{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"aboojd","title":"A Book About Things I Will Tell My Daughter, by Joel L. Daniels","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePoetry, paperback, 80 pages, from \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\n\"I love the shit out of my daughter. I want to change the world, with words. This started as affirmations for Lilah, which turned into prayers, which turned into love letters, which turned into essays, which turned into poems, which then turned into all of the above.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis has been written in the same vein as Claudia Rankine's Citizen, for context. I wanted to write something that could document my experience as a single father, a single Black father, raising a soon-to-be 2-year-old Afro-Latina in the 45th era. I wanted her to know me, and know herself, with the hope that it would help fathers learn their own daughters, and learn themselves, too.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Joel L. Daniels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoel L. Daniels is a storyteller, born and raised in the Bronx. He was the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts BRIO Award for poetry, and his work has been featured in the \u003cem\u003eColumbia Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, Cafe.com, \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCNN Money\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Towner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFatherly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThought Catalog\u003c\/em\u003e, Philadelphia Printworks, \u003cem\u003eThe Smoking Section\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlavity\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBBC Radio\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRCRD LBL\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eURB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBRM\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAllHipHop\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Source\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRESPECT\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHipHopDX\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe's spoken\/performed at the Apollo Theater, Joe's Pub, Rockwood Music Hall, Columbia University, Lehman College, City Tech, The National Black Theater, NYU, Webster Hall, Pianos, and Brooklyn Bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joel L. Daniels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556557439047,"sku":"ABOOJD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556557471815,"sku":"ABOOJDe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/A-Book-About-Things-I-Will-Tell-My-Daughter_-by-Joel-L.-Daniels-Bottlecap-Press-1656793282.jpg?v=1656794291"},{"product_id":"aboymw","title":"a boy named jane, by M. Wright, with art by Leah Fargo","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, paperback, 84 pages, illustrated, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis new edition of M. Wright's \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaborative re-release with artworks by Minneapolis artist Leah Fargo. Leah teamed with poet M. Wright to create art works that elevate each poem in \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e. This re-release calls upon the reader to consider the narrative collection from both a linguistic and visual perspective with the juxtaposition of each of the 39 paintings and their correlating poems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of narrative poetry that follows the coming-of-age of an adolescent as he navigates crisis. In these poems, M. Wright’s musings on purpose, death, love, the existential, and the body oscillate from fear to excitement to contentedness to find a kind of solace in the unknowable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I am glad that M. Wright has written a chapbook that focuses heavily on cows and organic material. I used to live beside a cow pasture. Whenever I would pass beside it and see cows walking around, eating, etc., I would always think to myself that the cows seemed mysterious and beautiful. The investigations of life, death, process, and organism contained in Wright’s chapbook are earnest and emotional. This is my favorite passage from \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e: ‘in my dream \/ you were a cow \/ and you were me.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eLuis Neer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It isn't rare for me to use words as fodder for generating imagery—but I'd never read words which hit me quite like those in \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e. The simplicity of language is deceptive, as the more time you spend with each phrase, the deeper you can tread down a rabbit hole of existential musings (in the disguise of poetry about cows.) Wright's novel use of language inspired experimental uses of paint which attempt to interpret the heart of each poem as I perceived it. To spend time churning these words into paintings was a growth experiment in my own artistic process and a reflection of the exceptional thematic content of \u003cem\u003ea boy named jane\u003c\/em\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Leah Fargo, artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. Wright is the author of \u003cem\u003eDear Dementia\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2017) and the winner of The Atlantis Award for poetry. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eGlass Poetry Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSquawk Back\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGhost City Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ecahoodaloodaling\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTemenos Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. More at: wrightm.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M. 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Okoyomon’s poems are sexual, healthy, and full; or moreso an exploration of what it means to be all of these things. Precious Okoyomon’s poetry is an exploration of both the body and pure emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Precious is a raw, instinctual writer with an imagination so visceral it feels real even when it's ridiculous. She's hilarious and heartbreaking all at once.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Yoni Wolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eAjebota\u003c\/em\u003e is the kind of devoted and intimate writing that succeeds at levels, at taking the personal and making it common. Precious’s writing is both tender and difficult, demanding you see it for what it really is, asking you to see beyond the deconstruction of a relationship. Because as she so beautiful put it, when I leak\/I leak me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSara Sutterlin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"it disturbs me how on point this collection of writing is. it disturbs me how much i connect with these poems. my computer almost blew up when i was reading this no lie. makes me uncomfortable in the right way. checking me while reading you.