March’s Good Stuff

Centralia by Sarah Gzemski (cover: Nicci Mechler)

How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols

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

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Love Me, Anyway by Minadora Macheret (cover artist: Sharmon Davidson)

Feeding the Dead by M. Brett Gaffney (cover art: Mary Chiaramonte)

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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

• Three erasures appear in The Museum of Americana!
• a poem appears in the “Little Prince” issue of Nonbinary Review.
• a list of EKA’s (and other members’) recent accomplishments was blogged over at SPECPO (the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association blog).
• New work in issue 3 of bad pony: “Something sad and whimsical.”

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com

• Donna reviews Judy Jordan’s Hunger (Tinderbox Editions, 2018) via Connotation Press.

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

• New work in issue 3 of bad pony: “Second Sight.”

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016) & gar child (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Wren Hanks » tumblr

• New work in issue 3 of bad pony: “The Tin Boy as Lover You Don’t Have to Love,” “A Lamb Expressed Flourescence and Made it to Market or the Tin Boy’s Gone Real Emerald City.”
• His contributor interview is up at New Delta Review blog! He discusses his love of Oz and building his speakers, the pliability of language, and the value of transformation. » see also: Wren’s two poems in New Delta Review.
• We’re pleased to say we’ve acquired Wren’s manuscript gar child (Porkbelly Press, 2018).

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Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Minadora Macheret

• Love Me, Anyway (Porkbelly Press, 2018) released this month!

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Diary of a Filthy Woman (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Noor Hindi

• Diary of a Filthy Woman (Porkbelly Press, 2018) released this month!

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

“The Blessings of the Guns” appears in Five:2:One.

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Centralia (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sarah Gzemski » sgzemski.com

• Sarah’s collaborative chapbook released this year: Nexus (In Sight II #12) (Four Chambers Press, 2018).

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Feeding the Dead (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by M. Brett Gaffney

• “Stations of the Cross” is up at Psaltery & Lyre. 

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August’s Bacony Goodness

News, publications, reviews, & good stuff from our Porkbelly family:

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

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

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

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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

• “Fairy Tale” is up at Rust+Moth.
• Two poems in The Mackinac.

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

• interview: “Migration Pattern: Chen Chen” is up at Ellis Review.

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

• “The Luster of Everything I’m Already Forgetting” won the 6th annual Gigantic Sequins Poetry Contest!
• Nicole’s collection Louder Than Everything You Love is now available via Five Oaks Press.

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017) by Donna Vorreyer

• “The Lost Art of Giving Up” appears in Glass.

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

• three of Sarah’s Black Dahlia erasure poems, “Her Lost Days,” “Hollywoodland,” and “The Prettiest Star” are up at Rag Queen Periodical.
• Sarah’s micro chapbook, How Darkness Enters a Body, is forthcoming in 2018.

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July’s Hot Summer Bacon

Good news, happenings, releases, reviews (& more) from our Porkbelly family:

MEXICAMERICANA by Eloisa Amezcua (cover artwork: Sharmon Davidson)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing by Kelly Lorraine Andrews (cover art by : Jessica Earhart)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

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

• “Story I Tell in the Dark When I Can’t Sleep” is up at Rag Queen Periodical.
• Nicole’s article “Mindfulness Tips from a Former Stress Junkie” is up at The Vitamin Shoppe.
• new work in Red Paint Hill!

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MEXICAMERICANA (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Eloisa Amezcua » www.eloisaamezcua.com

• Mexicamericana launched this month!

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My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Kelly Lorraine Andrews » kellyandrewspoetry.com

• My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing launches early next month!

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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig » pdkindig.wordpress.com

• “Fish Ladder: A Play in Three Acts” appears in Meridian.

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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

• “Modified Mornings” and “The whole place is falling in,” both erasure poems, appear in Jet Fuel Review.

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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

• Amorak’s second full length collection, Boom Box, will appear in Sundress Publications’ 2019 catalog!

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Dreamland for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Sarah Nichols

• “The Black Dahlia Dreams of Blade Runner,” “Dresses,” and “Dresses, Jewelry, Food” are up at Luna Luna Magazine.

