Friends, subscriptions for our 2016 catalog are available! Help us help you have some more poetry in your home!

Happy Monday! November is disappearing. Need some poetry to help you with December?

Maybe you need to pick up a copy of Kristi Maxwell’s newly-released PLAN/K? 

Perhaps you haven’t yet gotten our most recent chapbook release, Claudia Cortese’s The Red Essay & Other Histories? 

It’s also about time to start thinking about pre-orders and subscriptions for 2016! Like Jessica Comola’s everything we met changed form & followed the rest:

You can pre-order Everything We Met Changed Form & Followed the Rest now! 

Or, can subscribe to our 2016 full-length book catalog, which includes seven books:

Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest, by Jessica Comola

High Life, by Phil Estes

Handbook for Hands that Alter as We Hold Them Out , by Kate Schapira

Two Teenagers, by John Colasacco

Lands of Yield, by Stephanie Anderson

Ic, by Serena Chopra

The Somnambulist, by Lara Montes

Thank you for appreciating poetry! It appreciates you back!

We are so happy to share the fabulous cover for Jessica Comola’s VERY FIRST full-length book Everything We Met Changed Form & Followed the Rest, due out in January 2016.

You can pre-order Everything We Met Changed Form & Followed the Rest now! 

Or, can subscribe to our 2016 full-length book catalog, which includes seven books:

Everything We Met Changed Form and Followed the Rest, by Jessica Comola

High Life, by Phil Estes

Handbook for Hands that Alter as We Hold Them Out , by Kate Schapira

Two Teenagers, by John Colasacco

Lands of Yield, by Stephanie Anderson

Ic, by Serena Chopra

The Somnambulist, by Lara Montes

Thanks to Leora Fridman for reviewing Holmes’ THE JITTERS at Entropy! 

Here’s a great, brief interview with Siel Ju about her Horse Less Press and Dancing Girl Press chapbooks!

New at Horse Less Review today, from That Which Comes After by Alexis Pope! 

We are meeting in the middle of the road

It’s not a safe idea but there are no other plans

I’ve never been in a helicopter

I’ve never laid my body against the traffic

There are some memories I block

Pill bottles and snow (read more)

PLAN/K

Kristi Maxwell

“Following in a long line of acts of piracy by women writers (Kathy Acker’s Pussy, King of the Pirates), Kristi Maxwell proves herself a masterful ventriloquist. Slipping her hand into through a card game (Royalty), a children’s book, historical documents on sea pirates, and Treasure Island, Maxwell speaks, strikes, through double entendres, puns, homonyms, and jokes—all the devices scorned by the “original” pirates of linguistic, cultural and political power. Plan/k—not only Dickinson’s plank but also Maxwell’s (and Kafka’s) plan K (plans A-J always go awry)– engenders alternate subtexts , defrock priests and denude emperors: “[‘where are your manners’ ‘where are your manners’ ‘inflected’ ‘infected’ ‘affected’]) but reads as a He by her mother’s (Design / Deceit [by her knowing the Signs by which a Pete is Mister-ed and Sir-ed (Served vs. Serfed)]).]” Meaning radiates in all directions , refusing and submitting to the lure of narrative, the drive to annex: ““Frontier Thesis[:] […] Turner’s funda(men)tal orientation [turner] to the land.” Though Maxwell sets sail with the infamous pirate(ss) Mary Read, Plan/K is less a “whole lotion to cross” than perpetual Brownian motion in the Petri dish of culture, a nervous twitching of semantic, syntactical and grammatical categories. It is also a book sounding the bottoms: “’Gen-Hur on a cherry-it a char[ge]iot (c [as see]-h[e]r-riot!) Mary Read, the woman compelled by her mother to deceive in order to live: ‘[Mary Read has no Reed (read: Penis; read: Man-Oar).” Oar-less, Maxwelltakes a leap–is pushed from the plan/k. And adventure begins.”

–Tyrone Williams

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New today: two poems by Marina Hope Wilson! 

Children named and unnamed.
The middle of any place.
The animal in me. Its shadow (read more) 

The Red Essay & Other Histories

Claudia Cortese

Claudia Cortese’s poems and lyric essays appear in Best New Poets 2011, Blackbird, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, and Sixth Finch, among others. Author of the chapbook Blood Medals (Thrush Press 2015)–which explores suburban girlhood through a character named Lucy–Cortese lives in New Jersey.

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rob mclennan reviews Anne Cecelia Holmes’ THE JITTERS. Thanks, rob!