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Alexandra Marzella\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Precious Okoyomon","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556614586439,"sku":"AJEBPO","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556614619207,"sku":"AJEBPOe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/Ajebota_-by-Precious-Okoyomon-Bottlecap-Press-1656793332.jpg?v=1656794294"},{"product_id":"altedd","title":"Alternatives, by Dalton Day","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlternatives\u003c\/em\u003e is a fantastical collection of prose poems (thirty to be exact) that allow the reader a look into Dalton Day’s head. 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This is what it’s like to not know how to stop a break-up from continuing, the end of a relationship perpetuating itself—to meet your ex for coffee even though you know you shouldn’t be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Wheeler Light interrogates the snow, the ice, the frost which grows between two bodies. 'After being cold for so long one becomes numb,' and then what? Light uses poetry to keep winter, to freeze it, to hold it in place. 'You love my glove but not my hand.\" This text works to define, to navigate, and to confront the tundra of being in love (and of falling out). It works to extend. It works to exhaust. To define so tenderly the compilation of snowflakes, and the unsettling feeling when one sees its eventual shape.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eShy Watson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Wheeler Light is a wholly original new voice in American poetry. In \u003cem\u003eBlue Means Snow\u003c\/em\u003e he invents a unique form interweaving lyric narrative with adventurously personal dictionary definitions, and suffuses his pages with so much urgency and experience, the book becomes breathtaking. Open your door to this blizzard, let it leave a toothbrush in your house. You will be permanently enriched by the experience.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Anton Yakovlev, author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Impalers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eBlue Means Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, Wheeler Light gives the reader 'an excuse to play in the snow, childlike; to play with words' alongside the speaker. The poem is an ars poetica inside a snowglobe that's actually a microcosm of a relationship. Light layers this reflective world with an honesty as blinding as the sun's winter glare--captivating and at times painful--but 'truly beautiful, truly really beautiful.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Kelly Lorraine Andrews, author of\u003cem\u003e My Body is a Poem I Can't Stop Writing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWheeler Light lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he writes and leads poetry workshops for Art From Ashes. A Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of the Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize, he strives to create poetry in which trauma and healing can exist together. 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It reveres the back alleys and boxcars and diners of true discovery that now reside mostly in memory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiffusely Yours\u003c\/em\u003e is Kate Garklavs’ debut chapbook. Its poems examine what the artifacts of location bring to bear on us and how we translate these gifts to the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eDiffusely Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, we \"uphold the glittered, misspelled letter of the law\" one minute and the next finds us \"in crawlspaces looking for Gunne Sax.\" Narrative-driven and sharp-tongued, Garklavs' letters are haunting and taunting: we may want to believe \"in our diamond future we are richer\" but Garklavs, like a good prophet, tells us what's in store won't be sweet or sentimental, but \"dark as a blot on a heart.\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Tasha Cotter, author of \u003cem\u003eSome Churches\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eDiffusely Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, Kate Garklavs transforms second-hand ordinary objects into shining beacons that remind us “artifacts outlast us all, \/ recasting under each new hand \/ that claims them.” Her poems, addressing reams of memory, eschew grand nostalgia to meditate on everyday imperfections. Garklavs’ work confronts the reality of material culture and our ephemeral existence. “I’m reimaging my personal brand,” she admits, frank about aging, capitalism’s false promises, and the desire to connect across vast distances. Love always surfaces in spite of the things that may overcrowd our lives. Garklavs beautifully reminds us that it is people who cultivate hope and joy in a difficult world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Alyse Bensel, poet, book reviews editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kate Garklavs' \u003cem\u003eDiffusely Yours\u003c\/em\u003e is an enthralling collection of letters to other people, saying all the things we want to say but never usually do. The lines range from darkly funny (\"Normcore means never having to say you're sorry\") to starkly poignant (\"Someday we'll take down\/a wall and revel in the dust we ignored\"). The landscape is ordinary, but the best kind of ordinary: the kind we exist in. The poems range from existing in shopping malls, a kitchen, high school, etc. But really, the landscape isn't just physical, it's love. It's centered on keeping love, losing love, fighting for love, and all those pesky gray areas and details inbetween. Human relationships are difficult, and this collection illustrates that, from person to person, allowing the speaker to give us a glimpse into their fractured, but still whole, world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJoanna C. Valente\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Garklavs’ letters traverse the country, plumb relationships, objects, time—as in era and moment, what is a system of measurement and also an idea, what places anywhere on a map and also says, we are here. These wildly private and equally public poems—the epistolary as much form as content—are as much intimate address to a beloved you as to the world where we live, the world where we once lived. “Remember” the poems say, and even if we don’t exactly, we do, are there. I love \u003cem\u003eDiffusely Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, its thrifting. Every single poem makes me want to write back.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Monica Berlin, English Department Chair, Knox College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eKate Garklavs lives and works in Portland, OR. Her work has appeared in Juked, apt, Leveler, Tammy, and The Airgonaut, among other places. 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Brady","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557161582663,"sku":"EATICEB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557161615431,"sku":"EATICEBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/Eating-Alone-At-Chipotle_-by-Carmen-E.