Wednesday Night Service: Born Bad. October 24, 2012

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Your Mother's Medicine Cabinet Radio Series: RD Armstrong. October 22, 2012

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Book Release: The Daughters of Bastards by Iris Berry

https://www.createspace.com/3884122

The Daughters of Bastards by Iris Berry
Published by Punk Hostage Press
Afterword by Dimitri Monroe, Introduction by Pleasant Gehman, Cover design or artwork by Geoff Melville, Edited by A. Razor, Associate editor Michele McDannold
124 pages, 6" x 9"
$15.95
Purchase here

The long awaited book from Punk Hostage Press founding editor Iris Berry, entitled The Daughters Of Bastards, is a ride through the dirty streets of 1980s Hollywood that never stops delivering the real taste of a womanhood claiming a place for itself surrounded by the perverseness of a crumbling mystique that was once a golden tinseled dreamland.

About the author:
Iris Berry is one of the founding creative minds behind Punk Hostage Press. She is a native Angeleno who writes about her personal experiences from the sun baked asphalt violent streets of Pacoima, running away to the allure of late 70's Hollywood, at the age of 15, looking for a better life against the historical backdrop of the Los Angeles skyline.

Her poetry and prose, as well as her performances in such memorable groups as the Lame Flames and the Ringling Sisters, are an integral part of L.A.'s contemporary literary movement. She has recently featured articles and interviews in Slake, her most recent being an in depth interview with Art Kunkin, the founder of the Los Angeles Free Press back in the early 60s.

Her latest book, The Daughters of Bastards, features some of her most intimate work she has shared with the public to date. A working title that she has compiled these personalized stories under for the last 10 years, these poems and stories represent a grappling with the idea of origin and the drift that occurs when the umbilical has been cut and the search begins for what might have been lost at the beginning.

It reflects her experiences and gives insight to some of her adventurous times growing up on the streets of Hollywood in the golden era of the LA punk rock scene.

The Micro Award is open for submissions

http://www.microaward.org/home

The Micro Award is a literary prize presented annually for fiction not exceeding 1000 words. The 6th Annual Micro Award is officially open for submissions until December 31st. Check out the official rules and submit your story today.

Not only are we looking for great stories, but we're also looking for a talented graphic designer to help spruce up our website. Prior experience creating online images is required. Interested candidates should email their resume to admin@microaward.org.

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Wednesday Night Service: How Many Dicks Is That?

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New Show on the Project U Radio Network - Wednesday Night Service

Wednesday Night Service is a new show on the Project U Radio Network. (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground)
mishmash. a collection of audio bits. you send, we serve. mishmash@theliteraryunderground.org

sound effects, clips, tv or movie audio, songs, news announcements, poetry and short story readings, recordings, commercials, comedians, even those damn politicians. mp3 preferred but will take wav or wma.

*Most* Wednesday nights, 8pm Pacific/9pm Mountain/10pm Central/11pm Eastern.

Episode 1. Wednesday Night Service: The Red Pill
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Episode 2. Wednesday Night Service: How Many Dicks Is That?
airs 10/17/12 9pm Mountain

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New Issue at Citizens For Decent Literature

the third online issue of CFDL is now live.
Issue #3 - Indulge

http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/

James Babbs, Brenton Booth, Mike Boyle, Wanda Morrow Clevenger, Carl Miller Daniels, Brian Fugett, Nick Gerrard, John Grey, John Grochalski, Teri Louise Kelly, George Korolog, Keith Landrum, Catfish McDaris, Tim Murray, Josh Olsen, Rob Pierce, Kevin Ridgeway, Jason Ryberg, Amy Sasser, Quasimofo Snyder, Philip Vermaas, Patrick Vincent Welsh.

copies of Citizens For Decent Literature Print Zine #4 are still available AND FREE. message your snail mail to admin(at)theliteraryunderground[dot]org if you would like a copy.

New Book by April Michelle Bratten

It Broke Anyway
by April Michelle Bratten

NeoPoiesis Press
ISBN 978-0-9855577-6-8
182 pages
$16.95
5.5”x8.5” perfect bound, paper

order online at NeoPoiesis Press (http://www.neopoiesispress.com/) or amazon.com

April Michelle Bratten blasts in with her potent, no-holds barred tongue and obliterates the marrow of the insulated inertia, uncorks the rabid subterfuge of day-to-day existence and lures us like a river into deep rapids. Bratten’s collection is fearless, captivating, drops us down into those parts of ourselves we are terrified and yet excited to penetrate.

--Meg Tuite, author of Domestic Apparition and Disparate Pathos

(excerpt)

She Moves As I Move

When I saw her hair move,
I was reminded of how I can move,
we can move,
because she does move like
brown pumping splitting heart.

There is a walking bridge.
I have seen it move over the city.
We were there together once.
I saw her on it,
moving inside that great cage.
She moved her head,
she moved her mouth, she moved.

She asked if the walls were built,
if that cage was built,
to prevent the movements,
to stop the movers from moving,
jumping, steaming, toppling off the bridge.

