Spring '19 Chapbooks

Factory Hollow Press is thrilled to offer the following new titles!

VULTURINE - Andy Nicole Bowers

The poems in Vulturine derive inspiration from the work of numerous visual artists; they are especially indebted to the photography of Rosamond Purcell and the sculpture of Berlinde De Bruyckere.

CORRESPONDENT MEDLEY - Sophia Terazawa

Winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. The Tomaž Šalamun Prize is given for a chapbook by a poet at any stage of their career. The winner receives $500, publication of the chapbook by Factory Hollow Press, and a one-month residency at the Tomaž Šalamun Center for Poetry in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Watch Sophia read a selection from Correspondent Medley here.

CLEAR SHADOW - Aleš Šteger Trans. Brian Henry

A selection of poems from Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger’s 2015 book Above the Sky Beneath the Earth. Translated by Brian Henry.

More New Chapbooks!!

two new letterpressed chapbooks, and one pocket size collection, all designed by Meghan Dewar of sketchidesign.

FORMER PLANET - Brian Henry

3 x 3" collection of short poems that span from Ghost Fonts to Food Courts, from Push Mowers to Phantom Crystals, and all the Lice Hunters and Stage Mothers in between.

THE COSTUME OF A HUNTER - Kate Lindroos

in that there is sky there must also be wings, in her new chapbook THE COSTUME OF A HUNTER Kate Lindroos investigates what language is and does to us and for us, its logic, its images, the sounds it makes, so that, when one lets one's brain take upon itself to think how these poems think,  it isn't too far-fetched to say in that there is existence there must also be Kate Lindroos telling us how that feels in poems.  The book's epigraph ends with a sentence from Barry Lopez, "The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life."

GHOSTLY GLANCES - Holly St. John Bergon

Holly St. John Bergon’s GHOSTLY GLANCES ranges from Las Vegas to England, Colorado to Spain, Martha’s Vineyard to Mexico in poems that veer toward the uncanny in moments of transformation in the lives of a boxer, bullfighter, Lacandón Indian, Virginia Woolf’s ghost, red-tailed hawks, and the poet herself, dwelling in half-light among both the living and the dead. 

3 New Chapbooks

The newest batch of chapbooks from Factory Hollow Press is available now! All 3 of these beautiful handmade books were designed and letterpressed by Meghan Dewar of sketchidesign.

Sinking Into The Leopard Pillow

Gillian Conoley's SINKING INTO THE LEOPARD PILLOW continues what Conoley does as no one else does it----be her kind of way of present with an eye, ear, heart, and mind attentive to and alerted by the complicated and ever-roiling human tendencies she knows;  in eight poems a few of the things that happen are "I love my tiny part Neanderthal DNA,"  a "combustible planetarium" appears, someone says, "I am no longer afraid of robots," the "Election Year" casts its pall, there is the "leitmotif of a bra strap," we are invited to visit "The House of Love."

The Impersonators

Patrick Gaughan’s THE IMPERSONATOR’S is a collection of prose pieces troubling the lines between audience and celebrity, where Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with Adorno and "the real" blurs into Kristen Stewart. This is all to say “I want a world of copies who can’t copyright."

My Utmost Devotion

Andrew McAlpine’s MY UTMOST DEVOTION is a book-length long poem, originally written as a series of Tweets during a residency with Mount Analogue, in which our hero confides “I am not afraid to be childlike/ to make my wants known/ & to look in horror at the requirements/ of a well-managed day”, and later, “when I roll my tongue on the place/ where ice cream cone meets ice cream/ I get a sense that something/ might just change forever”

NEW CHAPBOOKS!

Tarantulas! Husbands! Mad Kings! and speaking of mad kings, ugh, Trump... our new batch of chapbooks is here.

