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"A Word in Your Fear introduces me to a new voice, epiphanies striking, stun and collide, in sparks, language, thick. But without clutter. Doyle's poetry is funny, philosophical, sometimes satirical. It professes an awareness on manifold levels: surreal in some places, grounded in others. It's a magical book, a demanding book: a decision to filter experience and somehow embrace. The challenge? To pull from the wreckage & desperation of a struggling world an "who gives a damn" construct, the engagement a child has kicking a ball amidst graffiti stained walls and rubble. Echoing ancestors of Celtic voice, fresh, I hearmuch of what poetry needs to continue amongst what still reverberates, not the undead zombie, but the awake and alive. A word in our fear. How to dance and in dancing outrage the world as it stares, amazed."-C. Leigh Srygley, Author of Parking Lot Poems (Luchador Press)"A Word in Your Fear by John Doyle is a stunning collection of poetry by one of Ireland's leading contemporary poets. These poems, reflect the poet's experience of life and society in America and Ireland. They are sublime observations in real time that look back and still "stiff" us today. Like Kerouac, Doyle narrates his own road of adventure and discovery. His poetic prose draws the reader into each poem on his epic journey. This brilliant collection highlights a unique style, vision and sophisticated technique. The serious undertones are truths made more memorable by hilarious humour and scathing satire in beautiful prose that brings to mind Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut."-Strider Marcus Jones, Author of "Inside Out"¿"John Doyle remakes the world we see with its parameters, received wisdom, and brutal expectations into a world of ancient, shared archetypes, and not so ancient archetypes like Dennis Wilson surfing around Roger Christian poetry like the new Odysseus. The muse sings out from Irish freight trains going by, and the Jim Rockford coastline where California meets the Irish Sea." -John Harold Olson, Author of "FDR and The Flying Saucers"

J. Lester Allen is an upstate NY poet who has scattered his work across the small press landscape having released three previous collections of work: The Days Carnivore, Ask the Crows and A Cockroach in the Penthouse. He can be reached at jlesterallen@gmail.com.

Jason Baldinger is a poet hailing from Pittsburgh and recently finished a stint as writer in residence at the Osage Arts Community. He is co-director of The Bridge Series reading series. He's the author of several books, the most recent are This Useless Beauty (Alien Buddha Press), The Ugly Side of the Lake (NightBallet Press) written with John Dorsey and the chaplet Fumbles Revelations (Grackle and Crow) which are available now. The collection Fragments of a Rainy Season (Six Gallery Press) and the split book with James Benger, Little Fires Hiding (Kung Fu Treachery Press) are forthcoming. Recent publications include the Low Ghost Anthology Unconditional Surrender, The Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Uppagus, Lilliput Review, Rusty Truck, Dirtbag Review, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Nerve Cowboy Concrete Meat Press, Zombie Logic Press, Ramingo's Porch, Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Mad Swirl, Blue Hour Review and Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity and Resistance. You can hear Jason read poems on recent and forthcoming releases by Theremonster and Sub Pop Recording artist The Gotobeds as well as at jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Evergreen Review, Cultural Weekly, The Rye Whiskey Review and The Oklahoma Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada is his big blacked out truck.

Dr. R. Nikolas Macioci earned a PhD from The Ohio State University and taught English, Writer's Seminar (a course he created for select students), and Drama in Columbus City Schools. OCTELA, the Ohio Council of Teachers of English, awarded Nik Macioci best secondary English teacher in the state of Ohio. He won First Place in the l987 National Writer's Union Poetry Competition judged by Denise Levertov, First Place in The Baudelaire Award Competition sponsored by The World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets (1989). Second Place in Zone 3's first annual Rainmaker Awards, judged by Howard Nemerov (1989), and Second Place in the Writer's Digest annual competition, Judged by Diane Wakoski (1991). Nik is the author of two chapbooks, Cafes of Childhood,and Greatest Hits, as well as four books: Cafes of Childhood (the original chapbook with additional poems), Why Dance?, Necessary Windows, and Mother Goosed. Forth- coming are Occasional Heaven and A Human Saloon. His book, Cafes of Childhood was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize. Critics and judges called Cafes of Childhood a "beautifully harrowing account of child abuse, but not "sentimental" or self-pitying" an "amazing book," and "a single unified whole." In addition, Nik's work has been published in more than two hundred magazines here and abroad. Most recently, Macioci has published in The Society of Classical Poets journal, Clark Street Review, Blue Unicorn, and Chiron Review. He is a member of Bistro poets critique group.

