#Me Too, Anch'io Reviewed in Italian Americano

Congratulations to Editor Daniela Gioseffi and the other 22 contributors of #Me Too, Anch'io: Writings by Italian American Women, an anthology published by Poets Wear Prada, in 2020, on receiving a detailed and very positive 4+ page review in the most recent edition of Italian Americana, Vol. XLI, No. l, Winter 2023. With permission of this fine journal, you can read Roxanne Christofano Pilat’s entire review, “Chasing Down the Shadows: Writings of Abuse and Harassment” online at PoetsWearPrada.com. Go to the Reviews tab and scroll down to the last review listed on our Reviews page for a link to a PDF copy. Here's an excerpt from the Italian Americana review:

Within this compelling collection of prose and poetry, Gioseffi and her fellow authors give witness to the emotional imprisonment of abuse and harassment. The essays, micro-memoirs, and poems that make up the anthology speak of shadows and secrets, shame and silence. These writings emerge·from each author's recall — and resistance. The narrative voices throughout are often hushed, as if each author does not want to retell her experience but must retell it. In this volume, the reading contract is clear: You may ask to know more, but this is what you need to know. These are the words that can be revealed. Only these. And that is more than enough.

 

        — Roxanne Christofano Pilat, North Central College

Rhonda Zangwill is up on The Rainbow Project

Congratulations to Rhonda Zangwill! Jack Cooper and I have accepted her story “Fever” about her best friend’s mother for The Rainbow Project (Red Theme). I first had the pleasure of hearing Rhonda read this piece at Leigh Anne O'Connor's East Village Wordsmiths Salon at Book Club in February of this year (2023). — Roxanne Hoffman

2023 Best of the Net Nominations

Jack Cooper and I are pleased to announce our 2023 Best of the Net Nominations, selected from online The Rainbow Project: A Literary Place of Sanctuary from These Trying Times. Six poems, one piece of fiction, and one photograph have been nominated. Congratulations and best of luck to all the nominees!

 

 

POETRY:

 

Susan Justiniano aka RescuePoetix, “Rasberry Kisses,” posted 06/01/2022

Lynne Shapiro, “I’ve Read the Room,” posted 02/22/2022

Carrie Magness Radna, “This Thin Red Line,” posted 02/13/2022

Akshaya Pawaskar, “Red Blush,” posted 02/07/2022

Zev Torres, “Revelations Beyond Red,” posted 02/07/2022

Megha Sood, “Crimson Robe,” posted 02/04/22

 

 

FICTION:

 

David Huberman, “Nighttime Rainbow,” posted 01/10/2022

 

 

ARTWORK:

 

Belle Koblentz, “Tulips,” posted 03/01/2022

 

 

Please visit The Rainbow Project at: https://rainbowliterary.blogspot.com/.

2022 Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses

Jack, the envelope please! Drumroll! Drumroll! Guess Who? Congratulations and Good Luck to ALL the Nominees! @anthonyrobertgibbons @onagritz @irisnschwartz @akshaya_pawaskar #pushcart #pushcartprize #nominations #prize #smallpress #poetswearprada @repoocejjj #litcommunity #literarylife #goodluck #congratulations #books #anthologies #2021publication #goodnews

Ona Gritz / “Persuasion,” “Troll Pox” / Present Imperfect

Robert Anthony Gibbons / “While Round Increase Rising Hills of the Dead” / Whom the Higher Gods Forgot (Kindle Edition)

Bob Heman / “Cone Melts” / Cone Transformed: Twenty-one Episodes from the Remarkable Life of Doctor Ephrastus Cone Medieval Metaphysician & Conjurer (Kindle Edition)

Iris N. Schwartz / “Golden Opportunity” / My Secret Life with Chris Noth (Kindle Edition)

Akshaya Pawaskar / “Indian Summer” / The Rainbow Project (Online Anthology),  Editors Roxanne Hoffman & Jack Cooper

Present Imperfect by Ona Gritz Available in Paperback

Paperback Edition of  Present Imperfect by Ona Gritz

A day early! In my hands this past Sunday — my copy of Ona Gritz’s new book, Present Imperfect, her essays — from The New York Times, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more! Now available in paperback as well as Kindle from Poets Wear Prada and Amazon. Get your brain fuel! DM me for more info. @onagritz @repoocejjj #newbook #hotoffthepress #essays #nonfiction #memoir #motherhood #sisters #sisterlove #runaways #truecrime #disabilityawareness #supportyourlocalwriter #independentpublishing #presentimperfect @amazonkindle @amazonbooks

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Get your brain fuel! Pre-order your Kindle Edition today for $9.99, $5.01 off the forthcoming paperback's $15 price tag (over 30% discount!). On 10/15 the title will automatically be loaded to your Kindle device or the free phone app.   The Kindle edition includes advance features such  X-ray for your reading enjoyment. 

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This debut essay collection by the NY Times-published writer and longtime columnist for Literary Mama, reads like a blockbuster movie. There is a heroine with cerebral palsy, likeable and indefatigable. There is family conflict, romance, and true crime. Ona writes on disability, family dynamics, and the murder of her sister's family with candor and passion. A critically acclaimed essayist, two Notable mentions by Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, among the recent accolades, Ms. Gritz has gathered some of the best of her work from the NY Times Disability series, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more for this fine and most riveting read. 

