Epic Rites Press announced the release of Can't Stop Now by John Yamrus, 136 pages, $17.50, ISBN: 978-1-926860-06-0, Epic Rites Press, 2011. It is available for purchase from Small Press Distribution.
Since the release of his first book in 1970, John’s work has been published in hundreds of magazines, taught at both the high school and university levels, and translated into numerous languages.
The cover of Can’t Stop Now!, by the great multi-media artist Pablo Vision, depicts a 17th century perpetual motion machine – symbolic of John’s remarkably consistent body of work.
“Two major qualities prevail in Yamrus’ recent work: economy and punch. No word is unnecessary or out of place; the timing is impeccable; and, most difficult of all, the endings hit just the right balance of summation, revelation, and surprise.” – Gerald Locklin, author of Charles Bukowski: A Sure Bet
When asked about the economy of his poetry, John remarked:
“I think the hardest thing for a writer to learn is what NOT to say. Writers want to talk and talk and talk in their work and show their readers how good they are. Flashy. That’s not me. I don’t want to impress my readers with bells and whistles. I want to hit them over the head with blood and guts and bone. I don’t want to create an unreality. People can’t relate to that. I want to give them something more. I want to give them something that they know and lead them into thinking something a little deeper about it.”
Friday, April 29, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
New Release from In Between Altered States
In Between Altered States has just released Episode 12 featuring the work of Defne Cizakca, Ed Go, Jay Passer, Patrick Trotti, Aleathia Drehmer, Mickey Hess, Dominic Ward and Walt Conley. To read the current episode visit http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
New Release - Word Riot
Word Riot (April 2011)
http://www.wordriot.org/
Contributors: Daniel Grandbois, Peter Grandbois, Ofelia Hunt, Hila Katz, Mark Reep, Mark DeCarteret, Heather Luby, Philip Tinkler, Kenton K. Yee, Heather Askeland, Michael Frank, and Sarah Long.
http://www.wordriot.org/
Contributors: Daniel Grandbois, Peter Grandbois, Ofelia Hunt, Hila Katz, Mark Reep, Mark DeCarteret, Heather Luby, Philip Tinkler, Kenton K. Yee, Heather Askeland, Michael Frank, and Sarah Long.
Call for Submissions - Radius
"Radius: Poetry From the Center to the Edge" is an online literary journal in blog format, and the successor to "The November 3rd Club." If you belong to this community, hopefully you've already been following the journal. If not, give it a visit at http://www.radiuslit.org/.
"Radius" is open for submissions, but its needs are somewhat specialized, so please read the submission guidelines before sending us work. A few particular areas we are DEFINITELY seeking submissions in are:
*Political Poetry: As with Nov3rd, we're interpreting that phrase broadly, but it's also the area where we get the most submissions.
*Elegies for Poets: This has proven to be a real cornerstone of our journal, and connects the sometimes abstract nature of poetry published online with the real world.
*Responses to Poems: Here, we're particularly interested in direct, personal reactions to poems by a single author in a book or journal.
*Memoirs of Readings: Strong, evocative prose describing a live poetry event in the past that was in some way influential to the author. (No example yet, here, although we have some in the works.)
Hopefully, that answers some questions. Please, feel free to query if you're unsure whether something is right for "Radius" or not.
Thanks!
Victor D. Infante
Editor-In-Chief
"Radius: Poetry From the center to the Edge"
http://www.radiuslit.org/
"Radius" is open for submissions, but its needs are somewhat specialized, so please read the submission guidelines before sending us work. A few particular areas we are DEFINITELY seeking submissions in are:
*Political Poetry: As with Nov3rd, we're interpreting that phrase broadly, but it's also the area where we get the most submissions.
*Elegies for Poets: This has proven to be a real cornerstone of our journal, and connects the sometimes abstract nature of poetry published online with the real world.
*Responses to Poems: Here, we're particularly interested in direct, personal reactions to poems by a single author in a book or journal.
