I know the stain of his voice. What he needs to close his mouth completely. There was a time when I was able to call him a name and there was a time when I was able to curdle a voice. I felt the haunch and rigor of his throat. I felt the importance of him having to lie down. I knew that somewhere there was a forest and waiting.
-Prathna Lor
Before we get into why you should be celebrating let’s talk about how you can celebrate:
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Why are we celebrating?
Len Kuntz, inspired by an article about a woman who hasn’t left her home in eight years, wrote a poem titled Recluse that was recent published by The Fat City Review. Check it out!
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Robert Vaughan, in honor of World AIDS Day on December 1, 2012, added his poem, What Some Boys Do to the Fictionaut site: Check it out!
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Kyle Hemmings not only had four flash fiction pieces published by Connotation Press, he also was interviewed by the amazing Meg Tuite! Check it all out at Connotation Press!
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Speaking of the amazing Meg Tuite, she just had her piece, titled Drive In, published by A Thousand Shades of Gray. Click it! Read it! Do it! Now!
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Norman Lock is the man C.L. Bledsoe believes is the best kept secret in indie-lit! Read his review of Norman Lock’s Grim Tales at Ampersand Review.
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Dance like a unicorn into Friday and throughout the weekend!
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What are we celebrating?
Bending Light into Verse has released IN THOSE DAYS WE.
AND! You can now get the print version from Amazon
You can also check it out for $FREE at ISSUU
IN THOSE DAYS WE is an attempt to look backward into our collective past, and to make flesh of the ghosts lost within the borders of old photographs. Featuring written works by: Len Kuntz, Robert Kloss, Norman Lock, Molly Gaudry, J. A. Tyler, Kathryn Rantala, Ben Tanzer, Ryan W. Bradley, Andrew Borgstrom, Meg Tuite, Kyle Hemmings, Parker Tettleton, Marcus Speh, Chad Redden, Robert Vaughan, J. Bradley, and David Tomaloff.
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Marcus Speh has this to say about IN THOSE DAYS WE:
“This is a beautiful book full of pictures and stories assembled by Jennifer Tomaloff. The pictures are mysterious because we don’t know the stories behind them. They’re strangely familiar to those of us with families. Many of them unmistakably come from a time long lost to America and thereby to the world. The stories that fill the book were written with the pictures as prompts and they’re powerful. I’m delighted to be part of this Tomaloff project—once again a peculiar “bending of light into verse” form. It’s a violation of the laws of physics: light particles that are everywhere at once because they’re part of a fictional universe of infinite meaning and size. But you don’t need a PhD to appreciate the mixture: a pair of eyes connected to a blood-filled heart will do fine.”
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Mud Luscious Press has released Robert Kloss’s Alligators of Abraham! Have you seen the cover design and interior illustrations? Brilliant work by Matt Kish! I just received my copy today and can’t wait to dig in. You can pick up your copy through Small Press Distribution, Amazon, or directly from Mud Luscious.
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HOUSEFIRE BOOKS has released J. Bradley’s Bodies Made of Smoke. Ben Tanzer has this to say about it: “In the multi-splendored alt lit universe known Bradley-land, compulsion rules, pop culture is currency, and the act of writing is akin to performance art.” Buy it here and buy it now! Amazon.
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Ben Tazer, Writer in Residence November 2012 at Necessary Fiction, shared some excellent pieces by writers such as:
David Tomaloff
Robert Vaughan
J. Bradley
Ryan Bradley
BL Pawelek
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Dance like a unicorn into Friday and throughout your weekend!
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IN THOSE DAYS WE is now available as an ebook at Issuu.
IN THOSE DAYS WE is an attempt to look backward into our collective past, and to make flesh of the ghosts lost within the borders of old photographs.
Featuring written works by: Len Kuntz, Robert Kloss, Norman Lock, Molly Gaudry, J. A. Tyler, Kathryn Rantala, Ben Tanzer, Ryan W. Bradley, Andrew Borgstrom, Meg Tuite, Kyle Hemmings, Parker Tettleton, Marcus Speh, Chad Redden, Robert Vaughan, J. Bradley, and David Tomaloff.
