{"title":"Prose","description":"","products":[{"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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Cause I mean, even God wears durags, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joel's words are where I go when I need some inspiration. And he never lets me down.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Lin-Manuel Miranda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joel's way of mixing humor, positivity and insight make me jealous. They also make me want to be a better person so I'm not so jealous. He's like a lovable annoying writing dog (or cheerleader - your choice) who only sees the good in you. I don't know how he does it, but he has a way of making the most reluctant of us see the good in ourselves, too.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Angela Nissel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joel has a way of looking deep into your soul and lovingly mending it like your grandmother would your favorite dress. He makes people, many of whom he has never met, feel seen, loved, and safe.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-April Reign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoel L. 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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":"katado","title":"Katabasis, by Dylan Oliver","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eProse, chapbook, 36 pages, illustrated, 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\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e is one heart’s erratic journey through the past to gain clarity and closure for the future. It is the descent into the darkness in order to find the light. This story tirelessly wades through the muddy waters of heartbreak, presses on the bruises of confusion, and pulls out the splinters left behind by great loss. It explores intimacy and rejection, new attempts and new failures, and the ever-changing and unpredictable direction of life. One page we’re dancing in the kitchen with a lover while making breakfast, and the next we’re staring out the window while the garbage truck drives away with their belongings. Some pages we cry, others we sing. \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e boldly picks apart the remains of something that once meant everything, and explores the memories that capture the joys and shortcomings of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e is a bread crumb trail through a forest that burned down years ago. It is an archaeological dig through the aftermath of love. In it, strange relics are unearthed - knotted cherry stems, handwritten final wills, and axes left behind to rust. Blurring the boundary between poetry and prose, \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e is an examination of relationships, and the objects and people we define ourselves against. It is a measure against memory, a cataloguing of the weight of the emotions that we keep, and those we must push away. \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of an axe left in the woods to rot, and the strength it took to leave it there.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-June Gehringer, author of \u003cem\u003eI Don't Write About Race\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dylan Oliver's \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e creates a framework for what love means for millennials; the language in these snippets presents pain to its audience in a way that is raw and intrinsically humble. Dylan’s chap reflects the ways we fall in love, and how often it becomes its own antithesis within an instant. \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e circumvents fresh and authentic discourse in a way that is conscious of the world around it, and how love often reveals itself to be a puppet master in our daily lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eShan Cawley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dylan Oliver’s \u003cem\u003eKatabasis\u003c\/em\u003e is a letter in layers. It is a narrative compilation of raw queerness, vulnerabilities, blunt humor, and an uncovering of self. The visual facets are in constant elaborate conversation with the piece’s global lyricism—they complement each other in a melodious manner. Dylan zooms in on intimacy with intention in between the lines of her intricately woven timeline. This collection captures the simplicity of the human experience, in its smaller moments, as well as the complexities of the connections that exist within. All in all, it is an in-depth exploration of what it is to recognize one’s need to be needed.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Savannah Slone, author of \u003cem\u003eHearing the Underwater\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"content-type\"\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDylan lives and works in Los Angeles, CA \u0026amp; has enjoyed writing as a hobby and means of self expression since childhood. 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The book is an ambient novella that explores what Wilson Harris calls \"community-in-creator\" by merging from-scratch text with found text and asking \"what exactly is the difference?\" By treating their own from-scratch text as though a stranger had written it, abreu shows how little we know ourselves, and performs an authorial \u003cem\u003epetite mort\u003c\/em\u003e in honor of their friend, who died by suicide in 2013.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003emanuel arturo abreu (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is an artist and writer from the Bronx. They received their BA in Linguistics from Reed College in 2014, and currently live and work in a garage in southeast Portland. Recent group exhibitions with Rhizome and the New Museum (online), the Cooley Gallery (Portland), Chicken Coop Contemporary (Portland), Veronica project space (Seattle), and AA|LA Gallery (Los Angeles). 