Empty Mirror contributor Jared Feldschreiber's debut novella, Reckless Abandon, has just been published. Reckless Abandon depicts John Duggan, an up-and-coming playwright who learns of the toil of assembling a “dream project” set in New York City during the summer of 1984. The time period and milieu are central to the protagonist’s journey, as are the real – and imagined – … [Read more...]
New poetry collections by Kenneth Pobo
Empty Mirror contributor Kenneth Pobo has published two new poetry collections this past month. The Antlantis Hit Parade Prose poems. From the publisher: "A delightful collection of unique personalities, perhaps generations of family or the inhabitants of a small town beset by the vagaries of love, loneliness, and growing older. This book entices you into its nostalgic … [Read more...]
g emil reutter’s new poetry collection, Stale Bread and Coffee, published
Alien Buddha Press has just published Empty Mirror contributor g emil reutter's newest collection of poetry, Stale Bread and Coffee. Published on April 9, it's 66 pages and is available for purchase here. “The colloquial voice of g emil reutter rises from the valley, circles back through years of close observation with a steady eye. There’s nothing trumped up in these … [Read more...]
Sam Silva releases new chapbooks
Prolific poet Sam Silva has published several new chapbooks this year. They are all available on Amazon and include: Two Chapbooks for Winter (print / Kindle) Someone's Minor Apocalypse (Kindle) Selected Later Chapbooks (Kindle) Selected Later Chapbooks Edition 2 (Kindle) Selected Later Chapbooks Edition 3 (Kindle) … [Read more...]
Mateo Lara’s chapbook, Glitter Gods, is now available!
Empty Mirror contributor Mateo Lara's chapbook, Glitter Gods has been published by Thirty West Publishing House. Its twenty pages contain nine poems. You can buy Glitter Gods on Thirty West's website. Mateo has also published several more poetry collections, which you can find here. … [Read more...]
Book Release – Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists, edited by Rebeka Elizegi
Now available for pre-order, Collage by Women presents fifty international women artists working in the field of collage today through a rigorous selection of their works. Curated by the Spanish collage artist Rebeka Elizegi, designed by Alehop, and edited by Promopress Editions in English and Spanish, Collage by Women gives space to voices from all backgrounds, origins, and … [Read more...]
Chris La Tray’s One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large published
Chris La Tray's One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large has been published by Riverfeet Books. Chris' essay, "Notes on the Sacred Art of Dog Walking", which first appeared here at Empty Mirror, is included in the book, alongside poems and more essays. Praise for One-Sentence Journal: Chris La Tray’s One-Sentence Journal achieves the difficult … [Read more...]
Mike Corrao’s novel, Man Oh Man, released by Orson’s Publishing
Man, Oh Man a novel by Empty Mirror contributor Mike Corrao, was published by Orson's Publishing on October 23. Two patrons appear in a dim cafe one day. How they've arrived, where they've come from, and why they're there at all, they have no idea. What they do know is that they hate one another. So they smoke. They tinker. They talk about art. They talk about waiting. … [Read more...]
The Cloud Museum by Beth Spencer published by Sixteen Rivers Press
Empty Mirror contributor Beth Spencer's poetry collection, The Cloud Museum was recently published by Sixteen Rivers Press. “This collection dives deep. In The Cloud Museum, Beth Spencer leads us on a physical and spiritual journey into two worlds. . . . These poems are conjuring spells. Rich in imagist language, Spencer’s poems transcend simple explanation as they transform … [Read more...]
William Bortz’s chapbook, The Sky Grew Back with Clouds, published
The Sky Grew Back with Clouds by William Bortz was published on August 26, 2018. It's the first installment of a chapbook poetry series entitled "make time to breathe today". This chapbook, like the series itself, focuses on the relationship we have with nature. How we ingest a stale afternoon or a swelling moon. Accompanying the nature theme is the ebb and flow of … [Read more...]
hiromi suzuki’s logbook published by Hesterglock Press
hiromi suzuki's logbook was published on March 17, 2018 by Hesterglock Press. logbook features, in color, 96 pages of hiromi's visual poetry / poem brut. It's available for £10.00 + postage worldwide and can be ordered from Hesterglock via email. Bruno Neiva says, "logbook is a collection of collages reminiscent of Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters, occasionally combined … [Read more...]
Star Spider’s YA novel, Past Tense – book release and launch event
Empty Mirror contributor Star Spider's novel, Past Tense will soon be published by HarperCollins. Past Tense will be released April 10, 2018 (and will be available at Amazon). Past Tense is a debut YA novel about Julie Nolan—a pretty average girl with pretty average problems. She’s been in love with her best friend, Lorelei, ever since they met in grade three. Only Lorelei … [Read more...]
River Nocturne by Z.G. Tomaszewski now available for pre-order
Z.G. Tomaszewski's poetry book, River Nocturne will be published by Finishing Line Pressin in the summer of 2018 and is now available for pre-order. Advance Praise “Tomaszewski is mystic and realist. These poems engage with the world, with the ordinary, with palpable, and with all we have in common, while also transcending all of it, seeing it from greater and greater … [Read more...]
Zackary Lavoie’s debut poetry chapbook, Upheavals, released
Empty Mirror contributor Zackary Lavoie's debut poetry chapbook, Upheavals has just been released by Pond Bench Press. There are two ways to get your copy of Upheavals: -- Order a signed copy directly from Zack his website. A dollar from each sale will be donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). -- Buy at Amazon. Roy G. Guzmán, author of the … [Read more...]
