Like Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Allen Ginsberg before her, Benka expresses a profound regard for the possibility of America, while delineating the many ways in which America fails to deliver on its promise.

Now available in a new edition from Bloof Books http://www.bloofbooks.com

Part psychedelic road-trip travelogue, part “Overheard-in-Graceland,” part mystic-religious devotional, Conrad’s prose-poetic novel puts a compound prism to the Elvis mystique to form a vibrant and fractured portrait of fandom, one adoring fanatic at a time.

Simultaneously a remarkable debut by poet and playwright Jillian Weise, and an object lesson in the betrayal of the body through desire and disease.

Infused with the same energetic wordplay, humor, and tenderness as the best of Koch's poems, and illustrated and lettered in his own hand, studded with visual puns and jokes, peopled with recognizable characters from the worlds of arts and letters, The Art of the Possible is now for pre-order on Amazon!

An intergenerational, multi-racial anthology edited by two gang members turned cultural workers, The Bandana Republic seeks to showcase the creative impulse that, along with violence, has always been a part of membership in urban gangs.

“These poems map the tangled terrain . . . of the American family—its complex relationships, its twisted fears, its desperate dreams. They’re short and concise, but they can be sad, disturbing, and funny all at once: the emotional debris of an entire dysfunctional life packed into each one.”

Out of the silences of childhood comes a collection of startling, beautiful portraits of queer adolescents, as they stagger across a landscape of violent first desire (so many crushes), covert glimpses, and tentative transformation into something new, something free & honest. These poems find their power in a language forged by desire and survival, putting into words what had only been felt, risked, endured.

"Forget the orchestra/ conduct the pit!" National Book Award and PEN winning translator Clayton Eshleman commands, of both himself and his muses in a search for "the abyss, the recesses of the mind, the darkness of political domination, the gulf between worlds."

An antidote to "Daily Affirmations," from John S. Hall, lead singer of the cult 90's band King Missile ("Detachable Penis," "Jesus Was Way Cool")

Evoking the idea that those who are deviant propel the world forward at top speed, Deviant Propulsion is dedicated to the elimination of fear. Delving into the center of the endless webs of repression against our bodies, desires, politics, and imaginations, are those whose actions and motion cut away at the systemic limitations of society. This collection of poems was written with the inspiration and work of these people in mind.

A plugged-in, turned-on, funny enlightened guide to waking up 17 syllables at a time from the alternative comedian Beth Lapides, called "hilarious" by NPR and Time Out London, "delicious, explosive, funny, and original" by the L.A. Reader.

A polyrhythmic and polyphonic "tour-de-force" that engages both with the constructed and the constructor: with buildings and architects, with music and musicians, policy and politics, the personal and the political, the dancer and the dance.

"Hal Sirowitz is the Bard of the dead-pan delivery. His poems are like a mad combination of the Haiku and the Borscht Belt—they make me laugh and smile with happiness at the pain of being alive."

From baby to baby sitter to bartender; from Barbie to mother to whore, Gottlieb delves into women's roles and role reversals, stretching feminist boundaries with her limitless point of view.

Now available! "Author Daniel Nester is a transcendent trickster, a Gogol of Rock 'n' Roll. This book is not, like so much contemporary fiction, merely a realistic snapshot of life, but an ambitious effort to find in music the rhythms of life itself."

"This book is touching, highly literate, thought provoking and very funny, in every way as over-the-top as Queen ever was."

Haiku is the most apt poetic form for our times.The impressions collected in this little book speak about our lives in a code of language we can understand and feel, quickly and deeply.


Haiku is the most apt poetic form for our times. What a clever group of people to notice the fact. The impressions collected in this little book speak about our lives in a code of language we can understand and feel, quickly and deeply.

A sumptuous visual/poetic production by contemporary American masters and consummate collaborators

Not only can you make a living as a poet, as Glazner showed us in his previous book; you can have a stronger depper connection to the world by bringing poetry into your day to day life.

