{"title":"Bottlecap Features","description":"\u003cp\u003eBottlecap Features is an ongoing multi-genre chapbook series that replaced our original Bottlecap Press imprint in April, 2021. It publishes poetry and prose chapbooks in a multitude of genres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBottlecap Press is a publishing company founded in 2014, best known for its poetry and prose chapbooks. Their books have been showcased in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDazed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eForbes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNME\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNylon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Bottlecap authors have performed at Art Basel, SXSW, TED, and more, and have received awards, grants, and critical acclaim.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"_angeac","title":"The Angels Have Always Been Black, by Aliyah Curry","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Angels Have Always Been Black\u003c\/em\u003e is a metamorphosis of Black girlhood, queer sexuality, God, and family. Through a mix of traditional forms, as well as her own style of verse, the angels will take you up, then down, then up again, weaving hope through all the memories, beloved and triggering, before resting once again on the shelves of Mommy’s freshly dusted mahogany shrunk.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis narrative is matured into Black womanhood on these wings, journeying home, earth, riverlands, and sky. Granny braids your hair, a new lover breaks your heart, and Black women prevail.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAliyah Curry is a queer Southern bred writer, focusing on Black female sexuality and mental health. When she is not writing poetry, she makes film, theater, and photographs, travels, and has dance parties with her niece. Her words can be found in Port City Review, Permission to Write, and Cathexis Northwest Press. 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The beach sucks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis ain’t no ‘I LOVE THE BEACH’ placard and platitude seen for sale (overpriced of course) at one those tourist trap spots that seem to exist only for vacationers. \u003cem\u003eBlech Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of flash, micro, and smallies that grapples with one’s refusal to enjoy the beach if they wanted to. This is for the rest of us who can’t quite come to terms with living in Paradise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003ePower lines and palm trees. Dogs in sunshine and drugs with friends. Lounging lavish in the sand and really basking in those rays of how the hell did I get here. The best time you’ve ever had? Why don’t you try on that beach bum life for a while.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eKKUURRTT lives by the beach. \u003cem\u003eGood at Drugs\u003c\/em\u003e is available from Back Patio Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KKUURRTT","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556643749959,"sku":"BLECKK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556643782727,"sku":"BLECKKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/Blech-Life_-by-KKUURRTT-Bottlecap-Press-1656794512.jpg?v=1656880648"},{"product_id":"straks","title":"strawberry hole, by Kora Schultz","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003estrawberry hole\u003c\/em\u003e is a conversation between addiction, panic disorder, and love. It’s also about being super gay, as god intended. Completely loose in form yet concise in subject, this lil’ chapbook walks though the anxieties of recovery and community. Hope you like sad femmes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKora Schultz (they\/them) is a queer Wisconsin-based poet \u0026amp; social services cog. Their work has appeared in various poetry journals \u0026amp; on their partner's fridge. They’re a big fan of both strawberries and holes. You can find them on both Instagram and Twitter at @oatmilkmom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kora Schultz","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557220302919,"sku":"STRAKS","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557220335687,"sku":"STRAKSe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/strawberry-hole_-by-Kora-Schultz-Bottlecap-Press-1656794595.jpg?v=1656880652"},{"product_id":"voyajg","title":"Voyages, by Jessica Jemalem Ginting","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eInfluenced by speculative writing, \u003cem\u003eVoyages\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that follows the Earth and its inhabitants through various stages of transformation. Time, people, stories and places continuously evolve and morph, taking new forms. Science turns into dreams, then into a themed party at the apocalypse. Love turns into grief, then it turns people into salt. Humans, angels, animals are all made and unmade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis collection combines portraits of the afterlife, idyllic realities, even ones fragmented at the seams, and lucid visions of the future. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: none;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"text-decoration: none;\"\u003eJessica Jemalem Ginting is a poet, translator, editor and comic writer from Jakarta, currently residing in London, England. Her poetry has been published in \u003cem\u003eToho Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChogwa Zine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Verse News\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBristol Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAnak Sastra\u003c\/em\u003e. She was the editor of the poetry and art zine, \u003cem\u003eUTOPIA\u003c\/em\u003e in 2020. Her debut poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eMoon Petals\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 2017 at the Ubud Writer’s and Reader’s Festival. 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The poems range in topic from thirst traps to video games to borderline-blasphemous bible verse reprises, with an often stream-of-consciousness flow that pulls you through to the last line. The collection is threaded together with a voice of sincerity that doesn’t take itself too seriously.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSarah Robbins is a writer originally from Oklahoma City, who currently resides in Kansas City. 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They spend most of their free time trying to make their friends laugh. 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the essence of hope exists sparingly throughout. the title is inspired by the inevitable light that returns following a long night of bad dreams.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003emourning, light\u003c\/em\u003e is the debut chapbook of taylor gorgano rynski, and the cover is an original painting. she lives and studies in brooklyn, ny. previous works of hers have appeared in the online zine \u003cem\u003eBefore I Leave\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eCanvas \u0026amp; Cassette\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor Gorgano Rynski","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557185798215,"sku":"MOURTGR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557185830983,"sku":"MOURTGRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/MLfront.png?v=1671309407"},{"product_id":"itstch","title":"It Still Squirms, by Candace Holmes","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis collection of poetry mimics the experience of walking through a museum, with each piece a label for artwork that does not, and is some cases could not, exist. It explores the ways we connect and disconnect with our body as it clumsily translates its experiences to our brains. By creating a museum of only the descriptions, these poems invite you to construct a mental gallery to walk through, one with warped parameters of what is possible. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt Still Squirms\u003c\/em\u003e examines how we endure external and self-inflicted harm, the survival instincts that make us human, like running away, believing in an afterlife, loving your soft sweet friends, or making art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCandace Holmes (they\/them) is a poet from all over the U.S., currently living right in the middle of it (Kansas City, MO). 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Girls without fathers. Girls with too many uncles. Girls dressed as razor blades. Girls curled ghost, thinner than pen caps. Girls inspired by actual events. Girls built from meth and rotten apple cores. \u003cem\u003eDaughters of the State\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of what happens to those lost in a fractured system of hopeless survival, where the saddest parts of anything are often the truest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDaughters of the State\u003c\/em\u003e by Leigh Chadwick is a collection of heartbreaking prose poems whose structure allows several ways into a narrative whose many uses serve in the multiple worlds of poetry and the even wider world of enlightenment and awareness. When reading \u003cem\u003eDaughters of the State\u003c\/em\u003e, one cannot help but be drawn in by Chadwick’s brutal language and imagery. I challenge any reader to finish this chapbook while remaining unsympathetic to its cause. It is rare to find poems of such beauty and pain. Indeed, there is a lot to admire and relish in the poetry offered in this chapbook. Chadwick is to be congratulated for putting together such an intelligent and brave and honest arc of prose poems that touch the tender story of girls lost in a system perhaps only she has not forgotten.