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When you were born at exactly 3 p.m. on Good Friday, you can either start a cult, or write poems and live a life of relative obscurity. Nathan Graziano chose the latter, and in Born on Good Friday-his first collection of poems in nearly a decade-he addresses his complicated relationship with Catholicism and guilt while staring down his vices and a veritable midlife crisis with some doom, some sprinkles of gloom, and an abundance of good humo...

a book of poetry by Scot Young, Editor of Rusty Truck

a full-length poetry collection by Kerry Trautman. Unknowable Things is a breathtaking collection of poetry by Kerry Trautman that explores the depths of the human experience with stark honesty and unflinching candor. Through evocative and powerful language, Trautman masterfully crafts the weight of human existence into poetry that is universal, self-reflective, and outright beautiful. Each poem in this collection is a testament to Trautman'...

Nancy Patrice Davenport is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. She lives in San Mateo with three cats. Nancy's poems are widely published in various journals and anthologies, and have been translated into many different languages. Nancy's "JUNE 2 RETROGRADE MINDFULNESS" poem was nominated for the 2016 Best of Net. Nancy's first chapbook, LA BRIZNA, was published in 2014 by Bookgirl Press. A full-length book of poems, SMOKING IN MOM'S GARAG...

In How To Play House, Heather Dorn invites readers on a journey through the complexities of life. With language that is both poetic and biting, Dorn explores the opposing forces that shape our relationships and surroundings. From the chemical reactions that drive our emotions to the boundaries we create in our own homes, Dorn's poetry offers a unique and provocative perspective on the world around us. With its mix of beauty and grit, How To Pl...

Alan Catlin worked for the better part of 34 years in his unchosen profession as a barman in and around the greater Albany, NY area. He has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books focusing on his work and the people he met while laboring in the trenches of bar warfare.

a book of poetry by Canadian author Ryan Quinn Flanagan Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Rusty Truck, Evergreen Review, Red Fez, Horror Sleaze Trash and The Blue Collar Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the T...

the 40th book of poetry by George Wallace ¿¿¿"This is the poetry of a country born to be wild and a heart rapacious and spellbound, writing that is modern, mindful and as old as the native cornstalks" -THURSTON MOORE, SONIC YOUTH "George Wallace is a time traveler, a shape-shifter, a painter in words whose palette is the history of human struggle and aspiration. His poetry is a river running through generations of mothers and soldiers, mig...

At the height of the late 2000's recession, a singer-songwriter throws himself at the mercy of the streets. A panorama of pedestrians, workers, graffiti artists, bike messengers, homeless, hipsters, hustlers, punks, drunks, poets, grifters, and gangsters-Busking Blues is about giving up everything for the muse. Down and out, but on top of the world, Heine gives a devil-may-care serenade through the underground of bad relationships, dead-end ...

Karl Koweski has finally ended his war against the Amish. While there are still pockets of the electricity-adverse in existence, thanks to Karl, their internet footprint has been all but wiped out. With Rumspringa cancelled, Karl Koweski can now settle back into his first love, writing the poetry. He can be found on the social media where he maintains an eerie radio silence. "I can name only a handful of poets that I've ever read that can tu...

Written over a lifetime, these lyrical poems reflect on childhood, early marriage, motherhood, and multiple long relationships in what proves to be rocky going. The author puzzles, attacks, muses, jokes, and meditates, seeking a way through ever-changing personal landscapes situated within the cultural tumult of late-twentieth-century America and more specifically in the strange beauty of north-central Florida. In several poems, she contemplat...

RADIO WATER is Francine Witte's latest collection of flash fiction stories. The title story was recently featured in the most recent WW Norton anthology, Flash Fiction America (2023.) This story, like many others in the collection deal with Witte's recurring theme of family in the process of breakdown. Other themes are romance, growing up, and the environment. The stories are all under 1000 words, and are told with Witte's signature mix of qui...

Dan Denton's 2nd novel There are novels that cleverly speak of life below the poverty line in working class America, and then there is The Dead & The Desperate, where Denton's main character becomes a begrudging Ohio resident and sudden and unexpected father, all while battling untreated mental illness and a nightmare vision board of addictions, and putting in dozens of overtime hours every week in hell scape low paying factory jobs. The main ...

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These Are the People in Your Neighbourhood is the legacy project of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada's Poet Laureate Jordan Trethewey. Trethewey spent two years collecting personal stories from willing participants, then turned his notes and thoughts into personalized poems for roughly 80 citizens. What emerges are universal stories of love, loss, longing, work, leisure, birth, death, near-death, and even pets. The result is a book that capt...

In CLOWN GRAVY, Misti Rainwater-Lites presents a provocative collection of thirteen stories that deftly capture the zeitgeist of the 21st century, where the world appears to be teetering on the brink of chaos, yet there's an undeniable sense of resilience and humor that prevails. Venture into the surreal landscape of CLOWN GRAVY as it explores the horror and hilarity of a society immersed in porno cartoon America, where the boundaries of dec...

All in a Pretty Little Row by Dan Provost is a collection of ten of his chapbooks from 2004-2022 All in a Pretty Little Row by Dan Provost, published by Roadside Press, is a collection of raw and unapologetic poetry that delves into the turbulent depths of one man's life journey. In this chronicle of personal evolution, Dan Provost's powerful and honest voice takes center stage, reflecting the spectrum of human experience. Dan's poetry, of...

a book of poetry by underground legend Michael D. Grover. ¿¿Over the years Michael D. Grover has become a legendary underground Poet. Back in the early 2000s he ran Covert Press and worked with many of the giants of underground Poetry. Over the years Michael has been published in countless publications all over the World, and published over fifteen books of Poetry. Michael spent over ten years as head Poetry editor of the literary zine Red F...

William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, and a volume of fiction. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, and The Chiron Review. He was a recipient of the 2013 Kathy Acker Award, and edited Cocky Moon: Selected Poems of Jack Micheline (Zeitgeist Press, 2014). A Room Above a Convenience Store, (Roadside Press) is his lat...

a book of short stories by Steven Meloan Steven Meloan's writing has been seen in Wired, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles, BUZZ, the San Francisco Chronicle, and SF Weekly. His fiction has appeared in SOMA Magazine, the Sonoma Valley Sun, Lummox Press, and Newington Blue Press, as well as at Litquake, Quiet Lightning, and other Bay Area literary events. He has regularly written for the Huffington Post, and is co-author of the novel The Shroud with...