j/j hastain and Marthe Reed perform from pleth
October 2013
On September 28, 2013, Unlikely Books released pleth, a full-color call-and-response collection of ekphrastic poetry by j/j hastain and Marthe Reed. The authors performed from their book at the release party at Innisfree Poetry Books & Café in Boulder, Colorado.
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A group show in Denver, Colorado posted October 2013
On September 27, 2013, Unlikely Stories: Episode IV and Unlikely Books met at the Mercury Café in Denver, Colorado for an evening of literature, vocalizations, and visual effects. Performing were j/j hastain, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Frankie Metro, Lindsey Thomas, Jeffrey Spahr-Summers, and Tom Bradley, with Jonathan Penton as MC.
An Introduction to Steve Roggenbuck
with Questions by Jeremy Hight, September 2013
"if you wanna keep things old school and only make 50 print copies of a chapbook, i genuinely respect that—you can cultivate an intimate, beautiful community that way. but there are huge opportunities to reach people online if you want. i'm personally really excited to reach thousands of people multiple times a day with my poetry, interact with them, and make a living from it."
"Deck"
by Dennis Weiser, August 2013
"I waken too from staring at water
and see illumined lights that shake
old memories from their deep sleep
off the starboard shore towards day:"
"Last Chance"
by John Grey, August 2013
"What to make of the indulgence of chance and happenstance.
The cold, steady boarding up on life unless I rush, shoot, unravel.
Multiplicity gone simplicity on me.
A one way incarceration in the hermitage of guilt."
"Was I a Rape Victim?"
by Michael H. Brownstein, August 2013
"You who cannot remember anything before year nineteen
as if you remain a whiteboard cleansed and sanded until even the marker scars go into the light
or perhaps you are the explosion of white noise, a storm of lines and static."
"Four Postcards from New Yorkshire"
by Anthony Murphy, August 2013
"I have to step over rivulets
Of piss and puke
But not every morning
It's just like home
You would love it"
"Tale of two types of twisters" and "What next"
by Sean J Mahoney, August 2013
"Yes sun set.
Points darkened.
I flirt with ignominy.
Grease-dirty. Aware
of tricksters."
"All the Starry Fays" and "god these terrible decisions"
by Jim Lineberger, August 2013
"the way she will say she knew you
in another life
when in reality she's not seen your kind before,"
"Plants on Acid" and "Real-life Haiku/the robber had empty eyes"
by Kelley Jean White, August 2013
Pediatrician Kelley White worked in inner-city Philadelphia and now works in rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in journals including Exquisite Corpse, Rattle and JAMA. Her most recent books are Toxic Environment (Boston Poet Press) and Two Birds in Flame (Beech River Books.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant.
"Capillary Glands Focus On Inebriation: Ann Quin Interviews Gertrude Stein" and "On the Impossibility of Tomatoes"
by Larry Goodell, August 2013
'"Yes, you are a sight, a sight," Gertrude then replied.
Stress Ejector Ejects Saints As Well As Sinners.
"Thus we do not age but only begin to understand the process," Gertrude said. Ann asked her what the weather was on Mars.'
"Unicorns Doing It" and "Z is the loneliest letter"
by Jim Berhle, August 2013
"Mollifying your disappointment
with the way things turned out
Mentioned in passing in a larger
article"
"Paladin" and "Diffused Light through Wire Mesh"
by Patricia Gomes, August 2013
"She threw back her head in prayer
opened her mouth wide
and swallowed all the songbirds
that willingly came to her."
"Player," "Centered," and "Lost Causes"
by Theron Kennedy, August 2013
"youthful euphoria
igniting the sun
losing our delusions,
our illusions"
"July 4th Barbeque," "A Quiet Neighborhood," and "Still Life"
by Donal Mahoney, August 2013
"The nurses agree, however,
the fetuses don't wriggle
as much as the chickens do"
"Virtue Is its Own Reward," "holiday," and "Beatitudes for a Modern World"
by Marc Thompson, August 2013
"Now Pol Pot
He got the idea.
He paid attention
To the Maoists
The Puritans
The Spanish Inquisition."
"Gun Control," "Life of the Nihilist," and "The trust required for rest"
by Jay Sizemore, August 2013
"Instead of a sex talk, they watched pornography,
he listened to his parents fuck through the walls,
he touched himself and was ashamed."
