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01.31.18
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Porkbelly’s January News

(from our poets & authors—readings, happenings, reviews, books, and news)

Rooed by Thirst // Tina Mozelle Braziel (cover art: Kathleen Piercefield)
Feeding the Dead by M. Brett Gaffney (cover art: Mary Chiaramonte)
Found Footage by Maggie Woodward (cover: Nicci Mechler)
How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols
My Heart in Aspic by Sonya Vatomsky (cover: Shannon Perry)
Poems for Ivan by Sara Adams (cover: Nicci Mechler)
Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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

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

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Dreamland for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, 2018) & How Darkness Enters a Body (Porkbelly Press, 2018) by Sarah Nichols » @onibaba37

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Feeding the Dead (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by M. Brett Gaffney « blog

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Found Footage (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Maggie Woodward

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

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Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the Middle of the Night (Porkbelly Press, 2015) by E. Kristin Anderson » www.ekristinanderson.com

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06.30.16
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June’s Crispy Bacon

Poems for Ivan by Sara Adams (cover: Nicci Mechler)
Everything I Own by Angela Just (cover: Nicci Mechler)
hiku [pull] by James A. H. White (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)
Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

All the good news (we’ve heard about) from our contributors:

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

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Jennifer Hanks

  • Jennifer’s chapbook Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) was just released. (Her chap from Porkbelly is forthcoming as of this writing.)

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hiku [pull] (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by James A. H. White

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Everything I Own (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Angela Just

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

  • a blog interview at Live Your Poem with Irene Latham, in which she says things like “We plan to burn lines of poetry into walls of our house.” Yesssss.

Emerson claims that “Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.” That rings true to me, especially when I discover words like “rock-bar” and “squarings” that feel so invigorating. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the term “sistering” which means nailing one board against another for additional strength. Such concepts and words recalibrate my perspective of what makes a home, what it means to claim a place as our own. And that feeds my writing. // more

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My Heart in Aspic (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sonya Vatomsky // @coolniceghost

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Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Chen Chen // chenchenwrites.com

“Except let’s not hold off on the giant cake. & let’s not hold off on being

irreversibly in love. Happiness needs no preparation or warrantee
or reason. I’m ready to say that. I’m ready to watch any romcom/action
combo where two people topple tyranny, fall in love. I’m ready
for the movie where four people topple tyranny, fall in love,

& make consensual arrangements to keep it open.
Or six people just stay in & become best friends. Or seven
billion people befriend themselves…” | more

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Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by E. Kristin Anderson // @ek_anderson

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01.31.16
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Good Stuff (January)

Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (cover: Nicci Mechler)
Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Good news & happenings from/with our authors&poets:

Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Chen Chen // @chenchenwrites

Chen writes not to seek solutions, but rather to document the fullness of the problem, as an embodied weight from which language emerges. Chen’s poems investigate identity with a kind of generosity. They retrace past traumas, to find in them the possibility of repair. In “Tale of the Heart & the Knife,” a friend observes, reflecting on Chen’s own descriptions of his parents, “You talk about them so tenderly…How do you do that?” He replies, “I have not always been tender. / So perhaps it’s a way of making up, talking about them tenderly.” | more at Entropy

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Pray, Pray, Pray: poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by E. Kristin Anderson // @ek_anderson

  • a petite review of Pray, Pray, Pray in tweetspeak (Glynn Young)
12.31.15
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Good Stuff in December

Midnight Blue by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb (cover art: Nicci Mechler)
My Heart in Aspic by Sonya Vatomsky (cover: Shannon Perry)

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

NGQ: Sonya, first I’d like to ask about your origin story: if you were a character in a poem, how might you introduce yourself?

SONYA VATOMSKY: Chaotic neutral half-elf bard. I’m the scoundrel in the corner of the tavern trying to sell treasure maps to unsuspecting adventurers. Seriously, though, I’m in all my poems. At least a little bit. Especially the angry ones.

