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

• Tina has won the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry! Anhinga Press will publish her debut full length collection Known by Salt.

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

• Sonya writes for haute macabre : “Dr. Bloodsucker: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Pet Leech“

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

• Sarah’s essay is up at The RS 500: “#157: Joy Division, ‘Closer’ (1980)“
• erasure poem “Little Sister” appears in Calamus’ 15th issue.

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

•  Feeding the Dead is nominated for an Elgin Award (2018).

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Found Footage (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Maggie Woodward

• Found Footage was released this month!

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

• Sara’s erasure appears in Calamus’ 15th issue.

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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’s erasure poem “No grotesque culmination of witchcraft” appears in Calamus’ 15th issue.

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October’s Bacony Goodness

Good news, interviews, happenings, & pubs from our Porkbelly family.

Apples or Pomegranates (cover art: Anita Olivia Koester)

How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols

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

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)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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

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

• a poem, “Detente,” in the October issue of Glass.
• “Declaration” appears in The Indianapolis 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

• two prose poems in Pithead Chapel.
• Amorak’s essay “Where the River is Shaped Like Words and the Words Are Shaped Like Blades” appears in The Collagist.

Have you watched a skilled butcher break down a side of beef? Such precision, such devastation, the way the final product is not recognizably related to the slab of meat we started with—this teaches us something important about art. About hunger.

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

• She May Be a Saint (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016) was part of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange!
• Four poems up at Anti-Heroin Chic: “Are You Pregnant?,” “Skyfall,” “This is Not a Redemption Story, Part One,” and “This is Not a Redemption Story, Part Two.”

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

• Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, 2017) is available for pre-order & releases November 14!

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

• Recent articles like: “Death Becomes Her” for Bitch Media, “The Movement to Bury Pets Alongside People” for The Atlantic, “Creature Comfort” for Southwest The Magazine, and “What to Wear at the End of Someone Else’s Life” for Racked.

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Daughter Shaman Sings Blood Anthem (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Kristi Carter » @kristixcarter

• Kristi’s book Cosmovore (Aqueduct Press, 2017) is available!

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

• “fascinations: thumbnail” is up at Juked.

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

• a mini review of Feeding the Dead courtesy of Michelle Castleberry.

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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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February’s Goodness

(News & happenings with/from/about our poets & writers.)

Set the Garden on Fire by Chen Chen (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)

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

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

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

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

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

• Chen’s first full length collection of poetry, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was just released by BOA Editions!
• Possibilities was reviewed by Travis Chi Wing Lau via Up the Staircase Quarterly, also featured at BOA Editions.
• A conversation with Chen Chen is up at The Adroit Journal.
• Chen Chen & Emilia Phillips are leading the summer 2017 Poetry Retreat at Sundress Academy for the Arts, 26 May to 28 May. The retreat takes place on the lovely Firefly Farms in Knoxville, TN.

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

• One of Anita’s poem appears in unsplendid.
• “Confessions of a Childless Woman (Fig. 1 & 2)” appears in Tupelo Quarterly.

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

• “Lunar Chart, Lost Year” appears in Tupelo Quarterly.
• Even After the End Matter (a chapbook) is forthcoming at Hermeneutic Chaos Press!

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

• Feeding the Dead (Porkbelly Press, 2017) is now available for pre-order.

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

• Three new poems in Lockjaw.

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A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Amorak Huey

• Huey’s Ha, Ha, Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015) reviewed at Blogging the Numinous by Janeen Pergrin Rastall.

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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 » ekristinanderson.com

• Two poems nominated for the Rhysling Award.

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

• Melissa’s Star-blind in the Family of Fortune Keepers (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2017) was just released! (Hermeneutic Chaos Press will donate $1 to the Parkinson’s Foundation for every copy purchased.)

Goodbye, 2016 Bacon – AKA December News

(News, events, & good things from our poets & writers.)

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

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

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

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

The Autobiography of a Love Not Mine, Hilda Weaver

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)

inter: burial places by Billie R. Tadros (cover: Jolene Costello Hartig)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

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

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

• A new interview over at Speaking of Marvels! One of our favorite pieces of advice, aside from ditching projects that suck: “Have a cat. He will love you no matter how many words you can put together.”

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

• Sonya’s Salt is for Curing (Sator Press) is going into a fourth printing!
• article “Stripcraft: Lux ATL’s Spells for the Revolution” up at Slutist.
• co-guest edited Anthropoid‘s Folk issue.

