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Excerpt From Upcoming Dave Housley Novel Hits The Rumpus "It just all feels impossible. Pappas, who steals tape from the supply room, entire rolls of toilet paper from the bathroom closet, pens and microwave popcorn and Microsoft Word, standing here in his Dockers and Gap sweater, a millionaire? Cowens, who Robertson had to personally tell to stop saving porn to their cloud-based file storage? Mowery, with his weird Central Pennsylvania accent and his eBay store where he sells the motherboards they are supposed to be recycling, is worth eight point eight million dollars?" Order The … [Read more...]

Katherine E. Young Reviews Merwin's THE VIXEN for 25 Year Anniversary 25 years after it was originally published, Katherine E. Young looks back on one of Merwin's most underappreciated masterworks Visual by Adroit Journal Katherine E. Young's retrospective on W.S. Merwin's The Vixen appears in The Adroit Journal. Her newest collection of poetry is Woman Drinking Absinthe available from Alan Squire Publishing. An excerpt from her essay follows. Read the full review HERE. Is there such a thing as too much good poetry? My uncle, who made a lifelong habit of sending … [Read more...]

WOMAN DRINKING ABSINTHE Analyzed by Billy Mills Former Guardian Literary Journalist, Billy Mills, analyzes the conception of love in Katherine E. Young's new collection. "Young's core subject is love, but there's nothing redemptive or particularly healing about its manifestations," writes Billy Mills in his analysis of Young's Woman Drinking Absinthe. Elsewhere he compares the different manifestations of this theme to coeval poets Christopher Jane Corkery and James Roome. Mills analysis is fitting for Young's work which comes from a deeply literary place and is steeped in … [Read more...]

Rose Solari to Debut New Poetry at LitBalm Reading At September 4th's LitBalm reading series, Rose Solari will debut new poetry. She is joined by Linda Pastan and Jean Nordhaus. Solari is no stranger to writing poetry about music. Her most recent full-length collection, The Last Girl, includes a poem after Charles Mingus, "Myself when I was There." You can read this poem at the Redux Lit Journal HERE. Lit Balm is a biweekly interactive livestream reading series which includes readings, Q&As, open mics, and more. For this reading, Solari will be joined by poetry heavyweights … [Read more...]

GARGOYLE and beyond, GAS interviews Richard Peabody Richard Peabody with poet, Rita Dove GAS: Poetry, Arts, and Music interviews DC legend, Richard Peabody about his long-running underground literary magazine, Gargoyle. Read the full interview HERE. You can find more from Richard Peabody in Alan Squire Publishing's first book in its legacy Series, The Richard Peabody Reader. The Richard Peabody Reader is a wide-ranging selection of this great writer's poetry and prose, filling an important gap in the literary world. As a publisher, Peabody's steadfast dedication to … [Read more...]