Diary of a Filthy Woman // Noor Hindi

Noor Hindi’s DIARY OF A FILTHY WOMAN (cover art: Tanya Gonzalez)

DIARY OF A FILTHY WOMAN is shot through with desire, standing firm in its ground as protest, as prayer, as command. Hindi masterfully weaves vulnerability and strength, pain with sharp determination—she is tempered steel, she is flame, she is fierce in her direction: “Make a bonfire out of want. // Jump into it.” (Porkbelly Press, 2018) » more

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About the poet

Noor Hindi is currently pursuing her MFA in poetry through the NEOMFA program. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Glass Poetry, Jet Fuel Review, Diode Poetry, Whiskey Island Magazine, Flock Literary Journal, and Foundry. She reads poetry for The University of Akron Press and writes for The Devil Strip Magazine. Check out her blog at noorhindi.com. ​

Tiny House, Melanie Faith

Tiny House by Melanie Faith (cover art: Nicci Mechler)

Melanie Faith’s Tiny House is a micro chap of linked poems following the fictional narrative of a woman exploring tiny house ownership. Faith draws from her ancestral architectural experience (her family is full of builders and stone masons), to explore the idea of downsizing, stepping off the grid, and embracing the miniscule. We are charmed by this micro chap of sweet little poems. | open edition cover, $6

An excerpt from “It Is Advised:”

What makes a house a house
is light
altering inhabitant and interior

What makes a house a house
is a bed
built-in or pedestal or fold-down.

What makes a house a house
is the eye
recognizing a pitched roof as home.

Open Edition Inkjet Cover

The cover image (“Little Orange House & a Red Door” by Nicci Mechler) is printed on Epson premium matte professional paper. The micro chapbooks is handbound & each is trimmed by hand. As they are handmade, no two are exactly alike.

About the Poet

Melanie Faith holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, NC. Her writing has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. She is, among many things, an auntie, a tutor at a college prep school in Pennsylvania, and a freelance creative writing instructor. Her flash fiction, “The Slades,” placed honorable mention in the 2014 Bevel Summers Prize for the Short Short Story and was published in Shenandoah (Washington and Lee University). Her WWII-era poetry collection, Catching the Send-off Train, was published as the summer 2013 selection at Wordrunner eChapbooks. Her poetry chapbook, To Waken is to Begin, was published by Aldrich Press in September 2012. In addition to numerous photography publications, her instructional articles about creative writing techniques have appeared in The Writer and Writers’ Journal, among others. Her poems are forthcoming in The Hartskill Review.

 

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