HOT OFF THE PRESS: A NEW EXPANDED EDITION OF DOCTOR CONE FROM BOB HEMAN!

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Cone Transformed: Twenty-One Episodes 

 from the Remarkable Life 

 of Doctor Ephrastus Cone 

 Medieval Metaphysician 

 & Conjuror 

as recorded 

by Bob Heman 

Poets Wear Prada: 2021 

ISBN-13: 978-1946116222 

Paperback: 40 pages 

List Price: $12.00 

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Author Ona Gritz with Present Imperfect (proof copy)

Poets Wear Prada is pleased to announce Present Imperfect by Ona Gritz, among our fall 2021 offerings.  This debut essay collection by the NY Times-published writer and longtime columnist for Literary Mama, reads like a blockbuster movie. There is a heroine with cerebral palsy, likeable and indefatigable. There is family conflict, romance, and true crime. Ona writes on disability, family dynamics, and the murder of her sister's family with candor and passion. A critically acclaimed essayist, two Notable mentions by Robert Atwan, The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon among the recent accolades, Ms. Gritz has gathered some of the best of her work from the NY Times Disability series, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more for this fine and most riveting read. 

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Present Imperfect
by Ona Gritz
Poets Wear Prada: Fall 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-23-9
Paperback: 104 pages
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FLASH SALE: National Coming Out Day Celebration

FLASH SALE! Just in time to celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11th, Poets Wear Prada is offering 3 titles, 3 contemporary LGBTQ classics -- PAYDAY LOANS by Jee Leong Koh, THE SLIP by Michael Montlack, and THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T SHAKE HANDS by Chocolate Waters -- all at a special discounted price. Please use the links here or on the right side bar for the discount. These books will be available starting today through this weekend on Amazon for the special price of $6 a copy. (They normally list for $12 a copy.) GET YOUR PRIDE ON!

THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T SHAKE HANDS by Chocolate Waters  

Release Date: October 12, 2011 

ISBN 978-0935060096 

Paperback: 46 pages 

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Payday Loans
Poems by Jee Leong Koh
Saddle-Stitched Chapbook: 2007
Mass Market Edition: 2010
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 The Slip
by Michael Montlack
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April Reads: More Short Fiction by Iris N. Schwartz

Shame: And Other Stories
by Iris N. Schwartz
Poets Wear Prada: 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-01-7
Paperback: 72 pages
List Price: $12.00

Iris N. Schwartz uses her razor-sharp prose to write about what no one wants to talk about. Here are 15 unforgettable, fiercely honest, sometimes darkly comic, more often unnerving stories about the human struggle to conceal, circumvent, and transcend shame. Successively Iris's pen goes in and twists -- till you say uncle and confess your shames. Cathartic!

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Charles Rammelkamp calls these stories "succinct and dreamlike, hypnotic and enchanting" and says they have "a sort of New York Jewish sensibility and magic that make one think of Bernard Malamud."  Read his complete review in North of Oxford.


Niles Reddick says: "Iris N. Schwartz keeps the reader’s attention, keeps the reader turning pages, and at the end, keeps the reader wanting more of her stories. . . . For the flash fiction connoisseur, Shame is a must read." Read his complete review in Tuck Magazine.

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A Note on the Type: Constantia

Jack Cooper and I love type and we've decided to share that love with you by posting excerpts from the colophons we have written about the typefaces we use in our books. Here's the first installment about Constantia, written by Jack Cooper.

Designed by John Hudson, a multilingual specialist in the depiction of scripts ancient, exotic, and arcane (Ogham, Sinhalese, and Cherokee, for example), Constantia achieves benchmark fluency for continuous text, the lingua franca of contract lawyers. One of six typefaces created in conjunction with Microsoft’s ClearType text-rendering technology (and the initial letter “C”), Constantia, released in 1983, takes its name from Latin, meaning “constancy.” At odds with company lawyers whose fear of trademark infringement continued to narrow the choices of possible nomenclature, Hudson, one evening, singing psalms during vespers, heard “constantia” intoned. He later confessed that the sight of seabirds had made him regret that he hadn’t chosen to call the typeface Cormorant.

2018 Pushcart Nominations

C/O Roxanne Hoffman

533 Bloomfield Street, Second Floor

Hoboken, New Jersey 07030

201.253.0561

November 30, 2017

PUSHCART PRESS

P.O. Box 380

Wainscott, NY 11975

RE: Nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prize

Dear Bill Henderson:

Here are our six nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prize:

Author / Book	Title of Poem / Story / Chapter
Daniela Gioseffi Waging Beauty: As the Polar Bear Dreams of Ice	“Vases of Wombs”
Daniela Gioseffi Waging Beauty: As the Polar Bear Dreams of Ice	“Some Slippery Afternoon”
Jason Morphew what to deflect when you’re deflecting	“Evangelical Christianity”
Iris N. Schwartz My Secret Life with Chris Noth: And Other Stories	“The Light Show”
Iris N. Schwartz My Secret Life with Chris Noth: And Other Stories	“My Secret Life with Chris Noth”
Patricia Carragon The Cupcake Chronicles	“Saturday After Midnight, August 5, 2023”

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Sincerely yours,

Roxanne Hoffman, Publisher/Editor