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Former kid, current codger, Stephen Roxborough has learned a few things and survived the plotline to come back with another collection of Beat-infused jazz-smoked-hymnblast-meditations, and rants on the lost arts of patience, with all the vacillations, and ambivalences of aging.Geoff Inverarity, Author of All the Broken Things

"Constance Stadler and Rich Follett remind us that poetry is not some solitary, solipsistic pursuit. Rather, it is a dialogic and social activity, one that involves collaboration, and yes, competition, but most importantly a conversation among the living, and with those whose voices have long since been silenced, but still echo across the ages through words inscribed on pages. Here they demonstrate the literary power of language made visible, and memory made palpable, summoning the demons of trauma and the angels of delight. But most of all they show us the strength we can gain from communing with the muses that are available to all of humanity, if we would only open ourselves up to their inspiration, as Stadler and Follett have done."~Lance Strate, author of First Letter of My Alphabet and Thunder at Darwin Station

This third collection of poetry by Lance Strate is his most spiritual, and his most intimate. First Letter of My Alphabet is a personal pentateuch, populated by a diverse cast of characters that include Adam and Eve, Moses, Saul, Qohelet, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Brigitte Bardot, Max Weinberg, an assortment of superheroes, the Tailors of Eternity, angels and avatars, and the Supreme Being in myriad manifestations. Flashes of humor mix with bittersweet memory, poignant longings for escape are juxtaposed with calls for resistance and transcendence, sound and vision, speech and inscription, language and symbol, history and memory, past and present, the particular and the universal, the intellectual and the ineffable, all come together in a volume that speaks to flesh and blood and mind and soul as one.

Lunch with the American People is a satirical tour de force that is high in irony and humor and low on platitudes and boring observations. Reading it will satisfy your hunger for smart, information-packed commentary on subjects ranging from politics and social affairs to self-improvement hucksterism. Holding up vice and folly to ridicule and scorn, Lunch with the American People continues satire's great tradition of supplying constructive social criticismwherever needed.

We're immersed in a radical transformation of consciousness and sensibility through the advent of digital communications' technologies. Everything is in heightened conditions of emergent flux and speed, of spiritual emergency. Responding to the transformations, this word-image work seeks the heartbeat inside the Genesis overdrive of our present. It's a book of pulses and intuitions expressed in prose and poetry, street art and images, all of which record and reflect our deepening engulfment in manifesting generations of electricity. This book is about the charging of our time, and our charge for perceiving.The global membrane is an evolutionary jump from the global village and global theatre into sensory, psychic alteration in which communications bring us at once closer and into sharp, painful divisions. A time of openings-expressions of humane empathy: a time of terrified, terrorizing closings-reactions against uprooting of what we know. Ecology, the afflictions of the Trump phenomenon, the quick-time evolutions of the internet, the rush of data influx, the upsurges in Nationalism, Trolls and Hackers, spiritual distress, crises of identity and A-literacy, #MeToo, the Netgens, the search for silence and rest, the intimations of a worldwide linked consciousness, the transfiguration of digital experience into cellular intimacies and addictions, the crying out of souls longing to grasp and express this dislocating jump-drive and its illuminating hopes, the shape-shifting artistic expressions of the current: all are elements of what we experience.

In the tradition of Delta of Venus & Fear of Flying, She-Noodle navigates the relationship minefields of the burn-your-bra '70s in a rock 'n roll romp through the backstreets, bedrooms, and broken dreams of Los Angeles. Unprotected & unadulterated, She-Noodle manipulates, manhandles, and discovers the cost of free love. A cautionary tale ripe with outrageous escapades, and comical capers, She-Noodle presents a loophole into the perfect escape. And more. . .

Ribalow uses her beloved Jerusalem as biblical and literal backdrop, as inspiration and also metaphor, with an immediacy and intimacy reminiscent of Yehuda Amichai. Sharon Pomerantz, Novelist, author of Rich Boy

"Michael Dylan Welch is known for his fresh takes on haiku and readers will be delighted by this new collection, a serendipitous collaboration with Tanya McDonald." George Swede, cofounder of Haiku Canada