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midnight blue (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb // missgabb.tumblr.com

13 – David W. McFadden once said that books come from books, but are there any other forms that influence your work, whether nature, music, science or visual art? Yes, all those, everything. You can trust a writer with anything. | more at rob’s blog

 

12.07.15
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Good Stuff – December (week one)

Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (cover: Nicci Mechler)
My Heart in Aspic by Sonya Vatomsky (cover: Shannon Perry)
What’s pink & shiny / what’s dark & hard (stack of books)

Good news & happenings from/with our authors&poets:

Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Chen Chen // @chenchenwrites

What’s pink & shiny / what’s dark & hard (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sarah B. Boyle // @pyrrhicspondee

“Boyle’s poetry chapbook, What’s pink & shiny / what’s dark and hard (Porkbelly Press, 2015), provides a brutal honesty about abortion that our culture has been yearning for, and actually dying for the lack of. Here is empathy with teeth; the kind that will reopen the wound, lick it clean, and give you another chance to heal yourself better.” | more

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

  • Sonya’s full-length, Salt is for Curing (Sator Press, 2015), which includes poems from My Heart in Aspic, is reviewed via Alien Mouth by Christopher Morgan.

“’Salt is For Curing’ offers the ultimate reward in exchange for your darkest red. Making a thick paste from a phoenix’s bones to reexamine resurrection myths, these poems count all 32 teeth, then eat your words with bread. Sonya Vatomsky reflects upon salt and suffering, creating a literary love potion that’s equal parts wishing well and butcher’s hook.” | more

11.30.15
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November’s Crisp, Bacony Goodness

Good stuff (news, noms, etc) from our contributors, authors, poets:

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

“However,” he said, “there’s always going to be what we call ‘ghost glass,’” tiny, iridescent pieces of the shattered window that will appear like tiny stars on the floor mats and seats.

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Pray, Pray, Pray: poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by E. Kristin Anderson // @ek_anderson

I scribble out most of my first drafts into a notebook and leave them there at least overnight, if not for a few days, before typing them up. […]The linebreaks tend to show up as I’m typing up the drafts, whether I wrote the first draft in a notebook, or on the back of an envelope. […]  I have a lot of poems that were written on the back of junk mail.  |  more at Speaking of Marvels

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hiku [pull] (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming 2016)
by James A. H. White // @jamesahwhite

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bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2016)
by Robin Turner

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Threnody (Porkbelly Press, 2014)
by Laura Madeline Wiseman // @drmadwiseman

  • Madeline has launched a new website to house her interviews with folks re: chapbooks, an extension of her blog feature. The new site is called The Chapbook Interview.

The Chapbook Interview publishes interviews about the chapbook as a genre, art form, and vessel for creative work. Interviews explore all aspects of chapbook craft, including sequencing poems, chapbook design and layout, and collaborations. Interviewees include teachers of the chapbook and students of the chapbook, writers, poets, designers, editors, and collaborators. | more

10.24.15
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GOOD BACON! (News from our Poets+Authors)

Threnody (Laura Madeline Wiseman)
Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)
Myth+Magic anthology (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

Threnody  (Porkbelly Press, 2014)
by Laura Madeline Wiseman // @drmadwiseman

The Booth Blog – A review of Laura Madeline Wiseman’s Threnody

Wiseman’s Threnody, however, is unique in its compelling and contemplative use of imagery and interpretation to offer a bold and fearless perspective of the female psyche that resides in the underworld and all that it exhibits. A must-read. | full review at The Booth Blog

Myth+Magic (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
edited by Nicci Mechler (multiple authors)

Myth+Magic: A Review – via Christopher Morgan & Alien Mouth.

“Myth+Magic” shows us how beauty and danger can often occupy and captivate within the same space—which makes what comes next all the more unreal. Rejecting the ordinary with every line, the writers in this anthology not only engage their readers with imaginative details, but also use these same concise worlds to introduce the everyday hardships of love, surprise, and sorrow. | full review at Alien Mouth

Pray Pray Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night  (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by E. Kristin Anderson // @ek_anderson

Interview – The Booth Blog – The Hits and B-Sides and Everything in Between: An Interview with E. Kristin Anderson