Different Voices for a Different Species! In a jungle of voices, we're the ones screaming from the trees. Monkey Puzzle is a bi-annual literary journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press in Boulder, Colorado. Monkey Puzzle publishes imaginative, thought provoking prose, poetry, hybrids, translations, artwork and photography that exhibits intelligence and creativity, with a bit of socio-political awareness and humor.

Monkey Puzzle #6

Literature & Fiction

Ryan Clark

Tim Skeen

Margaret Randall

Travis Cebula

Nancy Stohlman

Olatundji Akpo-Sani

Kona Morris

Scott Alexander Jones

Alexandra Lukens

Irene Joyce

Daniel Dissinger

Mittie Roger

Nate Jordon

Poetry

Monkey Puzzle Press

Poetry. "Adam Perry, musician as well as poet, doesn't exactly compose lyrics but what the notes of the music would say if they could speak. He has taken a seat at our ceremonies, 'an empty chair in Count Basie's Orchestra'"--Charles Potts.

Fotographs of Bones

Perry, Adam

Poetry. SOME EXITS takes the reader on a poetic road trip, a journey whose rhythms shift dynamically between movement and focus. These short, tightly made poems speed the reader through an environment that is at once natural and unnatural, gorgeous and degraded. More than exits, these pieces are entrances.

Some Exits

Cebula, Travis

Monkey Puzzle is a biannual literary arts journal published by Monkey Puzzle Press. Monkey Puzzle publishes imaginative, thought provoking prose, poetry, hybrids, translations, artwork and photography from around the world. The contributions in this issue exhibit intelligence and creativity, with a bit of socio-political-cultural awareness and humor.

Monkey Puzzle #7

Diane Klammer

Junior Burke

Akilah Oliver

j.a. kazimer

Dr. Shurooq Amin

Henry Rasof

Travis Macdonald

Shooting the Moon

Natalie's search is an intrepid journey through her own sexuality. Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, 'Natalie' begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.

Searching for Suzi

Stohlman, Nancy

Contemporary

With raw honesty and brutal nakedness, Jonathan Montgomery gives us a window into the misadventures of driving a taxi. If Bukowski would have driven a cab, this is the book he would have written about it.

Taxis and Shit

Jonathan Montgomery

Monkey Puzzle #8

John Allen Cassady

Shane Joaquin Jimenez

LaVonne Natasha Caesar

Olatunji Akpo-Sani

Get In the Car Helen

Paul A. Toth

"For only a very few of us, making poems is as natural, as inborn, as breathing. Jack Collom is such a poet. In COLD INSTANT, Collom once again grabs his spirit lollipop, puts on his Captain Rainbow smile, and brings us to 'poetry's perch upon the moment's ledge.' Collom has told us before that ecology is 'everything' and his poetry never fails to partake of the 'radiantly verdant ramifications' of that everything to which he bears witness so keenly. These poems bring it all together--'profusion, extravagance/ invisibility/ holiness'--proving that 'each tiny direction's a universe.' Collom capers with the joy and earnestness of a kid within his wild poetic traceries. His gift to us is to demonstrate that play is the form of wisdom we most urgently need"--Elizabeth Robinson.

Cold Instant

Collom, Jack

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. "Mark Spitzer has written a humping, yowling, spewing, browbeating memoir about his cumming crackling youth spent in Paris at George Whitman's Shakespeare and Co., a historic and histrionic wacky crash-pad bookstore where misguided and horny youth flop and fuck and color poetry while smoking hashish and drinking wine. AFTER THE ORANGE GLOW recounts how fuck buddies, perverted patrons, jaded poets and trustafarians distracted Spitzer from translating Genet's poetry and writing the Manifesto of his generation, and is a must must must read for anyone who gives a shit about poetry, the Beats, Paris, sex, drugs, and apparitions"—Elva Maxine Beach.

After the Orange Glow

Biographies & Memoirs

Spitzer, Mark

Memoirs

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