About the Author Donna Snyder's work as an activist lawyer advocating on behalf of indigenous people, immigrant workers, and people with disabilities has garnered multiple prizes and recognitions. In 1995 she founded the grassroots, not-for-profit Tumblewords Project in the West Texas/Southern New Mexico/Northern Chihuahua region. She continues to coordinate its free weekly workshops, occasional publications, and performance events in the El Paso area. Reviews "Snyder is a poet who tongues the language of birds, delves into the minds of sybils, explores connections with animals. She tests the boundaries of nothingness and somethingness. Donna Snyder's poems are like Nüshu: secrets cast skywards like a cipher for those who know, to read." Susan Hawthorne, poet and author of Lupa and Lamb "Powerful images, passion between lines, revisiting female mythological figures, and questioning violence against women are crucial in these poems. Snyder reinvents herself through these stanzas, and raises her voice in each of the polychromatic verses full of Latino as well as north European myths, full of words as vaporous signs." Xánath Caraza, recipient of the 2015 International Book Award for Poetry "The Tongue Has Its Secrets celebrates the feminine principle in all manifestations -- from its dark root in the earth, the blood & sacrifice & song of mother & daughter, up to the chariot moon ridden by the fertile goddess through skies resplendent with her constellations." Amalio Madueño, poet

About the Author Carly Bryson lives in Houston, Texas and writes poetry and prose about cracked dirt, the desert, lonesome highways, dirty rotten wars, nasty city air, pending dystopia and the frailty of the human condition. Reviews "Carly Bryson has accomplished a lot in a short amount of geological print, and online time. Carly's original poetry doesn't hesitate to "blow dirt in your mouth..." as she continues her literary ascent soaring beyond underground kingpins, and entrenched academic carnivores alike." David S. Pointer, poetry editor for As You Were: The Military Review "No sentimental drivel to stain your tea cosy in Carly Bryson's new book of poems. In a voice tinged with both weariness and worldliness, we are allowed glimpses of a consciousness shaped by an unremitting land, an intelligence carving out its own territory, a clear-eyed poet taking stock of her world. When she's got something to say to you, your ears will be ringing from the crack of the bullwhip upside your head." Doc Sigerson, nonfiction editor at RED FEZ "Perceptive, spirited and cognizant of the intensity of mankind's struggle between certainty and uncertainty, Bryson introduces potency and passion in this beautifully crafted must read collection." Shirley Howard Hall, Author of One Day, Listen, Embrace and One Day You'll Listen

About the Author Arthur Asa Berger is the author of more than one hundred articles and more than seventy books on pop culture, media, cultural studies, humor and tourism. If you count second, third, fourth and fifth editions of books, he has published more than ninety books. His books have been translated into ten languages, with fourteen of his books translated into Chinese and five into Farsi. One of his favorite articles was titled "The Evangelical Hamburger." It was a study of McDonald's hamburgers and American culture, published in 1964. He also wrote an article published in the Los Angeles Times about some sexual aspects of video games. His book Bloom's Morning psychoanalyzed kitchen appliances and other household objects and rituals and includes drawings he made for each chapter. When he gave a reading on the book in Vietnam, someone in the audience asked him if the book was a work of fiction. That is the way many serious scholars in the United States look upon all his writings. He delights in taking obscure theories generally written in impenetrable prose by European scholars and pushing them to absurd results. He has explained the way he writes as follows- "I make everything up as I go along and throw in charts and diagrams to fool social scientists." Jean Baudrillard writes in his Fragments, "He who speaks of himself should never say the whole truth, he should keep it secret and divulge only fragments." Berger has taken this advice to heart. Reviews "Writing Myself into Existence is no ordinary biography. Professor Berger is an "unclassifiable adolescent" who has published 70 books to date. Whether you are in the English-speaking world or in China, you'll admire this "assassin of academics" legendary experience, profound knowledge and thoughts, great humor, and critical thinking that shines a light of wisdom throughout the book." Junchao Wang, Professor of Media Criticism at Tsinghua University "In Berger's memoir you'll learn the truth about his killings of academic colleagues." Dirk vom Lehn, Sociologist, author, Professor at King's College London "As sophisticated, humorous and semiotic as all Berger's other writings, and produced by the right publishing house - since poiesis also means modifying environment. Once again, Arthur manages to change the academic environment in communication and semiotics." Christo Kaftandjiev, Professor of Marketing Communications at Sofia University (Bulgaria) and Tomsk University (Russia) "An entertaining mosaic of intellectual and personal autobiography, flitting from talking theory with Umberto Eco to the symbolic meaning of hamburgers, from analyzing Jewish humor to the importance of personal journals. Considering he callously killed me off in one of his novels after I published over 20 of his books, you can believe me when I say this book is well worth the read." Mitch Allen, Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc. "Almost to spite his critical acumen, and the nonstop clamor of ideas for his immediate attention, Berger presents himself, his friends, and his studies sunny-side up. For Berger, "existence" means getting the rest of us to smile." Elihu Katz, Professor Emeritus, Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Hebrew University of Jerusalem