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Ariana D. Den Bleyker, Publisher, ELJ Editions, Ltd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Clear-eyed, open-hearted, defiantly gorgeous, and harrowing. 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Francesca Kritikos explores the wilderness at the limits of lyric and indulges in the desolate. These poems are succinct with sharp edges. These poems are equally sterile and blood-soaked. These poems are asking you to pull them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"To read Kritikos’ work is to be confronted with the carnivorous reflection of our own intimacies. Underneath the stillness of the everyday rages the hunger of an unnameable need which can’t be satisfied. Before you even realise there’s ‘no way out’ of the poems, Kritikos will ‘just let you in deeper’ but never show all. You made it to the party but everyone is gone and there’s only scraps of meat left on all the plates. No matter how many times I chew these poems, I can never make them last long enough and though I am never left unsatisfied, I always want more.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Nick Ines Ward, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Burns Unit\u003c\/em\u003e (Salò Press, 2021) and the forthcoming \u003cem\u003eA Devotion of Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e (Spam Zine, 2021)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFrancesca Kritikos is a Greek-American writer and editor based in Chicago. She is the author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eIt Felt Like Worship\u003c\/em\u003e (Sad Spell Press, 2017) and forthcoming full-length collection \u003cem\u003eExercise in Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022). Her poetry has recently appeared in the \u003cem\u003eDes Pair Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGhost City Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWitch Craft Mag\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Shadows and swamp creatures beckon you to name your pain, make a shrine for its spirit, \u0026amp; then burn it down. The sea steams you like a dumpling and your answering machine overflows with worried messages from your mother. This is a landscape where love blooms into flesh wounds before bruising over into a sickly mushroom yellow. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis collection reasons with and redefines how to mend. It begs the question - How to fill an absence? With seed or bone?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJazz De Nero lived in the future for many years where she taught English as a second language on an island south of mainland Korea. She is a visual artist, a filmmaker and a tightrope walker. Her work can be found in \u003cem\u003eVoicemail Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePerhappened Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eQueen Mob's Teahouse\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. She was a finalist for the 2019 Write Bloody Book Publishing Contest. 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These poems trace the ontological dizziness brought about by watching society suddenly adopt many of the behaviors it had previously considered aberrant as “best practices” in a pandemic-ravaged world: frequent temperature checks and hand-washing, the use of masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer, diligently disinfecting surfaces, avoiding large crowds, and self-imposed isolation are some of the most widespread behaviors that have become the new “normal” that have always been part of everyday life for the speaker of these poems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eBecause of the COVID-19 pandemic, an obsession with one’s health and well-being is suddenly no longer reserved for the “germaphobes”—and yet, for the speaker of these poems, little about the way they interact with the world has fundamentally changed. This collection is an attempt work through those feelings of disorientation, isolation, and fear that were already present in pre-pandemic times, now amplified by the presence and realities of COVID-19.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIn The Age of Hypochondria: Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), George C. Grinnell traced how the “disorder of imagined infirmity” came to haunt both at the individual and collective levels because it provoked so many anxieties about embodiment and the ways we think we understand it. As a work of crip poetics, Raye Hendrix’s \u003cem\u003eEvery Journal is a Plague Journal\u003c\/em\u003e works through the haunting quality of imagined, possible, and very real illness as it is lived through at a moment of global pandemic crisis. Hendrix’s poems attend to how the seemingly innocuous nature of mundane things—soap, pens, highways—become charged with the anticipatory potentiality of infection and harm that persistently invade the speaker’s psychic space, already turgid with other anxieties both social and political. The documentary quality of Hendrix’s work speaks to the very title of the collection and the lived experiences of hypochondria and OCD—that in retrospective encounters, what may have seemed unrelated to illness may in fact have always already been in proximity to it and perhaps discovered all too late.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Travis Chi Wing Lau, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bone Setter\u003c\/em\u003e (Damaged Goods Press, 2019) and \u003cem\u003eParing\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raye Hendrix","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556605345863,"sku":"EVERRH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556605378631,"sku":"EVERRHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/EJFront.png?v=1678394263"},{"product_id":"mutezp","title":"Muted., by Zack Peercy","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eDrama, chapbook, 48 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuted.\u003c\/em\u003e is a one-act play about Sid, a college sophomore, and Chelsea, a ghost of a former middle school acquaintance, in transitional states. Told over twenty-four reflecting scenes in Sid’s dorm room, the play forces it’s characters to confront their own inertia and grow in small and significant ways.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThis is a ghost story for people haunted by the seemingly insignificant moments of life. This is a human story for people trapped in a seemingly meaningless existence. This is a story for people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eZack Peercy is a disabled playwright, screenwriter, and director based in Chicago. He is a resident playwright at Three Brothers Theater. In 2021, his play \u003cem\u003eESSENTIAL STARLITE\u003c\/em\u003e was honored as an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist, a Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, and a Blue Ink Playwriting Award semi-finalist. 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This collection of poems dissects what it means to grow up as an unwanted being, by the world, by peers, by yourself. Weaved between lines of poetry and prose are tales of being Black in Catholic school, uncovering queerness, fatness, trauma, desire, mental illness, compulsions, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eShyla Jones is a Black writer from Boston, MA. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eFour Way Review, Los Angeles Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit,\u003c\/i\u003e and others. She is the Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003esuperfroot magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and a lover of peach rings. On top of collecting nostalgic toys and ranting, she’s also currently finishing her BFA and working on her first novel. 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The project began as a strong desire to accumulate anything about real life, originally posted online as delia-writes-everyday-2020. Fragments trespass “the personal” and public exteriors. A diary written during the early pandemic, scattered bits connect to each other: crumbs sprayed onto park blankets, the binding of books, the shitty chromebook, a wicker chair on the stoop, and conversations with neighbors. Crumbs are the aftermath of consuming and forgetting amongst daily movement and action. \u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e wants to remember: here was my life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe act of writing down the world, walking around or staring off into space, derives from a need to solve anxiety -- to focus on immediate objects and archiving memories to feel real, to face mortality. Mundane boundaries and screens into other worlds become a main source of attention, such as windows, chain link fences, the internet, and the body in time. The public park appears as an area without barriers: a neighborhood natural space of leisure outside of capitalism, where “other people’s lives are real.” \u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e leans on lessons from New Narrative authors to communicate long-distance into the void during a time of viral disease, isolation, protests, and death. Change arrived to break us out of routine, and yet change [the future] cannot come soon enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrumbbook\u003c\/em\u003e is a lyrical and solitary notetaking to process the disappearance of the past, and a book about survival through connection. Friends and family appear in this book and this book is for them.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDelia Rainey is a writer and musician living in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MFA in nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago in 2021. Her prose and poems have been featured in \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. Ghost City Press released her mini chapbook \u003cem\u003ePrivate Again\u003c\/em\u003e in 2018. Her website can tell you more: deliarainey.