-Brady-Bottlecap-Press-1656793469.jpg?v=1656794299"},{"product_id":"goodbo","title":"GOOD LUCK WITH THE MOON \u0026 STARS \u0026 STUFF, by beyza ozer","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, prose poetry, chapbook, 27 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGOOD LUCK WITH THE MOON \u0026amp; STARS \u0026amp; STUFF\u003c\/em\u003e is a product of something small turning into something a little bigger, but it's still pretty small. it's lonely but it's also the first person you call after a hard day at work or school. these poems \u0026amp; tiny stories were written during a very messy year and they are trying to fix themselves up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\"Motherfuckers, i'm ill,\" Beyza Ozer writes, \u0026amp; motherfuckers, it's true: Beyza Ozer is ill. It would be unfair to compare these poems to another American Poet or make some metaphorical comparison to hungry animals or some shit like that. \u003cem\u003eGood Luck With The Moon \u0026amp; Stars \u0026amp; Stuff\u003c\/em\u003e contains the hyperbole of stand-up, wit of the writer's room, \u0026amp; a sincere adoration of human relationships--we could call that love. Ozer's poems unpack what we've come to expect from contemporary poetry \u0026amp; asks for more, asks us to put our faith in humanity. This is not post-confessional or new sincerity or whatever the kids are calling love poems these days. This is the poetry of the emo revival. Eat your heart out, American Football.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Joshua Young, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Holy Ghost People \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGood Luck With The Moon \u0026amp; Stars \u0026amp; Stuff\u003c\/i\u003e might be called a chapbook but I’m calling it ‘getting to know my soul mate.’ Beyza Ozer reminds us that we are all missing some necessary parts. The trick is finding someone to buy them on eBay for you. There’s a generosity in these poems that redefines joy: fear and brutality, romance and injury, all the realities of life. What I mean is Ozer’s “I want to grow you the bluest ocean” is the only way to say \u0026amp; mean I love you in all its infinite, unknowable parts. Ozer’s poems are the items we find buried under our skin, the specific intimacies of being alive. “A lifetime is not long enough” but here we are, fighting to live \u0026amp; planning for death.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Alexis Pope, author of \u003ci\u003eSoft Threat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"beyza ozer’s \u003cem\u003eGOOD LUCK WITH THE MOON \u0026amp; STARS \u0026amp; STUFF\u003c\/em\u003e is a spirit-collage made out purple tenderness. it’s a tiny heart attack spelunking in the back pocket of Anxiety’s jeans. it’s a mystical portal to a cave you heard about. the one that shouldn't have wildflowers inside of it but it does and it tickles. it’s that awkward moment when we realize the mortality of human feeling is both visceral and adorable and that’s a l r i g h t. trust me. i know things.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ejamie mortara\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"beyza ozer","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557162958919,"sku":"GOODBO","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557162991687,"sku":"GOODBOe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/GOOD-LUCK-WITH-THE-MOON-_-STARS-_-STUFF_-by-beyza-ozer-Bottlecap-Press-1656793528.jpg?v=1656794301"},{"product_id":"hotesv","title":"Hotel Ghost, by Stephanie Valente","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHotel Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e is Stephanie Valente's first poetry collection. There is a sense of urgency in the relationship between longing and desire. The poems take turns between different ghosts: the acts of dreaming and lingering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eStephanie Athena Valente lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her published works include \u003cem\u003eHotel Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ewaiting for the end of the world\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLittle Fang\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSpell Work\u003c\/em\u003e (Bottlecap Press \u0026amp; Giallo). Featured writing includes \u003cem\u003eWitch Craft Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the associate editor at \u003cem\u003eYes, Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. Sometimes, she feels human. stephanievalente.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Valente","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557166989383,"sku":"HOTESV","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557167022151,"sku":"HOTESVe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/Hotel-Ghost_-by-Stephanie-Valente-Bottlecap-Press-1656793568.jpg?v=1656794302"},{"product_id":"howtad","title":"How The Heartache Humbled Me, by Alessia Di Cesare","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow The Heartache Humbled Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a soft collection of poetry that unthreads weakness associated with vulnerability and sews it back together with strength. It’s about finding the courage to say, “yes I am hurting” while no longer fearing your honest heart. It’s about loss. It’s about missing someone, until you don’t. Most importantly, \u003cem\u003eHow the Heartache Humbled Me\u003c\/em\u003e is stitched with the intentions to heal. It is a remedy for the brokenhearted, and a reminder to let the leftover love soften you, instead of harden you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlessia Di Cesare is a poet, daydreamer, and an anti-linear storyteller based in Toronto, Ontario. She is the co-founder of Northern Otter Press and has edited poetry for \u003cem\u003eWitchcraft Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. She studied English Literature at the University of Ottawa. 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After finding Stehling’s book buried at a thrift store, Sarah Kennedy’s first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eHow To Find A Husband\u003c\/em\u003e, is part of a larger performance project involving following and documenting this guide. Utilizing corresponding partial photographs from her parents personal archives to create a planned dialogue between the written and the visual, the goal of the overall project boils down to: can intimacy be forced, planned, or controlled?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHow To Find a Husband\u003c\/em\u003e reads as a gossamer yet temporal choose-your-own-adventure manual which buries its hands into the cognitive dissonance of conjugality, all the while your mother's voice reminding you that the past is speculative at best, and that the future has already happened.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Kristine Leschper, artist and musician in \u003cem\u003eMothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"A squirrelish poem with speeding heart, turning and flipping alongside radiant squares of nostalgia.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Rachel B. Glaser, author of \u003cem\u003eHairdo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePee on Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"This little book is a bit haunting... the photos often cut off just before they'd become recognizable, and the poems are spare and feel disembodied as well. You may have the sensation you've encountered this object before in a life you can't quite remember. In any case, it is an artifact that demands a close examination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKimmy Walters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eSarah Kennedy is a printmaker, sculptor, and scorpio living in Athens, GA.