The print version of the book will be available in the next few weeks.
If you are interested in pre-ordering the print version, please email jentomaloff@gmail.com for information.
“Photographed. As if we had ever really been here or part of anything, anywhere. Or able to choose. Begin it or end. Or aim. As if we’d been given names.” – Kathryn Rantala, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
The first installment in ADP’s new Twin Antlers imprint, You Are Jaguar features collaborative poetry by Ryan W. Bradley and David Tomaloff. Poems in prayer to the Jaguar Sun, and the Saw Blade Moon.
ALL PRE-ORDERS OF YOU ARE JAGUAR WILL COME WITH AN ADP SCOUT BOOK!
The book is due to be released on June 26th, you have two days to pre-order and get an ADP scout book!!!
DO IT! DO IT NOW!
exit ramp
a) scientific data. tension between sleeping.
b) obsession described evokes division.
c) outside: a shed once facing right.
d) my mother was interviewed while in Paris.
e) engraved on a bronze plaque: Information is Public.
f) suddenly discovering Sylvia Plath’s drawings
1. they forage
2. (like gulls)
3. for a question
a) inside a statue dressed in blue.
-Eryk Wenziak
Read the whole book here: Bending Light Into Verse III
Eryk Wenziak is a drummer, photographer, visual artist, and teaches management at the graduate level. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in: elimae; Short, Fast, and Deadly; Thunderclap Press; Used Furniture Review; Otoliths; Negative Suck; Psychic Meatloaf; Dark Chaos; Guerilla Pamphlets; Deadlier Than Thou (anthology); Phantom Kangaroo; Pipe Dream; 52|250; Long River Run. Most recently, his cover art was chosen for a chapbook of poems honoring Donald Hall titled, Olives, Now and Then, which he personally presented to Mr. Hall at the poet’s 83rd birthday celebration.
Data file recovery complete: telephone cables arranged in cedilla, icicles accent aigu. A light meter teeter-totters—overcast, the selenium shot—like a spirit level bubble, wavering. Shannon, Reykjavik, Santa Maria, on HF radio, U- or V-: “the night ark / adrift, / & water- / divided, the / stars.”
-Andrew Zawacki
originally published in Conjunctions 56: Terra Incognita: The Voyage Issue (2011).
Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His latest volume, Videotape, is forthcoming from Counterpath. Coeditor of Verse, The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse), and Gustaf Sobin’s Collected Poems (Talisman), he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine). He also edited and co-translated Aleš Debeljak’s Without Anesthesia: New and Selected Poems (Persea). Zawacki teaches at the University of Georgia, where he directs the doctoral Creative Writing Program.
Read the whole book here: Bending Light Into Verse III
somewhere a childhood that was not mine
i remember as my own its sudden burst of trees,
its carefully planted stars just outside the frame,
its chaff swirling back into uncut wheat,
back into seed, back into your hands
that once dug up six inches of hard earth
and believed that enough to reach China.
safe in the unpredictability of a tire swinging,
i as your bare feet when they struck sky
and toed the old gods, before they were known
as lightning and climate variations,
back when you asked them for nothing more
than another series of childhoods,
i before gravity returned your feet to the world.
may I use your empty field again to call back the stars,
and in my being the sky you once cherished,
the trees you once climbed, fell from, and climbed again,
let me stand straight as golden autumn grass
before the winds and their irreversible bending.
-John Sibley Williams
John Sibley Williams is the author of six chapbooks, winner of the HEART Poetry Award, and finalist for the Pushcart, Rumi, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. He has served as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press and Publicist for various presses, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Book Publishing. Some of his over 200 previous or upcoming publications include: Bryant Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal, The Evansville Review, RHINO, Rosebud, Ellipsis, Flint Hills Review, and Poetry Quarterly.