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delia Rainey","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556602429511,"sku":"CRUMDR","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556602462279,"sku":"CRUMDRe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/crumbfront.png?v=1697488677"},{"product_id":"inoramk","title":"In Orbit, by Alana M. 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This collection of poems attempts to navigate through the polarizing residence we take up within our own minds and how we choose to verbalize our constant states of sentimental overflow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAlana M. Kelley is a writer and visual artist from Buffalo, New York. She is the author of several self-made chapbooks and zines and has been featured in issues put out by \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, Ghost City Press \u0026amp; BlazeVOX [books].\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alana M. 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Organized by case studies, the collection starts in the world of the dead and moves backward through time to try and make sense of the mistakes the case study subjects repeatedly make. The sometimes-detached narrative voice of a scientist observes the studies as they live within their myths and spells. With creatures taking root in bodies, and those bodies trying to escape their troubles, a frequent question emerges from these poems: “how do we survive ourselves?” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe subjects of the case studies learn how to feed themselves from within, finding comfort in playgrounds they’ve erected in their imagination as real to them as concrete and steel structures. Each subject pulls themselves apart to find the secret places within where the real them exist. They are buoyant or obnoxious, magical or ordinary. Survival is dependent on finding the hidden spaces and vacationing there, an entire world formed on the inside and large enough to carry each subject to safety.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs the pieces move forward in the collection, so do the subjects of the case studies. They move, page by page, further away from the mysterious land of the dead where they all once started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJane-Rebecca Cannarella (she\/her) is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eHOOT Review\u003c\/em\u003e and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at \u003cem\u003eLunch Ticket\u003c\/em\u003e. Jane-Rebecca is the author of \u003cem\u003eBetter Bones\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMarrow\u003c\/em\u003e, both published by Thirty West Publishing House, \u003cem\u003eThe Guessing Game\u003c\/em\u003e published by BA Press, \u003cem\u003eThirst and Frost\u003c\/em\u003e forthcoming from Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, and \u003cem\u003eEleven-Hundred\u003c\/em\u003e forthcoming from Really Serious Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane-Rebecca Cannarella","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556610621511,"sku":"APRACJRC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556610654279,"sku":"APRAJRCe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/almanacfront.png?v=1697488685"},{"product_id":"itwaf","title":"It Was Good Until It Wasn't, by Frankkie","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt Was Good Until It Wasn’t\u003c\/em\u003e captures the reality of dreams coming in and out of fruition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrankkie takes the reader through a wandering collection of hope, celebration, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003edevastation, and recalculation. Turns out the path from point A to point B is full of detours disguised by relationships, trauma, healing, and a lot of flat tires, leading to a life that is unrecognizable. Releasing the grip on the idealized concept of a future life allows a flux of poetry, love, and light into the life before our very eyes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eOpening with a tip of the hat to past, Frankkie recalls her 12 year old self that had a small dream. She soon realizes that she has fallen in love with the feeling of longing, and anything she obtains will only result in another dissatisfaction. Similar to her realization, there is no immediate resolution, just acceptance of what is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eFrankkie is a multimedia artist based in Long Beach, CA. Her work ranges from short films, scoring, poetry, knitwear, and music. Her friends describe her as “a girl who looks like she would have bug bites all the time,” and in highschool she was voted “Most Likely to Discover the Next Boyband.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eShe is currently breaking out of her comfort zone and venturing into more experimental art, which will be found accompanying her upcoming music release in Spring of 2022.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frankkie","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556597841991,"sku":"ITWAF","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556597874759,"sku":"ITWAFe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/frankkiefront.png?v=1676838990"},{"product_id":"mommmam","title":"Mommy Issues: Love Poems for the Fragile, Queer Heart, by Marlee Alcina Miller, Illustrated by Reno Taylor","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, illustrated, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eMommy Issues: Love Poems for the Fragile, Queer Heart\u003c\/em\u003e delve deep into the emotional intensity that surrounds the way I love– whether that love be romantic, platonic, family-oriented, or even a love for a physical space or realm. In addition, these poems explore the intersection between romantic love and mental illness, and what it means to love queerly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"The tendency towards being obsessive about one person or relationship is common among people who have Bipolar Disorder. I’ll often get this sort of tunnel vision. My mind will become fully consumed by one person. This will manifest in the way where I’m constantly fantasizing or daydreaming about a relationship with this person. Sometimes this obsession will seep into my subconscious and I’ll often dream about this one person. The obsession becomes all-consuming. The fantasies start to filter into my perception of reality, which can have real implications on my real-world relationships. This obsession can at times make it difficult to form new relationships. It can also start to hinder any progress I make towards loving myself, and lead me towards breaking my own heart. The process of writing these poems have helped me parse all of this out immensely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eYes, my love is oppressive. It’s always been the loudest part of me. But loving people, places, or things as intensely as I do can also be a very beautiful thing. Something that transcends. The ways in which queer people move through this world with limitless love–despite everything–is something worth documenting. And what better way to articulate this than the language of poetry coupled with queer visual art? This chapbook is for the fragile, neurodivergent queers who love loudly in a world that wants us to be silent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Marlee Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMarlee Miller (she\/they) is a queer, Black, activist, writer, puppeteer, and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She draws inspiration for her work from love, dreams, social justice, mental illness, and the process of exploring identity. She also attributes a large part of her artistic influence to dancing with her queer chosen family, Audre Lorde, writing her signature love letters, Nikki Giovanni, and crying while sipping wine in the shower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMarlee is a VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation) alum. Her poetry and prose can be found in Issue 117 of \u003cem\u003eSinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary \u0026amp; Art Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eSolstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices\u003c\/em\u003e’ Summer 2021 issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eReno Taylor (they\/them) is a nonbinary lesbian, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and the proud owner of multiple mannequins. Their work is focused on using multiple disciplines\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003edigital illustrations and comics, printmaking, wearable art, and zinemaking\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e–\u003c\/span\u003eto foster connection and expression in radical ways. When not creating, Reno talks to their cat Zelda, eats dinners with friends, and rides their bike on sunny days. 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The dignity of labor, the virtue of meritocracy, the power of a college education to facilitate upward class mobility. \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles a firsthand experience of millennial disillusionment: graduating into a recession \u0026amp; facing how threadbare those myths really are. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a prose record of the author’s first two jobs out of undergrad: one at a theater \/ nightclub, the other at a tobacconist \/ cigar store, both in Harvard Square. Through anecdotes \u0026amp; reflections, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the surreal experience of being a minimum wage worker beside one of the most prestigious universities in the world, in constant contact with the elitest of the elite, as well as tourists, students, runaways, \u0026amp; the local unhoused population.