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Outside the Clinic
by Andrew Rihn, March 2010
In 2009, we of Unlikely ran The First Annual WRITE REAL GOOD Poetry Chapbook contest, judged by Michael Harold, Anne McMillen, and Belinda Subraman. Outside the Clinic was the second-place entrant, "losing" by a fraction of a point. Although we didn't have the budget to declare two winners, we knew that we couldn't let this outstanding manuscript go unread, and were delighted when Andrew Rihn agreed to let us to run it as a free e-book.
I Can Sing Fire
by Anne Lombardo Ardolino, September 2009
Oh, for the democratization of poetry! For the populace, for the youth, for the wild boys and girls of every generation! Let us celebrate direct emotion, purity of expression, raw feeling represented with the rawest of words. Let us celebrate New York, with its Beat Generations, its midnight cafés, its solid and sordid history of every type and era of class revolution.
Painting Rust and Blood and Salsa
by Jonathan Penton, reprinted April 2009
Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust were published in late 2006, and bound together as a flip-book in one volume (on one side was the cover for Blood and Salsa; flipping the book over would give you the cover for Painting Rust, and the two books terminated in the middle). They quickly became some of the most discussed chapbooks of the past few years.
Blue Rooms, Black Holes, White Lights
by Belinda Subraman, Illustrated by César Ivan, February 2009
As a Registered Nurse, Belinda Subraman has worked in several difficult areas, but from 2001 to 2007 she was working as a hospice nurse. Hospice is the art of preparation, and when Belinda's own father reached his final days in 2008, she took what preparation she had and flew back to Carolina to assist him in his passage.
Anonymous Gun
a chapbook by Kurtice Kucheman, December 2008
'I was offered some coke, but refused as I was too tuned up on the meth I had been bumping the entire substance-corroded road trip down. "STOP!" I stare out of a monsoon of swirling colors passing in the damp autumn air. The wino has produced an M80 from his pocket and reaches into his pants, inserting it into his rectum. He strips, and gets down on his hands and knees. "All I ask of you Anna, is that you light the fuse..."'
Mother Love
a chapbook by Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz with cover art by Daphne Butler, June 2007
"Justin falls to sleep. I can't. Not until their voices travel down the hallway to her bedroom. The headboard starts knocking against the wall. I don't know if he's banging her or banging her head. Then, maybe to comfort me, she giggles and I can relax a little. It's okay to sleep. For now, we're safe."
I STALKED MARTHA STEWART!
a novella by Vernon Frazer, January 2007
"Inside the covers of each of the books comprising our display of Martha Stewart's new bestseller, Own the World Through Good Taste, public relations coordinator Norexia Pruinn found a poem riddled with obscene, pornographic and other objectionable material that violates our Family Values policy written by the disturbed and disgruntled Avery Blank, a failed poet known for his outspoken rudeness."
Rune 17: Vedic Spaces, String Theory, and the Eternal Knot
by Karl Kempton, January 2007
A 36-page visual presentation
Graffiti
by Márton Koppány, January 2007
"I have always tried to be laconic..."
Star-Spangled Banter
a chapbook by Bob Marcacci with cover art by Nancy Victoria Davis, January 2007
"and what am i but a man
who has never seen a war with a gun
in my hand so-to-speak
i'm speaking america"
My Daughter's Vagina
an extended essay by Richard Jeffrey Newman with cover art by Donna Kuhn, March 2006
"The fundamentally alien universe that a woman's experience of sex is to me. That mine is to her. So fully do we romanticize heterosexual lovemaking as a communion of souls, a synthesizing of opposites, the fulfillment and expression of our deepest emotional needs, that it's easy to forget just how inaccessible the interior landscapes of male and female sexual embodiment are to each other."
When Red Blood Cells Leak
a chapbook by Anne McMillen with cover art by Matt Sesow, November 2005
"born to be, from afar,
a psychotic's babysitter
and a mute preacher
to deaf images."
Moonlight on Moloch
a chapbook by Luke Buckham and illustrated by Kelly Hoffman, March 2005
"Somewhere a ledge slides off an island, a wave
two world trade centers tall heads for my home New England.
Old England is already obliterated. A bomb shook
this huge splinter of rock loose and moved the sea."
Commercial Fiction
a complete novel by Vernon Frazer, June 2004
"Being an author isn't as easy as it seems. It looks glamorous on the surface: the instant weath, the Celebrity Status, the hundreds of adoring women just waiting in line for an autograph, a few kind words and maybe a little tete-a-tete afterwards."