James H. Duncan is the editor of Hobo Camp Review and the author of Nights Without Rain, Dead City Jazz, What Lies In Wait, and We Are All Terminal But is Exit Is Mine, among other collections of poetry and fiction. Between jobs at daily newspapers, overnight security posts, and magazines like Writer's Digest, he spends most of his time wandering train station platforms, quiet dive bars, and roadside diners looking for a hot meal, a good rest, and a little inspiration. He also reviews indie bookshops at his blog, e BookshopHunter. For more about his work, visit www.jameshduncan.com

"As a social worker I have a deep interest in Matt Borczon's work. I hope it helped him, and know that it assists others who don't possess his writing skills. From Saved Rounds which allowed me to know that social workers and those in the field of psychology have been far too slow to grasp the concept Matt spills out right from the start. In "Afghanistan 2010" we get a glimpse of the stoic mindset of those who serve our country. For, "The Last Poem" Matt rips the curtains back and allows those blinds to snap up to the ceiling, to show everyone how war has affected his beloved wife and family. It was in "Riding An Imaginary Horse", that I received the gut punch or a pretty pink nightmare, compared to the memories and dreams that still sit on that saddle. No one can tell these stories so necessary for understanding our veterans, better than Matt. His gift is the ability to knock us down and drag us through the ravages of war. The poem "The War" made me tear up and then lose my battle on the last stanza. I moved on to "Veterans Day" and had to seriously stop and make myself breathe. This book couldn't stick to the speed limit and never gave you a break as it raced right on through." -Thasia Ann, author of Pam's Jacket, Guerilla Genisis Press"In Saved Rounds Matt Borczon leads us through the night-mare of what is PTSD. This book is full of power packedpoems that lets the reader feel the pain and the determinationof countless amputees, the screams and cries of the Afghanchildren and a Navy nurse and his family trying to heal. Donot thank him for his service or for being a hero but insteadthank him for these poems, the blood he left on these pagesand for being a voice for those who can't." -Scot Young, author of Brautigan Meets Bukowski, All Around Cowboy and publisher at the Rusty Truck and Deuce Coupe."I've long been envious of the heartbreaking devastationof Matt Borczon's poetry, though perhaps not of theexperiences that led him to write it. Matt has complainedthat many editors don't care for his spare vertical style, butin the case of poems about war, let us remember what outlawpoet Todd Moore said about poems that "hang down thepage like long black fuses..." These are poems waiting foryou to light them." -Brian Rihlmann"This book is a punch to the gut. It hits you where you live.Borczon wastes no words in describing the visible and theunseen scars that war inflicts upon its survivors. The poemsare tight, intense snapshots of the poet's experience whileserving in Afghanistan. Brutal but not sensationalistic, thepower of these poems is undeniable. Once you begin reading,you won't be able to stop. This should be required readingin our turbulent times." -Kevin M. Hibshman, editor, FEARLESS poetry zine

Reading Ryberg is like driving a pick-up truck across Kansas on shrooms. Jason Ryberg's imagery, as fresh as a midnight S curve, takes the reader on a journey from the city to the wheat fields through a landscape bright with the " five-battery- ashlight of a moon." Forever the Salina cowboy at heart, Ryberg, like a calf roper, lassos the "quicksilver halo of ghost fire", moments deep, spirit-filled with paradox. The poet carries his piggin' string in his teeth, ready to half-hitch a "pint bottle...to the grinning,/blue Buddha moon." He raises both arms into the air and stops the clock.-Al Ortolani, co-author of Ghost Sign & Francis Shoots Pool at Chubb's Bar

James Benger is a father, husband and writer. His work has been featured in several publications. He is a member of the Riverfront Readings Committee, is on the Board Of Directors of The Writers Place in Kansas City, and is the founder of the 365 Poems In 365 Days online poetry workshop and is Editor In Chief of the subsequent anthology series. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and children. Jason Baldinger is a poet hailing from Pittsburgh who recently finished a stint as writer in residence at the Osage Arts Community. He is co-director of The Bridge Series reading series, the author of several books including This Useless Beauty (Alien Buddha Press), The Ugly Side of the Lake (Night Ballet Press) written with John Dorsey, and Little Fires Hiding (Kung Fu Treachery Press) written with James. The collection Fragments of a Rainy Season (Six Gallery Press) is forthcoming. Recent publications include the Low Ghost Anthology Unconditional Surrender, The Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Uppagus, Lilliput Review, Rusty Truck, Dirtbag Review, Red Eft Review, In Between Hangovers, Your One Phone Call, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Nerve Cowboy Concrete Meat Press, Zombie Logic Press, Ramingo's Porch, Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Mad Swirl, Blue Hour Review, Mojave River Review, Cajun Mutt Press and Heartland! Poetry of Love, Solidarity and Resistance. You can hear Jason read poems on recent and forthcoming releases by Theremonster and Sub Pop Recording artist The Gotobeds as well as at jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com