*Memoirs of Readings: Strong, evocative prose describing a live poetry event in the past that was in some way influential to the author. (No example yet, here, although we have some in the works.)
Hopefully, that answers some questions. Please, feel free to query if you're unsure whether something is right for "Radius" or not.
Thanks!
Victor D. Infante
Editor-In-Chief
"Radius: Poetry From the center to the Edge"
http://www.radiuslit.org/
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Online Event: Studio Eight
Studio Eight — Uniting the Arts
Block Party - A Spring Poetry and Image Jam
April 15, 2011 - May 31, 2011
"Bring your photos, your artwork and your creative words. Bring your spontaneity from one fertile mind to another. Share springtime where you live and see spring come to life where others live! Let's let our block expand internationally and celebrate the beauty of spring!"
Block Party - A Spring Poetry and Image Jam
April 15, 2011 - May 31, 2011
"Bring your photos, your artwork and your creative words. Bring your spontaneity from one fertile mind to another. Share springtime where you live and see spring come to life where others live! Let's let our block expand internationally and celebrate the beauty of spring!"
Sunday, April 17, 2011
New Book from Covert Press
Covert Press has just released a new chapbook by Dan Provost called "Born to Look Down at the Ground". It is available for purchase from their website.
This second Covert Press release by Dan Provost has all the raw emotion and pain that we have come to expect from Dan Provost. A must read.
This second Covert Press release by Dan Provost has all the raw emotion and pain that we have come to expect from Dan Provost. A must read.
Call for Submissions - MiCrow Flash
Update On MiCrow Flash, From Editor Michael J. Solender
Microw is the tiny sibling of Full of Crow and looks for Flash Fiction/ Poetry works in the under 1000 word range. The theme for the Summer edition is Search. Think: seeking, pursuit, looking, investigation, hunting, rummaging and exploration. Special consideration will be provided to those works that endeavor to leave their reader as if they’d been on an adventure. I am also looking for original artwork and illustrations along the same theme.
Submit your work in the body of an email only to mjsolender at fullofcrow dot com with Microw – Summer submission, title and your name in the subject line. A very brief bio may be included along with a link of your choosing. Submissions will be open until 05/15/11.
Submission guidelines that will endear you to the editor:
Use TNR or Arial Font, size 10, single spaced. Do not indent paragraphs and do not center title or anything else – left justify. Please submit in the body on an email – no attachments.
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I NEED ILLUSTRATIONS & Photos!! – I’m looking for cool pen & ink, charcoal and crisp clear high definition photos. Whatever you’ve got lay it on me!
Microw is the tiny sibling of Full of Crow and looks for Flash Fiction/ Poetry works in the under 1000 word range. The theme for the Summer edition is Search. Think: seeking, pursuit, looking, investigation, hunting, rummaging and exploration. Special consideration will be provided to those works that endeavor to leave their reader as if they’d been on an adventure. I am also looking for original artwork and illustrations along the same theme.
Submit your work in the body of an email only to mjsolender at fullofcrow dot com with Microw – Summer submission, title and your name in the subject line. A very brief bio may be included along with a link of your choosing. Submissions will be open until 05/15/11.
Submission guidelines that will endear you to the editor:
Use TNR or Arial Font, size 10, single spaced. Do not indent paragraphs and do not center title or anything else – left justify. Please submit in the body on an email – no attachments.
***
I NEED ILLUSTRATIONS & Photos!! – I’m looking for cool pen & ink, charcoal and crisp clear high definition photos. Whatever you’ve got lay it on me!
Event - Modus Convention
Modus Operandi Fanzine will be holding its first ever Modus Convention on Saturday June 11th, at Ella Street Social Club, 714 SW 20th Place, Portland, Oregon. This will be the release party for issue #20, as well as a melting of the minds to conjer up new ideas for issue #21, so bring yer work w/ you and be prepared to submit! Entertainment will be provided by Hogwild, Bridgebuilder, & The Filthy Nightmares. If this sounds at all appealing to you then show the fuck up! More to come....
