Horse Less Press

Check out these four poems by Phil Estes over at Action Yes! Phil’s book HIGH LIFE is forthcoming from Horse Less Press in about a month, and we are so pleased.

We are so excited to announce three new additions to our catalog!

First, we are prouder than punch (?) to publish Jessica Comola’s very first full-length book, EVERYTHING WE MET CHANGED FORM & FOLLOWED THE REST. Comola is from Austin, Texas. She has an MFA from the University of Mississippi and is currently working towards a PhD from the University of Denver. Evie Shockley says of this book, “Jessica Comola’s debut collection marks her as a poet for whom language is stranger than truth. Her ear tells her things the eye cannot perceive, and she shares those rarely heard cadences with us.” EVERYTHING WE MET CHANGED FORM & FOLLOWED THE REST is available for order now.

We are also so so so happy to announce new chapbooks by Megan Burns and Christine Bettis!

Megan Burns is the publisher at Trembling Pillow Press and the author of three full-length collections available from Lavender Ink. She directs the Blood Jet Poetry Series in New Orleans. Her collection The Poetics of Nicki Minaj & 30 Days of Weezy is forthcoming. You can now order her chapbook SLEEPWALK WITH ME, “poems crafted for a Laura Palmer dollbaby performance.”

Christine Bettis is a poet in the MFA program at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. She is from Detroit. Of her new chapbook, Bettis writes, “BURNOUT PARADISE is a series of diseased poems that drives itself into an IRL/online hybrid grid,  full of danger, symptomatic loops, and decaying layers in pursuit of the cure.” You can order BURNOUT PARADISE now. 

FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO OWN ALL THREE OF THESE BOOKS? Bless you. You can get them at a discount by picking up the bundle! 

New at HLR today: an excerpt from TACT by Lily Duffy! 

Sometimes, it really is as if I am two—the neighbor coughing and spitting on his patio for a combined half of every hour, which, from inside our house at the opposite end, I can hear as if I’m sitting right beside him, and I am mad, distracted, disgusted, but then someone entirely else comes in feeling sad, sorry, forgiving, and when that else enters I think, yes, of course, and after that, cannot remember feeling any other way, forget there are other ways to feel.

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New at HLR today: two poems by Armando Jaramillo Garcia! 

As the seasons changed two old bears

Meeting in a concrete wood

Sniffing at the social changes to come

Me sitting and dangling my legs

You standing leaning slightly

Me dead

You nearly

But of course having done so much more

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Good 2016! Up today at Horse Less Review, “The Demolition of the Cathedral” by Cody-Rose Clevidence.

jewelweed seedpod : google it

 

deleted jargon of sadness— [] th’ glitter / of it [breaks]

what my eyes | purge them | what my eyes

{purge them}   lilaceous —   I mean purple, but |   [fuck baptism, but]

be doused {come sudden} th’ spring I reckon [comes]

verily   |   morphic   | be   |     {ye dim of blink or shook }

rhyme crash on leaf as leaf crash on leaf   | {wut}

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Anne Cecelia Holmes is interviewed by rob mclennan today, and Leah Rogin-Roper has new work up at Word Riot.

Our kickstarter campaign for 2016 has a few more days to go. We’ve reached our goal and we thank you for that; maybe you still need a 2016 subscription or pre-order, though? You can still order one here. 

Look what’s happening all over!

Emily Brandt has a new poem up at Poor Claudia.

Nikki Wallschlager’s HOUSES appeared on LitHub’s literary debut feature. Her newest chapbook I Hate Telling You How I Really Feel is also available for pre-order from Bloof.

Anne Cecelia Holmes’ chapbook Dead Year will be published by Sixth Finch this spring.

Alyse Knorr won the 2015 Alaska Literary Award, and her third book of poems, Mega-City Redux, will be published by Furniture Press Books in 2017. She also has poems in the new issue of Alice Blue.

Claudia Cortese’s essays have recently appeared in Black Warrior Review, Bone Bouquet, and The Storialist.

New at Horse Less Review today: three poems by Anaïs Duplan! 

The boy unveils his ankles for the grazing stallions, hoping to start a riot. The stallions bulge in the sun and are blinded by the sun. Hoping to start a riot, the ponies graze in the sun and the woman unveils her ankles for the grazing stallions. (read more)

New today at Horse Less Review: four poems by Isabel Sobral Campos!

Radio Sonnet
Blooms
[Spray angle
See instruction
Bell]

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