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June’s Bacony Goodness

Strangest Sea (Ariana D. Den Bleyker) cover artist: Nicci Mechler

The Peace of Wild Things by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (cover: Jonathan Rountree & Nicci Mechler)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing by Kelly Lorraine Andrews (cover art by : Jessica Earhart)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

MEXICAMERICANA by Eloisa Amezcua (cover artwork: Sharmon Davidson)

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women by Robin Turner (cover: Anita Olivia Koester)

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig » pdkindig.wordpress.com

• 3 poems in yalobusha review :  “Prayer of Commendation,” “Boys’ Time,” & “Cento.”
• “presto“—a gorgeous poem—appears in the inaugural issue of Underblong.
• … which inspired a micro review from Joyce Chong via wildness!

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

• “Ways of Blessing” & “My Words Stuck in My Daughter’s Throat,” two new poems, are up at diode poetry journal.

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MEXICAMERICANA (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Eloisa Amezcua » www.eloisaamezcua.com

• “Teaching My Mother English Over the Phone” & “My Mother’s Been Trying to Kill Me Since the Day I Was Born” appear in diode poetry journal. (Both appear in her Porkbelly Press chapbook.)
• pre-orders have been mailed & this chapbook launches the first week in July!

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

• “sundays I would go missing” is up at Psaltery & Lyre.

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Strangest Sea (Porkbelly Press, 2015) &
The Peace of Wild Things (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Ariana D. Den Bleyker » arianaddenbleyker.com

• a review of Cutting Eyes from Ghosts (Blood Pudding Press, 2017) appears in Glass via Mary Riley.

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My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Kelly Lorraine Andrews » kellyandrewspoetry.com

• My Body Is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing will be out next month!

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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

• “Yes, And” is up over at Rise Up Review.

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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

• One of her Prince poems, “You’re Always in My Hair (after Prince),” is up at Cleaver.
• “Pillow, Screwdriver,” an assertive erasure of SK’s Christine, appears in the inaugural issue of Underblong.

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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Anita Olivia Koester » anitaoliviakoester.com

• a new poem, “Constellation in a Cornell Box” is up at The Shallow Ends.

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

• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017) reviewed by James Davis May via The Rumpus.
• Chen released the inaugural issue of Underblong, the online mag he co-edits.

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com

• “I Forecast Your Elegy” is up at Breakwater Review.

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Dreamland for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Sarah Nichols

• “Little Fires” is up at Ekphrastic Review.

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May’s Good Stuff

Strangest Sea (Ariana D. Den Bleyker) cover artist: Nicci Mechler

The Peace of Wild Things by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (cover: Jonathan Rountree & Nicci Mechler)

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Feeding the Dead by M. Brett Gaffney (cover art: Mary Chiaramonte)

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

hiku [pull] by James A. H. White (cover: Nicci Mechler)

bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women by Robin Turner (cover: Anita Olivia Koester)

Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

My Own Strange Beast by Melissa Atkinson Mercer (cover art by Danial Powers)

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

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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My Own Strange Beast (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Melissa Atkinson Mercer

• My Own Strange Beast was released this month!
• “girl with diagnosis or gun, #6” appears in Gingerbread House.

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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

• Two poems in Bloodroot.

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

• Ghost Tongue was nominated for a 2017 Elgin Award!

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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sarah Ann Winn » bluebirdwords.com

• One of Sarah’s Holland Island pieces was nominated for WigleaF‘s long list!

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

• Starred review of Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA, 2017) at Library Journal: “Visually vivid, erotic and intimate, at times bitingly funny, and refreshingly world-observant,” writes Barbara Hoffert.

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My Heart in Aspic (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sonya Vatomsky » www.sonyavatomsky.com

• Sonya’s new death positive article is in the New York Post. “These pet owners just can’t let go.”

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

• a micro review of Feeding the Dead via Gwendolyn Kiste: “Women of Horror, Dark Fantasy, and the Weird: A Recommended Reading List.”

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

• Robin’s bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women (Porkbelly Press, 2016) is featured this week on The Wardrobe‘s “Best Dressed” (Sundress Publications).