Call for Submissions - Modus Operandi Fanzine
Modus Operandi Fanzine is now accepting submissions for issue #20, to be released at the Modus Convention, June 11th, 2011. Send stories, poems, artwork, reviews, rants, photos of yr nutz, or anything else you've got to: moduszine@hotmail.com
Deadline is May 1st. Do yr worst, fuckers!!
Deadline is May 1st. Do yr worst, fuckers!!
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Call for Submissions - The Smoking Poet
THE SMOKING POET: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SUMMER 2011. We are reading submissions now.
http://thesmokingpoet.com/
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author interview; feature poet; feature artist (by invitation only); travel essays; book and cigar reviews. We publish work that ignites our imagination, inflames our passion, leaves us with a smoky aftertaste. The Smoking Poet also shares an extensive list of links and resources for writers and the cigar aficionado.
Submissions open year round. Send with genre in subject line: poetry, fiction, general non-fiction, or cigar themed fiction/ non-fiction/poetry and cigar reviews.
For full submission guidelines and contact information, visit: http://thesmokingpoet.com/
SUMMER 2011 Issue Deadline: May 31, 2011
http://thesmokingpoet.com/
THE SMOKING POET publishes flash fiction; fiction; nonfiction; poetry; feature author interview; feature poet; feature artist (by invitation only); travel essays; book and cigar reviews. We publish work that ignites our imagination, inflames our passion, leaves us with a smoky aftertaste. The Smoking Poet also shares an extensive list of links and resources for writers and the cigar aficionado.
Submissions open year round. Send with genre in subject line: poetry, fiction, general non-fiction, or cigar themed fiction/ non-fiction/poetry and cigar reviews.
For full submission guidelines and contact information, visit: http://thesmokingpoet.com/
SUMMER 2011 Issue Deadline: May 31, 2011
New Release - Monkeybicycle Number 8
Monkeybicycle (Number 8, Spring/Summer 2011)
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/
With stories and poems from 22 authors, Monkeybicycle8 is sure to please. Featuring cinema stars, cave-dwelling hermits, imaginary monsters, Internet hookups, and so much more, this issue packs a mighty wallop. Contributors include: Matt Briggs, Aaron Burch, Michael Hickins, Steve Himmer, Ben Loory, Laura McCullough, Curtis Smith, and more.
http://www.monkeybicycle.net/
With stories and poems from 22 authors, Monkeybicycle8 is sure to please. Featuring cinema stars, cave-dwelling hermits, imaginary monsters, Internet hookups, and so much more, this issue packs a mighty wallop. Contributors include: Matt Briggs, Aaron Burch, Michael Hickins, Steve Himmer, Ben Loory, Laura McCullough, Curtis Smith, and more.
New Release - Prick of the Spindle Vol 5 Number 1
Prick of the Spindle (Volume 5 Number 1, 2011)
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/
Poetry by CL Bledsoe, Howie Good, David Tomaloff and more. Interview with Steve Himmer plus nonfiction by Alex Chambers, Cynthia Hawkins and others. Includes fiction, drama, and reviews.
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/
Poetry by CL Bledsoe, Howie Good, David Tomaloff and more. Interview with Steve Himmer plus nonfiction by Alex Chambers, Cynthia Hawkins and others. Includes fiction, drama, and reviews.
New Release - Pank Magazine
Pank Magazine (6.04 April 2011)
http://www.pankmagazine.com/category/2011/6-04-april-2011/
Rose Hunter, Adam Weinstein, Kirsty Logan, Keith Nathan Brown, Laura LeHew, Faith Gardner, Adam Day, David Cotrone, Jaime Fountaine, Sterling McKennedy, Pedro Ponce, Nicole Monaghan, Ross White, Chelsea Laine Wells, Brandi Wells, Carly Taylor, Dan Pinkerton, Gary Moshimer, Kathleen Hellen, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Jenny Halper, Tracy Gonzalez, Emily Darrell, Jessica Abrego, and Laura Adamczyk.
http://www.pankmagazine.com/category/2011/6-04-april-2011/
Rose Hunter, Adam Weinstein, Kirsty Logan, Keith Nathan Brown, Laura LeHew, Faith Gardner, Adam Day, David Cotrone, Jaime Fountaine, Sterling McKennedy, Pedro Ponce, Nicole Monaghan, Ross White, Chelsea Laine Wells, Brandi Wells, Carly Taylor, Dan Pinkerton, Gary Moshimer, Kathleen Hellen, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Jenny Halper, Tracy Gonzalez, Emily Darrell, Jessica Abrego, and Laura Adamczyk.