I said, I guess so, then I just
watched her move, felt my own move,
then felt sad
that all of our movements are only temporary,
that we must one day stop moving.

Then we moved away, we moved away.
I saw her moving as she left,
a walking, moving, brown,
carousing, galloping, steering heart
that just moved as I was moving
and left anyway.

April Michelle Bratten writes out demarcations and maps of inner journeys turned outward with a velocity of truth that sears the reader with a flame of love at the center of it all. It is an eternal fire that will free the spirit from any wreckage encountered along the route that her words will guide you on from beginning to end.

--A. Razor, editor/publisher, Punk Hostage Press

April Michelle Bratten’s poetry explores, with a ferocious skill and immediacy, just about every layer of human experiences of our time. She internalizes the places she visits, physical or mental, transforming herself to enable a deeper empathetic connection with that place. She is thus, not a passive observer but moves beyond the state of being a witness to becoming a participant, engaging her readers too to share and partake in the same. Her work is addictive, insightful, exotically crafted, often with vignettes of humor and most of all, positively sensual.

--June Nandy, author of The lines must die

It Broke Anyway, which pays homage to the trials and tribulations of women, reminds me of the Bob Dylan Song, “Just Like a Woman,” except that Bratten's characters never break just like little girls. Instead she creates multidimensional characters who will remind you of your sister, mother, grandmothers, aunts, girl friends and most notably yourself. Bratten's cunning parallels, chilling narratives, and haunting endings remind us what breaks is often more epochal than what remains intact.

--Rebecca Schumejda, author of Cadillac Men (New York Quarterly Books)

From the wells of narrative emotion comes a different April Michelle Bratten from the one I was first introduced to years ago. This April has decided to dive into the dark places we go when we need to see how far material light reaches. This is a compilation of raw emotion wrapped around form, like a collection of her memories, but those of others too.

She talks to us and herself all at once in a primal way only decoded through the simple act of reading the pieces. A sexual anxiety turns the screws on each poem like rivets being stripped, the details the closest we get to clothing, but in the end, we enjoy the naked trip.

--Jason Neese, screenwriter, author, and co-editor of Kill Poet

April Michelle Bratten's poetry does not pretend. It does not put on airs; it is exquisite. Her relationship to the word is careful and creative but she leaves room for the reader to interpret, to draw their own conclusions, to have a moment to themselves inside the thoughts of another. It is so rare to find this in a poet---willing to stand aside from any platform and simply bear witness.

--Michele McDannold, founding editor and publisher at Citizens for Decent Literature

With this book, April Michelle Bratten has let her truest colors burn bright, both a vulnerable glimpse into her day to day emotional grind and a sensual coming of age, her poems take no prisoners and offer no apologies for the beautiful awkward moments that make us who we are.

--John Dorsey, author of White Girl Problems: Poems & Stories

“NAKED” BOOK TO BENEFIT PERSECUTED WRITERS

Uno Kudo, a collective of artists and writers from across the globe, is proud to announce the release of Volume 2: Naked, on November 20 2012.

The book will explore the theme of “being naked” through a unique blend of short stories, poems and artwork that reflect highly talented artists’ interpretations of the word.

Following the successful Uno Kudo Volume 1: Ripped (a best-seller on Amazon’s anthology chart), Volume 2: Naked features submissions from both award-winning and fresh new writers and artists from all over the world. Editor in Chief Aaron Dietz (author of Super and Reserved for Emperors) led a panel of judges that chose from hundreds of entertaining, heartwarming, dramatic and funny entries to bring you the very best.

With an extremely wide range of subject material, award-winning designer Erin McParland once again pairs each story and poem with amazing and unique artwork. The result is sometimes haunting, sometimes gritty, and sometimes risque but always beautiful.

Hitting every emotion, Uno Kudo Volume 2: Naked is a book that will create a buzz on any coffee table. Featuring stories by Chuck Howe, Bud Smith (author of Or Something Like That) and more; poems by Raven Kane, Heather Dorn and more; and art by Kent Williams, Glenn Arthur, Leland Bobbe, and more; Uno Kudo is a must have look into the future of art and literature.

The writers and artists of Uno Kudo are passionate about supporting their fellow artists from around the world. They are pleased to announce that all profits from Volume 2: Naked will be donated to the PEN Action Center, a non-profit organization with 144 chapters in 101 countries. PEN’s Freedom to Write program defends the rights of writers, bloggers and artists who face persecution, violence and even arrest for expressing their ideas.

Uno Kudo Volume 2: Naked
short stories, poetry, art
ISBN-13: 978-1478115434 
unokudo.blogspot.com

Your Mother's Medicine Cabinet Radio Series: Neil McCrea. October 15, 2012

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Wednesday Night Service: The Red Pill. October 10, 2012

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The Meth Lab Radio: Open Mic Gremlins. October 9, 2012

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Your Mother's Medicine Cabinet Poetry Series: Maria Gornell. October 8, 2012

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DVTCRFM: gnargnar. October 2, 2012

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Your Mother's Medicine Cabinet: Rob Plath. October 1, 2012

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