George Wallace - winner of the First International Poetry Festival ÓRPHEUS - PLOVDIV 2018 with his poem 'Orpheus on the Elbrus' -- is one of the best contemporary world's poets I have ever read. His poetry is like a message from God, but it isn't enough to say that because while plenty of poets think that they write under God's dictation, to hear the message, to catch the message, is different. In its energy, a sliver of the Beats (A hundred years among the daisies). In its reflectiveness, a particle of the Postmodernists (Letters from Vincent). But the essence of this strong masculine poetry is the Message -- the message to the people, the message to the future, like a man who dies twice does not die / at all, he is Lazarus, he comes back to life, reborn. This is a poetry written in the language of the Prophets. This is a poetry with contempt for the oods of the world -- the seas and rivers, time and memory, history and the future -- in their present tense. The real message of this poetry is its attempt to unite a divided world.
--Anton Baev, poet, writer, Chairman, Plovdiv Writers' Union

One Hundred Years Among the Daisies

Literature & Fiction

Wallace, George

Poetry

Stubborn Mule Press

Dianne Borsenik brings her second full-length book of poetry to Stubborn Mule, and we are beyond thrilled with this elegant book of poems. She is a modern master of form, with abecedarians, acrostics and more, you will struggle to find the form with her astonishing ability to put content first and form second. The book of "ragas" is divided into Sitar, Shehnai, Bansuri, and Tabla and creates a beautiful rhythm throughout. 
Dianne Borsenik is active in the northern Ohio poetry scene, and travels to perform her work throughout the Midwest. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Rosebud, Slipstream, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Lilliput Review, Modern Haiku, The Magnetic Poetry(R) Book of Poetry (Workman Publishing, 1997), and A Rustling and Waking Within (OPA, 2017). Crisis Chronicles Press published her first full-length collection, Age of Aquarius, in 2016. Actor Jonathan Frid ("Barnabas Collins," Dark Shadows) used three of her poems in his one-man touring show Genesis of Evil, and Lit Youngstown printed her poem "Disco" on their tee shirts, which makes her feel like a rock star. Borsenik is editor/publisher at NightBallet Press, and lives in Elyria, Ohio. Find her on Facebook and at www.dianneborsenik.com.

Raga for What Comes Next

Borsenik, Dianne

"Stolte shows us his favorite parts of hell with calm enthusiasm. His love affair with perdition cools with distance from the inferno, but still proves eternal. There is humor and humility in this complex (but not convoluted) collection of street-kid war stories and dope sick love letters. It reads like a lullaby for the damned." —Ezhno Martín, founding editor EMP Books 
"Nathanael William Stolte always has room for you in his heart. It’s warm and metaphysical in there, so be sure to bring your slippers and a flask. Stolte is the everyday-man’s man, writing of a simple and humble life. He is often brave enough to call people out on their shit (including his own), writing, “Being wrong is a universal human condition.” His short pieces land like grenades and his longer pieces spin tales of the intricacies of aging, the nature of perspective, and lessons necessary for becoming a better person. Wherever Stolte may be, I am confident that he is experiencing and writing about that place in its most beautifully authentic form. Like the city, this collection is dirty and tough, mysterious and sentimental. Stolte characterizes his collection well when he writes, “It’s cold / my feet are wet &amp; / I wouldn’t change a thing.” " —Linzi Garcia, author of Thank You
"Some poets are born of the fire that makes the world in all of its beautiful doom, Stolte is one of those poets – let him sing." —RA Washington, author of BLACK Eunuch

Shoot the Alligators Closest to the Boat

Stolte, Nathanael

Award- winning poet/playwright/essayist John Macker lives in Santa Fe, NM. His latest books are The Blues Drink Your Dreams Away Selected Poems 1983-2018 (Stubborn Mule Press), Gorge Songs (DCArt Press,2017) with Denver wood- block artist Leon Loughridge and Blood in the Mix (with El Paso poet Lawrence Welsh) Lummox Press, 2015. In 2014 Disassembled Badlands was published (the 3rd book in the Badlands trilogy). Other books include Woman of the Disturbed Earth, Underground Sky, Adventures in the Gun Trade , Las Montañas de Santa Fe and The Royal Road: Impressions of El Camino Real ( both in limited edition and with woodblock art by Leon Loughridge.). In 2006, he edited the Desert Shovel Review. He has won a Colorado Council on the Arts grant, A Colorado Arts (Tombstone) Award for Poetry and the 2006 Mad Blood magazine award for the long poem, “Wyoming Arcane.”