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAssembled ten years after the fact, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a document of unlearning, as well as the physical \u0026amp; emotional experience of a particular kind of labor. Most of all, \u003cem\u003eService\u003c\/em\u003e is a begrudging love letter to a place, a time, \u0026amp; the people who made it bearable…\u0026amp; even fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNeon Mashurov (NM Esc) is a writer from Brooklyn and the post-Soviet diaspora currently pursuing an MFA at the University of San Diego’s cross-genre writing program. Their music writing, as NM Mashurov, has been published in Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Fader, IMPOSE Magazine, and elsewhere. Their poetry, as NM Esc, has been published or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eWe Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Black Warrior Review, Bombay Gin, Hobart Pulp, The Recluse, the Poetry Project’s House Party series, The Felt, Peach Magazine, Ghost City Press’s summer microchap series, and multiple chapzines. 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With poems after C Pam Zhang, King James I, Sara Ahmed, and Isabella Wang, the chapbook inserts itself into spatiotemporal dialogues surrounding queerness, migration, oppression, and the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrace Kwan is a queer Chinese-Malaysian Canadian author and scholar researching capitalist and nationalist mythologies and their relationship with art, stories, and the marginalization of Asian immigrants. Grace’s debut collection of creative nonfiction stories, \u003cem\u003ePrelude: \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, came out from Life Rattle Press in June 2020. Their prose and poetry have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePlenitude Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Capilano Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eantilang.\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRigorous Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Thirlby\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grace Kwan","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556516020295,"sku":"WESEGK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556516053063,"sku":"WESEGKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/marsfront.png?v=1678048625"},{"product_id":"hourhr","title":"hour long afternoons, by Hazel Rain","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehour long afternoons \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of poetry about interpersonal relationships, most specifically distancing oneself from a person. Although this person is gone, the idea of them is still always present. This contributes to a sense of isolation and insecurity. Many poems center around the idea of how the body is affected by the mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe collection starts out in a state of grief, gradually becoming more positive as it goes on. The themes begin to shift from self hatred and holding onto the idea of a person, to letting go, focusing on other people and becoming happier. The last poems bring about a feeling of hope for the future, and potential for self-love. Many of the poems are made stronger with additional photographs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\" color=\"#000000\"\u003eHazel Rain is a poet and songwriter from Bellingham, Washington. 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The running thread in the chapbook is that of being grounded in the present, and keenly aware of the fleeting, hidden moments in one's day. The gratitude which runs throughout the chapbook is undergirded by the poet’s religion, through which come the practices of observation, reflection and devotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eEach poem evokes the sense of the sacred in these hushed spaces, ranging from the insular world of childhood to the solitude of adulthood. The poet’s mother, the moon, and the movie theatre are all regarded as sites of magic. Of blessing. With a varied use of poetic forms, such as sonnets and ghazals, \u003cem\u003eBeing There\u003c\/em\u003e functions as both a microscope and mirror, paying homage to the characters that color the poet’s world, in both real life and fiction. It serves as a prayer for them, and for each fragile moment that willed itself into remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFatima Jafar is a Pakistani poet living in Boston, where she is an MFA Poetry candidate at Emerson College. She is a Poetry Reader for \u003cem\u003eMuzzle Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and is the co-creator of the South Asian literary platform \u003cem\u003eDHOOP Journal\u003c\/em\u003e (www.dhoopjournal.com). Her work has been published in, or is forthcoming, in \u003cem\u003eEunoia Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sandy River Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Shore\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnti-Heroin Chic Mag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Pinch\u003c\/em\u003e and more. 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The poems touch on dearly remembered experiences with tender hands and a thoroughly tender heart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoems like “Overreaction” confront seasonal depression for those bitter and scared of what winter brings. Poems like “Above” place nature and urbanization in contrast, while “Brick” recognizes the beauty in the city’s hidden spaces. This is a book of childhood nostalgia, aging, fear, comfort, love, and above all, contemplation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eTaylor Cielo is a former editor-in-chief of the magazine \u003cem\u003eThe Arrowhead\u003c\/em\u003e, former sushi chef, and current legal proofreader. She has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Arrowhead\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNorth Carolina Bards Poetry Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eBards Against Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e chapbook. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her best friends and her beloved cat. 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Questioning everything from the universe itself to childhood promises to a simple pot of soup. It’s about not being afraid to let go of the edge, to jump off a cliff and nosedive into something unknown. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the brave act of bidding past traumas and anxieties, regrets and broken hearts, and should haves and could have beens a final adieu without the what ifs holding you back. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's to finally take flight and be the bird…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNicole Moon is a hoarder of many things including old books and many many plants. When she’s not writing, watching “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” for the umpteenth time (which she’s nearly memorized all the dialogue of word for word!), sleeping in past noon, or collecting knick-knacks and things she’ll never put to use, she’s more than likely daydreaming about scenarios that will probably never happen in real life. \u003cem\u003eAlways the Wind and Never the Bird\u003c\/em\u003e is her first published book, but she certainly hopes it won’t be her last!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe can be found writing on 1995june.tumblr.com or @andneverthebird on instagram. 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So accustomed to looking at the world and the sea and the sky with others to tell you what they see, looking again in a way all your own after all the final moments you shared together is a different kind of voyage. The world you built together yesterday is familiar and welcoming, but is anyone still there now aside from you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSabrynne Buchholz’s debut chapbook notes the struggle between holding onto something lost and moving on and forward with something new, and finding balance between appreciating old memories and feeling ready to make new ones. Each poem marks a step along the path toward what’s to come, as well as a gentle farewell to what’s already been.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSabrynne Buchholz is a writer, artist, musician, tea-enthusiast, and avid bug friend. Sabrynne is at home in Colorado, where she thoroughly enjoys the snowy winter weather and opportunities to create. She graduated from Colorado State University with a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Liberal Arts and a minor in English. Through academic exploration, she gained editorial and research experience and it was here that she discovered a love of poetry. Sabrynne has taken to using poetry as a means of investigating and learning about the world she inhabits. Her work has been published in print and online nationally and internationally, appearing in the \u003cem\u003eGreyrock Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBloom Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStudio OUCH! 