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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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This book is a quest for stillness amidst the chaos of grief – enough stillness to hear the overlapping melodies of life and death. It is tasting the peculiarly sweet fruits that choose the hardest seasons to ripen. It is the quiet room where our foremothers wipe our tears and remind us that we are made of relentless, boundless, mighty love, and that love never leaves us empty-handed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAdaeze Elechi is a Nigerian writer and filmmaker. Her works are influenced by her desire to better understand the ways in which individual and collective histories (those remembered and those forgotten) shape our present understanding of ourselves. Her pieces have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGuernica Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStylelikeu\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003emindbodygreen\u003c\/em\u003e. Her original films have screened at the St. Louis International Film Festival, and the San Diego Black Film Festival, among others. 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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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I could not have resonated with this sentiment more. Many have described me as a 'jack of all trades,' and I guess I would too. Having multiple skills and talents in a world of side hustles and late stage capitalism can feel overwhelming when you're already a full time artist. I started painting as a child before I even picked up the guitar. Although music engulfed my life, painting was always my first love. \u003cem\u003eBut I’m a Painter\u003c\/em\u003e begins with me disillusioned after a rocky descent into the music industry, desperately trying to find a creative outlet that didn’t feel immediately exploited. Rediscovering my love of painting helped me get in touch with my inner child and granted me catharsis at times when music and writing weren't enough. \u003cem\u003eBut I’m a Painter\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles my paintings and the stories behind them. 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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. 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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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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. 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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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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. They are the current editor-in-chief of Alchemy, UCSD’s journal of experimental translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NM Esc","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":39557208637511,"sku":"SERVNE","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":39557208670279,"sku":"SERVNEe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/servicefront.png?v=1671309423"},{"product_id":"alwanm","title":"Always the Wind and Never the Bird, by Nicole Moon","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlways the Wind and Never the Bird\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of scattered thoughts, misremembered and patched together memories, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, poems, and writings about the act of letting go to a firm tethered past that won’t let go. 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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Together, they become the long overdue birth of the author as a marvelous freak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAn experiment in deconstruction and thematic collaging of previously rejected pieces, unpolished drafts, bits from a priorly abandoned book of hours, and raw immediacies, \u003cem\u003eLipstick[less] Mania: A Ritual for No One\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to explore the ways in which the author’s life simultaneously occurs on and across multiple planes: the mental, the spiritual, the physical, the psychological, and the metaphysical, in addition to the artistic and the sociopolitical. 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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). 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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":"fademm","title":"Faded Fur and Stripped Skin, by Melissa Martini","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 48 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\u003cspan\u003eLycanthropy is genetic, some stray cats have ulterior motives, and not all deer are up for grabs during hunting season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom body horror to sexuality and relationships, Melissa Martini’s debut chapbook of short stories, \u003cem\u003eFaded Fur and Stripped Skin\u003c\/em\u003e, tackles all of the perks and pain that come with animal transformation. 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. 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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. 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It’s about coming to terms with the futility of it all. It’s about loving anyway. It’s the fear of turning into the flames that burned you. It’s about all the endings— the kinds that let you softly turn away, the kinds that slam the door in your face. not a cry for help, just a crying out is about going back to your childhood home and not flinching at the rubble. It’s about how our bodies exist in this world, the lack of control we have over our physical forms. It’s existentialism, nihilism, absurdism. It’s spite, pure and bitter. It’s love in paperback form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003enot a cry for help, just a crying out\u003c\/em\u003e is a shout into the void. It’s a hand, reaching out, waiting for you to reach back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eLily Rain is a fourth year college student at the University of Maine, with a double major in English and Psychology (but that’s the least interesting thing about her). 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The book posits a narrative contract through lyric, something of mind and body that challenges the author’s sense of an individualized self. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eExploring how this contract gives meaning to existence through discussion of poetry, film, and music, \u003cem\u003eDear Abbey\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to connect the author to their lost loves through the beatitude of queer community. Fragmented, inconclusive, and at times, outright contradictory, Dear Abbey is, at its core, an experiment in vulnerability, not so much resisting genre categorization but dismissing it in favor of other modes of belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eRachel Stempel is a queer Ukrainian-Jewish poet and PhD student in English literature at SUNY-Binghamton. 