Tarantula by David Feinstein ((( Lyrical Lorca-fucking death machines )))

David Feinstein’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, The Atlas Review, epiphany, jubilat, and Tin House. He is the author of the chapbook Woods Porn: The Adventures of Little Walter (published by No Dear / Small Anchor Press) and Tarantula, fresh off the press from Factory Hollow. He lives in Amherst, MA where he teaches writing and is a member of the Connecticut River Valley Poets Theatre.

Husbandly Things by Caroline Belle Stewart ((( Mystic meditative fiction for your inner widow ))) 

Caroline Belle Stewart’s stories can or soon will be found in Fairy Tale Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Hobart, No Tokens, and elsewhere. She is the co-author of a deck of narrative birding flashcards called "Mast Year: A Mystical Field Guide" (Mount Analogue Press). A recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, she lives in Northampton, MA.

Trump It by Laura Willwerth (((Demagogic erasures )))

Laura Willwerth has an MFA from UMass Amherst. Her work has appeared in Cosmonaut's Avenue and The Massachusetts Review. Her chapbook, Trump It, is composed of Republican language from the 2016 election cycle.

Mad Dances for Mad Kings by Rushing Pittman ((( Curious poems for curious minds )))

Rushing Pittman is a trans and queer writer living in Sunderland, MA. He is the author of the chapbook Mad Dances for Mad Kings (Factory Hollow Press) and the chapbook There is One Crow That Will Not Stop Cawing (Another New Calligraphy). He’s been published in an assortment of journals. If you Google his name you’ll probably run across a poem here and there. 

THREE FANTASTIC NEW CHAPBOOKS

Factory Hollow Press is thrilled to announce the publication of three new chapbooks! 

POSITION PAPERS by Andrea Lawlor

A willfully deadpan absurdist drama plays out page by page throughout Andrea Lawlor’s POSITION PAPERS while meanwhile we’re treated to a catalog of rationalized pitch perfect fairly reasonable exercises pertinent to our day to day lives. It’s neither a how to book nor a how not to book; it’s more a it’s-a-good-idea-to-take-these-positions-to-heart and let them amplify one’s mind with a necessary guide.

DOUBLOON OATH by Kiki Petrosino

Kiki Petrosino’s poem’s artfully shaped spell is enhanced word by word by Philip Miller’s images in DOUBLOON OATH’s spare pages. 

CHESHIRIZATION by John Emil Vincent

In nine poems whose tones, tempers, tonics and contents exquisitely mesh, John Emil Vincent carries on an extended conversation with any one of us who wishes to take up where what’s proposed poem by poem takes off into heretofore unexplored zones of our own.  We frame what’s next as each new poem frames its contents in elegantly surprising, slightly raucous configurations.

chapbooks!

Neon Clouds by Jon Ruseski and Into The Leaf Gloom by Halie Theoharides are two tremendously wonderful chapbooks of poems that Factory Hollow Press is so pleased to have available. The poems in these chapbooks are full of openness and energy, truth and paradox, embrace and loss, love and despair, dreams and history, full of magic and the natural world, full of mystery. The poems in these chapbooks will shake you into mystery. 

For a limited time, buy either Neon Clouds or Into The Leaf Gloom and you will get both chapbooks. For $10 that is two incredible chapbooks! 

Sampson Starkweather - PAIN: The Board Game

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said Life is Pain. Poet Sampson Starkweather says PAIN: The Board Game. Third Man Books’ fourth title has, evidently, caused pain in a few lives already: four printing presses in Nashville, TN, refused the book due to objections over content! PAIN: The Board Game is 160 pages of poetry, 15 full color illustrations by Jon-Michael Frank, and the first book of poetry that is both page-turning-analog and online interactive. Find out why some describe Starkweather as, "Not only thrillingly accessible, not only deeply thought-provoking, but also, and without exaggeration, historically important."—The Huffington Post

PAIN: The Board Game available NOW at a special pre-order price of $15, street date October 13. A limited edition will also be available featuring a board game insert.

