Via Leftwich
Hillary Leftwich’s multi-genre collection, Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (CCM Press/The Accomplices 2019), is frighteningly beautiful and natural in its scope of voices and reverberates long after its first read. Leftwich is an editor, organizer in her literary community, and an advocate for writers existing in liminal spaces. Here she shares about her book and an impulse to create from the beats of memory.
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Kailey Tedesco is the author of These Ghosts of Mine, Siamese (Dancing Girl Press) and the full-length collection, She Used to be on a Milk Carton (April Gloaming Publications). She is the co-founding editor-in-chief of Rag Queen Periodical and a member of the Poetry Brothel. She received her MFA in creative writing from Arcadia University, and she now teaches literature at several local colleges. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. You can find her work in Prelude, Bellevue Literary Review, Sugar House Review, Poetry Quarterly, Hello Giggles, UltraCulture, and more. For more information, please visit kaileytedesco.com.
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Image by Ignacio Martinez Egea
**Monique Quintana** is the author of Cenote City(Clash Books, 2019), Associate Editor at Luna Luna Magazine, and Fiction Editor at Five 2 One Magazine. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CSU Fresno and is an alumna of Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Her work has appeared in Queen Mobs Teahouse, Winter Tangerine, Dream Pop, Grimoire, and the Acentos Review, among other publications. You can find her at [moniquequintana.com][1]
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ASTROLUSHES is a podcast at the intersection of astrology and literature, ritual, wellness, pop culture, creativity — and, of course, wine. Hosted by Luna Luna editor-in-chief Lisa Marie Basile and contributor Andi Talarico (both water signs!), you can expect guests, giveaways, book reviews, and more. You’ll have fun, but you’ll also go deep.
Episode 1 is an introductory episode during which the hosts chat about astrology’s impact in their own lives, plus they tackle the ideas of reductive astrology memes, pop culture (Rihanna lyrics!), folk magic, family lineage and trauma. They also a Rapid Fire Round of Guess That Sign (which sign is Poe?).
For now, you can listen to ASTROLUSHES on Anchor.Fm (there’s an app and also a website), but the podcast will soon be available on iTunes, Spotify, and everywhere else podcasts can be found. If you like what you hear, leave them a clap or star the show on Anchor. You can also listen below!
You can tweet them at @astrolushes.
Via de la Luz. Cover art is “Medusa Galáctica” by Cynthia Treviño
…the borderlands, outer space, and the neon glow of chisme…
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Cover Art by Guadalupe Ramirez. Image via Sundress Publications.
marginalized writers are not monolithic and our own relationship to writing will continue evolving…
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The grave of W.B. Yeats in Drumcliff, County Silgo.
I fell in love. Fell in love with the sadness and the mystery, the make believe and the darkness, the dead and the living, the monuments, the reverence for the lost, and the eternalness of myth.
Follow me through this photo diary of just a few of my favorite sites from my recent travels—places of heartbreak and glory, mist and fog, warrior queens and poets.
Read MoreJulia Knobloch is a journalist and translator turned project manager and administrator. Before moving to New York from Berlin, she worked 10+ years as a writer and producer for TV documentaries and radio features. Her essays and reportage have been published in print and online publications in Germany, Argentina, and the US (openDemocracy, Brooklyn Rail, Reality Sandwich). She occasionally blogs for ReformJudaism.org, and she recently was awarded the Poem of the Year 2016 prize from Brooklyn Poets for her poem Daylight Saving Time. Her poems have been published in or accepted by Green Mountains Review, Yes, Poetry Magazine, in between hangovers, poetic diversity, ReformJudaism.org and are featured on Brooklyn Poets’ social media outlets.
Read MoreLisa A. Flowers is a poet, critic, cinephile, ailurophile, the founding editor of Vulgar Marsala Press, and the Reviews Editor for Tarpaulin Sky Press. She is the author of diatomhero: religious poems, and her work has appeared in various magazines and online journals. Raised in Los Angeles and Portland, OR, she now resides in Colorado. Visit her here.