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Encouraging other survivors and victims’ to seize the moment and stand strong together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eTiffani Michelle Hewlett is a Native American\/German Poet and Artist who was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. She believes in the power that one voice can make a difference. She has always been inspired by the raw honesty of German poet Charles Bukowski and the wisdom of her Oma (grandmother). 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The real can be a portal; the fabulous, a mirror in shards. A quiet cat-owner, his life consumed by books, finds a lion-headed man barging toward him. A man’s lies to his boyfriend come to life. A tiny being’s defenses undermine it. And hauntings—both literal and figurative—jangle an artist as he faces his failures and age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe real can be a portal, but it can also be a house, a concert hall, a small town turned prison. Characters dog questions in the face of pat answers. They skirt obstacles of the culture that’s failed them. Relationships salve until the outside worms in, or the inner life is tamped, sacrificed to the solace of groups. These texts trace the lives of those who seek the genuine. In flashes they glimpse the true, glimpse the good, as they glean through what rubble is left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eStephen Delaney writes short fiction, craft articles, and book reviews. 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A young woman leaves Chicago and the personal and professional losses that defined her life there to start fresh in a small Indiana town. New Hoosier life, same existential questions. Does a self-defense class taught by another loser have the answers?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is a chapbook for people who just can’t get a win, who kill houseplants and buy groceries at the dollar store, who lose elections and fail grad school. It’s a lot to deal with alone. Don’t forget to breathe—and most importantly, be gentle with yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZachary Kocanda’s short fiction has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eOyez Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVol. 1 Brooklyn\u003c\/em\u003e’s Sunday Stories Series. This is his first chapbook. He lives in Illinois. 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Founded in the haziness of dream recollection, stories are told as from the perspective of active anamnesis — haunting, pictorial dreamscapes bring forth rich themes of inner privacies, repression, and, on a greater scale, the combing for digestible meaning within one’s inner workings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith each detail pulled from sub conscience, each emotion attached to each figure, another ten are altered. Layering perspectives, from within a dream, in attempt to recollect, in passing of information, \u003cem\u003eUntil the Rock Concert\u003c\/em\u003e works to deconstruct the stories one’s mind creates in order to understand. Through this, the more human and constellational undertones begin to reveal themselves;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLoss of autonomy. A woman’s rights are revoked. A wavering canoe trip with young siblings, confined to only the view ahead; at the river’s fork, the narrow liberation is threatened by the boat’s owner and the panic sets in. Phantom grief. A child stands in a block party’s piss puddle, aware of a coming loss, they cling and play catchup to the details they value for the hell of it. Sex dreams without the sex. Mouthfuls of fishbones and a loss of friendship. Italian swims in mother’s afterbirth and plain corndogs coated in Montana’s orange dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat do you forget when you remember?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMar Wolf is a Brooklyn-based writer, bookmaker, translator and visual artist working in the surreal. 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Though these stories are often tragic, they are told with a humorous nihilism that will make you forget the danger and uncertainty just around the corner. Following Laudati through his teens - twenties - and thirties - gives us a 360 view of a writer trying to find purpose in Staten Island, New Jersey, Maryland, and finally, while standing on a cliff overlooking a Denny’s just outside of Phoenix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom a job at Barnes \u0026amp;amp; Noble, to buying a dog to save a relationship, to forming a cosmic bond with a groupie on a pop-punk tour, \u003cem\u003eBaby, Bring Back 1997\u003c\/em\u003e can be read as the Genesis chapter of Laudati’s life. These stories take the reader on a journey through a young man’s heart and half- way across America, detailing every stop along the way, and hopefully, giving some resolution to the eternal question - \u003cem\u003eWhat is this all for?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eScott Laudati lives in Brooklyn, New York with his Chihuahua-Boston Terrier mix, Josie. His essays, short stories, and poems have been published by Columbia University, \u003cem\u003eX-R-A-Y\u003c\/em\u003e, University of Missouri, \u003cem\u003ePudding Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Adirondack Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Stockholm Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBone House\u003c\/em\u003e (poems) and \u003cem\u003ePlay The Devil\u003c\/em\u003e (novel). 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Through this series of flash memoir pieces, the protagonist trails her ill-fated romantic escapades and artistic hopes behind her through cities in the Pacific Northwest, documenting hangovers and heartbreak, failure and casual terror, broken bottles and busted bones, from age 15 to 25. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eObsessively edited and polished over nearly a decade, \u003cem\u003ei thought this would be cooler\u003c\/em\u003e is a gritty little swan song to the Pacific Northwest Art Scene of the early 2000’s, as well as a bildungsroman that taps into the anxieties that come with bisexual invisibility and denial. Modeled after the casual tone of Diane di Prima’s \u003cem\u003eDinners and Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ei thought this would be cooler\u003c\/em\u003e takes the reader through Polaroid-like flashes that sometimes illuminate, and other times burn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmber Ridenour Walker was raised on a 100-acre orchard, in a rural central Washington town, and left for other parts as soon as she was able to. Her poems and short stories have appeared in \u003cem\u003e20 Minutes in Portland: A Special Edition of The Portland Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGumball Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWord Riot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Clementine Zine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJuniper Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePile Press\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJaden Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e (UK), \u003cem\u003eLocal Smoke\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eelimae\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eALARM Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFast Forward\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e580 Split\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTiny Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Corvus Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWisdom Body Collective\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLEON Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBombay Gin\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Her first full-length book, \u003cem\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Free Lines Press (France and UK) in August of 2021. Amber holds an MFA from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and she lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. 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The work makes one question our very history and horror...simply let this novelette take you where it wants, and without question.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Pascale Potvin, Editor-in-Chief of \u003cem\u003eWrongdoing Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With a measure of strangeness and a measure of humor, Plys artfully deconstructs a family curse. The reader is left with troubling questions: what does it mean to be alien, estranged, lost in the woods — even amongst one's own family?” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Germ Lynn, author of \u003cem\u003ePressured Speech\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFamily Curse\u003c\/em\u003e is a densely packed and layered novella that merits a reread. It achieves an unusual and delightful mix of chills, comedic relief, and thoughtful consideration.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Anna Veriani, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Winter Quarters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTenacity Plys is a nonbinary autistic writer based in Brooklyn, with publications in \u003cem\u003eHobart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEthel\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBullshit Lit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlien Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWord Gathering\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePif Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. Xir Pushcart-nominated story “I Love My AI Son” will be featured in \u003cem\u003eAlien Buddha\u003c\/em\u003e’s Best of 2022 anthology at the end of this year. 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She examines manifestations of grief, guilt, and yearning through flash fiction and short vignettes. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMinimalist, offbeat, and at times surreal, the collection explores relationships between people and objects. In Inanimate Objects, vases become reminders of discarded connections, notebooks are transformed into tools, enemies, and lovers, a skeletonized bird is used as a prescribed remedy for grief, and a stolen kidney is a worshipped relic.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAngel Dionne finished her PhD in creative writing at the University of Pretoria and is now assistant professor of English literature at the University of Moncton Edmundston campus. Her work has been (or is awaiting) publication in \u003cem\u003eSein Und Werden\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChicken Soup for the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrack The Spine Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEveryday Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Molotov Cocktail\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJAKE\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLitBreak Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSurrealists and Outsiders\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGood Evening Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Missing Slate\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2020, she co-edited \u003cem\u003eRape Culture 101: Programming Change\u003c\/em\u003e which was published by Demeter Press. 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He grew up in Tacoma, Washington and Phoenix, Arizona. His previous play \u003cem\u003eThe Trade Federation, or, Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels\u003c\/em\u003e was published by NoPassport Press. His cartoon book \u003cem\u003eSuitable for Framing: The Collected Cartoons of Andy Boyd, Volume 1\u003c\/em\u003e is self-published and is available from his Instagram page @AndyJBoyd.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Boyd","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":43686314311995,"sku":"LILSAB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":43686314344763,"sku":"LILSABe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/threefront.png?v=1672864628"},{"product_id":"singcsb","title":"sing eternal, by Callie S. Blackstone","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003esing eternal\u003c\/em\u003e is a hybrid memoir that was written in response to a suicide. As the writer processes this loss, the universe of the work continues to expand to consider her relationships with other men (especially the original, her father,) what it means to inhabit a body labeled female, sex and the commonality of sexual violence, and her own intimate relationship with suicide and a variety of self-harm tactics. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003esing eternal\u003c\/em\u003e utilizes many external sources\/references, including hymns to an ancient Greek Goddess and the contemporary goddess that is Fiona Apple. 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The collection studies faith, existentialism, and hopelessness in a non-devout, direct way. With a sepia-tone feel pervading throughout the chapbook, its exploration of small-town uneasiness and the restlessness of the civilians within is both nostalgic and full of anxiety.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThroughout the fourteen flash fiction stories, a former pastor delivers pizza, a family burns down the Gävle Goat, a scream artist loses their ability to fear, a pair of factory workers drink toe cocktails, a man loses his reality, a group of friends go on a gross scavenger hunt, and much more. Despite the variety of unique premises, the characters in each story are linked by their desire to become more than they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWill Musgrove is a writer and journalist from Northwest Iowa. 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Mental illness has blocked most of my life from memory, and aphantasia makes it impossible to recall instances in pictures. I can only remember my life in words. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInstances\u003c\/em\u003e contains the pages of my life through blurry years and constant change. This is my attempt at regaining my past, at regaining both childhood and future. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection may seem scattered and the pieces only have connection in that they are mine. You may notice more instances being recent and less from my childhood. I write them as they come to me. Each instance has been placed in a format that felt fitting to the subject. I often write as the thoughts form, which is why you may see strange lines and cutoffs. I tend to exaggerate the mundane, to some. Each stylistic choice is deliberate.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Courtney Paige\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCourtney Paige is currently a university student studying English Education. She hopes to become an English professor should the opportunity arise. She has one poetry publication, \"The Earth and Her Parents\", in \u003cem\u003eDiamond Line Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eInstances\u003c\/em\u003e is her first published book of any kind. Courtney spends her time in class, at work in a sandwich shop, at a coffee place with an iced London Fog, or in bed asleep. She lives in a little apartment with one of her best friends, a cat with an attitude, and two recently adopted gerbils named Sam and Dean. Courtney used to dance and sing in the choir, but as long as she has literature and the sky, she is happy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Courtney Paige","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44042576986427,"sku":"INSTCP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44042577019195,"sku":"INSTCPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/instancesfront.jpg?v=1671309593"},{"product_id":"werebw","title":"We're All Slowly Rusting, by Brendon Withers","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 44 pages, illustrated, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe’re All Slowly Rusting\u003c\/em\u003e is an eclectic conglomeration of multimedia artistry that includes short stories, poetry, film photographs, pencil sketches, watercolor pieces, collages, and much more. Many of the doodles in this book come from college notebooks that, instead of taking notes in, the author would doodle when bored. These were cut or ripped out, glued onto paper with other doodles\/random media, and scanned, which is how many of these pages were made. Any other artwork, such as the watercolor and sharpie pieces, come from his personal sketchbooks and journals, and the film photos were taken by Brendon on 35mm film using various thrift store cameras. All of these elements provide a beautiful package for the text that is sprinkled throughout.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e As for the writing itself, much of it focuses on insignificant details from the writer's life, blown up and extrapolated into absurd and surreal descriptions of the events in such a way as to ascribe a unique and personal meaning, philosophy, or emotion to them. This is done to express the subjectiveness of perception, and can show how many miniscule details and trailing internal dialogues of thought make up any one person’s life. Some of it is purely fiction, and other parts are more of a stylized expression of real experience, with some of the fun in reading it being figuring out what is what. Stories include: “Caterpillar”, where the writer recalls having found a caterpillar as a child, making it a home, and returning to find it eaten by ants, “Beauty,” where the writer imagines a scenario in which, during a philosophy lesson, an event causes anything that anyone in the room says to becomes true, quickly turning to body horror, “No Matter the Dirt,” a poem about being fearful of leaving home, along with much more. Overarching all of these things and intertwining the drastically varying elements is a subtle expression of the author's personal artistic processes that went into creating such a multi-faceted work of art. This is a painfully real account detailing the subjectivity of art in relation to the human experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrendon Withers (he\/him) is a 19 year old musician from Virginia Beach, VA, one of the more sparsely creative well known cities on the east coast. His band is called Hippie Love Party (a name created at age 14 that is now hated by the band), and they play a mixture of emo music and other adjacent genres. This is Brendon’s main focus, as a lot of his free time is spent working on songs or practicing\/playing shows with his band, so he does most of his non-band related writing at work, before bed, or whenever creativity may strike. He has also noticed that it is very hard not to sound pretentious when having to write about yourself and\/or something that you have made. After going to college for one year to study music, and realizing that the academization of music was not suited to him, and took away from the magic of it, he decided to take a break from school to work and pursue any and every artistic endeavor that he may come up with, which is how this book came about!