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarah Kennedy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556572119111,"sku":"HOWTSK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556572151879,"sku":"HOWTSKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/How-To-Find-a-Husband_-by-Sarah-Kennedy-Bottlecap-Press-1656793641.jpg?v=1656794304"},{"product_id":"killkw","title":"Killer, by Kimmy Walters","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, paperback, 95 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eKiller\u003c\/em\u003e is the second poetry collection by Kimmy Walters, a writer characterized by Dazed Magazine as \"one of poetry's brightest young things\" with \"a sense of wit as sharp as her words.\" Heavily influenced by an interest in modern mysteries and forensic science, this collection considers the world with a deep curiosity and a tinge of suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Reading \u003cem\u003eKiller\u003c\/em\u003e feels like being stabbed by someone who then does a comedy act about your injury that is so funny you can't help but laugh, and you aren't sure if the laughter is despite the pain or because of the pain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Mira Gonzalez, author of \u003cem\u003ei will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"This book reminds me of being alive more than other books remind me of being alive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWhen I read this book I feel a little anger at how good it is, but I also feel like I’m laughing in a red convertible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThis book is so good it ruined my day but like in a fun way\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Hera Lindsay Bird, author of \u003cem\u003eHera Lindsay Bird\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eCover by Theron Harley Jacobs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eKimmy Walters (b. 1990) is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eUptalk\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eKiller\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). 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It is a concept album inspired by Lana Del Rey. Surreal landscapes and insincerity masked as sincerity and vice versa and limbo is always a place on earth with you with you with you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book has two alternate covers, and the cover you receive will be selected at random.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan face=\"georgia, serif\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"georgia, serif\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"georgia, serif\"\u003eWhat Alexandra Naughton does in this book is create the Lana Del Rey that Lana Del Rey cannot even create—poetry allows for a deeper exploration of the tropes and ideals Del Rey obsesses on, and Naughton deliciously works her language for a reading experience that indulges in and ultimately transcends the pale pink motels and pepsi cola and becomes literally the engine of the human condition. Underneath Paradise is something chthonic—so please reader, be prepared. This book is a tomb that you will open because yay Lana and then you will close and think, \"holy shit, I have seen too much.\" Don't worry, this is what writing is supposed to do.\u003c\/span\u003e\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Lisa Marie Basile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eMy Posey Taste Like: The Paradise Lost Edition\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eNaughton\u003c\/span\u003e is telling us she's quite done playing performance poetry games (if we hadn't figured that out earlier.) This is a harrowing examination of obsession as fetish, commodity and tragedy on every level of all our lives. I ain't gonna lie...this is scary and creepy work, but it's head on the nail and it knows exactly what Paradise looks like.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Paul Corman Roberts\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Paradise Lost Edition by Alexandra \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eNaughton\u003c\/span\u003e is dreamlike, sensual \u0026amp; unsettling, in a way that sticks with you and gets stuck in your head like a pop song.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Leza Cantoral\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexandra Naughton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556575559751,"sku":"MYPOAN","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556575592519,"sku":"MYPOANe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/My-Posey-Taste-Like--The-Paradise-Lost-Edition_-by-Alexandra-Naughton-Bottlecap-Press-1656793896.jpg?v=1656794309"},{"product_id":"rebemb","title":"rebel\/blonde, by Meghann Boltz","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde \u003c\/em\u003eis Virginia Woolf's\u003cem\u003e Orlando \u003c\/em\u003eby way of Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol. As an exploration into the performativity of gender, it is also an attempt to question the notion of a fixed self. At its core is death, sex, and disappointment. It reverberates with the peroxide hum of existential loneliness; a hymn to a longing that is never satisfied and never goes away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"\u003eMeghann Boltz is a poet living in Buffalo, NY. She recently completed an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry at the University of East Anglia and her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeach Mag\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eglitterMOB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBad Pony\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLor\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDream Pop\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e is her first chapbook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These poems are tender little punks that speak precisely to how beautiful and terrible living is. Meghann Boltz makes me feel drunk on the world, on its ordinary opulence and excesses. A stunning book!\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Sophie Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"The speaker in \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e is the becoming of that which can be imagined, but never apprehended, as concrete as phantasia, the passed-off shapeshifter. Assertive, helpless, powerful: a neon demon whose confessions stream like the traffic down Sunset Blvd. In rebel\/blonde, Meghann Boltz has given deranged pleasure to the task of outlining that which cannot be outlined, that identity which is not one, but a crowd unto itself, deranged as une chanson of pepsi and coke, the \"I\" that cuts a lock of hair from their mother's head straight out of the casket.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Ben Fama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"As in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, \u003cem\u003erebel\/blonde\u003c\/em\u003e mixes a brew of filmstar gossip and what we used to call \"gender confusion\" to magical ends. Meghann Boltz plays that slash mark between \"rebel\" and \"blonde\" like a great conductor or math genius--it twitches, it divides, it clings and cleaves and fractals, bringing together a great chorus of \"I want,\" and diminuendo, a whisper of \"I used to be desperate.