"The Moon-Riven Twilight," "6/22/12," and 'This is not about all of the morons whom would be 'living in a jar''
by Jason Alan Wilkinson, August 2013
"Imagined 'scapes form vagrant kingdoms
where stile and crooked bough
along sinuous tracts
linger inchoate
charming the eye"
Three excerpts from Of isolated limning:
by Felino A. Soriano, August 2013
"partitions expose dualness,
the duality of
persuasion's insinuating"
"3am victory," "a taped box," and "chicago ward"
by Win Harms, August 2013
"lying next to vegas hotel with a
margarita in one hand and an ice pick
in the other sometimes she'd forget her address
pass out on her ex-boyfriend's lawn"
'but will you provide me a shape to return in?,' 'jelly blade,' and 'bloody benefit of the fucking doubt'
by Billy Cancel, August 2013
"stark pitiless excuse my
thrill seeker's allowance
all blown on shuttlebus tracing narrative defects through grey pylons wet fields
back to fragrant ash Atlantic Electric site"
"Sizzling Scenes from Underground Films," "True Burlesque: A Drive To Hell After Dark-" and "Previews Of Coming Attractions"
by Peter Marra, May 2014
"I can't touch you
I can't reach you
She said she was retching, slowly
flickering in and out"
Three Edie Sedgwicks by Kyle Hemmings
May 2014
"I told the nurse
that our flying saucer
crashed horizontally,
& Andy became his own art work.
& as for me: I'm really dead."
Three Poems by mark hartenbach
May 2014
"i looked long enough that i forgot to breathe. it no longer
matters if it was love or irretrievably beautiful. it was
undeniably human. it's no longer important if it was
spurred by dopamine or expectations or literary aspirations."
"Out in the World," "I Won't Change Fawngirl for Anything," and "Grovel of Babylon"
by Jeffrey Side, May 2014
"No one sees the darkest hiss of rain
or the authority of selfish tears
in the rattle of liquid night
like timber packets"
"Moving in Place," "Loyalists to the Last Note," and "Forgotten Groundling"
Visualish Poetry by Vernon Frazer, May 2014
"nearer than zygote paddle climbers
the roaring hinge impairs a daring
influx ambit where crucible rings blare
their needy contraband declamations"
"Mint Moon," "Flower Children," and "Vinyl"
by Yuriy Tarnawsky, May 2014
"something dark
fell out of the skin
and out of the date of birth
into the negative of water"
Four Visualish Poems by Jefferson Hansen
May 2014
Jefferson Hansen is the author of a forthcoming short story collection, Cruelty, and a novel, ...and beefheart saved craig, both from BlazeVox. Jazz Forms (Blue Lion) brings together selections from his jazz poem chapbooks. He lives in Minneapolis. He has two daughters.
Four Selections from Statevillainy
by K.R. Copeland, May 2014
"In one network of dirt there lurk many unpleasantries, unseen by the masses, still no less there than air. Microcosmic clunks and clinks of movement sinkhole slowly, rumble when the hush is meant to come. Tumultuous sub-ciety—sunrise falls. At the cornerstone of war, all lore grows wildly."
Three Visual Poems by Tom Cassidy
May 2014
Two Visual Poems by John M. Bennett and Jim Leftwich
May 2014
Two Visual Poems by John M. Bennett and Matthew Stolte
May 2014
Four Visual Poems by John M. Bennett
May 2014
Ten Visual Poems by John M. Bennett and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
May 2014
Five Visual Poems by Bela Grimm and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
May 2014
Five Visual Poems by Baron and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
May 2014
Forty-One Visual Poems by Jim Leftwich
May 2014
"non-poems, correspondences, process poems, fluxus poems, fun poems, opaque poems, empty poems, slippery poems, skewed poems, torqued poems, playful poems, love songs, eulogies, labyrinths, autodidactic poems, procedural poems, arbitrary poems, looking as reading as writing, serial poems, aggregate poems, clump poems, spray poems, thelemic poems..."
"Ethan has nowhere to go"
by Matthew Sherling, based on the missing short story by Jeremy Hight, April 2014
"take me somewhere as someone else. the airport is expanding.
the TV is nice too but is a coward,
& my father cries quietly sometimes just looking at it when no one's speaking.
my mother is forever a simply-decorated backyard."
"Ethan has nowhere to go"
by Vera Lucia Pinto, based on the missing short story by Jeremy Hight, April 2014
"Recordó que no estaba allí
parecía imposible salvarse.
Un avión penetran el cielo con violencia
dejando vestigios de nubes polvo."
"Ethan has nowhere to go"
by Keith Higginbotham, based on the missing short story by Jeremy Hight, April 2014
iii. capital
class, the vague
absence undead ranted shoe
door paper around lawns
I was a metal poem