New Release - Phantom Kangaroo
Phantom Kangaroo (No. 6, April 2011)
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/
Donal Mahoney, Emily O'Neill, Jay Coral, Joan McNerney, Joshua Otto, Khalym Kari, Burke-Thomas, Lisa McCool-Grime, Nancy Flynn, Natalie Angelone, Nathan Lipps, Neil Ellman, Steve Toase, and William Page.
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/
Donal Mahoney, Emily O'Neill, Jay Coral, Joan McNerney, Joshua Otto, Khalym Kari, Burke-Thomas, Lisa McCool-Grime, Nancy Flynn, Natalie Angelone, Nathan Lipps, Neil Ellman, Steve Toase, and William Page.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
New Release - Red Fez
Red Fez Publications (Issue 33, April 2011)
http://redfez.net
Featuring "Dispatches from Atlantis", the column by Paul Corman-Roberts, video, audio, photography, comics, reviews, poetry and prose from contributors David Blaine, Todd Cirillo, Melissa Hansen, Alan Catlin, John Dorsey, Rebecca Schumejda, Melissa Studdard and many others.
http://redfez.net
Featuring "Dispatches from Atlantis", the column by Paul Corman-Roberts, video, audio, photography, comics, reviews, poetry and prose from contributors David Blaine, Todd Cirillo, Melissa Hansen, Alan Catlin, John Dorsey, Rebecca Schumejda, Melissa Studdard and many others.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Literary Underground Newsletter (April 9, 2011)
web version - http://eepurl.com/dj2yM
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The Literary Underground News and Updates
Sign up for the Newsletter @ http://theliteraryunderground.org/news/
New Releases
Jersey Devil Press (Issue Nineteen, April 2011)
http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=1228
Henry Sane, Autumn Hayes, Steven Gumeny, Matt Rowan, Andrew S. Williams
In Between Altered States (Episode #11)
http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/
Flash fiction by Tim Murray, K. Bond, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., Ed Go, Ramona
Black, Jeffrey Miller, Garrett Socal and Nathaniel Towers.
decomP Magazine (April 2011)
http://www.decompmagazine.com/
Photography, flash prose, short prose, poetry, and book reviews.
Contributors include Skinner, Nick Kimbro, Nelson Lloyd, Faith Gardner,
Jason M. Jones, Eric Burke, Jim Davis, Karen Holman, Robert Aquinas McNally,
Mangesh Naik, Tara Nicole, Matt Ryan, Lauren Schmidt, Susie Swanton, J. A.
Tyler and Spencer Dew.
Blue Lake Review (April 2011)
http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/
Lexie Benedict, Jeanpaul Ferro, Phyllis Green, Benjamin Imamovic, Robert S.
King, Lyn Lifshin, Kelsey Ottman, Andrew F. Popper, Michelle Primeau, Cathy
Rosoff, Tom Sheehan, John Tustin
Negative Suck (April 2011)
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
Featured Author Amanda Deo, Justin Hyde, Howie Good, A.J. Huffman, Eryk
Wenziak, James Valvis, Roberta Lawson, Mike Meraz, Zoe Alexandra, Nicole
Monaghan, Karen Eileen Sikola, Cameron Mount, Angela Lutz
Underground Voices (April 2011)
http://www.undergroundvoices.com/
Joy Baglio, Michael Brownstein, JJ Campbell, Steve Castro, Jenn Gutierrez,
Justin Hyde, Marian Kamensky, Alexey Kurbatov, Mitchell Lay, Cynthia Ruth
Lews, J.E. Reich, Steven Schutzman, J.D. Smith, Patrick Witherell
StepAway Magazine (Issue 1, Spring 2011)
http://stepawaymagazine.com/
StepAway Magazine is a quarterly collection of urban prose and poetry, with
an emphasis on the walking narrative. Our inaugural issue includes a short
story by the distinguished New York novelist, Sarah Schulman, flash fiction
by Gem Andrews, David Gaffney, Kyle Hemmings, and Tom Sheehan and poetry by
Jaydn DeWald, Matthew Hittinger, P.A. Levy, Joan McNerney and Changming
Yuan.