About the Author David Ossman, one of the four creators of The Firesign Theatre, three-time Grammy nominees, known as "The Beatles of Comedy," has been publishing poetry in books, anthologies and magazines since his teen years. Most of the poems in Marshmallows & Despair were first heard on NPR's All Things Considered, the Firesign's gold-medal-winning XM Satellite program, Fools In Space, and the web's Radio Free Oz. An internationally-celebrated radio writer-director, best known for The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production, Ossman has also produced major programs with John Cage, Ray Bradbury and Norman Corwin. As "George Tirebiter," he ran a national comedy campaign for U.S. Vice-President in 1976, is the voice of "Cornelius" in Pixar's A Bug's Life, and has adapted Agatha Christie's BBC Murders, Jean Cocteau's Orpheus and an e. e. cummings cabaret for stage. Ossman was born Dec. 6, 1936 in Santa Monica, California, graduated from Columbia University, and has lived on Whidbey Island, Washington, with his wife and partner, Judith Walcutt, for thirty years. They have two sons, Orson, a filmmaker, and Preston, a musician. He is currently finishing a second memoir, Fighting Clowns. Reviews "Reading David Ossman is like finding yourself caught up in a whirlwind of whimsy and dark augury. Imagine you're trying to run through a dust devil, arms flailing and hair flying and Ossman's poems are like looking up through the funnel and seeing the sun. David Ossman is an acute observer who makes flesh the Walpole dictum: "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."" Bart Baxter Poet, Pilot, World Traveller & Master of Ceremonies "We all knew there was a poetry in the madness of Firesign Theater, but there's also an inspired madness in the poetry of Firesign's David Ossman. Marshmallows & Despair reveals the heart that has always been at the center of Ossman's work, changing the way one thinks about his comedy, and all comedy for that matter. With a light touch and delirious passion, Ossman takes us on a journey that is both personal and universal. Transcendent." Douglas Rushkoff author of Present Shock "A compelling diary of the first years of the century, these genial and biting poems remind us of the uniquely literary dimension of Ossman's old group, Firesign Theatre, and can be read alongside the broadcasts and albums of their great late period." Jeremy Braddock Cornell University, Modernist Studies Book Prize winner. "Funny, deeply layered, and subversive." John Goodman Unforgettable film, television, stage, and voice actor.

About the Author Erin Badough is a licensed professional engineer who currently resides in San Antonio, Texas, with her French Bulldog. She has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Environmental Engineering from Texas Tech University and enjoys writing, drinking red wine, cooking real food, volunteering in her community, and traveling to other countries in her spare time. Reviews "Modes of Persuasion is a seductive collection of poems and prose to light emotion on fire, and soothe the savage sentiment of the reader's subconscious. An essence of Nin and cummings hover throughout the fierce suggestions, subtle nuances and exploration of form within this collection. Badough does the reader a sublime justice holding a balanced poetic sway. And tethered between a tightrope of lyrical content and the severed edge, the ravens sing their cacophony, the nymphs dance, and satyrs stir." Apryl Skies, editor, Edgar & Lenore's Publishing House

About the Author william marshe is an Island son of Cape Breton, on Canada's east coast. He spent his early years immersed in a vibrant culture of artists, writers, singers and thespians, where he wrote, directed, acted in and designed many productions. Like many of the youth of the economically challenged area of Sydney, he left his home as a young adult to seek gainful employment elsewhere and now resides in Toronto, Ontario, working as a millwork designer for luxury homes, locally and around the globe. He continues to write when every moment presents itself. salt/ /water is william's first collection of poetry. His work has appeared online and in the journal ETC, as well as in the collection The Medium is The Muse [Channeling Marshall McLuhan] published by NeoPoiesis Press. Reviews Cape Breton native William Marshe gives us poems that could be a read as the map of an internal landscape. Frequently rooted in nature, his verse explores the complexity of love and the inevitability of loss. Sensual, startling, melancholic, funny and chilling, he searches for that which is greater than the Known. Throughout this collection Marshe is, as he writes in Bridal Path, "coaxing a dream from beneath the bed." In that he succeeds. This is a beautiful book of poetry. Ed Macdonald, author of Spat the Dummy and Atomic Storybook William Marshe's salt//water will not only resonate for the "island born," his insights into modern life and love will speak to all lovers of excellent verse. Full of insight of how landscape is internal as well as external, how the swings in a children's park can conjure the forlornness all of us have felt, Marshe is completely in tune with our times. Sensitive to every turn of the tide, bravely facing every storm, quietly etching the world around us in eloquently precise phrases, salt//water is an ambitious debut and a beautiful read. Ken Chisholm, Arts columnist for the Cape Breton Post and whatsgoinon.ca Founding Storyteller in Residence for The Cape Breton Regional Library

