A collection of vivid examinations of the gristle &amp; marrow of sweet truth and bitter honesty. Authored by the extraordinary talents of such poets. Robert Zenz, Caits Meissner, Jay Nelson, William James, Daniel Patterson, Khari Waits, Christopher Mohar, Sam Sax, Matt Matriaciano, Benjamin Biesek, EK Keith, Amber Culbertson-Faegre , Abe Becker, Leigh Cuen, William Taylor Jr, Joshua Merchant, Joan Colby , Paul Corman Roberts, Richard King Perkins II Mg Martin, Ori Fienberg, Peter Bullen, SB Stokes, Christopher Woods, Kristin Ryan,Jasmine Leung, C Anne Gardner, baraka noel, Eric Allen Yankee, Gregory Curry, O’Helloron, Terry Barr, Mitchell Grabois, Richard King Perkins II, July Westhale, Jasmine Schlafke, Kyle Lee, Cora Thornton Silver, Charles Bane Jr., Connor Maltby, Troy Cunio, Thea Matthews. Edited and curated by Sean Taylor, baraka noel, and C Anne Gardner. With an introduction by Sean Taylor.

Sweet Wolverine: a Collection

Literature & Fiction

JAMES, WILLIAM

Patterson, Daniel

Sax, Sam

Wolverine, Sweet

Zenz, Robert

Meissner, Caits

Nelson, Jay

Waits, Khari

Mohar, Christopher

Matriaciano, Matt

United States

Seventh Tangent

Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Contrary to the book's title, LET IT DIE HUNGRY is a collection of poems bursting with life. Recklessly sensual, provocative and profoundly curious, Meissner's coming-of-age poems seek to anchor their place in a messy world, blurring the edges of hard borders and disparate identities. Finding joy, connection and determination in desperate spaces, as well as the slippery terrain of a changing self, Meissner's voice is at once a reckoning, a proclamation, and an open question. Sprinkled with the author's illustrations, the book's multidisciplinary approach also includes lesson plans, originally utilized in a women's prison, that invite the reader to write their own way out of polarizing dichotomies—and into the vast grey space of what it means to be alive. "Caits Meissner's LET IT DIE HUNGRY is a stunningly potent archive of surviving. In poems, drawings, notes, and workbook-style experiments, Meissner generously shares her tools of becoming while simultaneously reinventing what a book of poems might be. In each of these modes it is clear: Meissner believes in the powers of seeing, testifying, and saying what is most difficult. Running through the blood of this book I hear Audre Lorde's charge in The Transformation of Silence Into Language and Action: 'Your silence will not protect you.' From lyric narratives to achingly lucid prose, this book is ardor-medicine against oblivion. These poems '[spill] past the heart's armor.'"—Aracelis Girmay "Caits Meissner's LET IT DIE HUNGRY deals with the difficulty of the body, the 'human robe' (as she aptly calls it) that hinders and endangers the soul beneath. It's an intense book—at time violent and vulnerable—a dangerous but brave place for readers, filled with dreams, fantasy, nightmare, all mixed-in with stark reality. These poems are human and wise, and in the writing prompts, the reader is helped along in the struggle to better understand herself. This is a wildly exciting debut book."—Bianca Stone "In this collection dedicated to the women poets of Afghanistan that concludes with a poem for the women poets at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Caits Meissner writes with great urgency of lives and landscapes scarred by conflict and pain. But even as her rangy, associative poems take us into terrain of turmoil, her compassion for her subjects offers the possibility of reconciliation through the very recognition that poems provide."—David Groff

Let It Die Hungry

Poetry

The Operating System

The Quotable is the quarterly publication of quotable writers. Each issue focuses on a theme and a quote. The theme for our Spring, 2015 issue is "Nature or Nurture." The issue features excellent short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by emerging writers.

The Quotable 16 - Nature or Nurture

Johanson, Sonja

Copeland, Kathryn

Carlson, Cindy

Cunningham, Alexandra

Curtin, Shannon J.

Duncan, Susan G.

Flynn, Brian Robert

Hallert, Ben

Losapio, Ross

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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