\" Not since I encountered the work of Kay Gabriel and Lourdes Figueroa have I been so taken by a poet new to me, nor one as ready and able to take on the stars and the planets.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Kevin Killian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003eMeghann Boltz's poems reveal with ease how the smallest puddle reflects all stars. I love this book, it sweeps me away every time I go to it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-CA Conrad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeghann Boltz is a poet and author of the chapbook \u003cem\u003eCautionary Tale\u003c\/em\u003e (b l u s h, 2021) and microchap \u003cem\u003eRoleplay\u003c\/em\u003e (Ghost City Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003eCosmonauts Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePeachMag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlitterMOB\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVoicemail Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShitwonder\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere, and has recently been anthologized in \u003cem\u003eErase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Hell Press, 2020). She received her MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. You can find her on instagram @meghann__boltz.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meghann Boltz","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557206212679,"sku":"REBEMB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557206245447,"sku":"REBEMBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/rebel-blonde_-by-Meghann-Boltz-Bottlecap-Press-1656793938.jpg?v=1656794310"},{"product_id":"salaet","title":"Salad Box Poems, by Eleanore Tisch","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003eFor the poet, these poems are a location. Where academia intersects poetry - a place of knowing that is both learned and instinctual. Where institutional dulling of curiosity is met with resistance by an insatiable mind and a deep trust of body. Where wounds leak love and containers can’t help but leave traces on their contents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003eA location that poses a question. Where are the borders of our person - and are there these borders and who’s put them here? Where do students keep secrets and how well kept are our gardens?  From where do wounds come if not plastic edges? From where do wounds come if not politics?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003e\"Phenomenology of refuse; deep time in the grime under your nails, your feet, your tongue. In Salad Box Poems, Eleanore Tisch is sending signals from beyond the permapixelated veil of tomorrowland, from the overstimulated organic source. (Here we are, still needing what we don’t, still loving what we must, and it gets us into trouble; we are in a lot of trouble, and walls are good excuses for doors. How might we attend to our aversions and speak in some semblance of song? What better to be about trouble than a poet?) This is chalk on the concrete of your walk to work. This is your friend. This is your friend in cityprayer, never more starkly familiar, wide as awake can be.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Joseph Braun, \u003cem\u003eThe Lune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"No one writes like Eleanore Tisch. The speaker in Salad Box Poems gives her readers an environmental and societal lesson via show-and-tell. She falls to her knees and plays in the mud with cute-cuffed jeans. She points to litter, gives it language, and reads us labels. \"Here. Here. Here.\" This poetry is to be read aloud. The anthropocene is to be acknowledged. The Salad Box is to be mourned. And Tisch's language is to be absorbed. Bravo to Eleanore, the truest poet I have ever known. \u0026lt;3\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Shy Watson\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"\u003eEleanore Tisch, your poet, is a mischievous water creature, born and raised in the city of Chicago. She is a proud product of Chicago Public Schools. Sometimes an academic, sometimes a scalawag, always infatuated with language, she swims through the world attentive to minute moments of compassion - and it’s opposite. She received her B.A. in Writing \u0026amp; Literature from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and her M.A. in Education Foundations, Policy, and Practice from the University of Colorado – Boulder. 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It is about New York City. It is about falling in and out of love. It is about growing up strong. It is about (many) boys. It is about 80s teen movies. It is about empty voids. It is about quiet mornings and late nights. It is about saying too much. It is about saying not enough. It is about invisibility.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"style90\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"style21\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"style89\"\u003eAmanda Dissinger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e works with all sorts of music in Brooklyn. She enjoys 80s pop music, kickboxing, watermelon and the library. She is working on her first book of poetry. Find her\/talk to her about John Cusack\/heckle her at: Tumblr: yesthelivingthing.tumblr.com Twitter: @fragglezrock\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amanda Dissinger","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556652597319,"sku":"THISAD","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556652630087,"sku":"THISADe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/This-is-How-I-Will-Tell-You-I-Love-You_-by-Amanda-Dissinger-Bottlecap-Press-1656794002.JPG?v=1656794312"},{"product_id":"uptakw","title":"Uptalk, by Kimmy Walters","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, paperback, 69 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUptalk\u003c\/em\u003e is Kimmy Walters' first poetry collection. By turns sassy and serious, the poems can seem to sprint in two directions at once, managing to make the reader laugh at the same time they are struck by the emotional strength of the work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"Charming, inviting, beguiling and delightful poems in the language of someone who seems alive speaking refreshing riddles to herself.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Sheila Heti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eUptalk\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of transcribed whale songs. Some scientists gave a whale a microphone and she took it home and stayed up all night under the covers talking to herself about faces and word-parts. I am delighted that Kimmy took it upon herself to transcribe this unique document of marine biology, and my heart goes out to the brilliant, charming whale author, wherever she may be.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Sara Woods\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eKimmy Walters (b. 1990) is the author of two poetry collections, \u003cem\u003eUptalk\u003c\/em\u003e (2015) and \u003cem\u003eKiller\u003c\/em\u003e (2016). 