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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February’s Good News & Good Reads

(News, reviews, happenings, and readings from our Porkbelly poets & authors)

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

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)

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

The Autobiography of a Love Not Mine, Hilda Weaver

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

How Darkness Enters a Body by Sarah Nichols

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

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

Bodies in Water, P. Andrew Miller (special edition cover)

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

Vein of Stone, Sarah McCartt-Jackson (special edition cover)

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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 poem “Jumping the Fuck Shark” appears in the new Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
• another erasure, “The light fell in,” appears in Cotton Xenomorph.
• Come As You Are (Anomalous Press, 2018), an anthology of 90s pop culture, edited by EKA, is just out!
• Her new chapbook, Seventeen XVII (Grey Book Press, 2018), is available.
• Other achievements, including a chapbook, are listed in her latest blog post!

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

• a recent micro-review of Hilda’s The Autobiography of a Love Not Mine (Porkbelly Press, 2014) via Christine Brandel’s 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

• Two of Amorak’s poems appear in Tinderbox Poetry Journal: “God, the Father” & “Putting the Fun in Fungible.”

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

• Wren’s poem “Dear Ozma,” appears in Pittsburgh Poetry Review.
• Wren’s chapbook The Rise of Genderqueer was selected by Brain Mill Press for the Mineral Point Poetry Series (series editor: Kiki Petrosino). His chapbook is due out in August 2018!

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

• Chen Chen in conversation with Francesca Ekwuyasi at Winter Tangerine: “I Forget Myself When I’m Not In Conversation with Other Minds.”
• “The School of Song,” “Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to,”  and “One Year Later: A Letter,” and “Summer” appear in Winter Tangerine‘s A LINEAGE OF MIRRORS.
• Work in Come As You Are (Anomalous Press, 2018), an anthology of 90s pop culture edited by E. Kristin Anderson.

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

• Minadora’s poem “Baba Yaga: Her Almost Origin Story” from Bramble & Thorn (Porkbelly Press, 2017) is nominated for a Rhysling Award.

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

• Feeding the Dead (Porkbelly Press, 2017) is nominated for an 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

• Work in Come As You Are (Anomalous Press, 2018), an anthology of 90s pop culture edited by E. Kristin Anderson.

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

• Work in Come As You Are (Anomalous Press, 2018), an anthology of 90s pop culture edited by E. Kristin Anderson.

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

• Kanika Lawton interviews Melissa about her new collection, Knock (Half Mystic Press, 2018).
• Featured on Sundress Publications’ The Wardrobe!

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Bodies in Water (Porkbelly Press, 2014)
by P. Andrew Miller » pandrewmiller.com

• Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the Transmedia Age (Wayne State University Press, 2018), edited by John Alberti & P. Andrew Miller, is freshly pressed and will be available for order in May!

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Vein of Stone (Porkbelly Press, 2014)
by Sarah McCartt-Jackson » sarahmccarttjackson.com

• Sarah’s chapbook Calf Canyon was selected by Brain Mill Press for the Mineral Point Poetry Series (series editor: Kiki Petrosino). Her chapbook is due out in November 2018!

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Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Sally Rosen Kindred » sallyrosenkindred.com

• We’ve accepted Says the Forest to the Girl, a chapbook of poetry, for our 2018 line of chaps!

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Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Sara Ryan » sararryan.com

• We’ve accepted Never Leave the Foot of an Animal Unskinned, a chapbook of poetry & creative nonfiction, for our 2018 line of chaps!

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Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
by Madeleine Barnes » madeleinebarnes.com

• We’ve accepted Light Experiments, our very first chapbook of photography, for our 2018 line of chaps!

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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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April Bacon

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

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

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

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

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

MEXICAMERICANA by Eloisa Amezcua (cover artwork: Sharmon Davidson)

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Dreamland for Keeps (Porkbelly Press, forthcoming)
by Sarah Nichols » @onibaba37

• Sarah’s chapbook She May Be a Saint (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2017) is reviewed by Sonja Johanson over at The Rumpus!
• 5 poems appear in Queen of Cups issue 48!
• “Be Careful” and “Red Light,” two erasure poems, are up at Public Pool.

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

• a review of Wren’s Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press) appears in Stirring vol. 19, issue 2.

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

• Feeding the Dead is delightfully reviewed at Rust+Moth.

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

• Mexicamericana is now available for pre-order! Free domestic shipping with pre-order & use of coupon code AMEZCUA. Offer expires May 29th.

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

• My Own Strange Beast is now available for pre-order! Free domestic shipping with pre-order & use of coupon code STRANGEBEAST. Offer expires May 8th.

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

• Gulf Coast‘s video of Chen Chen reading from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017).
• Chen’s interviewed by Lone Star Literary Life: “Poet Chen Chen on arriving and belonging, the craft of writing, and Texas.”
• Post interviews Chen: “Writing is Part of How I Resist.” (via Mud Season 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 new poems in Daphne.

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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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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.

Pushcart Prize Nominations

We’re very pleased to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2016. Congratulations to the nominees, and thank you so much for sharing in your poetic journey with us. (All of our nominations this year are poems.) We’ve pulled works from our micros, chaps, lit mag, and anthos:

from our chapbooks & micros

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

“Sawaruna [“Do Not Touch”]” from hiku [pull] (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by James A. H. White

“The Pond in the Corner of the Yard” from A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016) by Amorak Huey

from our lit mag, Sugared Water, #005

“When I Grieve” by Wren Hanks : also appears in slightly different from in Ghost Skin (Porkbelly Press, 2016)

“According to My Father Peaches Ward Off Spirits” by Su Cho

from our anthology SKY+SEA

“Love Letter to Galileo: Axis” by Stacey Balkun

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.

Ghost Skin // Wren Hanks

Ghost Skin by Wren Hanks (cover: Alexandra Eldridge)

Wren’s GHOST SKIN is a haunted little chapbook about identity and ancestry, at once a eulogy for what is lost, a grandmother, and a falling away of the past self, a transition into new-self. The language is lush and image-heavy, speaking of moon jellies, trumpet vines, and red feathers—Gorgons and thistles and bones. Divine with this speaker, discover the things embedded into their skin like memory, rooted deep and blooming. (Porkbelly Press, 2016) » excerpt & more

about the poet

Wren Hanks is the author of Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press). A 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, their poetry appears in Gigantic Sequins, Drunken Boat, Bone Bouquet, Permafrost, and elsewhere. They are an Associate Editor for Sundress Publications and live in Brooklyn with their girlfriend and two difficult cats.

cover & art

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.

“One’s Destiny Always Arrives”
artist » Alexandra Eldridge
portfolio » alexandraeldridge.com