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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… was released early this month!
• an interview over at Writer’s Digest (via Robert Lee Brewer).
• “Happy/Hollow” and “Everything I Know About Life I Learned from 1980s Action Shows” are up at Split Lip Magazine.
• BIG CONGRATS to Amorak on an NEA creative writing fellowship! 😀
• A Map of the Farm… is reviewed by Donna Vorreyer at The Rumpus.

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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

• a Stephen King erasure is up on Storyscape: “Cherry bomb world.”

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

• “How to Know if Your House is Haunted and What to Do” is up at Apex.

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The Autobiography of a Love Not Mine (Porkbelly Press, 2014)
by Hilda Weaver

• Hilda’s poem “Fear in the Stretch of Years” is out via Pidgeonholes.
• in these cups (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) by Wild Soft is available.
• how wild & soft you are (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016) by Wild Soft is also out!

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

• Ghost Tongue is beautifully reviewed at Screaming with Brevity.

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

• a micro review of Robin’s chapbook via James Brush & Via Negativa.

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Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming 2017)
by Anita Olivia Koester

• Anita is winner of the Midwest Gothic Lake Prize, poetry.
• her work received a Pushcart nomination from Shot Glass Journal.

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inter: burial places (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Billie R. Tadros

• inter: burial places was released in late December 2016!

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Lost Birds of the Iron Range (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Amber Edmondson

• Lost Birds is  available for pre-order!

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Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Wren Hanks

• Mark your calendars! Wren’s release party for this book is scheduled at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop on January 7th, 2017 from 6-9pm.

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

• Vanessa will also be reading at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop on January 7th, perhaps even from her own Porkbelly Press title, midnight blue, and probably from her very recently released full-length book!

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

• Chen’s forthcoming book, When I Grow Up, I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions), is listed as one of the most anticipated titles of 2017 (in an article at Bustle).
• Chen is co-editor of a newly launched journal Underblong.
• Pushcart nomination from Gulf Coast Journal for “Self Portrait as So Much Potential.”
•  Pushcart nomination from Two of Cups Press, publisher of Kissing the Sphinx.
• another Pushcart nomination from The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought.
• Check out some of his new work in IDK Magazine‘s 3rd issue.

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Goodbye, 2016! See you soon, 2017.

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.

August 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)

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

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

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)

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

• Portage (Sundress Publications), Sarah’s e-chap, was featured on cahoodaloodaling.
• Curious about Winn’s chapbooks & inspiration for them? You can check out an interview over at Tepid Autumn.
• Haunting the Last House on Holland Island is available for pre-order and is due to release September 6, 2016!

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A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (forthcoming, 2016)
by Amorak Huey

• an interview on The Sundress Blog about writing routine & poetry!
• “The Oaks at the Edge of the Driveway” appears in Stirring. **
• “The Ditch Around the Edge of the Garden” appears in DIALOGIST. **
• “The Barn at the End of the Path” and “The Rabbit Cages Under the Grape Arbor” appear in The Collapsar. **

**poems from Huey’s Porkbelly Press chapbook.

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

• Sonya’s essay on otherness, straddling culture/identity, fantasy, the politics of forgetting, language, and other kinds of things: “Mothertonguetied: The Fantasy of Belonging.”

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

• bindweed & crow poison was released 31 August 2016!
  

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

• Chen’s poem “Ode to Reading Rimbaud in Lubbock, Texas” is up over on Buzzfeed!

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

• review of Poems for Ivan at Yellow Chair Review (via Eric A. Cline).

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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 » ekristinanderson.com

• EKA is judging the Jane Lumley Prize via Hermeneutic Chaos Press. Reading Sept 1 – Nov 1.

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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.

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

• “But You Haven’t,” an erasure of pages from The Old Man and the Sea, is up over on Nostrovia! Tavern.
• Poems for Ivan was released 11 June 2016!

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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

• hiku [pull] was released 24 June 2016!

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

• Everything I Own was released on 7 June 2016!

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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

• Sonya interviews Kate Litterer at Cosmonauts Avenue.

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

• “I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule” is part of the American Academy of Poets poem-a-day series at poets.org.
• Four poems (with audio!) at Infoxicated Corner: 2016 Spotlight Series via Thethe Poetry.

“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

• Episode 55 of the SAFTAcast features Chen Chen. (SAFTAcast is a Sundress Academy for the Arts production.) This is a podcast pretty much about everything but writing, though they do sneak in a little bit about the art of translation.

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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

• EKA’s poem “Between 50 and 64% of rats will self-administer diazepam” is up at The Boiler!

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