Hobo Camp Review (Issue 9)
http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/
It's our two-year anniversary issue, and includes work by:
Alan Britt (our "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Award winner), Geordie de Boer,
Nicole Yarcuba, W.I. Stoneberger, Jim Davis, Isabel Kestner, Lark Beltran,
Dylan Mitchell, Dena Rash Guzman, Maureen Kingston, plus an interview with
Aleathia Drehmer and reviews of Kami's "Subterranean Redneck Blues" and
Jeffrey Alfier's "Before the Troubadour Exits."
The Comics Decoder (Issue 2, Spring 2011)
http://sites.google.com/site/nocturnalirispublicationssite/Home
The accent is heavy on literary matters this time, with Lorraine Schein's
thesis on 'Poetry & Comics', 4 poems based on comics subjects, and a chapter
from Watkins's nonlinear novel-in-progress, Continued After Next Page.
New Book!
The Other Side of Ourselves by Rob Taylor, Cormorant Books
http://www.cormorantbooks.com/titles/theothersideofourselves.shtml
The Other Side of Ourselves, Rob Taylor's award-winning debut collection
of poems, explores the real and imagined worlds of our everyday lives. These
poems are united in their consideration of what it means to be human, to
shape lives for ourselves and attempt to live them well. Taylor inhabits his
moment, brings it to life on the page with a remarkable economy of words,
and finds the enigma at its heart. Mysterious without denying clear images,
plain spoken without being plain, his poems promote a middle path where
complexity does not trump simple pleasure, and pleasure gives way willingly
to moments of reflection and insight.
New Book!
Everything Reminds Me of Me
by Howie Good
Desperanto
http://www.desperanto.com/everything.html
Everything Reminds Me of Me includes an eclectic mix of free verse and
prose poetry. Many of the poems were written during a particularly
difficult period in Good's life and bear witness to the hazards of human
relationships and the treachery of human consciousness. But while often
dealing with dark subjects, the poems aren't without exuberance or humor.
Good's poems shoot off images that surprise, provoke, and delight. In
Everything Reminds Me of Me, readers will find a poet whose flashing little
poems lure them into poignant contemplation of the beautiful and the damned.
Have News for the Newsletter?
new releases, books, events, calls for submission...
send info to admin@theliteraryunderground.org
Call for Submissions-
Fezmissions
Red Fez Publications seeks short fiction, poetry, audio, short videos,
illustrated fiction, photography and comics for Issue #34 to be published
online May 13, 2011.
Deadline is May 1.
http://redfez.net
Calls for Submission
WomenArts Quarterly Journal seeks essays and poetry for Summer 2011
issue. WAQ provides readers with contemporary examples of the work of women
creators and, therefore, seeks submissions by women only. Deadline: May 1,
2011
http://www.vivacepress.com/waq.html
Inertia Magazine online poetry, short fiction, critical prose, personal
essays, art, and music. June 30
http://www.inertiamagazine.com
Pear Noir! fiction, nonfiction, & poetry up to 5000 words. April 30
http://www.pearnoir.com/index.htm
The Pedestal guest editors Bruce Boston and Marge Simon for special
speculative poetry section April 28-June 14
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com
Whistling Fire fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Guest Editor David Crawford.
Theme: Humor. Apr 23
http://whistlingfire.com
eChap!
