Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s.
In Gizzards & Hearts, characters teeter on the edge of collapse, clinging to hope in a crumbling world. From a mother in isolation to boys chasing time travel, each story explores desperate acts, fleeting grace, and the fragile struggle to see ourselves—and each other—for who we truly are.
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie powerfully weave the seemingly incongruent into deeply moving and incredibly inspiring tapestries of meaning.
Magical Objects is a weirdo collection of flash and short fiction drawing from fabulism and the magical power of metaphor. It’s genre-bendy, queer, dark, whimsical, and ridiculous. It is a fairy tale of growing up with books and fairy tales. It is about words, identity, and broken, smart-assy girls learning how to draw strength from their scars.
When Jackie “came out” in 2014, right as the Trump era was revving up, she began paying closer attention to the questions, uncomfortable reactions, and pointed assumptions about sexuality and gender she was witnessing and now experiencing.
Within these lyrically rich poems, Appalachia is a kind of Eden, a paradise spoiled by humanity. Eve, the first mother, becomes a starting point for the speaker’s exploration of what it means to be a mother, an earth-dweller, a self.
Carolina Hospital’s poetry collections include Key West Nights and Other Aftershocks (Anhinga Press) and The Child of Exile: A Poetry Memoir (Arte Público Press), as well as Myth America and How to Get into Trouble (Anhinga Press), both collaborative collections with...
Queer, POZ, poet and editor, Michael Mackin O’Mara was born in Brooklyn, New York, raised on Long Island and Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and has lived in Florida since the early 1970s. Michael was an Associate Editor at The South Florida Poetry Review in the late 1980s...
Virtuoso scream queens. Cuckholding cockroaches. Scorned mermaids. Orphaned trapeze artists. Young love. True love. Secret love. Consuming love. Sex, strippers, Stoli, and a severed human hand. A collection of 22 micros and flashes to light your fire and break your heart.
Luanne Castle’s hybrid memoir-in-flash Scrap: Salvaging a Family is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2026. She has written four award-winning poetry collections. Her Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net-nominated writing has appeared in Copper Nickel,...