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From Megan Minutillo Weiner's chapbook, The Poetry of Things, available from Bottlecap Press!
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Lest we be accused of losing our focus on research by posting photos of (adorable!) cats, here is Dunigan's tortoise-shell cat, or, The life of Queen Tab and her kitten, a fully illustrated 8-page chapbook from McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection on JSTOR, which features nearly 1,000 chapbooks published in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the US in the 18th and 19th centuries. And yes, they're all free to read and download!
#research#chapbooks#books#free books#jstor#special collections#children's books#children's literature#vintage illustration#poetry#cats
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Wow--it's been two years since I started writing these quarterly chapbooks! I'm working on #9 as we speak, ready for release next month. It's been a fun project so far, a chance for me to deep-dive into some topics in a format longer than a blog post.
If you want to get the next one free in your inbox as an ebook (and the latest one on foraging safety as well), you can join my monthly email newsletter at https://rebeccalexa.com/news-updates/ - stick around, and you'll get a new ebook every three months. Or you can purchase paperbacks and ebooks of any of the chapbooks at https://rebeccalexa.com/chapbooks/ - thank you :)
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Halberd Books vol. 1 by David M. Briggs
collecting 69 poems from 6 chapbooks:
• A Few Too Many Words About Me and You (Winter 2018)
• Speak Easier (Spring 2018)
• Chain Reactions (Summer 2021)
• Searching for the Words (Summer 2022)
• Songs of Captivity and Songs of Escape (Fall 2022)
• New and Selected Poems (Summer 2023)
Hardcover collection or individual paperback chapbooks available now at bit.ly/briggsbooks
#books#book#poetry#poetry book#hardcover books#chapbook#chapbooks#chapbook collection#new and selected poems#halberd books vol. 1
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A snippet from the poem "An Obsession" from my #sapphic poetry book, Only You on Amazon💜
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert
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please thank you but why is a collection of #poems about how we navigate sacred spaces, how we discover what’s true, and how the gods might answer our prayers, even as they whisper their own.
Lysbeth Em Benkert‘s poetry can be found in The Briar Cliff Review, Rogue Agent, Pasque Petals, and One-Sentence Poems, among other places. Her first chapbook, #girl stuff, is available from Dancing Girl Press.
PRAISE FOR please thank you but why by Lysbeth Em Benkert
Lysbeth Benkert’s Please thank you but why sings of and from the liminal spaces of the in between. Traversing a circular gyre between mythology and reality, history and the present, archetype and individual subject, absence and fullness, silence, and song, these linguistically crisp poems call and echo between plea, gratitude, and questioning with heartbreak, wit, and panache. Maybe the stasis of limbo can be recast as the fluidity of the liminal, these poems suggest. Maybe the dystopian banalities of the present tense are always/already timeless.
–Lee Ann Roripaugh, Author of Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50
Cerebral, sharp, and surprising, Lysbeth Em Benkert’s Please thank you but why traces a mind’s equilibrium as it confronts change. With spare syntax and pared-back lines, the poet needles wisdom into her work. Benkert’s is a democratic intelligence. She hails a Sumerian goddess, the Greek pantheon, a Roman poet, The Bard, the Virgin Mary, physics, and The Wizard of Oz, and yet these poems are smart without making a reader feel stupid. At once, Benkert suggests her concerns are timeless and offers us a modern take: “like you have to be…. / fucked up in order to get your second chance because repenting after sliding / through on gray mediocrity isn’t enough for redemption.” With its remixes in form deepening insight at every level, Please thank you but why will compel a pondering pleasure.
–Christine Stewart-Nuñez, South Dakota Poet Laureate 2019-2021
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YOOOOO I wrote a lil chapbook zine dealio
if you're interested it's available for pre-order RIGHT NOW
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I wrote a chapbook and it got published!! I kept this on the down low for a while as final details were sorted out but it’s available today 🥳 Take a peek at the cover art and one of the poems included below!
I’ve been writing for years now (If you didn’t know, now you know) and to finally have an actual collection put together and published has been a dream of mine forever. Working with @bottlecap-press has been a super smooth process and I’m so excited to have contributed to this indie press.
I hope when I say this it is true, but "On the Diagonal" is only my humble beginning. It would be extremely supportive of you, whoever is reading this, to pick up a copy of my first solo published work. It would truly mean a lot to me. The link to purchase is here: https://bottlecap.press/products/diagonal
Most of the poems in this collection were written in 2020, a few even earlier than that and a few from this year. I think the different time periods demonstrate a deeper level to the growth I’ve gone through as a writer, as my voice and poetic style has changed quite a lot over the course of my life.
A chapbook is a micro collection of poetry, and I used that format to take a focused look at a period of my past. I think we all experience a heartbreak that changes us forever. "On the Diagonal" aims to put that metamorphosis into words that add another layer of beauty to the transformations we all go through.
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Archibald Park. Park's Tom Thumb (1836)
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7 BOOKLETS FOR $50
Translations of Basho, Buson, Issa, Santoka, Shiki, and Soha, accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration (romaji).