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brendon Withers","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44120359010619,"sku":"WEREBW","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44120359043387,"sku":"WEREBWe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/rustingfront.png?v=1672087006"},{"product_id":"408jb","title":"408, by Jackie Braje","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"When artist Gregg Emery and I were offered a collaborative artist residency through the organization 4Heads on Governors Island in NYC, we were asked to consider the theme \"At Rest \u0026amp; In Motion.\" From our preserved, colonial-era residency house, 408B, we began to consider memory as a constant state of motion and the present as a state of rest. Sitting in the recent aftermath of my dear friend’s sudden and unanswered suicide, this backwards and forwards movement began to mirror the trajectory of grief and all the road signs and messages that present themselves when trying to find the best path back to the present. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn house 408, repeating images, songs, and numbers all became sublime and swollen with meaning while the historic remnants and sharp, modernized angles of Governors Island became a physical embodiment of grief—of remaining stuck in the past while simultaneously being thrusted forward into the future.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJackie Braje is a Brooklyn based poet. She currently serves as The Chief Operating Officer of The Poetry Society of New York, a 5015(c)-3 non-profit, as well as the editor in chief of Milk Press. Her work as appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003eUgly Duckling Presse\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Minnesota Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Westchester Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Quarterless Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. She was the Fall '22 artist-in-residence at Allerton Park \u0026amp; Retreat Center, the recipient of a 2022 Himan Brown Award, and a 2019 Brooklyn Poets Fellow. She earned her MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College, where she also taught as an adjunct English professor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackie Braje","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44125051289915,"sku":"408JB","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44125051322683,"sku":"408JBe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/4084front.png?v=1697489543"},{"product_id":"anytcc","title":"Anything You Can Do, by Chloe Colvard","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 40 pages, illustrated, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnything You Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of prose poems, short stories, and snapshots, all varying in length and subject. These aim to showcase the in betweens. The act of looking back on one’s early life, while also looking ahead at adult life. This is at times hard to put into words, however the author set out to do just that. Themes of Chloe’s work include family, womanhood, dating, and power dynamics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoments in this collection discuss Chloe’s sudden move to New York as a 19 year old, which was a decision she made with no plan. As the speaker narrates and navigates her newfound environment, she looks back on childhood moments, and all of the places she used to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 17 prose pieces and 10 visuals, Chloe creates flashes of meaning, without the grounding of full context. By doing this, she is similarly replicating how memory works for many people who’ve experienced trauma. In her exploration of memory, \u003cem\u003eAnything You Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e highlights the ability to process trauma. The book displays the uncovering of looking back, and the grieving of one's own life, without excusing the behavior that caused the pain. Chloe aims to recognize the good, while also understanding the bad–and that sometimes, a young person’s perspective on what is “good” often changes as they enter adulthood. This change can be negative, but it can also be very positive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAnything You Can Do\u003c\/em\u003e, the bittersweet words share both how the moments felt, but also how they’ve changed based on what the narrator knows now. The collection was designed to plunge into a reader's heart in search of answers–answers of which we may still have yet to find words for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChloe Colvard is a multidisciplinary artist and writer living in Brooklyn with her two cats. She has lived in five states growing up, but she now considers New York to be her home. She creates in order to speak about things she previously felt unable to as a child and into her early adulthood. She loves making new friends everywhere she goes, from strangers at concerts, to the owners of her local bodega. She hopes to make others feel less alone.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChloe graduated Summa Cum Laude from The New School in 2022 with her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. Additionally, she acted as Editor-in-Chief of \u003cem\u003e12th Street\u003c\/em\u003e, an award-winning literary journal publishing many genres of work. Chloe recently finished an artist residency at Carrie Able Gallery, the same gallery that has featured her works in two group exhibition. Her latest visual project, The Latex Collection, was published in \u003cem\u003eCurated by Girls\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chloe Colvard","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44131169403195,"sku":"ANYTCC","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44131169435963,"sku":"ANYTCCe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/anything23front.png?v=1697489556"},{"product_id":"_poetbp","title":"The Poet's Struggle, by Brian Pilling","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poet’s Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e is a chapbook chronicling the journey of a poet living in a broken world. Two common threads are present—a call and answer dialogue with my Sicilian born grandfather, the poet and roofer and myself a poet and architect, and a commentary (often satirical), often harsh (an echo).