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks » tumblr

• Ghost Skin was nominated for a 2017 Elgin Award!

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

• hiku [pull] was nominated for a 2017 Elgin Award!

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Strangest Sea (Porkbelly Press, 2015) &
The Peace of Wild Things (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Ariana D. Den Bleyker » arianaddenbleyker.com

• Ariana has two new pieces in May’s beautiful issue of Hermeneutic Chaos.

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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig » website

• two pieces in The Collapsar : “fascinations: cynthia gleason, mesmeric clairvoyant” & “fascinations: butterfly.”

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March & Porkbelly

(Good news, happenings, publications, awards, and general good stuff by/with/for our poets & writers.)

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Feeding the Dead by M. Brett Gaffney (cover art: Mary Chiaramonte)

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

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

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

Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

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

• Feeding the Dead was released just this month!

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com

• “Our Bodies Are More Than 50 Percent Water” is up in Waxwing.
• “In the Hand, In the Bush” appears in Whale Road Review.
• Published a review of Portrait of the Alcoholic (by Kaveh Akbar) in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
• The Girl is now available for pre-order & releases the first week of April!

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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

• Three poems this month in Masque & Spectacle!

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

• “Self-Portrait As So Much Potential” appears in The New York Times Magazine.

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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig » pdkindig.wordpress.com

• Three poems in minor literature[s].
• Three poems up at Hobart!
• “What Will Survive of Us Is Love” appears in Hermeneutic Chaos Journal.

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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

• “Even a Song” appears in Southern Women’s Review this month!
• “Flowers at Lunch” appears in Quaint Magazine issue 6.

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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sarah Ann Winn » @blueaisling » bluebirdwords.com

• work in Southern Women’s Review this month!
• “Evaluating an Elegy Based on a Rubric” appears in Tinderbox Poetry Journal. You can hear it as well as read it there.
• Sarah’s Exhibition Catalogue Pamphlet from the Grimm Forest Open Air Museum has been accepted by Yellow Flag Press! Congrats, Sarah! ❤

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

• Congrats on a 2017 New Jersey Council on the Arts poetry fellowship!
• Nicole has joined the staff of Thrush as an associate editor.
• Hear Nicole read “Gift” published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
• (Essay) “The Obligation to Be Happy” reprinted, originally appearing in Ruminate Magazine‘s blog in 2014.

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

• new work appears in Bayou issue 66!

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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Anita Olivia Koester » www.anitaoliviakoester.com

• poem “Tapestry with White Columns” won the Sable Books Poetry of Protest contest judged by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks » wrenhanks.tumblr.com

• Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) was nominated for an Elgin Award.

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November’s Bacon

Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

Midnight Blue by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb (cover art: Nicci Mechler)

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road by Amorak Huey (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

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

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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

• Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night reviewed by Amanda Hemmingsen via The Los Angeles Review.

Anderson charts a path through the weight of the modern life—dancing with what is and resting on our individual ability to act, create, and appreciate beauty.

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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sarah Ann Winn » @blueaisling » bluebirdwords.com

• Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay is reviewed at The Live Oak Review by Tammi Bendetti.
• Sarah is a finalist in Offbeat‘s 2016 CNF contest for “9 Kilometers Outside of Jalpa.” (Judged by Laura Julier.)

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midnight blue (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Vanessa Jimenez Gabb

• Vanessa’s first full-length book, Images for Radical Politics (Rescue Press, 2016) is out this month.

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

• Chen has two poems in issue 2 of The Account.

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com

• “Pretty Girls, Ugly Circumstances, and the Mythos of Becoming: A Conversation between Fox Frazier-Foley and Donna Vorreyer” is up over on Grist.

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

• Nicole’s poem “How to Talk to Your Dead Mother” appeared on Verse Daily.

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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

• “The Kudzu, Everywhere” appears on Glass.
• A Map of the Farm… is available for pre-order & releases in early December!

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks » tumblr

• Nominated by Gigantic Sequins for a Pushcart Prize.