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Via On the Fringe Cinema
...a feverish quest for youth and beauty.
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Filippo Ascione
I guess I was about four and puking in a bucket with a fever of 105, which I heard his mother tell my mother on the phone, and Old Yeller was on. I was trying to throw up quietly because Luke’s dad would be home soon. I tasted a grape chewable. I was crying.
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This is a short list of books that have been published in 2016, by both large and indie presses. There are so many more amazing books out there that I either have yet to read, am still reading, or haven't had the pleasure of discovering.
I hope you let these draw you into their world. Maybe you'll even give them as gifts to others, and make their worlds bigger too:
1. “Blood Song” by Michael Schmeltzer (Two Sylvias Press)
2. “Theater of Parts” by M. Mack (Sundress Publications)
3. "The Voyager Record” by Anthony Michael Morena (Rose Metal Press)
4. "So Sad Today" by Melissa Broder (Grand Central Publishing)
5. "The Performance of Becoming Human" by Daniel Borzutzky (Brooklyn Arts Press)
6. "Dahlia Cassandra" by Nathanial Kressen (Second Skin Books)
7. "Blood on Blood" by Devin Kelly (Unknown Press)
8. "Falter Kingdom" by Michael J. Seidlinger (Unnamed Books)
9. “Fish in Exile” by Vi Khi Nao (Coffee House Press)
10. “Reel” by Tobias Carroll (Rare Bird Books)
11. “Patricide” by D. Foy (Stalking Horse Press)
12. Sad Girl Poems - Christopher Soto (Sibling Rivalry Press)
13. "Chelate" by Jay Besemer (Brooklyn Arts Press)
14. "Fire in the Sky" by E. Kristin Anderson (Grey Book Press)
15. "Take This Stallion" by Anaïs Duplan (Brooklyn Arts Press)
16. "Annihilation Songs" by Jason De Boer (Stalking Horse Press)
17. "Leaving Lucy Pear" by Anna Solomon (Viking)
18. "Dear Everyone" by Matt Shears (Brooklyn Arts Press)
19. "Lunch Portraits" by Debora Kuan (Brooklyn Arts Press)
20. "Night" by Etel Adnan (Nightboat Books)
21. "Being Human" by Julia Gari Weiss (Thought Catalog)
22. "Straight Away the Emptied World" by Leah Umansky (Kattywompus Press)
23. "Sing the Song" by Meredith Alling (Future Tense Books)
24. "Go Ask Alice" by Liz Axelrod (Finishing Line Press)
25. "The Birth Creatures" by Samantha Duncan (Agape Editions)
25. "Too Many Humans of New York" by Abigail Welhouse (Bottlecap Press)
26. "Angeltits" by Katie Longofono (Sundress Publications)
27. “The Fry Pans Aren’t Sufficing” by Peyton Burgess (Lavendar Ink Press)
28. "OOOO" by Erin Taylor (Bottlecap Press)
29. "Trébuchet" by Danniel Schoonebeek (University of Georgia Press)
30. "i can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can’t remember what i texted you last night" by Elle Nash (Nostrovia Press)
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Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (2016, ELJ Publications), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.
Via here.
Let’s put these sleaze-balls back into the dusty, forgotten books where they belong.
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Everyone seems to know who Michael J. Seidlinger is, even if just by name. Seidlinger is a ghost — the kind of ghost who messes up you book case and reorders everything so you can't actually find what you're looking for. But then when you actually look back at all of the reordered books, you find something beautiful stuck in there that you hadn't seen before.
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After reading Nathaniel Kressen’s debut novel, "Concrete Fever" (2011, Second Skin Books), I was utterly entranced by his ability to skillfully weave together a compelling story. This is also why I was absolutely thrilled to find out Kressen’s second book “Dahlia Cassandra” was released this past June, also by Second Skin Books.
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