For black & white edition, see createspace.com/5851270.  Matt Morris's book Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by photographer Riley Vann. About the Author Matt Morris's work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including DMQ Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Hunger Mountain, New York Quarterly, Runes, and Utter. His first book, Nearing Narcoma, won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and he has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Two chapbooks of his poetry, Here’s How and Greatest Hits, were published by Pudding House. He currently lives on what’s left of a family farm in West Virginia. This collection Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize. Advance Praise for Walking in Chicago "What Morris is able to pull off with a sentence is head-spinning. From the understated beauty that graces the world he serves up to the twelve-gauge both-barrels-at-once delivery, there is a constant and ever-increasing undertone of what I dare call wisdom. This stuff will lift you by the scruff of the neck and drop you anywhere from the middle of a baseball diamond to a freefall into hell. I intend to be rereading this book well into my dotage." — Donald Mangum, author of The Roar Beneath "Matt Morris’s poems travel in cinematic drive through landscapes of the flesh-and-blood commons — trailer parks, dim bars, parking lots — teeming with all that’s unrequited but refusing to succumb to despair. Startling humor, brazen wordplay, and the hum and rattle of everyday speech convey effortless erudition and craft. The comic and the tragic wear the same cheap suit, and you laugh — until the stab of revelation catches your breath with a glimpse of firmament." — Cynthia Wolfe, producer, WFHB radio’s Books Unbound series "Read Matt Morris’s latest book Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand. It has oodles of sex. Read this book. Where else will you find poems about being a kid in Day Care? . . . Read this book for the humor and the rhythms and a continual search for self-awareness and an escape from self. This is a fine book of poems and a pleasure to read. Philosophical, comical, experimental, thoughtful, sometimes puzzling but always worth one’s attention. Read it!" — John McKernan

WALKING IN CHICAGO WITH A SUITCASE IN MY HAND (full-color edition)

Literature & Fiction

Morris, Matt

Poetry

Knut House Press

For full-color edition, see createspace.com/5851256. Matt Morris's book Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by photographer Riley Vann. About the Author Matt Morris's work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including DMQ Review, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Hunger Mountain, New York Quarterly, Runes, and Utter. His first book, Nearing Narcoma, won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and he has received multiple nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Two chapbooks of his poetry, Here’s How and Greatest Hits, were published by Pudding House. He currently lives on what’s left of a family farm in West Virginia. This collection Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize. Advance Praise for Walking in Chicago "What Morris is able to pull off with a sentence is head-spinning. From the understated beauty that graces the world he serves up to the twelve-gauge both-barrels-at-once delivery, there is a constant and ever-increasing undertone of what I dare call wisdom. This stuff will lift you by the scruff of the neck and drop you anywhere from the middle of a baseball diamond to a freefall into hell. I intend to be rereading this book well into my dotage." — Donald Mangum, author of The Roar Beneath "Matt Morris’s poems travel in cinematic drive through landscapes of the flesh-and-blood commons — trailer parks, dim bars, parking lots — teeming with all that’s unrequited but refusing to succumb to despair. Startling humor, brazen wordplay, and the hum and rattle of everyday speech convey effortless erudition and craft. The comic and the tragic wear the same cheap suit, and you laugh — until the stab of revelation catches your breath with a glimpse of firmament." — Cynthia Wolfe, producer, WFHB radio’s Books Unbound series "Read Matt Morris’s latest book Walking in Chicago with a Suitcase in My Hand. It has oodles of sex. Read this book. Where else will you find poems about being a kid in Day Care? . . . Read this book for the humor and the rhythms and a continual search for self-awareness and an escape from self. This is a fine book of poems and a pleasure to read. Philosophical, comical, experimental, thoughtful, sometimes puzzling but always worth one’s attention. Read it!" — John McKernan

WALKING IN CHICAGO WITH A SUITCASE IN MY HAND (black & white edition)