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMichaelangelo Crisafi chose the pen name, Germoglino Saggio, which translates “to germinate wisdom.” His first editor was Benito Mussolini (when Mussolini was a socialist hero). The pen name was invented to both create “a name uncommon in this world,” but also to protect his family back in Sicily—his poetry of protest so enraging the fascist dictator.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt was with reverence I returned to my grandfather’s birthplace for the ceremonies honoring him in the summer of 2018, where professors, family friends and dignitaries read from his works. It stirred deep emotions hearing his words in his native tongue. Later, walking the cobblestone streets, my grandfather walked a hundred years earlier, I touched the weathered walls of his family home, and I was inspired to return to my poetry. My poem, \"San Mauro Castelverde\", was largely written that day.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis small volume of work might be characterized by this line—poetry that searches for the perfect bellyache…. or perhaps this title—\u003cem\u003ethe poet says, let us make up stories, then assign motives later\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA retired architect and a poet based in Cape Cod, Brian Pilling has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Main Street Rag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Berkshire Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDown in the Dirt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Droplet Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, and other literary journals. His writing is inspired by his grandfather Germoglino Saggio—an immigrant poet of note, whose work is housed at the University of Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brian Pilling","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44135507951931,"sku":"_POETBP","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44135507984699,"sku":"_POETBPe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/strugglefront.png?v=1673642221"},{"product_id":"earlmm","title":"Early Morning Musings on Motherhood and Other Trains of Thought, by Molly Masias","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse, chapbook, 28 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-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\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe pieces of writing contained in this book are intensely personal thoughts on mothering, what it's like to parent under different circumstances, peeks into the author's brain, and moments of revelation experienced by a woman processing her own thoughts. This is a collection of moments of reckoning that could have all taken place at once or which may have taken place over the course of a lifetime. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhether grappling with loss, discontent with the day to day, or finding yourself dozing off midday the trains of thought explored within these pages have something for everyone, although they especially have something for those who may not realize what they're looking for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMolly lives and thinks in the Pacific Northwest. She has a couple of fancy degrees stuffed in a closet and cute kids and a messy life. She’s always loved to write and does so mostly in small, creative bursts based on whatever is on her mind. Her goal is to do that forever and to play with her kids the rest of the time, and maybe to see the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Molly Masias","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44204031967547,"sku":"EARLMM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44204032000315,"sku":"EARLMMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/morningfront.png?v=1697489592"},{"product_id":"aboxgy","title":"A Box of Rooms, by Gerald Yelle","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Box of Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e pretty much sums up this chapbook’s physical appearance. Though only some of the pieces, or “rooms,” are about rooms, they all have a kind of boxy look: solid justified micro-fiction paragraphs, many of them conveying a sense of claustrophobic confinement, within the boxlike confines of the covers. Rooms and boxes being three dimensional, there was also the idea that the contents add depth to the sheets of paper. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is also something dreamlike about a box of rooms: large containers stacked or squeezed into a smaller container. Many of the pieces have that dreamlike quality, and because the speaker knows that what is being described isn’t real, he is free to indulge exaggerated emotions: loneliness, cruelty, sadness, elation, anger and frustration, all of it masked by desperate stabs at humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGerald Yelle has worked in restaurants, factories, offices and schools. He received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts. He has published poetry and flash fiction in numerous online and print journals in addition to four books: \u003cem\u003eThe Holyoke Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e, Future Cycle Press (2014), \u003cem\u003eEvolution For The Hell Of It\u003c\/em\u003e, Red Dashboard LLC (2015), \u003cem\u003eMark My Word and the New World Order\u003c\/em\u003e, Pedestrian Press (2016), and \u003cem\u003eRestaurant in Walking Distance and Everything\u003c\/em\u003e, Cawing Crow Press (2016). An e-chapbook, \u003cem\u003eIndustries Built on Words\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by Yavanika Press in 2020, and a chapbook \u003cem\u003eNo Place I Would Rather Be\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Finishing Line Press in 2021. He has an author page on Amazon.com and is a member of the Florence, Massachusetts Poets Society. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gerald Yelle","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":44213979775291,"sku":"ABOXGY","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":44213979808059,"sku":"ABOXGYe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/products\/rooms3front.png?v=1697489610"}],"url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/prose.oembed?page=26","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}