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Inspired by the major arcana tarot cards, the poems explores the unstoppable forces of urgency, love, sex, desire, longing, and identity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe poems remember old lovers, ghosts, imagined romances, undefinable urges, truth-seeking, mythology, and dreams of the future.The poems are comfortable asking the gods questions, without necessarily getting a text back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStephanie Athena Valente lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her published works include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHotel Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ewaiting for the end of the world\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Fang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpell Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Bottlecap Press \u0026amp; Giallo). Featured writing includes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWitch Craft Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaudlin House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She is the associate editor at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eYes, Poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Sometimes, she feels human. stephanievalente.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Valente","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557169610823,"sku":"WAITSV","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557169643591,"sku":"WAITSVe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world_-by-Stephanie-Valente-Bottlecap-Press-1656794071.jpg?v=1656794313"},{"product_id":"wavejc","title":"Waves Closing Over Us, by Janelle Cordero","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 36 pages, illustrated, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\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\u003eWaves Closing Over Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a chapbook of seeker poems by a twenty-something who’s trying to understand death alongside life. True moments are held up for measure: a wife fastening the buttons of her husband’s shirt, the neighbor’s car getting towed, 90’s pop songs playing in a grocery store on a rainy evening. Everything in this chapbook is wavering between happiness with the present moment and questioning what’s to come after all this is finished. And no answers are given for these questions, which is the best part.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eJanelle Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in Spokane, WA. Her writing has been published in dozens of literary journals, including \u003cem\u003eHarpur Palate, Hobart\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Louisville Review, \u003c\/em\u003ewhile her paintings have been featured in venues and shows throughout the Pacific Northwest. Janelle is the author of three books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eMany Types of Wildflowers\u003c\/em\u003e (V.A. 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Live from the trenches, Doran puts a microscope to motherhood and all its attendant absurdities in this lyrical exposé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eForever riding the slosh of uncertainty, Doran ferries us across black bear exhibits and MTV Summer Beach Parties, trying to stake out some sort of maternal footing. At turns humorous and harrowing, anyone that has ever felt screwed by time or the divine will find a companion in this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAlexa Doran is currently a PhD candidate at Florida State University. Her work has recently been featured or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGlass\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGravel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePermafrost\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFIVE:2:ONE\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eConduit\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. 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Tidbits to light your way. Surreal, poem-like pieces that tell of hurt transfigured to healing, of the strangeness and wonder of growing up, of finding beauty in the face of inevitable loss. Moon crumbs are bite-sized, paragraph-length confections that taste alternately sweet, bitter, and savory; playful, sad, and rapturous. The speakers in this chapbook find their joy in nature, language, body, and artifacts of living, but most of all in love and human connection. So what are moon crumbs? Call them prose poems, call them lyrical vignettes, call them snacks for the soul, sprinkled down from a luminous place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSheila Dong is a nonbinary Chinese-American writer based in the desert. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as Tinderbox Poetry Journal, SOFTBLOW, Radar, and Menacing Hedge, as well as being nominated for Best of the Net. 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The works explore the ways in which identity is shaped by others’ expectations. They engage with language, notions of guilt, and feelings of longing for the places we call home. In her debut chapbook, Sarah Sophia Yanni uses memory and emotion to traverse her family, her body, and her mixed culture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eSarah Sophia Yanni is a writer and editor in California. 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The poems in this chapbook exist in the moment right after taking a bite of a Shredded Chicken Mini Quesadilla.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCover art by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eMJ Santiago is a queer Mexican American from central Florida, currently living in Brooklyn. They enjoy making bad art, petting their cats, and organizing with their community. Their first chapbook, \u003cem\u003eBaby Knife\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Tenderness Lit in 2018. 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Or, what it means to be a girl-in-the-Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCherry Lime Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e isn't afraid of unlikely pairings—here we see kisses with blood, moons with flaming hot cheetos, and disbelief with prayer. After reading Emily Present's poems, I was able to appreciate the unlikely beauty of the world in a new way—this is a very special book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Chelsea Hodson, author of \u003cem\u003eTonight I'm Someone Else\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Emily Present's \u003cem\u003eCherry Lime Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e, like most gospel, drapes ritual and iconography in alluring language. These lyric poems long for connection, one surreal image at a time: \"i want to eat roast beef together \/ and then i want to tug it off your ear.\" Present brings the divine into the everyday, where god is present for every fetish the poems are down for. Cherry Lime Gospel is a book for someone who thinks they've read it all, because they haven't.