Atlas of Wolves

Macker, John

M.J. (Michael Joseph) Arcangelini was born 1952 in western Pennsylvania, grew up there &amp; in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s resided in northern California since 1979 and currently lives in Sonoma County. He began writing poetry at age 11. His work has been published in a lot of little magazines (including e James White Review, White Crane Journal, Whisky Island, Taproot, ArtCrimes, Ev’ryman, Splitw*sky, RFD, BEAR Magazine, Jonathan, lilliput, Rusty Truck, The Ekphrastic Review, The Gasconade Review) and over a dozen anthologies. He is the author of the full length collection With Fingers at the Tips of My Words (2002) from Beautiful Dreamer Press (http://www.beautifuldreamerpress.com/ ) and the chapbooks Room Enough (2016) and Waiting for the Wind to Rise (2018) both from Night Ballet Press (http://nightballetpress.blog spot.com). A chapbook, Pawning My Sins, is scheduled for 2019 from NightBallet Press. He maintains an occasional blog with memoirs and poems at https://joearky.wordpress. com/ Arcangelini has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

What the Night Keeps

Arcangelini, Michael Joseph

"Wide ranging, thoughtful, intelligent, at times elegiac, surreal, and humorous, Chase Dimock's Sentinel Species is a collection of poems that, as its title suggests, watches over the varied life forms on our planet, from animals and plants to humans. At the heart of Dimock's project is compassion towards all beings, especially those on the fringes of society and culture. In excavating the stories of the under-represented or the forgotten, Dimock gives them voice and thus dignity. This is a beautiful, at times painful, but always inclusive, generous, and tender book." - Bunkong Tuon, poet and associate professor of English, Union College "Chase Dimock's Sentinel Species is bursting with life. The animals, insects, and plants that populate these poems--alive or dead, thriving or in decline--provide startling gateways into explorations of human existence. Dimock's poems examine memory, culture, and the fundamental yearning that comes with being alive through a joyously dizzy array of extended metaphors and associations. These are poems that speak to the fundamental dignity of the living, and celebrate the emotional and intellectual flora and fauna of the everyday." -James Brubaker, author of The Taxidermist's Catalog and Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions. &#65279;"Honest, clear sighted, and masterfully written, this is a beautiful and important book which gives voice to the creatures that we love and may lose. Chase's remarkable knowledge of endangered species is coupled with a charm, wit and inventiveness which makes this a delightful read and one which engenders empathy by showing what we share withthe animal world, not least in the shape of Koko the Gorilla who asks god why she was given knuckles that drag the ground and a mind that questions the sky. -Anna Saunders, CEO Cheltenham Poetry Festval and author of six collections including Ghosting for Beginners ( Indigo Dreams ).

Sentinel Species

Dimock, Chase

Watershed

Dillow, Tyler

Jared Smith's poetry has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in this country, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., and China. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Home Planet News; The New York Quarterly; The Pedestal Magazine; and Turtle Island Quarterly, as well as on the Boards of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. He is listed in The Colorado Encyclopedia; Poets & Writers; Colorado Poets Center; Who's Who in America; and other reference sources. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from New York University, and studied under The Great Books Program at St. John's College. He has taught at New York University and LaGuardia Community College (CCNY, ) and worked as Director of Research and Education at an international laboratory, as Special Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory, and as an advisor to several White House Commissions under President William Clinton. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.

The Shoe Box at the End of the Universe

Smith, Jared

Dead Photographs

Dorsey, John

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