About the Author John Oughton was born in Guelph, Ontario, a block away from the home of John McCrae (author of "In Flanders Fields"). When his father was seconded to the World Health Organization, John spent two years living in Egypt and Iraq. He completed a BA and MA in English at York U., where he studied with Irving Layton, Eli Mandel, Miriam Waddington and Frank Davey. After a half-year stay in Kyoto, Japan, he worked at Coach House Press and as a journalist and corporate communicator. He attended the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, and served as a research assistant to Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. John began teaching English in community colleges, and is now Professor of Learning and Teaching at Centennial College. He has published five books of poetry, most recently "Time Slip," several chapbooks, and over 400 articles, interviews, reviews and blogs. John is a long-time member of the Long Dash writing workshop. He is also a photographer with three solo shows and several book and magazine covers to his credit. For fun, he plays guitar and drums. Until recently, he did ride an old Yamaha motorcycle. Reviews "Hunker down on the back of Aaron Miles's motorcycle and hang on. This fast paced mystery is a witty and rollicking ride to the heart of the crime of the last century, peopled with enough funny and fascinating characters to keep you turning the page. Think Raymond Chandler meets Robert Pirsig with a bottle of brandy on the grassy knoll. A delightful read."Seamus McGraw, journalist and author of "The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone," and "Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Line of Climate Change" "Oughton gives crime writing a hot new twist balancing a private eye's jaundiced view with the accomplished poet's sure-handed voice and easy charm. Add the fact our man Aaron Miles rides a cool old motorcycle and digs bands like The Fugs, and D by T is a funny, smart, addictive read."Basil Papademos, author of "Mount Royal," winner of the BiLines Book Award "When the profession becomes a metaphor for how to be, the crime novel can investigate the very questions of how to conduct one's life while entertaining the reader with true history, conspiracy theory, Canadiana and international travel, the occasional gun, a snaky plot, and yes-even poetry. The motorcycling private eye is also a poet who can declaim and "frag" at the same time. John Oughton's first novel, Death by Triangulation, is a seriously hilarious fictional romp inspired by history. The clues are in the humour and the solution is an existential twist."Elana Wolff, author of four poetry books including "You Speak to Me in Trees," winner of the F. G. Bressani Prize

About the Author Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet and software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has lived in nine states and two continents. Writing is a way for her to traverse seen and unseen geographies. She speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, some Japanese, English, ruby, and javascript. Kwong's poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Among her projects is a digital anthology, The Taste of Each, curated around references to oranges and bananas in various literary and artistic works across the world. Kwong's first poetry collection, ravel, spans wide and invites readers to interrogate boundaries. It has been listed as a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. The digital index page for ravel can be accessed at www.bonniekwong.info/ravel Blurbs In this "multilingual" collection of poems, Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong writes of the subtext of terror in every "civilized good." Hidden histories, suffering, and injustice are calmly dissected by this poet with clear eyes and straight diction - words that at once enlighten, empower, and untangle. Koon Woon, author, Water Chasing Water, 2014 American Book Award winner. Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet who "traffics in songs unsung." There is a musicality to her lines and a pervasive intelligence behind each piece. Sometimes she permits the rational, scientific part of her mind dominate but more often her poems are sensual, delicate yet fierce, dynamic, and probing. Read this book and savor its flame! Susan Terris, Ghost of Yesterday, New & Selected Poems In ravel, Bonnie Kwong weaves from the disparate--from the quiet intimacies of love to the cruel depredations of history - an elegant fabric. Kwong's poems are spare, restrained, yet at the same time made rich by her knowledge of multiple languages and cultures. "How much sweetness do we need to swallow the bitter?" asks one speaker. Leslie McGrath, author, Out From the Pleiades

About the author Si Philbrook spent twenty years working in the care sector for people with autism. He has also been a chef, a night porter, call centre worker and petrol station attendant. He lives in Brighton, UK. His poetry has been published in collections, journals, e-zines and magazines in the US, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK. He was shortlisted for the 2010 Erbacce Poetry Prize. This is his first collection. Reviews "Si Philbrook holds a rare voice, one that speaks the joy of discovery and the pain of experience with equal wonder. This is poetry of our times." Kiersty Boon, author of "The Poet Busker" "Si Philbrook's poems come with sharpened edges and unadorned utterings. Philbrook's unflinching pen asks us "Who will stop this fucking clock". Read it. You will never find a dull moment in this book."Kushal Poddar, author of "The Circus Came To My Island" "Si Philbrook manages to continuously paint pictures without materials and deliver the necessary tucked in between so many lines and stanzas. In short, Ordinary Words is that gift we always wanted to treat ourselves with. Go on!"Gene Barry, author of "Unfinished Business" and organizer ofThe Fermoy International Poetry Festival "All there is, all we will remember, Is the gentleness of moment..." 'Ordinary Words' is none less than extraordinary."Don MacIver, author of "Journeys in Verse" and "A touch of Rose"

