch.

Reb Livingston:

Cracked up tinderbox
means smoke will always follow
its double features.

Selah Saterstrom:

Car parts, biggest hair
tween can balance, a bird call
or no bird at all.

Jennifer Pilch:

Gather enough masks
to make a privacy fence
moot, says dream blue jay.

Karen Gans:

Tigerlily screen
in between robin and sense
of movie timing.

Caroline Whitbeck:

Unraveling eye
contact tangles with fossil
knowledge, charcoal songs.

Noah Eli Gordon:

If I can’t surprise
the mirror with watery
fruits raccoons will do.

Mark Liebergall:

Black snake tractor pull
surrealist comes to rescue
ramshackle tree line.

Ada Books:

Jar full of pinecones
tipped over on playing field:
my new love interest.

Brenda Iijima:

That dry mouth don’t want
anything but heat lightning
love, buckwheat pillows.

Phyllis Nauts:

Buck eye recipes
might keep you guessing the wrong
lost knock-knock dreamscape.

Check out this project by Kate Schapira: “I’m going to write a mini-essay on shame here every day for the rest of June to try to teach myself how to make mistakes. That’s the first thing to know about shame: it’s a lesson, but not a lesson about what happens next. Shame is a stuck time machine and as I yank on the levers ever more furiously, as oily smoke starts to rise from the gears, the present sails majestically, sadly, with great dignity further and further away.”