* The first analog plus online interactive book of poetry
* Features 15 color illustration by Jon-Michael Frank
* 160 pages of poetry as visual as readable
* Starkweather sold out TMR's live venue of 400 and sold out his books.
* Sampson Starkweather’s previous title First Four Books was a best seller for Small Press Distribution.
* Even comes with content deemed inappropriate by modern-age printing presses!

when I die
will someone please
keep me alive
in Second Life
my password
to all things
is pipedream!
don’t forget
the exclamation
point and feel
free to bring
flowers
fuck
the sniper
in the mall
I leave
a hole
in everything

THE EMILY DICKINSON TAROT DECK IS BACK

The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck has been re-printed and is now back in stock!

I have an errand imminent
To an adjoining Zone

The Emily Dickinson Tarot Deck. Each suit designed by a different artist.

Phoebe Harris, swords, is an illustrator living and working in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Emily Pettit, pentacles, lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she edits for Factory Hollow Press; her book, Goat In The Snow, comes from Birds, LLC.

Bianca Stone, wands, is a poet and artist who lives in Brooklyn.

Halie Theoharides, major arcana, lives in Western Massachusetts and studies poetry, wildlife, and other mysteries; her favorite insects are dragonflies and damselflies.

Haley Rene Thompson, cups, is a maker who studies poetry in the MFA for Poets and Writers University of Massachusetts Amherst; she lives above a suspect antique shop in Northampton, Massachusetts--of both she is fond. 

Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser

Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser

Out from Harper Perennial (September 1, 2015) -

A story of friendship, art, sex, and curly hair: an audaciously witty debut tracing the pas de deux of lust and love between two young, uncertain, conflicted art students. 

At their New England art school, Paulina and Fran both stand apart from the crowd. Paulina is striking and sexually adventurous—a self-proclaimed queen bee with a devastating mean-girl streak. With her gorgeous untamed head of curly hair, Fran is quirky, sweet, and sexually innocent. An aspiring painter whose potential outstrips her confidence, she floats dreamily through criticisms and dance floors alike. On a school trip to Norway, the girls are drawn together, each disarmed by the other’s charisma.

Though their bond is instant and powerful, it’s also wracked by complications. When Fran winds up dating one of Paulina’s ex-boyfriends, an incensed Paulina becomes determined to destroy the couple, creating a rift that will shape their lives well past the halcyon days of art school. 

Crackling with bon mots and knowing snapshots of that moment when the carefree cocoon of adolescence opens into the permanent, unknowable future,Paulina & Fran is both a sparkling dance party of a novel, and the debut novel of a writer with rare insight into the complexities of obsession, friendship, and prickly, ever-elusive love.

Christmas in July!

Factory Hollow Press is celebrating Christmas in July! Buy any Factory Hollow Press title and with it receive Bianca Stone's fantastic Christmas comic Idiot Savant, along with two FHP full-length titles and one chapbook, decided by Santa.

The Western Snowmelt Tour

Luke Bloomfield & Mike Young

March 14 __ Seattle, WA: Raygun Lounge ((7pm))

March 16 __ Portland, OR: Downtown Powells ((6-9:30pm))

March 17 __ Ashland, OR: Schneider Museum of Art ((7pm))

March 19 __ Oakland, CA: Omni Commons ((7pm))

March 21 __ Los Angeles, CA: Poetic Research Bureau ((7:30pm))

AWP: NORTH BY NORTHEAST READING!

AWP: NORTH BY NORTHEAST READING!

