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