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The stories begin with a death and a rebirth, wondering at what the soul holds onto when the body has been abandoned. This death and rebirth is not just literal, but the death and rebirth many experience in the wake of trauma; we are no longer the people we once were and the question is asked, “Is there a name to be called when I am no longer the person I was?” When discussing grief, many forget to include who we are and who we become after a loss, and how we have to meet ourselves once again. Grief is not one singular feeling or experience, it is evolving and encompassing and becomes written into our very bones, an echo in the backs of our minds. This doesn’t mean that grief is something terrible or something to be avoided—grief can be the way in which you change and grow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eIntertwined with reverie and natural imagery, many of these poems carry a softness meant to hold the readers, and cushion their bodies when the free fall comes. It aims to encourage you to greet your shadows and see what you can become once the sun stops burning your skin and is instead a warm embrace once again. There is no running from grief, not really, and while \u003cem\u003eIcarus \u0026amp; Her Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e is a reflection on grief, these poems are also the hope and the promise of better days to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003elee 이 therese is a mixed-aapi poet (hanguk\/kānaka\/white) born \u0026amp;amp; raised in SE Portland, OR, currently living in Olympia, WA. 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Through language and record keeping, the author explores this process of trying to maintain both parts of themself: the half that lives in the minds of their family and the half that newly is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMeg Lubey is a painter and writer from Buffalo, New York currently studying and working in Cleveland, Ohio. Their paintings have been on view in galleries like Albright-Knox Contemporary Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY, Reinberger Gallery, Kaiser Gallery, and SPACES in Cleveland, OH, and University Gallery in Ypsilanti, MI. 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Drawing heavily on the philosophy of Walter Benjamin, Simone Weil, and Julia Kristeva, as well as the poetics of Charles Olson and John Ashbery, Pavol seeks to explore the post-internet psyche through surreal and often darkly humorous verse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The real project of the book is to adapt mid century American poetic ideas from writers like Olson, Ashbery, and Berryman to the post internet era. Our moment is so fast and packed with stimulus that we are forced to act as somewhat fractured personal and political subjects in order to simply keep up. These poems aim to provide space for the reader to reconsolidate their dispersed attentions and recognize the eternal continuity of one being to another.” - Grant Pavol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePavol’s poems aim to create a sort of meaningful emptiness akin to the overarching projects of the Dada or Fluxus collectives, artistic groups which saw a sort of optimistic pessimism as the only path of progress. To move to a fruitful future, we must recognize the fruitlessness of the present; however, if we did so without a sense of love, compassion, and humor, we would be just as lost as we are now. These poems thus seek to critique the dissociations of the present through a wary yet sentimental embrace of what is yet to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGrant Pavol is a musician and writer. Born in Philadelphia to a family of writers and artists, Grant began his creative life at a young age. He became involved with the Philadelphia experimental music scene at the age of 15, and has been organizing and playing shows ever since. He has released several projects through Accidental Popstar Records, including his latest effort, an EP entitled “Reflections.” His writing draws heavily on 20th century mystic philosophy by writers like Walter Benjamin and Simone Weil, but channels it into a contemporary approach inspired in equal parts by John Ashbery and Tim Hecker. 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As a result, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania\u003c\/em\u003e perpetually folds into itself in order to ensure the intention of the image\/text poet does not wither in the face of vocal expectation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAn exploration of gender, queer joy, religion, and the boundless intersections between heritage, media, marginalization, trauma, alternative art, and deeply-rooted awareness of the suffering soul, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual for No One\u003c\/em\u003e is an ancient punk prayer of both embodiment and disembodiment: an anti-capitalist conjuration born of “being” rather than “doing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAmi J. Sanghvi (he\/they) is a non-binary, Indian-American, queer author, artist, designer, boxer, Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, and recent graduate from the California Institute of the Arts Creative Writing M.F.A. program (concentration: image\/text). He is a fiction editor for \u003cem\u003eDecolonial Passage\u003c\/em\u003e, poetry editor for \u003cem\u003eWrongdoing Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, staff writer for \u003cem\u003eChaotic Merge\u003c\/em\u003e, and photographer for \u003cem\u003eAsianZine\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the co-founder and co-editor of Gutslut Press. His work has recently appeared in \u003cem\u003eSo It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eInverted Syntax\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHumana Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eI Hope You’ll Still Love Me: A South Asian LGBTQIA+ Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMasalazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZindabad Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and several other publications and exhibitions. He was also a featured author for LUPERCALIApress's \u003cem\u003eVULCANALIA '21\u003c\/em\u003e anthology. He is the winner of Really Serious Literature's Beefy Chapbook Potato-Rito Remote Residency To-Go Contest XXL, with publication of his chapbook, \u003cem\u003eBaby Wraith Burrito Bones\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming in 2022. Additionally, his chapbook, \u003cem\u003e[in]transpiring\u003c\/em\u003e, was published with swallow::tale press in November 2021, while his chapbook, \u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Baby Vamp: Letters to John Milton\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Gutslut Press in December 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ami J. 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These poems explore the way in which we think of loss and how loss lingers past our fingertips even when those we loved have been gone so long that our memories fade. These poems circulate around the loss of a mother, the loss of ourselves, the loss of a happy mind in a questioning world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath and Darlings\u003c\/em\u003e is concerned with the way in which we perceive life and is drenched in the weathered gray robes we hide our bodies under. Throughout these poems there is a sense of obsession and body: what does it mean to embody? How do our bodies hold our hauntings? Some poems deal with the embodiment of living with an eating disorder and what it means to want to leave your skin behind to find new land. Other poems unpack what it means to live with a ghost stuck inside of your skin. Throughout, \u003cem\u003eDeath and Darlings\u003c\/em\u003e wants to disrupt and reorganize your insides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eVictoria holds an MA in English from the University of Maine. Her work has been published in \u003cem\u003eInterpret Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003epioneertown\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the winner of FC2’s 2021 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Victoria strives to create work that can meld together the punk roots her parents raised her in with the disillusionment of losing her mother at a young age. Overall, she hopes to discomfort, humor and charm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Victoria Hood","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39576021598279,"sku":"DEATVH","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39576021631047,"sku":"DEATVHe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/deathanddarlingsFront.png?v=1697488777"},{"product_id":"everer","title":"Every Imagined Tundra, by Elisa Rowe","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"There's a lightness that permeates \u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e. These poems remind us of the beauty within the intricate and intimate. The radiance of the everyday moment. The glorious experience of witnessing the world around us and the ‘arc of screaming sky.’”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Tatiana Johnson-Boria, author of \u003cem\u003eNocturne in Joy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Elisa Rowe’s debut collection, \u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e, is a passage through the intimate winters of life. An ode to changing landscapes, external, corporeal, familial; the collection leads with crisp imagery, vivid topographies, and an earnest vulnerability. Rowe writes with a subtle resplendence, delving through the indelible and landing home. \u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful debut from a writer with a sure voice and distinct presence.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Sharon Amunguni, writer and poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e is where lavender, anxiety, bunnies, and love lives. Tundras are supposed to be lifeless, right? Well, Elisa\u0026amp;#39;s debut chapbook is nothing less than life giving. Each line, stanza and page is where melancholy meets revival. Elisa, a neurodivergent immigrant proves that truth can be liberating.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Nakia Hill, Poet, Educator, and Journalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Poet Elisa Rowe expertly navigates the murky expanse of acute knowing in \u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e. Seeping with searing beauty, the bite of loss, the recognition of mortality, and more, Rowe's lyrical first offering sprouts up in the heart and lingers long after reading.