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My Heart in Aspic (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sonya Vatomsky » sonyavatomsky.com

• “Mothertonguetied: The Fantasy of Belonging” nominated by Awst Press for a Pushcart Prize. » excerpt
• Sonya’s interviewed at Tiny Donkey and they talk fairy tales, of course! (Plus there’s a recipe with suggestions from Vatomsky’s father. Seriously, you will thank yourself for reading this.)

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October’s (possibly Haunted) Bacon

(news & good things from/with/including our poets & authors)

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

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

Threnody (Laura Madeline Wiseman)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

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

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

bindweed & crow poison: small poems of stray girls, fierce women by Robin Turner (cover: Anita Olivia Koester)

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

• lines from Chen’s work are currently on display (visible when it rains) in Boston c/o Mass Poetry.
• a review of Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, 2016) is up at Stirring: a Literary Collection vol 18, edition 10.
• Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Future Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017) is now available for pre-order for $16.
• Chen reads “Lone Star Kundiman (For the Guy Who Seized My Arm After I Accidentally Cut the Line for the Toilet in Austin)” by Patrick Rosal, and talks Lyric Essentials (“where writers and poets share with us a passage or poem which is ‘essential’ to their bookshelf and who they are as a writer”) over at Sundress’ Blog.

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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2917)
by Anita Olivia Koester » www.anitaoliviakoester.com

• One of 3 winners of the Vella Chapbook Contest. Arrow Songs is set to be published by Paper Nautilus in 2017.

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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

• EKA received a Best of the Net nomination for her poem “The Final Frontier” in DISTRICT LIT
• Best of the Net nomination for her poem “Sugar water, ugly bird” in Alyss.
• “This is How I Am a Monster” is featured on Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
• We’re Doing Witchcraft (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016) is out!

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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sarah Ann Winn » @blueaisling » bluebirdwords.com

• Sarah’s nonfiction hybrid Field Guide to Alma Avenue and Frew Drive is available through Essay Press as a free e-chapbook!
• Sarah’s hybrid poetry, “The Grimm Forest Open Air Museum,” is currently up on talking writing.
• Six of Sarah’s poems won the Coniston Prize! These poems are up in issue 12 of Radar Poetry. You can listen to them there! “Dot & Bo in the Cobbler’s Den” is the first. The rest of these lovely poems: “Dot & Bo in Space,” “Dot & Bo Try Mid-Century Classic,” “Dot & Bo: Fever Dream,” “Dot is Inspired to Travel,” and “Dot & Bo: Yard Sale.”
• Sarah’s poem “Nature, Chrome Painted” appears in Heron Tree.

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

• Best of the Net nomination for “Digger Troll” from Gingerbread House.

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

• a micro review of Ghost Tongue is up over on Crab Fat Magazine.
• Nicole’s Louder Than Everything You Love (ELJ Publications, 2015) is reviewed over at Literary Mama.

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks » tumblr

• released this month! More on our Ghost Skin press page.
• Ghost Ocean Magazine 19 includes an interview with Wren about Prophet Fever, with a mention of forthcoming gar child (Tree Light Books) & Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press).
• Wren’s poem “The Ghost Incites a Genderqueer Pledge of Allegiance” appears in Best New Poets!

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My Heart in Aspic (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
by Sonya Vatomsky » sonyavatomsky.com

• Sonya’s full-length collection, Salt is for Curing, is reviewed over on Entropy.

This slim, seemingly unassuming book of poems has the power to gut us with its honesty, disarm us with its vulnerability, and enchant us with its inventive language and imagery. Salt Is For Curing is a powerful spell to read over and over again. | more at Entropy

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bindweed & crow poison (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Robin Turner

• “crow poison” is included in Sonja Johanson’s “The Growing Season” blog post over on The Best American Poetry.
• “east texas, twilight” was nominated for Best of the Net by Nonbinary Review.

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Feeding the Dead (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming 2016)
by M. Brett Gaffney

• “Outside the Haunted House, a Dancing Doll” and “Tarantula Fever” are up at So to Speak.

