Horse Less Press

THANK YOU for contributing to our Kickstarter project! Here is your thank you haiku!

T.A. Noonan:

One ringlet function
out of fire: elongate
sound til I get there.

 
Kimberly Alidio:

Experiment bear
stars up when spring’s too moldy
for the laser show.

 
Nicole Wilson:

Green dress rabbit name
tags tangled in girly earth
worms, chiclet angles.

 
Megan Burns:

O dollbaby: brass
jangle flavors land parcel
between tits tax free.

 
Cori A. Winrock:

Winter stutter sweats
through a hand-made hand-cuff act:
better plant your trick.

j/j hastain writes to Travis Macdonald about N7ostradamus.

Adieu, National Poetry Month. We will be reading submissions for Horse Less Review #12 until the end of May. We prefer 5-10 pages of amazing poetry or hybrid-genre work in one file. You probably already knew that. 

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

Jenn:

Crackling without need:
power men leave tree branches
turned night-time nurse logs.

Rachel Y. King:

That word’s tangled leash
crosses city parks at night
with odd lake in tow.

Cathryn Cofell:

Radio in child
container. Shake like jelly,
trees. We read ahead.

Jason Labbe:

A tree undertone
is leftover from dinner
and other mouth-feels.

Nathan Hauke:

Stitches found the beer
you sent to the familiar
door, the grass hand shakes.

Nate Logan:

Outside telescope
love and anthill vigilance:
what do you call that?

Janet Holmes:

Boots on a high chair
at mountain yard sale asked me
to give you rhinestones.

We’re looking for O P E N letter reviewers for the following books & chapbooks!

Wonder Girl in Monster Land by Brenda Sieczkowski (Dancing Girl Press)
Country Album by James Capozzi (Parlor Press)
the relational elations of ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios & j/j hastain (Marsh Hawk Press)
Don’t Let Me Forget to Feed the Sharks by Jeff Alessandrelli (Poor Claudia)

Email openlettershlp@gmail.com for more info.

We at Horse Less Press are feeling mighty thankful. As of today, we have received 136 chapbook & full-length book submissions for our open reading period, and our Kickstarter project has received $2315 in contributions, which means we are 77% funded. There are only 21 days left for both, so get involved while you can! I have written a little over 60 Thank You haiku and, as of now, have about 26 to catch up on. I am learning to count and miscount the syllables in all things and really looking forward to the amazing books and chapbooks we’re going to get to publish over the next year.

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

Kate Durbin:

Throat full of balloon
said cover it with crevice
version, my straight lace.

Sam Kusnetz:

Circled blue-faced pin
by pin, we passed books until
they looked back at us.

Jeff:

He said bark so still
at least a dozen brothers
peeled white wallpaper.

Tom Andes:

Standing in a fish
light, in the stream fish follow
glowing, story-stunned.

The boy asks why we look up and say hello to each other. I start off, “you know when you’re reading a book, and then you stop reading?” He keeps rubbing at the dimple where it dried.

Kristi:

Paste bottle, eagle
position of fold dairy—
how you say twin loop.

Rowland Saifi:

Normal test bones sound
won’t throw balls, keeps different counts
what a break-in means.

Eileen Tabios:

Her chagrin, a girl
sized neighborhood kid hulas
dirty words, dares you.

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Want a haiku written for you & maybe some other rewards too? Help us make some books by going here and supporting our work:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2049449313/o-yes-daniela-olszewska-and-kate-schapira-horse-le

Thank you for contributing to our Kickstarter project! Here are your Thank You haiku!

Joel Schapira:

A five syllable
knock-knock joke goes careening
from my frame to yours.

Andrew Terhune:

Saying donut means
something jangling, median
full of crude bluebells.

Rebecca Loudon:

Your toe, its kingdom
carves bears all into my bar,
soapy, flowering.

Rick Morrow:

Parallel legs wool
out the sheep and out counting
pyramids, night caps.

Amaranth Borsuk:

Red machine fungus
told me “put back the ugly
door, finish your glass.”

Wendy Xu:

Our pink grandfather’s
machine keys, the blank one you
hit out of surprise.

Jenny Lee Fowler:

Windmills in horror
movies are slender, leafy
girl script, apt to barn.

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Want a haiku written for you & maybe some other rewards too? Help us make some books by going here and supporting our work:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2049449313/o-yes-daniela-olszewska-and-kate-schapira-horse-le

Horse Less Review #11 includes work by Paige Taggart, Jess Rowan, kathryn l. pringle, Curtis Perdue, Jesse Morse, Rob MacDonald, Valerie Loveland, Mike Gross, Kit Frick, Megan Burns, Maurice Burford, Ark Codex, Stephanie Anderson, Kimberly Alidio, and Kristin Abraham. Cover art by Dagan McClure-Sikkema.

We’re still accepting donations to our Kickstarter project, which will help fund the publication of our forthcoming (July 2012) books by Daniela Olszewska and Kate Schapira. We’re 68% funded, which is great, but we gotta get to 100%!  If you’re able, please help us out! 

We’re also still accepting chapbook and full-length submissions for 2012-2013. All the guidelines are up at Submittable. 

Nathan Hauke writes to Megan Burns about her chapbook Irrational Knowledge (Fell Swoop Press).