![hiku [pull] by James A. H. White (cover: Nicci Mechler)](https://porkbellypress.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/hiku.jpg?w=289&resize=289%2C172&h=172#038;h=172 "hiku")
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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Anita Olivia Koester » anitaoliviakoester.com
- “Constellation with False Moon” is up at Glass Poetry Journal.
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Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Minadora Macheret
- “She Called Them All Bandit-God or How My Grandmother Survived the Holocaust” is up at Red Paint Hill.
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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn » bluebirdwords.com
- Haunting reviewed by Kimberly Ann Southwick at Ploughshares blog.
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A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Amorak Huey » amorakhuey.net
- A Map of the Farm reviewed by Kimberly Ann Southwick at Ploughshares blog.
- “Prayer for What I Do Not Want” is up at Third Point Press.
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hiku [pull] (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by James A. H. White
- hiku [pull] reviewed by Kimberly Ann Southwick at Ploughshares blog.
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Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Chen Chen » chenchenwrites.com
- When I Grow Up… was long-listed for the National Book Award! (poetry)
- Set the Garden on Fire turned two this month!
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities reviewed by @shitty_book_reviews:
Because the word will not save you. Because an elegy is a body’s warm light unfolding. Because the tree cannot hold all of you. Because love’s glossolalia isn’t translatable. Because translation is a kind of murder. Because language is both the bread and the knife. Because we could all stand to be a little more like flowers. When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities pairs well with a date to the zoo, the works of Paul Celan, and New York tap water. Chen Chen’s poems are hearts too big for their bodies. // @shitty_book_reviews
- Chen’s interviewed by Allison Peters for Michigan Quarterly Review.
“I want to write and to read poems with this kind of scrappy don’t-fuck-with-me-but-also-gahh-I’m-a-human-ness,” says Chen. // more
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MEXICAMERICANA (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Eloisa Amezcua » www.eloisaamezcua.com
- “Watching Underworld, Inc. Episode 3: Human Cargo,” (from Mexicamericana), was selected for Best New Poets 2017.
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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com
- a review of The Girl is up on Glass! (review by Amorak Huey!)
These are poems to be believed. This experience is real. Fraught and complex and contradictory and imaginative and impossible, naturally, but real nonetheless.
… Vorreyer starts this collection with a bit of a mystery, our heroic girl stopping “mid-stride in the center of a crosswalk.” The world does not know what to make of her, frozen like this, getting in the way of things. The girl’s parents, the police, a priest — all of them are unable to persuade her to move. The poem ends that way: the world freaking out, the girl unflinching. // more
- Best of the Net nomination from Compose for “Because Ignorance is a Country with Many Coasts.”
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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig » pdkindig.wordpress.com
- new work in Timber Journal.
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Excerpt from Kimberly Ann Southwick’s reviews of three Porkbelly Press titles on Ploughshares blog this month:
Porkbelly Press is a Cincinnati-based press that puts out chapbooks and micro-chapbooks as well as a literary magazines and anthologies. It describes itself as an “indie queer-friendly, feminist press” and produces chapbooks that are hand-stitched. Porkbelly is as diverse as its description claims, boasting titles like Eloisa Amezcua’s Mexicamericana, Billie R. Tadros’ inter: burial places, and Wren Hanks’ Ghost Skin, in addition to those reviewed below, which exemplify the high-quality writing the press values. // more
Titles reviewed include: hiku [pull] by James A. H. White, A Map of the Farm Three Miles From the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey, and Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen Into the Bay by Sarah Ann Winn.
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Porkbelly Press tabled at the Kentucky Fried Zine Fest (Lyric Theater & Cultural Arts Center, Lexington, Kentucky). We met some fab people & scooped up cool stickers, patches, & zines! Thanks for the welcome and all the writing&activism&life conversation, KFZ!
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