September’s Bacon

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

Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Sarah Ann Winn (cover: Angie Reed Garner)

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

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

Pray, Pray, Pray by E. Kristin Anderson (cover: Nicci Mechler)

The Girl by Donna Vorreyer (cover image: Alexandra Eldridge)

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

What’s pink & shiny / what’s dark & hard (stack of books)

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Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Sarah Ann Winn » @blueaisling » bluebirdwords.com

• One of Sarah’s poems, “Glinda at the Home Depot,” is up at GRAVEL.
• Sarah received a Best of the Net nomination for her poem “Appendix Bread” in Gingerbread House.

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

• You can read or listen to Chen’s “The Psychic Speaks to the Nonbeliever” via Poem of the Moment at Mass Poetry.
• Two poems: “invite the blue” and “memoir of the present moment” up on Phantom.
• Three poems: “memoir,” “A Gift,” and “The Professor of Russian Studies” in the new issue of Window Cat Press.

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My Body is a Poem I Can’t Stop Writing (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2017)
by Kelly Lorraine Andrews » kellyandrewspoetry.com

• Congrats to Kelly. Her chapbook, The Fear Archives, is forthcoming from Two of Cups Press in 2017.
• Kelly’s chapbook I want to eat so many kinds of cake with you is newly released from dancing girl press.

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

• Sara’s chapbook Western Diseases is out via dancing girl press!
• Poems for Ivan reviewed by Paul David Adkins via Queen Mob’s Teahouse.

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer » donnavorreyer.com

• Donna’s chapbook Tinder, Smolder, Bones, and Snow is out via dancing girl press.

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks » tumblr

• Wren reading!

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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

• EKA received a Best of the Net nomination for her work in TAB.

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

• Ghost Tongue released Sept 20th! (micro chapbook)
• Two poems in the Queen of Cups issue twenty, III of Cups.

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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2917)
by Anita Olivia Koester

• “Top Hats and Puppets” is up in Cleaver.

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My Own Strange Beast (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming in 2017)
by Melissa Atkinson Mercer

• “Come let us enter the body” (from forthcoming My Own Strange Beast) and “Here we are in our very own lives” are up at The Fem.
• “Where you journey, they await,” “They tried and tried,” and “At first I was river, I was witch” were published in the Neogoddesses issue of White Stag
• “Witch at the homestead”was nominated for Best of the Net by Hot Metal Bridge.

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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

• Amorak’s chapbook Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015) reviewed in KR Online‘s September micro reviews.

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What’s pink & shiny / what’s dark & hard (Porkbelly Press, 2015)
Sarah B. Boyle » www.impolitelines.com

• Sarah’s long poem “Darling of the Wolf God” is September’s featured writer on Aspasiology. There are several responses to the poem (including one by Sonya Vatomsky), which is a pretty neat feature of the site.

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Ghost Tongue // Nicole Rollender

Ghost Tongue by Nicole Rollender (Cover art: Susan Yount)

Ghost Tongue is a stunning blend of bone, blood, and haunting. It’s as much about what we inherit as what we carry inside to carve out and give, palm up, and the traces that linger even after a piece is gone. It’s about body and salt, absence, sweet things and marrow. It’s the ghost that speaks, the hunger that slips in. (Porkbelly Press, 2016) | available in our shop | excerpt

about the poet

Nicole Rollender’s first full-length collection, Louder Than Everything You Love (ELJ Editions), was published in late 2015. She’s author of the poetry chapbooks Arrangement of Desire (Pudding House Publications), Absence of Stars (dancing girl press & studio) and Bone of My Bone, a winning manuscript in Blood Pudding Press’s 2015 Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, The Journal, Memorious, Radar Poetry, PANK, Salt Hill Journal, Thrush Poetry Journal, Word Riot and West Branch, among others. She is the recipient of poetry prizes from CALYX Journal, Princemere Journal and Ruminate Magazine. She earned her MFA in poetry at the Pennsylvania State University, and is the editor of Wearables magazine. Find her online at http://www.nicolerollender.com.

cover

The cover is inkjet printed on premium matte paper. It’s trimmed down to just under 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches and bound by hand with heavy thread.

cover artist » Susan Yount
portfolio » susanyount.tumblr.com