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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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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Rooted by Thirst (Tina Mozelle Braziel)

Rooed by Thirst // Tina Mozelle Braziel (cover art: Kathleen Piercefield)

Rooted by Thirst, Tina Mozelle Braziel’s chapbook of poems, is meditation and journey, a circumbulation of this plot of land that reveals pieces of speaker and landscape—a sense of place both had and longed for. Each poem yearns; each page deepens, roots curling into ready loam. The final poem of this book is one of the strongest we’ve yet chosen—it closes and opens at once, spiraling off like light slipping across a field to flash over all that’s hidden in the rest of the day. In the gold, all things are possible. // available in our shop // learn more

Cover art by Kathleen Piercefield.