For full-color edition, see createspace.com/5978676. Virginia Chase Sutton's book Of a Transient Nature was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by painter Philip Neil Mandel. About the Author Virginia Chase Sutton's poetry book What Brings You to Del Amo won the Morse Poetry Prize, and was published by the University Press of New England. Her first book Embellishments was published by Chatoyant. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, and Quarterly West, among many other magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her poems have won the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry at Bread Loaf and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. She lives in Tempe, Arizona. This collection Of a Transient Nature, containing original artwork in collaboration with painter Philip Neil Mandel, was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and published in February 2016. Advance Praise for Of a Transient Nature "Virginia Chase Sutton's brave new book is concerned with pleasure, though not in any usual sense of the word . . . : these are accounts of a speaker compelled to seek solace in a body long-ago betrayed, forced to re-enact the loss of self she learned first at her father's hands. The hard truth of these poems is that pleasure is pleasure, even when it keeps us trapped in painful repetitions, even when it destroys us: the body wants to be touched, to be brought to rapture: "Admit it. Almost hallucinogenic these forays into rapture, the turn of a hand. / someone's salty kiss . . ." The woman we meet here tattoos on her back the Japanese characters for suffering, ecstasy and death; she is not afraid to put her hands into the fire where she first learned love, where harm and desire dwell intertwined, and not afraid to hope, or to take us with her into the depths of the days she's known." - Mark Doty, winner of the 2008 National Book Award "The poems in Virginia Chase Sutton's new collection, Of a Transient Nature, are haunting and beautiful. Sensuous and gritty, they speak of longing and desire. Language and image and narrative combine to create a tremendously touching collection about the worlds we try to escape and the ones we try to imagine. Above all, these are poems about the persistence of the human spirit and what it takes to embrace our lives. I'm very glad that I've had the chance to know them." - Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever

Of a Transient Nature (Black & White)

Sutton, Virginia Chase

ELASTIC SHRIEK MACHINE (full-color)

Meg Cowen

Sohrab Homi Fracis's debut novel Go Home is the story of a Parsi foreign student in Delaware, who in the turbulent wake of the Iran hostage crisis can't distinguish his redneck oppressors from his Deadhead neighbors. Fracis's first book, the story collection Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America (University of Iowa Press) won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. About Go Home, National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis writes: "At the heart of Sohrab Homi Fracis’s poignant new novel, Go Home, is the question of one’s place in the world, the answer never more ambiguous or fragile than for the immigrant or exile, when a person’s condition of homelessness is in transition, neither here nor there. Given the cultural moment, I’m grateful to Fracis for his highly topical reexamination of the American Dream, a still reliable but never easy remedy for all those yearning to reinvent themselves beyond the constrictions of tribe and nation. And in Go Home, assimilation, sometimes a wretched exercise, can also be a hilarious and uplifting affair." About the Author SOHRAB HOMI FRACIS is the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, juried by the legendary Iowa Writers’ Workshop, for his collection, Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America. It was re-published in India and Germany. He was Visiting Writer in Residence at Augsburg College and Artist in Residence at Yaddo. Publishers Weekly said his stories “reflect a wide range of influences—from the somber realism of Somerset Maugham to the hip, colloquial humor of Junot Diaz.” Advance Praise for Go Home “At the heart of Sohrab Homi Fracis’s poignant new novel, Go Home, is the question of one’s place in the world, the answer never more ambiguous or fragile than for the immigrant or exile, when a person’s condition of homelessness is in transition, neither here nor there. Given the cultural moment, I’m grateful to Fracis for his highly topical reexamination of the American Dream, a still reliable but never easy remedy for all those yearning to reinvent themselves beyond the constrictions of tribe and nation. And in Go Home, assimilation, sometimes a wretched exercise, can also be a hilarious and uplifting affair.” — Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul (Dayton Literary Peace Prize) and Easy in the Islands (National Book Award) “I read Go Home with great pleasure and lots of empathy for the displaced and somewhat mystified but always lovable Viraf and his misadventures in America. The author’s (and Viraf’s) powers of observation as well as the period he covers — Deadheads and Pintos, great fun — are distinctive qualities of his engrossing account of the immigrant experience.” — Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce, Persian Nights, co-scriptwriter of The Shining “Go Home is the story of one man’s journey to build a cultural bridge across continents, crossing waters that are unsettling and unsafe. While Fracis sets the novel during one of the most turbulent decades in both India’s and the United States’ history, his writing also offers insight in today’s tense climate. Beautiful prose, wise and witty.” — Susan Muaddi Darraj, author of A Curious Land (AWP Grace Paley Prize, American Book Award) and The Inheritance of Exile “This is a beautiful novel about leaving home and moving to America, old world to new, and the courageous spirit of beginning a new life. With his accurate eye and marmalade-like descriptions, Sohrab Fracis’s characters come alive. Go Home fulfills the promise of his Iowa Short Fiction Award.” — Deepak Singh, commentator for NPR, BBC, and author of How May I Help You? An Immigrant’s Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage

Go Home

Fracis, Sohrab Homi

Literary