Read the whole book here: Bending Light Into Verse III
Spread the word! Bending Light into Verse III is officially released.
Softcover print version available for preview & purchase at Blurb:
Bending Light Into Verse III
Online viewing or PDF download – available $free at Issuu
Bending Light Into Verse III
J.D. Nelson has two excellent poems in Guerilla Pamphlets Vol. 18!
“Word to Your Moms” and “Dennis Grasshopper”
Read them here: J.D. Nelson in Guerilla Pamphlets Vol. 18.
Be sure to check out the other fabulous writers in this issue of Guerilla Pamphlets.
*J.D. Nelson appeared in Bending Light into Verse II and will be returning in Volume III
A fantastic piece by Marcus Speh titled, Lefthand View has been published by TrainWrite. Take a moment to check it out:
*Marcus Speh is a contributor to IN THOSE DAYS WE.
Stop what you are doing and head over to Thrush Poetry Journal to check out Joseph A.W. Quintela‘s Departure Ghazal. While you are there, check out the other fine poetry published in this issue of Thrush Poetry Journal.
Thrush Poetry Journal: Departure Ghazal by Joseph A.W. Quintela
*Joseph A.W. Quintela is a contributor to Bending Light into Verse III.
You do not want to miss this interview. Appropriately titled, “These Things Don’t Happen by Themselves: A Conversation with Molly Gaudry.” Molly Gaudry explains how she actively took part in her success.
Read it and be inspired to do more!
Interview: Used Furniture Review
IN THOSE DAYS WE contributor Len Kuntz has a piece up at HOUSEFIRE.
Read it here: HOUSEFIRE: The Loss of All Things Tame
IN THOSE DAYS WE contributor J.A. Tyler has a piece up at Everyday Genius.
Read it here: Everyday Genius: Noah Remembering the Things He Doesn’t
Bending Light into Verse is ecstatic to announce the exceptional contributors to Volume III. Follow Bending Light into Verse on Facebook or Twitter for updates.
Contributors include:
Andrew Zawacki
BL Pawelek
Claudia Lamar
Ed Makowski
Eryk Wenziak
Felino Soriano
Helen Vitoria
Howie Good
J.D. Nelson
John Sibley Williams
Joseph Quintela
Keith Higginbotham
Kristina Marie Darling
Mark Lamoureux
Matina Stamatakis
Nate Pritts
Paul Scot August
Prathna Lor
Rob McLennan
Bending Light into Verse is excited to announce the special volume, IN THOSE DAYS WE. The project is an attempt to look backward into our collective past, and to make flesh of the ghosts lost within the borders of old photographs. For this reason, IN THOSE DAYS WE will concern itself primarily with fiction (though we’ll use that word loosely). What makes this project even more exciting is the fantastic group of writers who have agreed to participate. Thank you all, sincerely.
Contributors include:
Norman Lock
Molly Gaudry
J.A. Tyler
Ryan W. Bradley
Ben Tanzer
Barry Graham
Robert Vaughan
Meg Tuite
J. Bradley
Len Kuntz
Kyle Hemmings
Parker Tettleton
David Tomaloff
Marcus Speh
Chad Redden
Andrew Borgstrom
Joe’s Smoke & News is the title of Doug Draime‘s latest ebook.
The description on Smashwords reads:
“A subtle, nostalgic, and haunting vision of loyalty, lust, and loneliness in 1950s Indiana–written by small press legend Doug Draime, and presented by mendicant bookworks”.
Available here: Joe’s Smoke & News
Bending Light into Verse V2 contributor Helen Vitoria has recently announced Thrush Poetry Journal.
Why the name THRUSH? According to their site: “Thrushes are a species of bird, the songs of some are considered to be among the most beautiful in the world. We love that and that is how we feel about poetry.”
Congratulations, Helen! Looking forward to the first issue.
You can find more information about Thrush Poetry Journal at their website: thrushpoetryjournal.com
Also, check them out on Facebook: facebook.com/thrushpoetryjournal