About the author Marleen S. Barr is known for her pioneering work in feminist science fiction and teaches English at the City University of New York. She has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. Barr is the author of "Alien to Femininity: Speculative Fiction and Feminist Theory, Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyond, Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction," and "Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies." Barr has edited many anthologies and co-edited the science fiction issue of "PMLA." She is the author of the humorous campus novel "Oy Pioneer!." Reviews Marleen S. Barr takes you on another crazy narrative ride. Tighten your seat belts!James Gunn, "Recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction and Fantasy" From "Huckleberry Finn" to such modern classics as "Catch-22, Portnoy's Complaint, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and" A Confederacy of Dunces," the comic novel has long been one of the chief glories of American literature. Barr's novels, and not least her most recent one, constitute a hilarious--and unswervingly feminist--contribution to this great tradition.Carl Freedman"Russell B. Long Professor of English, Louisiana State University" Barr plunges readers into her very own academic specialty, feminist science fiction. And with it hilarious jokes, academic twists, and sex--lots of sex. Barr is an effervescent humorous writer who travels the world aboard a flamboyant imagination. Join her. You'll love the ride!Norman N. Holland, "Marston-Milbauer, Eminent Scholar Emeritus, University of Florida" Marleen S. Barr mentions Twain but I read her equally in the long tradition of Swift and George Eliot. She produces both criticism and fiction with a "savage indignation."D.M. Hassler, "Professor of English, Kent State University and former Editor, EXTRAPOLATION" "

About The Author Lance Strate is a native New Yorker, having been born in Manhattan, and moved out to Queens two weeks later, and now working in the Bronx and living in New Jersey, just across the Hudson in SopranoLand. He writes. A lot. Well, not as much as some, but still, quite a bit. His poetry has been published in " Poetica Magazine, KronoScope, Anekaant, ETC, Explorations in Media Ecology, General Semantics Bulletin, " and several anthologies, including "Candy," and "The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan." He has written comedy and humor for a zine and local access cable program, lay sermons and prayers, an episode of the nationally syndicated children's animated television program "Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, " several multimedia presentations, and many blog posts. Lance is perhaps best known for his many essays that have been published as journal articles and book chapters in edited volumes. He has a few books of the intellectual sort to his credit, "Echoes and Reflections" is one, "On the Binding Biases of Time" is another, and "Amazing Ourselves to Death" is his most recent. There are some academic anthologies that he has co-edited as well, including "The Legacy of McLuhan." Lance is a teacher and enjoys his time in the classroom, his formal title being Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, and he also teaches in the graduate program in Media and Professional Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is often identified as a media ecologist, and quite happy to be known as such, having been the founder and first president of the Media Ecology Association. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of General Semantics, and President of Congregation Adas Emuno of Leonia, New Jersey, Lance hopes someday to find the time... Reviews Thunderation! Open up this post-atomic cocktail of poems by Lance Strate and let it shake you up! Thunder at Darwin Station, blends Huxleys with Darwins, evolves with jolts of Joyce and a double DNA dose of Wells and Watsons, spins the reverberations of a blues apocalypse with a green sprig of enlightenment, and delivers you a Galloping Galapagos. Drink up, it will serve you right!David Ossman, author, actor, member of "Firesign Theatre" Rhetorically poignant...witty charm mixed with story-telling prose come to mind when reading this lovely ensemble from New York poet, Lance Strate. I particularly enjoyed the Sixth Thunder.Alannah Myles, singer, songwriter a serious entrtainment a theologikul teleologikul ontologikul evolushyunaree whethr by design by who thrust n all our charaktrs th trains endlesslee run like giraffes gazells elegaik rhythmic funkee n elegant langwage heer from th erth n sky watr n fire we all ar sew changing n oftn sew maladaptiv variaysyuns thers not much time 2 wait 4 th train 2 cum in we ar alredee on wun n manee n thers brillyant sharp n profound writing a great reed how far wev cum whats next can we know ourselvs our "specious" specees r we th missing links ths book asks evreething abt thees issews a wundrful xperiens reeding thunder at darwin staysyunbill bissett, poet, painter, mystic