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Jacquinn Sinclair, Journalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elisa Rowe takes us on a journey into Boston through the lens of a neurodivergent immigrant, a journey where we experience ‘licking the gray air’ and where our bodies are ‘a survival kit.’ \u003cem\u003eEvery Imagined Tundra\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully rendered collection of poems.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Soyoung L. Kim, artist and writer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eElisa Rowe (she\/her) is a neurodivergent immigrant, writer, educator, and poet. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSAND Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Sable Books' anthology: \u003cem\u003eThe Ending Hasn't Happened Yet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSojourners Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. In 2019 and 2020 she was selected by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola to participate in the Boston Mayor's Poetry Program. You can find more of her work at www.elisarowe.com or follow her on Twitter @elisacwrites.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elisa Rowe","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39577900548167,"sku":"EVERER","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39577900580935,"sku":"EVERERe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/tundrafront.png?v=1679603856"},{"product_id":"disjal","title":"Disjecta Membra, by Audrey Lee","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e is the second collection of poetry from Audrey Lee. The poems in \u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e focus heavily on location: moving in and out of Lee’s home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the lived experiences within the confines of institutions in and around the city: academic, medical, societal. Lee’s sharp poetic and artistic sensibilities blend with subject matter including recovering from mental illness, unrequited love, and meditations on “being a writer” — whatever that means.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e is assembled from poetry written by Lee over the past two years. As Lee’s first chapbook, Probably, Angels (Maverick Duck Press, 2020) interrogated the coming-of-age experience of girlhood, \u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e says “now what?” in response to the end of adolescence marked by trauma. \u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membr\u003c\/em\u003ea is Lee’s slice-of-life diary of relapse and recovery, infatuation and lovelessness, and continued escape from and subsequent return to home in Philadelphia. What ties the poems in \u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e together is their constant questioning of what it means to be a writer, and subsequently, an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLee ties in sentiments of writers who inspired the collection, including modernists such as Sylvia Plath, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, and Franz Kafka. The result in \u003cem\u003eDisjecta Membra\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal collection of poetry that will resonate with the poetic, artistic, and experiential sensibilities of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAudrey Lee is also the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eProbably, Angels\u003c\/em\u003e (Maverick Duck Press, 2020). She holds a B.A. in creative writing and American studies with a music and media concentration from Franklin \u0026amp; Marshall College. She is the winner of the 2016 DeSales University Poetry Contest, the 2020 Jerome Irving Bank Short Story Prize, and her writing has been recognized by Columbia College of Chicago, the University of Virginia, Ithaca College, and the University of Iowa. Her work has been featured in or is forthcoming from \u003cem\u003eThe Sierra Nevada Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlass: a Journal of Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDIALOGIST\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Indiana Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTeen Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e. A 2020 Best of the Net nominee by Drunk Monkeys, Audrey is a former resident at Sundress Academy for the Arts. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can find her on Instagram @eternallyonline, Twitter @postpunkpoet, and online at www.audrey-lee.vercel.app.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audrey Lee","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39578764640327,"sku":"DISJAL","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39578764673095,"sku":"DISJALe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/disjectafront.png?v=1697488781"},{"product_id":"goldft","title":"Goldfish Musings, by fatima abby tall","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“For me this book is a care ask from myself to myself. It’s a compilation of pieces from the last six years that really encapsulate a habitual coming and going, a deep and forever conflict with one’s own ontology. With the deep shame that comes with existence. These are pieces that I’ve later in my life been very embarrassed and ashamed of. Poems from a time where poetry felt like everything to me and times where it felt like nothing at all. As I risk coming back to the world and showing it my work professionally, I want to make sure that my first collection is an homage, a veneration, a thank you to the person that has brought me here and I feel like this little chapbook does just that. A reminder that I am always and forever returning to myself. The grief that I was dealing with at 18 is the same grief I’m conversing with today. I need that to be recognized. To publish work that hasn’t been touched or returned to in years is terrifying for me, but it feels like a pertinent engagement for my own spiritual\/art practice. And that’s what art feels like to me, a commitment to the grief, a commitment to myself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-fatima abby tall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003efatima abby tall is a Black creative currently residing in Portland, Oregon. They were raised in rural Idaho but feel most at home in Dakar, Senegal. They graduated from the University of Iowa with BA’s in English and Creative Writing and Gender, Women's \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies. fatima does not work within one specific discipline. They tend to create art that consorts with spirit and self. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoldfish Musings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is their first chapbook.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"fatima abby tall","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39579644297287,"sku":"GOLDFT","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39579644330055,"sku":"GOLDFTe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/goldfishfront.png?v=1671309438"},{"product_id":"pitygf","title":"Pity She Didn't Stay 'Til the End, by Gabriela Denise Frank","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eA remote island cabin. The back seat of a vintage convertible Mustang. A theme park with the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world. An octopus tank at an aquarium. The Washington coast after a bomb cyclone. This collection of micro prose by Gabriela Denise Frank is a mix of the real, the unreal, and the surreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFrank’s stories and essays are linked by women who disappear or transform—sometimes to assert selfhood, sometimes in pursuit of (or by) love. Each piece contains a facet of the author’s search to understand her mother, who died when Frank was a teenager. Her mother’s disappearance from life, decades before Frank could imagine what her adult self would long to know, propels the collection’s quests, and questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e“Now that I've outlived her, I see nuance in my mother’s choices,” Frank says. “As a kid, I was frustrated that she stayed in a bad marriage until she became sick, then died, then left me there alone. At the time, my questions were blunt: \u003cem\u003ewhy didn’t you leave?\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ewhy didn’t you stay?\u003c\/em\u003e A person’s dreams and compromises ossify with time; the architecture of our lives becomes both brittle and inescapable. These pieces are attempts to bust open protective structures: the sacristy, the scaffolding, the ribcage.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGabriela Denise Frank is an Italian American literary artist whose work expands from the page into the sonic, the visual, and the physical. A Jack Straw Writer and alumna of Artist Trust's EDGE Development Program for literary artists, her writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eTrue Story\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHAD\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHunger Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBayou\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBaltimore Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Normal School\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. Off the page, her installations and performances transform storytelling into experience. In Seattle’s Central Library, she staged “A Novel Performance,” a month-long performance installation in which she wrote a novel as the public watched—live. In the New Media Gallery at Jack Straw Cultural Center, she installed “UGLY ME,” a multi-media spoken word exhibition that explored beauty and self-worth through the medium of the selfie. Gabriela’s work is supported by 4Culture, Centrum, the Civita Institute, Invoking the Pause, Jack Straw, Mineral School, Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay Artist in Residence. www.gabrieladenisefrank.