The 9-digit US Department of Labor code for POET is 131067042. In How to Make a Living as A Poet Gary Max Glazner details how he and a diverse group of American scribes—including Sherman Alexie, Mary Karr, Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul Polansky and Beau Sia—found ways integrate poetry into their financial lives until they could do what many writers consider unthinkable: list their life’s passion on their tax forms.

The first poetry collection from the Ferro-Grumley finalist Douglas A. Martin.

A deep, dark, female masterpiece.

"I am a sensitive artist. Nobody understands me because I am so deep. In my work, I make allusions to books that nobody else has read, music that nobody else has heard, and art that nobody else has seen. I can't help it because I am so much more intelligent and well-rounded than everyone who surrounds me."

A comic adventure in sestina form, Jim & Dave Defeat the Masked Man is a humrous collaboration between the author of the Perry Mason sestinas The Whole Truth and the editor of the Best American Poetry Series, illustrated with 39 black & white illustrations by painter Archie Rand.

The latest collection from Firecracker and Audre Lorde Award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb, channeling the voices of the world's dead women.

Whether you're a writer of fiction, poetry, or prose, the all-new, updated and redesigned Literary Press and Magazine Directory 2006/2007 (formerly the CLMP Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses) is the essential source for expanding your publishing horizons.

In Logicalogics Palmer turns gender and queer theory inside out and offers his life and mind as a scientific anomaly, offering snippets of his jolting responses to 21st century consciousness.

Slam poetry pioneer Jerome Sala critiques the commercialism and shallowness of American media and culture with poems both playful and chilling. Along the way he makes an unexpected discovery: that even the most crass aspects of our society are flooded with the poetical.

A vital collection of essays and interviews exploring the film aspect of Beat culture, complete with the last interview with writer Allen Ginsberg recorded shortly before his death in 1997.

New and selected poems from the 20 years of Kevin Powell's poetry.

A debut that traces the shape of the unnamed narrator's explicitly female body (physical, historical, and emotional) and darkly unravels popular conceptions about feminine innocence.

"One of the funniest men in Manhattan... Over and above everything else, Sparrow offers something to believe in."

Todd Colby is delicious and brilliantly debauched. His poems are candy-coated switchblades.

The first definitive collection of American collaborative poetry, ranging through the New York School, the Beats, Language poetry, to the present, with 135 poems culled from various magazines, out-of-print collections, and previously unpublished material, plus insightful process notes and detailed author biographies.

Slanky is like a great rock and roll album that won't be leaving my CD player for a while. I'm reading it over and over, and there's just as much rock and roll in his poetry as there was poetry in his rock and roll.

The latest collection from the PEN Martha Albrand Award finalist Maggie Nelson, her most mature and striking work to date. "A stunning collection of real-world stories shadowed by the netherworld of poetry."—Publishers Weekly

A career-spanning collection from a leading figure in the Beat, New York School and Factory scenes.

Epic poems need epic heroes, Homer had Odysseus and Dante Beatrice. The larger than life exploits of these divine, fantastic creatures project the spirit of an age. With this in mind, David Breskin has bequeathed our celebrity-obsessed era its very own form-fitting Supermodel.

"...It is a fierce hymn of a nearly cannibalistic passion for the people he has loved against all odds."

"I've always thought of Todd Colby as a talented and evocative poet. These new poems have a sense of defiance which is a unique quality in poetry today."

Over the course of several months, Wanda Phipps composed a poem each morning after she awoke. Wake-Up Calls collects the best from her daily experiment.

Firecracker winner! Lammy nominee!

"A serious history with just the right amount of dirt."—Gillian McCain, co-author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

The definitive history of slam culture told through the lens of the New York city scene.

Sparrow's back from the campaign trail with another inimitable collection of short-short-fiction, poetry and hints around the house… Bush, Trotsky, God and capitalism are all given the once-over.