Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology

edited by Jeanette Powers & j.d.tulloch

Overview:
In June 2016, Jeanette Powers sent out a social media call egging on the open mic artists of Poetic Underground to contact her and request a prompt: a short, personally crafted phrase intended to be the inspiration for NEW SHIT! to spit at open mic night. But other folks, many of whom were unable to attend open mic, wanted to be part of the shenanigans; so, the idea of a prompts book was born.

Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology represents the outpouring of new work by both fledgling and established writers and artists, which was engendered, simply, by the offer of a prompt.

Release Date: 25 October 2016

Ghost Sign

by Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson, JT Knoll

Overview:
Ghost Sign represents honest work that is both lyrical and painful while simultaneously joyous and sad. It is rooted in folklore, mystery, and place and is informed by powerful imagery: sunlight on the crater of a strip pit, the shadow of an owl at Camp 50, junkyard mechanics, railroad men, and a grandfather at a piano plunking out Methodist hymns.

Coming in Early October 2016

This book is being published in partnership with Spartan Press.

Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler

by Hugh Merrill

Overview:
Hugh Merrill, the printmaker, has a dirty little secret: for many years, he has been covertly writing … poetry. His debut book of poems, Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler, reflects the intense and unguarded energy of a vital artist and natural storyteller who has deep connections to both historic and current movements.

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Gender Treason

by Ryan Wilks

Overview:
Gender Treason, a series of portrait paintings by Kansas City based artist Ryan Wilks, chronicles his latest exhibition, which debuted at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center on July 1, 2016, and includes interviews with the artist's subjects, providing a rare glimpse into the lives of queer people living in the Midwest.

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Tiny Chasm

by Jeanette Powers

Overview:
Tiny Chasm, the third book of poetry by Jeanette Powers, explores the miniscule openings in our psyches in order to reveal the vast infrastructures of our neuroses, anxieties, and joys. It ponders the responsibilities of self to child and society; the ways we are manipulated and conditioned; the struggles of loss and longing; as well as the pathways into awareness and being present.

These poems challenge societal standards, reveal surprising taboos, and don't hesitate to demand accountability.

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Undiscovered Paladins
Westward Rhymes Revisited

by j.d.tulloch

Overview:
The latest collection of poems by j.d.tulloch, Undiscovered Paladins: Westward Rhymes Revisited, combines the best of his Road Rhymes with a generous selection of new poems.

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Fringes

by Ricardo Quinones

Overview:
In his latest collection of poems, scholar-poet Ricardo Quinones announces (with little regret) that last year's Finishing Touches did not quite live up to its name. Other poems, some worthy of the best of his earlier volumes, obtruded, seeming to call for the special attention of a new volume: Fringes.

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Finishing Touches

by Ricardo Quinones

Overview:
From scholar-poet Ricardo Quinones comes his first collection of poetry since the critically-acclaimed A Sorting of the Ways: New and Selected Poems (2011). Finishing Touches, Quinones fourth book of poems, is a purposeful combination of the old and the new.

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