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gabriela Denise Frank","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39580775317575,"sku":"PITYGF","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39580775350343,"sku":"PITYGFe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/pityfront.png?v=1675111013"},{"product_id":"_cornew","title":"the corner of fishburne and ashley, by Emily Wingfield","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe corner of fishburne and ashley\u003c\/em\u003e is the second collection of poetry from Emily Wingfield. The poems in this work focus on the concepts of growth, change, and new beginnings through the lens of Emily’s recent move to Charleston, South Carolina. Emily’s powerful and honest voice shines through in pieces concerning growing up, family, struggles with mental health, and reflections on the problems of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe corner of fishburne and ashley\u003c\/em\u003e is a culmination of poems written throughout the first five months of her new life in Charleston. Wingfield’s first chapbook, \u003cem\u003ebarely there, surviving\u003c\/em\u003e (self-published, 2021), was an excavation of mind and reminder of reasons to live. This work takes those feelings, building upon them and exploring their connections to Emily’s new life in a new city. The purpose of this chapbook is to explore purpose and new beginnings among the palmetto trees and humid evenings of Charleston she is learning to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eEmily dedicates this work formally to her mother and father, Grace and Ted, but leaves this work as a larger love letter to not just everyone she has met since moving to Charleston, but to those that she has reconnected with as she starts this new chapter in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eEmily will graduate from university in May 2022 and is both fearful of and intrigued by the future. \u003cem\u003ethe corner of fishburne and ashley\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the often ignored beauty of the limbo she finds herself in as she prepares for graduation and entering “the real world,” through profoundly confessional poetry. She hopes readers will resonate with the deeply human experience of learning and evolving that Emily explores in \u003cem\u003ethe corner of fishburne and ashley\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eEmily Wingfield is a 21-year-old bisexual, Black, AAPI author and creative from Charleston, South Carolina. She is the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003ebarely there, surviving\u003c\/em\u003e, which was self-published in May 2021. She is pursuing a B.A. in History with a minor in Education from Arcadia University. She is a member of the Social Action and Justice Education Fellowship at Arcadia and credits a large part of her ability to flourish in self-confidence to this community. She is a founding member of the online poetry house, Tenderheart Collective (@tenderheartcollective on Instagram). Her work has been published in a variety of university interdisciplinary journals and literary magazines and she is looking forward to pursuing further publication opportunities. 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Broken into three segments of flood, fire, and famine, this collection is the author’s exploration of her inherited agonies: the covenant between a girl and her mother, the infection of religion, love and youth as a double-edged sword, the beast of hunger. This collection ricochets between geographies, from cityscape to haunted country to sweltering homeland. Poems shed their skin and don new forms, metamorphosing from page to page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eApocalypse resurfaces throughout this collection, a metaphor for the violence inherent in change. Cities flood. Women starve. Destruction sheaths the world and gives birth to the new: fiery skies breaking into rubies, eyes fracturing into diamonds. Mothers give birth to daughters who give birth to song. A bloodline that extends centuries bleeds its dreams into each page, inescapable—a ghost in every poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eDivyasri Krishnan is the author of \u003cem\u003ePRIMORDIAL KNOWLEDGE\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottlecap Press). Originally from Massachusetts, she studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her poems and prose are published or forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eMuzzle Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThird Point Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eArc Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. 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It recounts the illnesses which come and cannot be cured, the friends we find only to lose, and the love that remains as a residue in the heart. These poems reach backwards in memory to grasp at an obscure moment and try to untangle its meaning: what it was for; what it meant then and means now; and if it might hold the key to our future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis is the first chapbook by Jean Ox. It was written over the course of a few years, in sublet rooms and bus terminals across the Midwest. And so this work is imprinted by those places and holds a trace of their scent. \u003cem\u003eOyster Knife\u003c\/em\u003e is for those who have had loved ones vanish, and for the ones who are now vanishing. Hold these poems for a little while before you go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJean Ox is a poet from eastern Kansas. Her poems have appeared most recently in Sobotka. She lives in Chicago and works with computers. 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Written in the ghazal form, each poem in the collection approaches ideas that are traditionally expressed through ghazals: love and longing—for people, cities, and moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe chapbook was born out of a challenge the poet set for herself to write a poem a day for the duration of her travels from the UK to Morocco at the end of 2019. It quickly evolved into a shifting portrait of the overwhelming beauty of daily life. Throughout it, the poet is in awe of everything: walking, the faces of strangers, the sun, and the sky. The newness of travel which turns cold winter days into constant sources of inspiration is also a cause of yearning. In the ghazals, places are found and loved only to be lost days later to a bus ride to the next destination. The acceptance of loss becomes part of the joy of discovery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking back at the last moment before the pandemic, when the freedom of such unbounded wandering was possible, the final lines of the last poem of the collection seem to contain both a premonition and hope: “This snail academic bites her lip\/ Trying not to imagine the future⁠— a full\/empty illegible postcard.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eMina Hassan was born in Chicago and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She is a recent graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied comparative literature and politics. 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The moments when the fur sprouting from your skin leaves you itchy, booze sounds like a better option than blood, and seals wash up on the Jersey Shore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach piece in the collection glimpses into the lives of characters grappling with transformative powers, whether they have taken on an animal form themselves or have encountered an animal-human hybrid. All of the squirrels may be wearing party hats, but adopting cats is more complicated than it seems and feeding the birds doesn’t always end well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMelissa Martini (she\/her) is a short fiction writer and Capricorn from New Jersey. She studied Creative Writing in both undergrad and graduate school at Seton Hall University. Currently, she serves as Founder \u0026amp; EIC of Moss Puppy Magazine and is staff at the winnow mag. She can be found @melissquirtle and her publications can be viewed at melibeans.wixsite.com\/home. 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Here, the author nonlinearly explores her fractured cultural identity in poems such as ‘halved,’ her entangled familial relationships in confessionals such as ‘bad again’ and ‘two names,’ and her centipede-infested brain in thirty-minute word-vomits such as ‘focus’ and ‘hymn.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eBeware the half-dead voices, the muffled sound of Halsey’s “1121” and the various creepy-crawlies perpetually lurking in the dark. Rather, look towards the light of the author’s unbridled love for the only place she can truly call home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eNatalie D.C. is an 18-year-old artist and writer based in Pittsburgh, PA. Her writing grapples with her erratic mental health and conflicting half-Moroccan identity. She has been published in two consecutive issues of the Ralph Munn Creative Writing Anthology and has received regional and national recognition by the Scholastic Art \u0026amp; Writing Awards. 