Michael McClure reads from Persian Pony in B.C. October 18/19
Michael McClure's poetry collection, Persian Pony, has just been published by Ekstasis Editions. He's in British Columbia this week for a reading and performance. Poetry Reading Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:30pm Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre 515 Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC Canada FREE EVENT -- more info Poetry and Jazz Performance Saturday, … [Read more...]
Book release — I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac by Paul Maher Jr.
Paul Maher Jr.'s new Kerouac biography, I Am the Revolutionary: Young Jack Kerouac, takes the reader from Kerouac's childhood years in Lowell, Massachusetts through his World War II years in New York City and across America, where the hapless writer searches for his voice as a writer and an artist. Using archival material such as journals, notebooks, diaries and letters as … [Read more...]
Play Yr Kardz Right by Marcus Slease published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe
Empty Mirror contributor Marcus Slease's new 106-page collection of poetry, Play Yr Kardz Right, has just been released by Dostoyevsky Wannabe. "Marcus Slease’s gentle & generous engagements with the ephemera of almost-everyday life, coupled with a variant of bill bissett’s Lunarian English, and a sensuous, curious, cosmopolitan, and compassionate world-view, make this … [Read more...]
Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality and Spirit by Yahia Lababidi now available for pre-order
Yahia Lababidi's 7th book, a collection of 800 aphorisms written over a 10 year period, Where Epics Fail: Aphorisms on Art, Morality and Spirit is now available for pre-order. When you pre-order Where Epics Fail, your name will be included in the first limited edition of 500 hardcover copies as a thank you. Penguin Random House will produce and distribute the trade edition. … [Read more...]
Stephen Bett’s poetry collection, UnWired, published by BlazeVOX
BlazeVOX [books] has published Stephen Bett's 18th collection of poems, UnWired. The 124-page book is available for purchase at: BlazeVOX Amazon Stephen Bett is a widely and internationally published Canadian poet. While his earlier work is known for its sassy, caustic wit, his more recent books are known for their minimalist subtlety. Many are tightly sequenced … [Read more...]
Alan Catlin’s poetry collection, Walking Among Tombstones in the Fog
Walking Among Tombstones in the Fog by Alan Catlin / Presa Press / Perfectbound Paperback / ISBN: 978-0-9965026-4-1 / 72 pages Alan Catlin's latest collection of poetry reflects both the humanistic concerns of his previous work as well as the expanded tone and vision of a wiser older poet. In Waking Among Tombstones in the Fog, Catlin applies his detailed observation of … [Read more...]
Dan Wilcox’s “Inauguration Raga” poem now available from A.P.D.
A.P.D. (a presidential disaster) announces the publication of Inauguration Raga, by Dan Wilcox, a 16-page chapbook of a poem improvised on January 20, 2017. The poem was written from 10:00am to 4:30pm while watching the televised broadcasts of the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, in a cheap notebook with a free motel ball-point pen. It was … [Read more...]
Michael McClure MEPHISTOS book launch and other events!
Mephistos and Other Poems Celebrating the release of his book of new poetry Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 pm CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 261 Columbus at Broadway San Francisco, CA free event, details: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100617090&fa=events Tuesday, December 6th, 7:30 pm MOE'S BOOKS 2476 Telegraph Ave Berkeley, CA free event, for more info: … [Read more...]
The Ghosts Who Travel with Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan’s America by Allison Green
I must have decided that Trout Fishing in America would be the one to represent all that I had read and loved as a teenager. But who had that girl been? And did she notice that the woman on the cover had no name? Ooligan Press has announced the release of Allison Green’s memoir, The Ghosts Who Travel with Me. When the flower children were flocking to Woodstock, Allison … [Read more...]
Herbert Gold Kicks off his Tenth Decade with his 20th Novel
Jorvik Press has some exciting news: What does a prizewinning author do when he’s about to enter his tenth decade with a track record of more than 30 books, sound of mind and body, full of ideas, and still obsessed with characters he’s been developing for years? If you’re Herbert Gold, you write another novel. Just before his 90th birthday last March Herb was talking to … [Read more...]
Fantasy Book – Guardian of the Gauntlet by Lenita Sheridan
Author Lenita Sheridan's debut novel, Guardian of the Gauntlet, has just been released. Written for children, this fantasy novel, set in the kingdom of Harroway, centers on sisters Camari and Mila, whose idyllic lives are turned chaotic when their land becomes embroiled in war. Made invisible by a neighboring prince with a magical gauntlet, the youngest, Camari, sets … [Read more...]
Poetry Book Release – Living on the Slopes of Volcano Mountain: Poem Collection of Ali Salehi
Ali Salehi's collection of poems, Living on the Slopes of Volcano Mountain, has just been published. This book, the poet's first in the English language, includes poems written since 1994. Many of the poems have been selected by the poet from amongst his works published in Persian literature journals and websites. Others are published here for the first time, due to … [Read more...]
A.D. Winans – San Francisco Poems Book Launch! July 22, 2012
A.D. Winans founded the important Second Coming Press in San Francisco back in the 1970s, publishing some of the best Beat poets alongside crucial street and underground poets of the time. All along, his own work has been politically engaged and acerbic in its observations. He is an award winning poet and writer whose work has been published internationally and translated … [Read more...]
My Lorenzo, by Sébastien Smirou
Sébastien Smirou MY LORENZO translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki Poetry, 120 pages, offset, smyth-sewn ISBN 978-1-936194-08-7 original paperback $14 Publication date: May 15, 2012 MY LORENZO is an elegant, funny, often sad meditation on the fifteenth-century Italian statesman, art patron, and poet Lorenzo de Medici. Obliquely and eccentrically narrated, it is … [Read more...]