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Ben Fama, author of \u003cem\u003eDEATHWISH\u003c\/em\u003e (Newest York Arts Press, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eFANTASY\u003c\/em\u003e (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmily Present is a writer and third generation New Yorker. She co-founded and has been managing editor of the online literary magazine, \u003c\/span\u003eG*MOB\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (formerly GlitterMOB) since 2014. Her first short book of poems,\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCherry Lime Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, was published in March 2020 by Bottlecap Press (featured in NYLON and NYMag). She is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at Stony Brook University where she is the recipient of The Martell Prize in Creative Writing. She resides in Brooklyn with her dog, Batman and an excessive number of books. You can also find her \u003c\/span\u003e@presentemzo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Present","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39556560617543,"sku":"CHEREP","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556560650311,"sku":"CHEREPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/Cherry-Lime-Gospel_-by-Emily-Present-Bottlecap-Press-1656794418.jpg?v=1656880644"},{"product_id":"leohbg","title":"Leo, Hovering, by Breia Gore","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from \u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #0000ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-press\"\u003eBottlecap Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeo, Hovering\u003c\/em\u003e is a personal telling of exciting feelings piled on exhausting feelings, what love is on some days and what it isn’t on others, and how a sarcastic woman handles newfound stigma. It talks of sex, contradictions, and the soft pain of learning to be human passed rippling effects of generational and personal trauma. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eLeo, Hovering\u003c\/em\u003e are self-aware and deeply personal to where the reader might feel as if they had stumbled upon confessionals in a diary. Breia Gore paints a brutally honest portrait of womanhood against a Florida backdrop, dripping with sunsets, nymphs, prayer, and fits of mania. 'It is a mouthful to call herself a girl at all,' Gore writes, in the poem, 'Rapture,' before musing that it's much easier to say 'black hole' or 'taxidermy.' These poems are dizzy and dreamy, but so carefully rooted in reality.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lauren Milici\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLeo, Hovering\u003c\/em\u003e, Breia Gore offers up a collage of familiar images and objects transformed into a photocopy of a dream with the contrast dialed all the way up. These poems steam \u0026amp; shake \u0026amp; sneak up on you with their wit \u0026amp; heart. When Gore begs 'tell them I loved \/ just about everything' I want to whisper that love to everything I touch.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Emily O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBreia Gore is an Asian-American writer from South Carolina, currently living in Colorado.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer work has appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAdolescent\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlyPaper Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eElectric Moon Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003egiallo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eglitterMOB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerhappened\u003c\/em\u003e. S\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehe is the author of poetry chapbooks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot For Us To Conquer\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Finishing Line Press, 2018),  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeo, Hovering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBottlecap Press, 2019) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eStuck in a Grave\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021). 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There’s so much feeling in this chapbook, we’re so lucky to feel it all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e-Jack Bachmann, author of \u003cem\u003edayglo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"Poetry made mostly of cold-breath-clouds-of-prose. While each poem walks alongside their referential companions in ‘the gallery of you \u0026amp; I,’ they also drift and dream inside a commentary of longing, inviting you join them and be warmed within the wish house,' ('including the people you actively disregard'). For this book is about love, a love larger than the eight Greek words for it, growing on and stretching out, affectionately collecting without objectifying the people or personifying the things. I don't think there is any good place for these poems to stop; I hope they never do.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Jeremy Boyd, author of \u003cem\u003eSplit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In poems that feel like Polaroids from a lovesick summer, Kevin Bertolero captures the subtle tells of attraction and sure-fire evidence of newfound intimacy. A cavalcade of friends and lovers inhabit these poems, the kinds of boys who possess filmic qualities, as relayed to us by a speaker well aware of the all-consuming nature of desire: “I wanna write poems that aren’t about love, \/ but how?” Bertolero’s writing is imbued with the emotional topography of a Frank Ocean song and the open-hearted jouissance of a Frank O’Hara poem—every page of this book is a pleasure.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-William Ward Butler, author of \u003cem\u003eLife History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What does it mean to love? Blogs, the Bible, and bell hooks have all taken a stab at this question, and each has arrived at incomplete answers. In \u003cem\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Bertolero asks this simple—and terribly painful—question with granular specificity. Reading his work, I am forced to confront love I have received but did not earn—emails that read “I understand, please say nothing else,” a simple, knowing “How are you?” at a house party, and the challenges that arise with random kindness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBertolero succeeds most vividly when inhabiting the interior life of his subjects, a skill that developed from relaying so many of these narratives first hand. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the opening salvo. Still, his work conveys a knowledge of literature and culture that doubly provides a retrospective, measured approach to the comings and goings of everyday life. Here, he is most prominently in debt to the American poet Frank O’Hara, whose influence pervades Bertolero’s aesthetic and literary sensibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eFinally, the work collected here captures an astute awareness of time rushed encounters, measured romance, and the growth that inevitability arrives when one packs together three years of writing into a single volume all become apparent.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lander Eicholzer, author of \u003cem\u003eTurning 20 Something\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin Bertolero tells us he is “confident like River Phoenix in a denim jacket” while we stand at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean with a New Hampshire sunset painting our backs whatever color of love we want. Inspired by early-90s Gus Van Sant and arthouse cinema, these poems are Italian villas filled with boys learning to yearn and touch with hesitant fingers, East Coast kids making out under pinkening skies in search of Hollywood representation. Bertolero’s words span generations: accessible poems we can project onto any moment of our lives and remember—remember the times when loving someone was easy because we were young and gorgeous, hungry for the taste of a familiar set of lips. In a collection of poems sprawling across a country of tenderness and learning, Bertolero tells us “You think black \/ is a sad color, but I remind you that it absorbs the light—” and, with intrepid mouths, we swallow every reminder of how quickly we forget about the softness men carry.