Horse Less Press

Now available for order! Phil Estes’s full-length book HIGH LIFE and Daniel Olszewska’s chapbook ANSWERING MACHINE! Pre-orders & subscriptions currently shipping, and new orders will begin shipment on Monday.

Phil Estes’s chapbooks are Gem City/Fountain City, Children of Reagan (both from Rabbit Catastrophe), and Slowjams (Living Arts). His work has appeared in Action Yes, Diagram, Lungfull, West Wind Review, Willow Springs, and others. He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, and teaches writing at Louisiana Tech.

Of HIGH LIFE, Johannes Goransson writes,

“I am on dead songbird patrol…”  Phil Estes’s poems start out as slacker jokes but then they go wrong. Sometimes they go so wrong that they become frightening and politically charged or become beautiful meditations on art. Or do both at the same time. “Mmm-hmm” has never sounded as prophetic and poetic as in these snippets from a scary-funny middle america. Lets call him the Mallarme of the Strip Mall.

Order High Life now! 

Daniela Olszewska is the author of four books of poetry, including cloudfang : : cakedirt (Horse Less Press, 2012) and Citizen J (Artifice Books, 2013). Daniela lives in Chicago, where she teaches courses in ESL, composition, and creative writing.

You can read some poems from ANSWERING MACHINE at Pith. 

Order Answering Machine now! 

New today at HLR! Things I Have Burned Intentionally by Lauren Eggert-Crowe:

If there was one moment

you wanted it, that is enough

to pack the house

with coals. (read more)

We are so happy to announce that Horse Less Press will publish Ahmunet Jessica Jordon’s chapbook BLACK & BLUE PRINTS this June!

Ahmunet Jessica Jordon is a Black lesbian poet, and educator from Baltimore, Maryland. Her narratives investigate the Black experience; speak to its human condition, and the intertwining of relationships. She received her MFA in Writing and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies, is a 2015 VONA fellow and currently resides as adjunct faculty in CIIS’s MFA Programs.

We are so happy to announce two chapbooks that will be part of our summer line-up! This June, Horse Less Press will be publishing Stephon Lawrence’s NERVS, and in late July/early August, we’ll be publishing Eloisa Amezcua’s On Not Screaming.

Stephon Lawrence is a Brooklyn born & based writer, and artist. She is a current candidate in the MFA in Writing and Activisms at Pratt Institute and is co-founder & an editor of The Felt, a journal of otherworldly poetics. She has a forthcoming chapbook with Horse Less Press entitled NERVS, spends her free time watching anime, yelling about white supremacy, and being real cute for the ‘gram. You can find her on twitter @nnohpetss.

Eloisa Amezcua is an Arizona native. She’s received scholarships from the NY State Summer Writers Institute, the Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference and the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Workshop. Her poems and translations are published or forthcoming in BOAAT, Tahoma Literary Review, Salamander, Day One, and others. You can find her at www.eloisaamezcua.com

Our chapbook editors Sade Murphy, Soham Patel, Shelly Taylor, and Erika Howsare are still in the process of choosing chapbooks for the remainder of the summer and fall of 2016, so stay tuned for more announcements!

New at HLR today: “Walking Stick” by Kelly Werrell! 

May dreams she’s on a fishing line and she’s being reeled in. She’s in the back of her backyard, along the fence, and her blue dress juts outward, like something’s pinched the front of it, by her belly, and lifted away. It’s a wire and a hook that’s got her dress, but she feels it in her body, too, like pressure. (read more)

New at HLR today: two poems by Candice Wuehle! 

Elsewhere on Earth I feel

Fuchsia flowing in my failure

Corridor.

(read more) 

New at O P E N today! Steven Dunn interviews Lisa Birman! 

It’s official! HIGH LIFE by Phil Estes is off to the printers!

Phil Estes is the author of three chapbooks: Gem City/Fountain City (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2009), Children of Reagan (Rabbit Catastrophe, 2012), and Slowjams (Living Arts Press, 2015). He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana and teaches writing at Louisiana Tech University. He’s from Dayton, Ohio, and studied at Wright State University, UMKC, and Oklahoma State.

Johanness Goransson writes: “‘I am on dead songbird patrol…’  Phil Estes’s poems start out as slacker jokes but then they go wrong. Sometimes they go so wrong that they become frightening and politicaly charged or become beautiful meditations on art. Or do both at the same time. ‘Mmm-hmm’ has never sounded as prophetic and poetic as in these snippets from a scary-funny middle america. Lets call him the Mallarme of the Strip Mall.”

You can pre-order your copy of HIGH LIFE here! 

Today at Horse Less Review: four poems by Wendy Chin-Tanner! 

woe woven

we are rain

wet wool weight

and weft we

wait for no

one waiting

for wreck the

rocks break no

matter what

they say you

don’t know what

you don’t know (read more) 

We are so happy to announce that Serena Chopra is a new assistant editor for Horse Less Review. Serena Chopra is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She is the author of This Human (Coconut Books, 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press, 2016). She is a co-founder and performer with the poet’s theater group, GASP and a dancer with the modern dance company, Evolving Doors Dance. She is also a visual artist and was a 2011-2013 artist-in-residence at the RedLine gallery in Denver. She teaches in the MFA program at Naropa University. She lives and works in Denver.

Welcome, Serena!