Chad Parmenter's Batmanticism is an extraordinary collection of poems which explores classic poetic themes and forms while dressed in a cosplay mask, cape, and bat boots. 
Do not be deceived. 
These poems are masterful examples of poetic craftsmanship. Popular culture, or, rather, the way the author manipulates our imaginative response to the figures of popular culture, is used with surgical precision and delivers a collection which is moving, profound, humorous, and intriguing.

Batmanticism

Parmenter, Chad

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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With a nod to The Decameron and The Divine Comedy, Last Time Around moves through three sections or “books”, as the four central characters travel from German beer garden to Brooklyn music venue to Polish diner. Along the way, the characters eulogize and disparage former acquaintances, lovers, and total strangers in an attempt to mask and skirt around the tender spots in their own lives.\nThe book’s narrator, Ian, is himself going through a significant period of change when the novel opens. He is starting a new job, moving apartments, and attempting to get over his ex-girlfriend Olivia. Introspective by nature, he grasps the night’s significance when he realizes his friends are also moving in their own directions.\nHovering on the periphery of the evening is Nick Amante, Ian’s undergraduate nemesis from Yale—a vague, stalker-like person and double for Ian. Amante is a young writer whose most recent book, Inferno, has earned minor recognition. Even while Ian dismisses Amante as a hack (quoting liberally from Inferno’s most purple passages), it becomes clear that Amante has a guide-like role to play in Ian’s life. The night ends in a room full of fake mariachis where Ian finally connects with Amante and Olivia, and receives the inspiration to write his own story.

Last Time Around

Literature & Fiction

Clattenburg, Will

Humor & Satire

Angelo Letizia has crafted a wonderful collection of poems which examine impossibly large questions - What is truth? What is real? How can we know? - and looks for answers in a quizzical examination of the everyday.The poetic voice exploring these cosmic questions of the domestic is by turns baffled, amused, outraged, resigned, hopeful, grateful. Faced with the impossibility of finding definitive answers, Letizia offers the poems themselves and posits "now we need poetry to find truth". No argument from us!Toward the Real is a wonderfully complex collection that is engaging, immediate, and rewarding...

Toward the Real: Poems for a New Reality

Letizia, Angelo J.

United States

Red Rite Hand

Harte, Adrian

World Literature

Point Blank

Duehr, Gary

Poetry

Let the Baby Sleep

Reardon, Patrick T.

Parenting & Relationships

Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

Hendrix, Howard V.

For Emma and Elvis

Hall, Charles

Learning to Love in Winter

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