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Matt Mitchell, author of \u003cem\u003eYou’re My Favorite Garçon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eKevin Bertolero is a graduate student at the University of New Hampshire. He is the founding editor of Ghost City Press and is the associate director of the Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference. 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These poems are not about escapism; they are about noticing, existing inside of what ails you. In this book, “Someone is looking in this mirror,\/ searching the dark.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThrough darkness, \u003cem\u003eThe Most Common Symptom is Pain\u003c\/em\u003e seeks balance, knowledge of the self, and a best practice, a type of maintenance for a life that’s worth living: “you will know how to name the sea, the sky, the stars, and you will know what to do with them.” These poems are aching, but they are reaching; they are dishwater and dust and sunlight on a scrappy little garden. They are asking for a way to change. They are a secret discourse reminding you that “The trick to seeing a unicorn is forgiveness.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eThe Most Common Symptom is Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, Rhiannon Conley explores the magic in menial tasks. These poems peel back the surface of domestic bliss to see what’s crawling underneath—self-doubt, an endless list of tasks, a powerful but undefined yearning, and tender, devoted love. The whole book is rich with imagery, thoughtfully examining the monotony (and sometimes joy, and sometimes loneliness) of “women’s work” while often only moving from kitchen to bedroom and back. But this small physical space is imbued with meaning, elevating playtime or cleaning the bathroom to a moment of philosophical revelation. In a clear, conversational tone, Conley lays out the learning curve of motherhood: “love is practice,” she writes, “and I am becoming quite good.”\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e-Robyn Campbell, Philadelphia-based poet and Editor of Semiperfect Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\"In Rhiannon Conley’s latest poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Most Common Symptom Is Pain\u003c\/em\u003e, we don’t learn for what malady or illness this pain is a symptom. Rather, we approach possibilities---possibilities that the speaker of these poems examines as she considers what, if anything, is wrong. These poems take us in and out of suffering---anxiety, ups and downs, caring for a child, being in a relationship---as well as the joy of the quotidian---regarding a nearby river, mending socks, noticing the stars. And in this, her work reminds us of the familiar and brings us to an understanding that we might not ever know what causes pain.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e- Nancy Devine, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dreamed\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press 2016) and \u003cem\u003eDogma\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press 2019).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRhiannon Conley is a lecturer at the University of North Dakota where she teaches composition and creative writing. She is also an artist, a tender of dogs and children, a hobby chef and an avid thrift shopper. She is a new gardener and would love to hear your tips for growing perennial lavender in a Zone 7 climate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eRhiannon has been writing since childhood. Her work has been published in numerous print and online publications, including her first chapbook, \u003cem\u003eLess Precious\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2017 by Semiperfect Press. 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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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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. She completed the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of East Anglia in the UK in 2017. She is on Instagram @fmkrit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Francesca Kritikos","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556642242631,"sku":"ANIMFK","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556642275399,"sku":"ANIMFKe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/francescacover.png?v=1697488638"},{"product_id":"yousjdn","title":"You Should Have Seen The Water, by Jazz De Nero","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-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;\"\u003eAre you running to find or hide from yourself?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Should Have Seen The Water\u003c\/em\u003e explores healing through an examination of the natural world. 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":"signir","title":"Signatures or The Bass Line of a Freighter Ship, by Iva Radivojević","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThese thoughts and writings were noted in the dark, in between desire and worry, at times resulting from a nightmare, or an overflowing of care.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eAt some moments, conversations were overheard and at others blind expectations were projected into the cosmos. All together these flashbacks, colors, affairs, displacements and hearings are collected here in an order in which they wanted to show up, to mark an existence, a duration of tiny signatures experienced on and around 503 Lafayette Ave in Brooklyn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, contemplations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages}  which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. The work circles around displacement and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical.  Iva's work has screened at the New York Film Festival, New Directors | New Films, Rotterdam IFF, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art. 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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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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. 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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. You can find their work online at www.bonekid.net or on Instagram: @bonekid_.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marlee Miller","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39556634771527,"sku":"MOMMMAM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39556634804295,"sku":"MOMMMAMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/MommyIssuesFront.jpg?v=1700771845"}],"url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/poetry.oembed?page=24","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}