"Jason Baldinger and James Benger's Little Fires Hiding offers glances into alternate realities, into what might have been, not only for Baldinger and Benger, but the assortment of working class characters who occupy their world. To use a phrase from one of Baldinger's pieces in the collection, they are birds who've contemplated the higher branches of the tree, probably more than a few times. Like many of us, they never quite get there, but their poems do, and like the sunlight, they cast a certain amount of beauty on the respective cities that these these two gifted poets, choose, quite happily, to call home and even though they're separated by many miles, they come together seamlessly." --John Dorsey, Author of Damsels in Detroit

Paul Edward Costa is a writer, spoken word artist, teacher, and the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate for the City of Mississauga. He has featured at many poetry reading series in the Greater Toronto Area and has published over 60 poems, stories, and articles in literary journals such as Bewildering Stories, Lucent Dreaming Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Gyroscope Review, POST-, and Alt-Minds Literary Magazine. His novella, Dark Magic on the Edge of Town, was put out in 2017 with the hybrid publisher Paperback-Press. He curates/hosts the YTGA Open Mic Series at Studio.89, has co-organized/hosted the Mississauga Arts Council's Verses Out Loud Poetry Series, and has won the Mississauga Arts Council's 2019 MARTY Award for Emerging Literary Arts.

Barton Smock lives in Columbus, OH with his wife and four children. He is the author of the chapbook infant* cinema (Dink Press, 2016) and editor of isacoustic* (isacoustic.com) Materialseating for the child lost by ghost, you are the second ofthree people who know god's middle name. oh how I'vewritten to avoid reading. to impress death. a babysitter's tattoo. the bird-sleep of ache. -Barton Smock

The thing that gets me about Jason Baldinger''s work is this: despite being wildly prolific, it''s these poems. The poems get better, get tighter, get more honest. It''s not always going to be a pretty picture, but Baldinger - especially here in A Threadbare Universe - draws you in with each first line, creates a little world where we get to look through his eyes while he wields language like it''s music; syncopated rhythms, the skillful repetition of assonance and consonance, a sprinkling of slant and internal rhyme give these poems structures in which they dance. These poems have grit and they bite and they leave you speechless at the sheer miracle of being alive on a sunny day, barreling down the road, shaking the city dust and hustling for cash weariness in the winds of the Great Plains.Shawn PaveyAuthor of Survival Tips for the Pending ApocalypseIn Jason Baldinger''s latest book, "A Threadbare Universe" he takes you on a whirlwind ride to hell and back. The poems travel through forgotten towns where the unemployment check is a relic from another time. They take you on journeys from Pittsburgh to Evansville, Indiana, moving further along through Kentucky to the middle of Kansas. And within the desolation, little sparks of light throw out signals from this stellar poem: "The streets are empty" -we look for heroes to save this never democracy / Christianity and Hollywood led us astray. And the positive; a redemption of the new madness that haunts our each and every step hits us in this final line: we can stop this / we have to fill the streets. A powerful book that begs to be read.Richard D. HouffAuthor, journalist, and former editor of Heeltap MagazineJason Baldinger''s writing is an example of the best American poetry today. A Threadbare Universe takes America''s temperature and awakens us. It''s a poignant call from complacency, a brilliant rendition, breathtaking in its solace and lament.Jyl AnaisAuthor of Soft Out SpokenBeneath the blue collar of Baldinger''s poems lies dirt, nostalgia, a sweet solitude built of both victory and sadness. To read is to ride shotgun with road map an unfolded wreckage with America hungover in the backseat. Every stop to stretch legs and take a piss is colored by working blues and morning afters. There is coming-of-age, and there is coming to terms--this collection of work exquisitely calls forth the latter. Nikki AllenPoet