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Beginning in the dead of night, at the lowest of heights, the poems gradually rise to a precipice tall enough to see the sun. It is a journey of learning how to reconcile with unexplainable grief, with one’s own misery. When life hands us a blow we can either allow it to knock us to the ground or find the strength inside to push ourselves onto our feet. \u003cem\u003eGrind Your Dreams into Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e is an ode to taking one’s shattered parts and turning it into art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis is a story of opening up to the world, of breaking down the walls we hide behind. Although there is pain to face, there is love to be known. When we allow our voices to be heard, we can recognize the beauty in our own words. You are a part of the world’s symphony and have a verse. No one else can sing your song. These poems are meant as a guide to one’s own self discovery. Let them serve as a flickering light as you make your way home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eCurrently residing in the city of Philadelphia, Teagan Lewis is just finishing up her bachelor’s degree at Thomas Jefferson. In her free time, she works at an ice cream shop and enjoys all the music the city has to offer. The moon and the sea will remain her greatest loves. 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The collection seeks to embrace collectivity, simultaneity, happenstance, contradiction, and the unconscious in place of extraction, teleology, individualism, logic, and control. The resulting poetic terrain is, perhaps, a strange one—inhabited by rubbing boulders, eyeless shrimps, fingernails, galaxies, and grapefruits. Yet here we are. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of the poems in the collection are derived from automatic writing exercises, devised rituals, found objects, and overheard conversations, among other sources. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eLine in the Throat, Something in the Sand\u003c\/em\u003e suggests this: There are things about which we do not know.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJamie Packs is a writer based in Philadelphia, PA. He received a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University and is currently pursuing a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. 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Her collection functions cyclically, opening with “Waking,” and retiring with “Vespers;” it finally concludes with the title poem “The Robin Is Still Beautiful” to inspire the hope that allows her to live each day anew despite excruciating pain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Robin Is Still Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e does come with trigger warnings for rape, assault, suicide, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eand eating disorders. While it is important to proceed with caution, Kan hopes her stark \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ehonesty will expose others to her distressing reality. She takes her responsibility as an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eadvocate very seriously and is honored to be sharing her work with the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKaitlin Kan (簡姬玲) is a Chinese-Latvian writer and editor. Born in the suburbs of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePhiladelphia, she is an alumna of Phillips Academy Andover and a current student at Yale University where she is studying English and Psychology. In addition to poetry, she has received recognition for her prose and fiction. 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This chapbook contains some of Unetich’s newer, longer-style pieces that each tell their own short story, written through a retrospective, nostalgic lens. Elements of the four seasons, light, and dark are woven into many of the pieces so that each piece can not only be read but can also be seen and felt. \u003cem\u003eArtist’s Rendition\u003c\/em\u003e serves as a study of the intersections between important memories, confusion, the five senses, and light, and how we remember and process such moments once their times are up, through the mind’s eye of an artist, poet, and writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eUnetich’s prose can best be described as nostalgic, wistful, and delicate. She aspires to rewrite each important memory as if it was an artist’s rendition, a different, unique interpretation of each small moment. Each stanza is a different memory, feeling, thought, or conversation brought together to create a piece that revolves around one specific person or period of Unetich’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGreta Unetich (they\/she) has been writing poetry since eighth grade. She published her debut book of poetry, \u003cem\u003eLook Both Ways\u003c\/em\u003e, in December 2019 and \u003cem\u003ePolaris\u003c\/em\u003e in May 2021. Unetich is an editor for B\u003cem\u003euzzsaw Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDetritus Zine\u003c\/em\u003e, and a regular contributor to \u003cem\u003eBuzzsaw Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDetritus Zine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKindergarten Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLiving Zine\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books are available for purchase at Buffalo Street Books and Odyssey Bookstore in Ithaca, New York and at Monaco's Coffee in Geneva, New York. In addition, their poems have been published in several print and digital magazines across the United States, Canada, and India. Unetich attends Ithaca College where she majors in biology and minors in chemistry and education. They hope to become a high school biology and chemistry teacher and a diabetes educator in a hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Greta Unetich","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39599824371783,"sku":"ARTIGU","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39599824404551,"sku":"ARTIGUe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/artistsfront.png?v=1697488855"},{"product_id":"boybjj","title":"BOY BAND, by Jenna Jaco","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eGet your lipgloss on, lads—we’re exploring performance, gender, and desire under capitalism! \u003cem\u003eBOY BAND\u003c\/em\u003e dunks you into a pit of perfume samples, licensed merchandise, fast food menus, and glossy magazine spreads where every heartthrob divulges their likes, dislikes, and most embarrassing moment. With a style that flickers between conversational and experimental, \u003cem\u003eBOY BAND\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to make sense of this detritus.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoy bands themselves serve a unique cultural function—they’re safe, distilled packages of masculinity and devotion. They do not threaten; they cannot let you down. At the same time, their existence furthers some of the most unsavory aspects of late capitalism and cisheteronormativity, the latter of which is honestly weird considering some of those outfits.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBOY BAND\u003c\/em\u003e, one poem takes you to the strangest carousel you’ve never seen. Another gives instructions for becoming your own teen idol. An annotated calendar walks you through a month of undulating gender expressions. As a whole, these poems examine the relationship between performers and observers of all kinds, the bizarre gender escapism a boy band offers, and the modern-day imperative to collect them all, choose your favorite, and love it until it hurts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJenna Jaco is a writer, small object collector, rom com apologist, and faffer-about from Austin, Texas. They have a background in rhetoric, literature, technical writing, and information architecture, and studied poetry in translation on a Fulbright grant to Korea. 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It is an open letter to all those who have felt the tug of grief and loss plucking away at their heart strings. It is for those who have sat at the bottom of their shower and cried their eyes out– hoping desperately that no one could hear them \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003esobbing\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003e beneath the pulse of rushing water. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003eIn that same respect, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Eating Marigolds\u003c\/i\u003e is not exclusively an ode to sadness and despair. It is also a hopeful offering– an outstretched hand, grasping for those who swore they were abandoned on the spit-slick tile of their bathroom floors– for those who need a helping hand to get back up and continue growing through the cracks in the pavement. It is for those silently searching for a gentle reminder of t\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003ehe fact that no \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003eone truly suffers alone. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Eating Marigolds\u003c\/i\u003e offers a raw, unfiltered look into the lives of those struggling with mental illness, heartbreak\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003e and loss. But it also aims to offer solace in the fact that the feelings and experiences detailed in these writings are not only that of the author– they are reflective of the collective experience that so many others both before and after them have had or will one day experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003eWith every cry of pain that rips through our chests and every kind word we utter, there is an echo that is born within the cavernous tunnel that holds each of our wandering souls– ricocheting off the walls and creating a ripple that will touch not only us, but all those around us. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Eating Marigolds\u003c\/i\u003e is a single ripple in this greater effect– an echo throughout the tunnel that begs to be heard by all those who are lost amongst the darkness– convinced that there is no light to be found on the other side.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bumpedFont15\"\u003eAbagail Lim is a U.S. based poet from the suburbs of Chicago, IL. 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