Roman Meal
by J.D. Nelson
now available at
Ten Pages Press
http://tenpagespress.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/roman-meal-by-j-d-nelson
New Book!
Stranger Will
by Caleb J. Ross
Otherworld Publications
http://www.calebjross.com/works/booklength/strangerwill
In this novel of impending fatherhood, an idealistic teacher recruits a
pliant protege to join her group of Strangers - a devout collection of
kindred minds who have dedicated their lives to cultivating a unique idea of
perfection.
But joining is easier than leaving.
Mission
The Literary Underground's mission is to provide web space, information and
resources for authors, publishers and readers of underground literature.
Other New and Updated
Clutching At Straws
http://clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com/
Everyday Genius
http://www.everyday-genius.com/
Gloom Cupboard
http://gloomcupboard.com/
Calliope Nerve
http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/
Rusty Truck
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
Horror, Sleaze, Trash
http://www.horrorsleazetrash.com/
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New Releases
Jersey Devil Press (Issue Nineteen, April 2011)
http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=1228
Henry Sane, Autumn Hayes, Steven Gumeny, Matt Rowan, Andrew S. Williams
In Between Altered States (Episode #11)
http://inbetweenalteredstates.wordpress.com/
Flash fiction by Tim Murray, K. Bond, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., Ed Go, Ramona
Black, Jeffrey Miller, Garrett Socal and Nathaniel Towers.
decomP Magazine (April 2011)
http://www.decompmagazine.com/
Photography, flash prose, short prose, poetry, and book reviews.
Contributors include Skinner, Nick Kimbro, Nelson Lloyd, Faith Gardner,
Jason M. Jones, Eric Burke, Jim Davis, Karen Holman, Robert Aquinas McNally,
Mangesh Naik, Tara Nicole, Matt Ryan, Lauren Schmidt, Susie Swanton, J. A.
Tyler and Spencer Dew.
Blue Lake Review (April 2011)
http://bluelakereview.weebly.com/
Lexie Benedict, Jeanpaul Ferro, Phyllis Green, Benjamin Imamovic, Robert S.
King, Lyn Lifshin, Kelsey Ottman, Andrew F. Popper, Michelle Primeau, Cathy
Rosoff, Tom Sheehan, John Tustin
Negative Suck (April 2011)
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#
Featured Author Amanda Deo, Justin Hyde, Howie Good, A.J. Huffman, Eryk
Wenziak, James Valvis, Roberta Lawson, Mike Meraz, Zoe Alexandra, Nicole
Monaghan, Karen Eileen Sikola, Cameron Mount, Angela Lutz
Underground Voices (April 2011)
http://www.undergroundvoices.com/
Joy Baglio, Michael Brownstein, JJ Campbell, Steve Castro, Jenn Gutierrez,
Justin Hyde, Marian Kamensky, Alexey Kurbatov, Mitchell Lay, Cynthia Ruth
Lews, J.E. Reich, Steven Schutzman, J.D. Smith, Patrick Witherell
StepAway Magazine (Issue 1, Spring 2011)
http://stepawaymagazine.com/
StepAway Magazine is a quarterly collection of urban prose and poetry, with
an emphasis on the walking narrative. Our inaugural issue includes a short
story by the distinguished New York novelist, Sarah Schulman, flash fiction
by Gem Andrews, David Gaffney, Kyle Hemmings, and Tom Sheehan and poetry by
Jaydn DeWald, Matthew Hittinger, P.A. Levy, Joan McNerney and Changming
Yuan.
Hobo Camp Review (Issue 9)
http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com/
It's our two-year anniversary issue, and includes work by:
Alan Britt (our "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Award winner), Geordie de Boer,
Nicole Yarcuba, W.I. Stoneberger, Jim Davis, Isabel Kestner, Lark Beltran,
Dylan Mitchell, Dena Rash Guzman, Maureen Kingston, plus an interview with
Aleathia Drehmer and reviews of Kami's "Subterranean Redneck Blues" and
Jeffrey Alfier's "Before the Troubadour Exits."
