A collection of fearless poetry and prose from fifty-five writers across the United States, plus Botswana, the Philippines, Denmark, and Canada. This is world writing with a New York flair-no nonsense, no claptrap, ready to spit in your eye or call you lover in a cyberminute.There's brutality, glamour, danger, and glitz...but an unexpected tenderness too.   Contributors include Rich Ferguson, Joan Gelfand, Janet Hamill, Aimee Herman, R. Nemo Hill, Puma Perl, Cin Salach, and Jon Steinhagen.

It's Animal But Merciful

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"Puma Perl is a remarkable poet and an exciting performer. Retrograde is a true contemporary masterpiece." - John Sinclair, poet, jazz and blues historian, former manager of the MC5, radio host, and political activist With "Retrograde", Puma Perl goes back in time in order to move forward-and what a trip this proves to be. This is a journey of life and survival among the ghosts and dreams of a past captured with full honesty and sharp humor (sometimes self-deprecating, other times pinning the tail on absurdity). Funny, smart, dirty yet tender, Puma Perl brings the descriptive eye of Lou Reed to her apocalyptic rock and roll vision of the world. Cover photo by Bill DesJardins. Author photo by Len DeLessio.

Retrograde

Perl, Puma

Writers who let go of more than just stars... "I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand" is a fearless, dynamic collection of contemporary poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. Contributors include John Amen, Rob Cook, Rosie Garland, Aimee Herman, Ron Kolm, Katharyn Howd Machan, Al Ortolani, and John Sibley Williams. The anthology also has an interview with John Sinclair - the legendary jazz/blues poet, former manager of the MC5, radio host, and activist.

I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand

Aimee Herman’s powerful new poetry collection, meant to wake up feeling, addresses the complexities of identity, gender, memory, and body image. This is a book of surprise, humor, intimacy, fallibility, renewal. Anne Waldman writes, “Visceral, insistent, beyond transgressive…Gratitude to Aimee Herman for getting under our skin, and moving poetry-in-discourse into the feminist present and future where we study and yearn for the salvation of humanity.” Herman’s work takes you on a personal journey of understanding a body’s identity and, in turn, helps us understand who we are. These poems revel in Cummings’ forms, Bukowski directness, and Kerouacian playfulness. In Herman’s own words, “Walk away from formula, resuscitate the dark inside, look for new bulb of light.”

Meant to Wake Up Feeling

Herman, Aimee

Corrina Bain's extraordinary first full-length collection Debridement echoes a body lost in motion. With a fearlessness at times shocking to the reader, Bain delivers the powerful punch which comes from trying to figure out who you are in a world not always built for that. Through humor, compassion, darkness, the dead and disappearing bodies, a shining light of a hope of something more appears. To debride is to remove the damaged flesh from a wound. Bain refuses to allow experience to rot within. His words tear, splice, lure, shift, to allow an exposure that leaves the reader shaken and yet honored to be a part of. Finalist for The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature 2016.

Debridement

Bain, Corrina

"Before Passing" is an exhilarating, questioning, and diverse collection of contemporary poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. Contributors include Edgar Oliver, Penny Arcade, Steve Dalachinsky, Jon Sands, Amber Atiya, Joseph Keckler, Floyd Salas, and Meagan Brothers. The anthology also contains an interview with the legendary Anne Waldman conducted by Aimee Herman, author of "meant to wake up feeling." "These annual anthologies and other work by great weather for MEDIA are an admirable contribution to arts and culture." - The Compulsive Reader

Before Passing

Short Stories & Anthologies

Gritty, vivid, at times harsh, Wil Gibson's latest poetry collection, Harvest the Dirt, is a tour-de-force of the American dream-nightmare. Traveling the back roads of double-wide trailers and mobile meth labs, Gibson arrives at a new truth and realism, a pride in the dirt from which you come.

Harvest the Dirt

Gibson, Wil

Since time immemorial, sacred texts have been approached with reverence. Whether it be the Dead Sea Scrolls, Shakespeare's sonnets or the Gettysburg Address, all have been analyzed with high-mindedness and a tight ass. John J. Trause's "Exercises in High Treason" has arrived to blow the hot air away with a fresh blast of inventiveness. Playfully reinterpreting and subverting the words of the mighty or even the most banal advertising copy, he has created poetry that is a brain teaser. A rib tickler. Like Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Guillaume Apollinaire, Trause adores rewiring the absurd and the lyrical. With a tactile appearance on the page which also qualifies it as modern art, "Exercises in High Treason" will be the book you will pass around at your smart dinner party. Are you ready to receive the translation?

Exercises in High Treason

Trause, John J

"The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker" is a fearless and dynamic collection of contemporary poetry and short fiction by established and emerging writers. Contributors include Sue Hyon Bae, Shira Dentz, Janet Hamill, Mary Mackey, Puma Perl, John Sibley Williams, and Anton Yakovlev. The anthology also contains an interview with musician Thurston Moore. These writers are the boneshakers. Let their impact rattle, rise, and wrap itself around you.

The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker

In Crown Prince of Rabbits, John Paul Davis unravels poetic self-portraits, breaking the spine of love and the language of serrated relationships. He shines the moon in his face to capture every angle, which not always flatters, but digs at the roots and rot of endings.This is a book that will feel like a novel, with upheavals and road trips (with music). His exit signs ask questions that even the reader can/should ponder. This is a book to drink with whiskey or strong coffee. This is a book that will leave you meditating on why it is we give our feelings away.

Crown Prince of Rabbits

Davis, John Paul

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