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The fourth poetry journal in our Backlash collection. It's arranged as a single narrative and to be read as a book. Backlash Press is dedicated to publishing books that inform, provoke, and inspire. We publish poetry, surrealism, literary fiction, and lyric essay.

Poems written in isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020This collection is wholly unique to any that I've curated. The incomparable nature of the of the submissions I received certainly reflected the exceptional times we are living through. Some were handwritten. Many were from teenagers, children, elders, and mental health patients. All were raw, perfectly threadbare in their humanness, and pining for connectedness.Although I couldn't pos...

The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...

The woman he loves has been murdered. What happens when he resurrects her? Jacques Beaumont is a French Haitian artist of Voodoo ancestry with the ability to resurrect the dead through his sculptures. The death of his parents takes him to Callisto, a rural town in Illinois. Jacques falls in love with Elora Winter, a singer and abused wife of Arlo Donnelley, the town's sheriff and ring leader of the area's white supremacy group. Elora becomes p...

It's 2014 and retired professor Daniel Sale, 77, is the wealthy scion of a New England family, living on Round Hill, Connecticut, following the death of his wife and the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. All of his life he has harboured the guilt of being responsible for the murder of his lover, 50 years before. And now he is alone he fears the approach of dementia. Until one day, he is introduced to New York lawyer Chester Bowery and his two yo...

The Life in the Sky Comes Down is a book that looks at teaching at New York University while the Twin Towers fell, at Lisa de Kooning riding a horse as the police followed closely behind her, at working in a theatre company directed by Edward Albee, and at love between men in a time when that love is charged with risk. Through essays, stories, and a hybrid of the two, The Life in the Sky Comes Down thinks about how essays and stories might spe...

Joseph V Milford is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a professor of poetry. His work has been featured in numerous reputable journals. This is his second collection and describes using prose poetry one man's descent into purgatory after a divorce. It is an epic poem that takes place in Moreland, Georgia and is full of southern flair and fable. The author tried to write 100 10-lined stanzas, made up of lines which are, supposedly, ea...

Michael Tyrell poems have appeared in many publications, including Agni, The Best American Poetry 2015, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Verse Daily, and The Yale Review. His first collection, The Wanted, appeared in 2012 from the National Poetry Review Press. Phantom Laundry is his second poetry collection. "Wet and cold my country, where the softener seeps in but the powder burns still in...

Michael Tyrell is the author of The Wanted (The National Poetry Review Press, 2012) and his poems have appeared in many magazines, including Agni, The Canary, Fogged Clarity, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review. With Julia Spicher Kasdorf, he edited the anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2007). He teaches at New York University and resides in Brooklyn, where he was born."Wet and cold my cou...