Friday, April 10 at 8:00pm - 11:00pm in CDT

Lunalux 1618 Harmon Pl, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403

FACTORY HOLLOW PRESS
Kelin Loe
Shane McCrae 

JUBILAT
Jon Ruseski
Halie Theoharides 

MONK BOOKS
Christine Neacole Kanownik
Alina Gregorian 
Ben Pease

POETRY COMICS
Chris Martin and Mary Austin Speaker
Anders Nilsen
Bianca Stone

a new issue of spoke too soon - a journal of the longer

Kelin Loe with Leora Fridman, edits an amazing online journal called SPOKE TOO SOON - A Journal of the Longer. Check out their fantastic newest issue! 

review of These Are The Gloria Stories by Kelin Loe in Publishers Weekly

Loe's hip, energetic, and bodily debut is a frenetic trip through the messy, the psychosexual, and our almost-ordinary internal and external worlds. Inhabited by a singular but splitting voice, these worlds collide, ebb, and fight through four series of prose fragments where "Biochemically, I am more alive/ than you// and when/ the kitchen light cuts// out I become/ more to you// I mean I can candle." What these series lack in traditional sense, they exploit with energy, association, and colloquial smarts ("if you TRY TO SLOW me DOWN i will FRACTURE your comprehension of CHILL/ though I don't want to.") As it moves from mundane humor ("I just found your ring in the shower./ The water's back?") to the weird ("I put my best boob forward./ I could go for a breast blitz.") to the aggressive ("you/ will taste/ the wheel// with your throat."), the work remains full of surprises. Yet readers will also catch glimpses of the familiar: "i keep opening the internet like there is food in there." Loe's willingness to push the limits results in a strange pleasure that never overwhelms, thanks to the consistency of her deliriousness and to the work's simple and elegant form.  - Publishers Weekly

FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS by Shane McCrae is #3 on COLDFRONT's Top 40 Poetry Books of 2014

FORGIVENESS FORGIVENESS by Shane McCrae is #3 on COLDFRONT's Top 40 Poetry Books of 2014!

Shane McCrae’s latest, Forgiveness Forgiveness, is a stunning follow-up to his 2013 collection Blood. This book draws on a similar inherited trauma as Blood, but it also dilates the issue to zoom in on moments of personal violence. McCrae probes memory, both collective and individual, and uncovers violence associated with racism as well as physical and sexual abuse. The struggle, however, is not to achieve vengeance, but to forgive. McCrae’s speaker seeks to better understand and to move beyond rage or even apathy.  - Melinda Wilson 

A new review of Hymn To Life by Timothy Donnelly!

A new review of Hymn To Life by Timothy Donnelly !

We only see the wind because we see the tree’s reply to it. Timothy Donnelly’s long poem Hymn to Life behaves similarly, but instead of the tree, it’s the past, and the force, rather than being the wind, is life. Topping out at sixty stanzas, un-serialized, populated by facts pulled from natural history with digressive little reveries into pop-culture, biography, antiquity, and personal anecdote, the intrinsic spirit of Hymn to Life – perhaps one of the best long poems written in recent memory – is sympathy 

Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae reviewed in American Microreviews & Interviews!

Forgiveness Forgiveness by Shane McCrae reviewed by Annie Won for American Microreviews & Interviews!

A FANTASTIC ESSAY BY CARYL PAGEL in the new issue of Wave Composition

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing by Caryl Pagel

Check out this great essay by Caryl Pagel in the new issue of Wave Composition. Find Sherwood Anderson, trains, and Lauren Haldeman on SCIENCE about FEELINGS. 

Also in this issue of Wave Composition is wonderful work by Dorothea Lasky and Lauren Shapiro among others! 

http://www.wavecomposition.com/article/issue-9/out-of-nowhere-into-nothing/

Factory Hollow ebooks are now available at 0s&1s poetry! →

Factory Hollow ebooks are now available at 0s&1s poetry!

new MOODS review! in new Sink Review! →

“Mood,” by definition, is a varying and elusive term, much like Rachel Glaser’s collection of poems that leaves anyone who is fortunate enough to pick it up, piqued with not only interest but also self-examination. Again when re-examining the book’s title, in order to better understand the collection as a whole, the word mood in old English denotes military courage, though it more commonly refers to a person’s humor, temper, or disposition at a particular time. The word’s etymological definition rings throughout the book. -  Jake Mariani