The Comics Decoder (Issue 2, Spring 2011)
http://sites.google.com/site/nocturnalirispublicationssite/Home
The accent is heavy on literary matters this time, with Lorraine Schein's
thesis on 'Poetry & Comics', 4 poems based on comics subjects, and a chapter
from Watkins's nonlinear novel-in-progress, Continued After Next Page.
New Book!
The Other Side of Ourselves by Rob Taylor, Cormorant Books
http://www.cormorantbooks.com/titles/theothersideofourselves.shtml
The Other Side of Ourselves, Rob Taylor's award-winning debut collection
of poems, explores the real and imagined worlds of our everyday lives. These
poems are united in their consideration of what it means to be human, to
shape lives for ourselves and attempt to live them well. Taylor inhabits his
moment, brings it to life on the page with a remarkable economy of words,
and finds the enigma at its heart. Mysterious without denying clear images,
plain spoken without being plain, his poems promote a middle path where
complexity does not trump simple pleasure, and pleasure gives way willingly
to moments of reflection and insight.
New Book!
Everything Reminds Me of Me
by Howie Good
Desperanto
http://www.desperanto.com/everything.html
Everything Reminds Me of Me includes an eclectic mix of free verse and
prose poetry. Many of the poems were written during a particularly
difficult period in Good's life and bear witness to the hazards of human
relationships and the treachery of human consciousness. But while often
dealing with dark subjects, the poems aren't without exuberance or humor.
Good's poems shoot off images that surprise, provoke, and delight. In
Everything Reminds Me of Me, readers will find a poet whose flashing little
poems lure them into poignant contemplation of the beautiful and the damned.
Have News for the Newsletter?
new releases, books, events, calls for submission...
send info to admin@theliteraryunderground.org
Call for Submissions-
Fezmissions
Red Fez Publications seeks short fiction, poetry, audio, short videos,
illustrated fiction, photography and comics for Issue #34 to be published
online May 13, 2011.
Deadline is May 1.
http://redfez.net
Calls for Submission
WomenArts Quarterly Journal seeks essays and poetry for Summer 2011
issue. WAQ provides readers with contemporary examples of the work of women
creators and, therefore, seeks submissions by women only. Deadline: May 1,
2011
http://www.vivacepress.com/waq.html
Inertia Magazine online poetry, short fiction, critical prose, personal
essays, art, and music. June 30
http://www.inertiamagazine.com
Pear Noir! fiction, nonfiction, & poetry up to 5000 words. April 30
http://www.pearnoir.com/index.htm
The Pedestal guest editors Bruce Boston and Marge Simon for special
speculative poetry section April 28-June 14
http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com
Whistling Fire fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Guest Editor David Crawford.
Theme: Humor. Apr 23
http://whistlingfire.com
eChap!
Roman Meal
by J.D. Nelson
now available at
Ten Pages Press
http://tenpagespress.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/roman-meal-by-j-d-nelson
New Book!
Stranger Will
by Caleb J. Ross
Otherworld Publications
http://www.calebjross.com/works/booklength/strangerwill
In this novel of impending fatherhood, an idealistic teacher recruits a
pliant protege to join her group of Strangers - a devout collection of
kindred minds who have dedicated their lives to cultivating a unique idea of
perfection.
But joining is easier than leaving.
Mission
The Literary Underground's mission is to provide web space, information and
resources for authors, publishers and readers of underground literature.
Other New and Updated
Clutching At Straws
http://clutchingatstraws.wordpress.com/
Everyday Genius
http://www.everyday-genius.com/
Gloom Cupboard
http://gloomcupboard.com/
Calliope Nerve
http://calliopenerve.blogspot.com/
Rusty Truck
http://rustytruck.wordpress.com/
Horror, Sleaze, Trash
http://www.horrorsleazetrash.com/
The Literary Underground Wiki
The Literary Underground Wiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to
the underground press. It covers the history, production, distribution and
culture of the underground press.
http://theliteraryunderground.org/wiki
Like our Facebook page
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