Reminder: some wonderful writing coming tomorrow morning before the sun’s up. Not an official Halloween issue but contributing to the spirit, we believe.
Also Dec. 4 will be our last issue of the year before we hibernate for a bit.
We have a fun, slightly macabre, beautifully haunting issue coming Oct. 30 w/ new work from @adam_mcomber Zhu Xiao Di, Mar Prax, Elisabeth Speckman, @adam_findog Dale Bridges, Jenny M . Liu, Bailey Loveless, Elena Zhang, Brett Stuckel, @Foreverasheley & Bob Hicock 👀 Stay tuned!
Writer payments sent though Bob Hicok donated his to ONLY POEMS. Coming Oct. 30: nothingness/somethingness/anythingness; notes toward a Midwestern tarot; Valdez’s ghost glacier; steel sheep; the power of smell; three unicorn sightings; the devil’s lantern and more 🎃
We have a fun, slightly macabre, beautifully haunting issue coming Oct. 30 w/ new work from @adam_mcomber Zhu Xiao Di, Mar Prax, Elisabeth Speckman, @adam_findog Dale Bridges, Jenny M . Liu, Bailey Loveless, Elena Zhang, Brett Stuckel, @Foreverasheley & Bob Hicock 👀 Stay tuned!
“It is fine to take breaks, even long ones. You have to fill your cup.”
A wonderful interview with @Koss51209969 in @trampset! Check it out, writing friends.❤️
Poetry proves again and again that any single overall theory of anything doesn't work. Poetry is always the cat concert under the window of the room in which the official version of reality is being written.
-- Charles Simic
“What is coming, every trauma, every joy, every sorrow, every mundane event, is continually slipping away into its goneness. And in the goneness lies a residual grief.”
@MandiraPattnaik interviews writer/artist Koss for a wide-ranging conversation
trampset.org/post/macro-mind…
“It would have been a trite tract of emotional ragebait steering affected readers on the path of anger, without care for creativity. With the language, Rushdie came to show his mastery of literary devices”
@cornrowchuks on Satantic Verses in his latest
trampset.org/post/the-non-wa…
"Literature has been touted as many things, entertainment, escape route, educator, empathy breeder, bridge burner, name it. And many of these things it is. But its value is not contingent on the dichotomy of these features."
Kindly read & engage. Thanks.
trampset.org/post/the-non-wa…
“It would have been a trite tract of emotional ragebait steering affected readers on the path of anger, without care for creativity. With the language, Rushdie came to show his mastery of literary devices”
@cornrowchuks on Satantic Verses in his latest
trampset.org/post/the-non-wa…
“What is coming, every trauma, every joy, every sorrow, every mundane event, is continually slipping away into its goneness. And in the goneness lies a residual grief.”
@MandiraPattnaik interviews writer/artist Koss for a wide-ranging conversation
trampset.org/post/macro-mind…
We've launched a crowdfunder to help us publish next year's books, and we'd love your support.
There's a reward at every level, from backlist lucky dips and slightly battered misprints to new books, a whole year of books, and feedback on your poems
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-bro…
“Come then. Leave your war awhile, paper or iron war, petrol or flesh, come in with your love, your fear of losing, your exhaustion with it. All day it’s been at you, coercing, jiving, claiming your belief in so much that isn’t true.”
Thomas Pynchon hitting hard on a Friday
“I wouldn't let the others know about this, but I would be everywhere, as I am right now, a thin tone like the wind, a sip of blue light”
Beautiful poem here
"Writing this book was like playing dolls as a kid."
We love to see it: contributor Claudia Monpere was interviewed by fellow contributor Michelle Ross about her book THE PERIODIC FAMILY for 100 Word Story! 🤩 buff.ly/SHAbVgP
ALT The Periodic Family, stories by Claudia Monpere.