July’s Smokin’ Hot Bacon

(News & happenings from/with/including/for our poets&writers)

Poems for Ivan by Sara Adams (cover: Nicci Mechler)

How to Leave a Farmhouse (Beth McDermott, cover: Nicci Mechler)

Rooed by Thirst // Tina Mozelle Braziel (cover art: Kathleen Piercefield)

My Heart in Aspic by Sonya Vatomsky (cover: Shannon Perry)

Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sara Adams » kartoshkaaaaa.com

• We All Have to Keep Our Heads, Sara’s newest micro chap of poems, is out from Ghost City Press!

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How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Beth McDermott

• Beth’s poem, “Strip-Mall Bakery,” is featured over at Storm Cellar.

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Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Tina Mozelle Braziel

• Tina’s poem is featured at Poetry Breakfast.

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My Heart in Aspic (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sonya Vatomsky » @coolniceghost

• Sonya’s poem “Mourning Hair, Don’t Care” is up (with audio!) at Nostrovia! Tavern.

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Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Chen Chen » chenchenwrites.com

• Chen’s “Playing in the Square” received a Best of the Net nom from TheThe Poetry.

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Ghost Tongue (Porkbelly Press, 2016) forthcoming
by Nicole Rollender » nicolerollender.com

• Nicole’s “No One Asks” received a Best of the Net nom from TheThe Poetry.
• “Sorrow Singing,” “Somewhere, Another Woman Tells Her Husband Why She Doesn’t Want Another Child,” and “The Story About the Dog” appear in v3 i2 of Tinderbox Poetry Journal.