April’s Good Stuff

News & new things from/with/about poets & writers in the Porkbelly family.

 

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

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

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

How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols

Apples or Pomegranates (cover art: Anita Olivia Koester)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Blackbird Whitetail Redhand (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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)

Found Footage by Maggie Woodward (cover: Nicci Mechler)

Dreamland for Keeps by Sarah Nichols (cover artist: Nicci Mechler)

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

• One of Sarah’s Elizabeth Short poems appears in Drunk Monkeys: “Elizabeth Short Visits the Black Lodge.” Interested in more poems like this? Dreamland for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, 2018) has released this month—it’s a whole chapbook of erasure poems.

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Found Footage (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Maggie Woodward

• 5 poems are up at inferior planets!
• Anna Sandy Elrod reviews FOUND FOOTAGE over at Real Pants!

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

• Congratulations to Chen Chen on accepting the 2018 – 2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University!
• Chen’s “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party” up at poem-a-day. You can hear him read it here!
• When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions) won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.

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

• Congratulations to Minadora Macheret on winning the Justin Q. Owens Convention Theme: Creative Writing award from Sigma Tau Delta’s 2018 Convention!

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

• Anita’s manuscript Cartography of Grief was a runner-up in the Dorset Prize (selected by Dana Levin via Tupelo Press).
• “Cartography of a Missing Body” & “Cartography of a Keyhole” (two father poems) in the new issue if Up North Lit.

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Blackbird Whitetail Redhand (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Lindsay Lusby » lindsaylusby.com

• Lindsay’s manuscript Catechesis: a postpastoral was a finalist in the Dorset Prize (selected by Dana Levin via Tupelo Press).
• Blackbird Whitetail Redhand was released this month! The chapbook is handbound (Japanese stab binding) and features letterpress covers. » order

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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

• “Captain Picard Teaches My Son to Throw a Football” is up at Beech Street Review.
• Congratulations to Amorak Huey for winning the 2018 Vern Rutsala Prize. His book Seducing the Asparagus Queen is due out in late-summer via Cloudbank Books.

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Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
by Patrick Kindig

• Patrick Kindig reads three poems at The Poets Weave.

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The Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
by Donna Vorreyer

• a new piece, “Painting Which is in Fact Not a Sky” is up in Juxtaprose.

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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 new essay up at Cotton Xenomorph in their manifestos series: “Anderson’s Rules for Writing Found Poetry.”
• EKA’s essay “Everything Could Never Be This Real” is up at Memoir Mixtapes!

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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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November’s Good Stuff

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

How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols

Apples or Pomegranates (cover art: Anita Olivia Koester)

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

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

• “A Poem For Dope Sickness” is up at Rogue Agent.

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

• Apples or Pomegranates (Porkbelly Press, 2017) is available now!

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

• “Some Magic” is up on SWWIM. A little spellwork as we go into winter.

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

• a new poem, “PDA,” in The National Poetry 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 poems in Four Way Review, including “FMK.”

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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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First Bacon of Fall (September’s Good News)

 

Apples or Pomegranates (cover art: Anita Olivia Koester)

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

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)

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

MEXICAMERICANA by Eloisa Amezcua (cover artwork: Sharmon Davidson)

Dry Spell by Patrick Kindig (cover: Nicci Mechler)

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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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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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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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Donna Vorreyer’s THE GIRL

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

Vorreyer’s The Girl is sharp and clear from the dedication: “To all the girls I have taught. To all the girls we once were.” These small prose poems are strung together like a chain of dolls cut from steel, each stronger for her connection to the other, but capable of claiming her own ground—each poem is a portrait of a girl, nameless. Each girl moves beyond that designation, none are just a girl, and their anonymity does not strip identity or agency. These are girls who stand where they will, treat their own wounds, heal broken things, fear little or nothing, persist in spite of, because of—”If she cries, she opens a window, knows her ghosts need a means of escape.” (Porkbelly Press, 2017) » available in our shop » more & excerpt

About the Poet

Donna Vorreyer is the author of Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016) and A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013) as well as seven chapbooks, most recently Encantado, a collaboration with artist Matt Kish from Redbird Chapbooks and Tinder, Smolder, Bones, and Snow forthcoming from dancing girl press. She serves as the reviews editor for Stirring: A Literary Collection and teaches middle school in the suburbs of Chicago.

» donnavorreyer.com

Cover Art

artist » Alexandra Eldridge
portfolio » alexandraeldridge.com

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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