*Read Anthony Madrid’s review in Fence Digital
#poetry#poems and poetry#haiku#translation#anthony opal#english#japanese#books#chapbooks#sale#small press#chicago#the economy press
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Excited to announce that I was so taken with the poems I wrote for National Poetry Writing Month this April, that I decided to turn them into a chapbook! Despite having written poems since the age of 9, this is the FIRST chapbook I have ever released.
This limited run of physical copies will include only 50 chapbooks, each one printed and folded with love by me, and each chapbook is numbered and signed.
www.awylde.com/store to purchase
www.awylde.com/free-downloads to download & print free
Cover art by the incomparable Ashe Walker <3
#home & other poems#poem#poems#poetry#writing#national poetry writing month#napowrimo#napowrimo23#new shit#chapbooks#announcement#a. wylde#awyldepoetry
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From andres tello's chapbook, and whatnot, available from Bottlecap Press!
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After yesterday's post, we fell into a chapbook rabbit hole! Here's one of the gems we uncovered (and yes, we realize we're mixing metaphors).
This dream book from 1859 includes interpretations such as, "To dream you see a ghost, is very unfortunate: if it is of a comely aspect, and dressed in white, it shews deceit and temptation to sin; if you are in love, it is a sign of your not being beloved in turn, and that you are in the habits of friendship with one who is your most inveterate enemy."
Needless to say this isn't one of JSTOR's peer-reviewed publications. It comes from McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection on JSTOR, which features nearly 1,000 chapbooks published in England, Scotland, Ireland, and the US in the 18th and 19th centuries. And yes, they're all free to read and download!
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I made it to the post office to pick up my packages, and look what arrived! The first batch of paperbacks of Butterflies, Bees, Birds, and Bats: A Quick Introduction to Pollinators! You can pick up a paperback for $6 plus shipping at https://rebeccalexa.com/pollinators/, and if you want the ebook for free, join my monthly email newsletter at https://rebeccalexa.com/news-updates/
(Reblogs okay and encouraged - thank you! Also thank you for the reminder about the image ID. I'm pretty good at remembering it in my longer posts, but I sometime forget for these little one-offs.)
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: This body was never made by Tara Propper
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This body was never made is a meditation on #grief and its attendant fears surrounding the #body – the body’s frailty, lineage, and legacy. Its #poems paint portraits of #maternal #loss, of a fractured #family, of nature’s eloquence, and of transcendental beauty. While This body was never made does not solve the problem of death, it embraces the “night sounds” that accompany an awareness of the body’s temporality, resolving in the chapbook’s final lines, “There is nothing in this room but shapes of us—amorphous/organs ascending and descending underneath the bed sheets.” In this collection, still-life speaks, seascapes listen, and math provides counsel, reminding us that #life exists before and beyond the body.
Tara Propper has earned her MFA in poetry and PhD in English. Her poetry has appeared in the Southampton Review, Janus Unbound, Literature Today, Ekstasis Magazine, Shuili Magazine, Taj Mahal International Literary Journal, Moveable Type, Vagabond City Press, and P – Queue. Her scholarly work has been published in Composition Forum, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, and Resources for American Literary Study. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas at Tyler.
PRAISE FOR This body was never made by Tara Propper
Cerebral, lyrical, witty, loving and grief-worn, Tara Propper’s life-infusing poems in the collection, This body was never made, reveal an immense talent, a rare gift to the world of poetry. In a sky of many, Propper is singular. The poem “Seascape at 4:42 PM” concludes: “One chiseled cloud makes a metonymy/ of itself. Cotton mammals lurk above/ both pure and untrue. /4:43 PM drops/its un-blessings. It’s the ugliest of day–/and most aware.” Propper’s poems are sinuous tracings that unnerve the tick of the clock; a lot happens between 4:42 PM and 4:43 PM, a lot that is “most aware.”
–Star Black, author of three books of sonnets: Waterworn, Balefire, and Ghostwood; a collection of double-sestinas, Double Time; and a book of collaged free verse, October for Idas
Tara Propper’s This body was never made tests the precision and range of mathematical concepts in particular and, more broadly, any intellectual construct we use to understand the stunning input of our senses. Can a fractal describe a pregnant female body? A miscarriage? Rage? Death? This body was never made also tests the language with which we express these concepts, using rhymes, chimes, puns and syntactical play to push words to their limits: “Outnumbered, she let the numb root.” The raw power of these poems comes from the pressure they are under to bridge the rational and the anything but.
–Julie Sheehan, author of Orient Point and Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise and Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University, NY
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new @wrongpublishing chapbook is so good<33 a couple beautiful lyric essays abt filipino/marginalised queerness and gender; about self-exile/quarantine/isolation; about porn addiction. everything read like a poem-essay-literature review. i liked it! the specificity worked with me—i felt drawn in, saw and was seen. definite rec.
only available in print rn from what ive seen; CA$17 years with discounts available. discounted chapbook collection (5 books, CA$67) also available💜💜
#dont usually review books but i did rlly like this one and wrong publishing has been good to work with in my experience ! 💜💜💜#filipino literature#filipino art#chapbooks#queer chapbooks
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