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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Read Poetry by Karen Neuberg, Eve Packer, Brant Lyon and more in BIGCITYLIT

Karen Neuberg, 2 poems reprinted from DETAILED STILL (Poets Wear Prada, 2009)

http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2010/poetry/neuberg

"Ants"

"en route"

eve packer, whose 3rd poetry collection is forthcoming from Poets Wear Prada in 2011.

http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2010/poetry/packer

"Ya Gotta Be Ready"

"303"

"october 16"

Brant Lyon, author of Your Infidel Eyes (Poets Wear Prada, 2006), Editor for Uphook Press, and Host of Hydrogen Juke Box, and contributing editor at BigCityLit.com

http://www.bigcitylit.com/bigcitylit.php?inc=fall2010/poetry/lyon

"The Supreme Logic of the Universe"

"Without Insulation"

Also on the poetry roster for the Fall 2010 edition of of BigCityLit are:

William L. Alton

Cnthia Atkins

Patricia Brody

Evelyn Duncan

Graham Duncan

Robert Klein Engler

Allen C. Fischer

David Francis

Wilda Gallagher

JoAnne Growney

Joanne Grumet

Patrick Henry

R. Nemo Hill

Caroline Holme

Kate Irving

Helen Ivory

Dean Kostos

Richard Levine

Quitman Marshall

Stephen Massimilla

Philip Miller

Lynn Patmalnee

Jo Pitkin

Ron Price

Ryan

Hilary Sideris

Ian C. Smith

Raleigh Thompson

Barry Wallenstein

Michael T. Young

MARIA LISELLA in Plainview NY on January 23

SUNDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 2011, 7PM

The Mid-Island Y JCC Poetry Series

Proudy Presents

MARIA LISELLA

w/ an open reading

45 Manetto Hill Road

Plainview, NY 11803

516 822 3535 X347; www.miyjcc.org

Director: Gayl Teller

$3 Donation

Maria Lisella will read from her Pushcart Poetry Prize nominated work in Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada) and, Amore on Hope St. (Finishing Line Press). She co-curates the Italian American Writers Association monthly readings at Cornelia St. Cafe (http://iawa.net/).

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The following titles are available on LULU:

THRUM: Poems by Joel Allegretti
DEAD RECKONING: Poems by Gene Auprey
GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by Tantra-zawadi
OUTSIDE GIRL by Cyndi Dawson

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

George Held in Print and Online!

Pennsylvania Literary Journal

George Held's short story "The Cloakroom” is included in the current issue of Pennsylvania Literary Journal. He's posted the 1st paragraph of the story on his new blog: http://georgeheld.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-story.html. To check out the Table of Contents for the current issue of PLJ and find out how to order a copy, visit:
http://sites.google.com/site/pennsylvaniajournal/Home/winter-2010-issue-1

George Held

For another scoop by our favorite news reporter, read "Billionaire Mayor Scolds Whiners" posted on Infauxtainment [posted January 3, 2011]: http://infauxtainment.com/?p=7093

B.E. Kahn in Philadelphia in February and March

B.E. Kahn
www.bekahn.com

Sat. Feb. 26, 2:00pm

Fox Chase Review

Poetry Reading w/

B.E. KAHN & MEL BLAKE

Three Sisters Corner Cafe,

7950 Oxford Ave.,

Philadelphia PA 19111

Tuesday, March 22nd

7:00PM
Reading & Booksigning for
LANDSCAPES OF LIGHT (Poets Wear Prada, October 2010)
w/ Author B.E. Kahn
@
ROBIN'S BOOKS & MOONSTONE ARTS CENTER
110A S. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-735-9598

http://www.robinsbookstore.com/
http://www.moonstoneartscenter.org/
Email: info@moonstoneartscenter.org

SAVE THE DATES: JOHN J. TRAUSE'S UPCOMING POETRY READINGS IN JANUARY 2011

John J. Trause

Dear Family and Friends,

I hope 2011 is a year of promise for you. I am appearing in two poetry readings this month, one a feature in New Jersey, the other as a participant in a group reading in Manhattan. It would be great to see you at one or both, so please save the dates:

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 6:30 p. m. – 10 p. m. – Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop

Francesca Sphynx-Ball of The Ain't Never Scared NYC Poetry Collective has started a new poetry series at Peanut Butter Blues Café in Allendale (Bergen County), N. J. Francesca and I were both published this past autumn in hell strung and crooked, the latest issue of the Uphook Press anthology.

I will be featuring for Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop at Peanut Butter Blues Café on Wednesday, January 26th at 6:30 p. m. You will get 30 minutes of John J. Trause, and I promise a rich and diverse presentation. There will also be an open reading.

Wednesday, January 26th

Poetry's Last Wednesday Pit Stop

6:30PM-10PM

w/ JOHN J. TRAUSE

+ Open Reading

Peanut Butter Blues Cafe

86 W Allendale Ave

Allendale, NJ 07401

(201) 825-5950

http://www.pbblues.com/

Hosted by Francesca Sphynx-Ball

$3 cover (can be applied towards the purchase of any item on the dinner menu)

Please see also the listing on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155597277823382&num_event_invites=0

Friday, January 28, 2011, 6:30 p. m. – Voices in Italian Americana

Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years of publishing VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, Italiana, three book series (VIA Folios, Crossings, Saggistica), and the Bordighera Poetry Prize.

I have two poems in the forthcoming issue of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, copies of which will be available that evening.

Bordighera Press publishes literature and poetry by and about Italian and Italian/American authors. Many of their titles are consistently utilized in university courses, and the journal, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, is subscribed to by more than fifty university libraries in the United States and Canada. Bordighera Press continues to reflect the most current nuances in the literary world. The press was founded in 1989 by Fred Gardaphé, Paolo Giordano, and Anthony Juilan Tamburri.

The three co-founders, Chiara Mazzucchelli (current editor of VIA), Deborah Starewich, and Lisa Cicchetti (editorial & production managers and book production designers), and numerous authors, including me John J. Trause will be present.

The event will take place at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at the address below:

Friday, January 28, 2011

6:30PM - ?

Voices in Italian Americana

Bordighera Press celebrates 20 years of Publishing

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor

New York, New York 10036

(Between 5th and 6th Avenues)

It would be a pleasure to see you at both readings, so please come out and support these two events.

Love & Peace,

JOHN

Monday, December 6, 2010

Sat Dec 11: NJLS Holiday Concert w/ LUCIANNO & ALLEGRETTI in Teanack NJ

Sat., Dec. 11, 2010

8-10:30pm

North Jersey Literary Series

Presents

Holiday Concert

featuring

ROY LUCIANNO & JOEL ALLEGRETTI

+ Open Mic

The Classic Quiche Café
330 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ 07666
http://www.classicquiche.com/
201 692-0150

Hosts: Paul Nash & Denise La Neve

Sat., Dec. 11, 2010: The North Jersey Literary Series will feature a special Holiday musical performance in two sets by Roy Lucianna and Joel Allegretti at The Classic Quiche Café, 330 Queen Anne Road, Teaneck , NJ. The event will begin promptly at 8 PM.

An open mike will follow the first set, during which participating poets, musicians and storytellers will have the opportunity to share their work. Finally, Roy and Joel will return to perform their second set.

We encourage our guests to take advantage of the excellent and affordable cuisine offered by The Classic Quiche Café http://www.classicquiche.com/ 201 692-0150. Come early and enjoy a relaxing meal – their Quiches are famous.

7:00 - 8:00pm: Come early and enjoy a relaxing dinner
8:00 - 8:20pm: First set by Roy and Joel
8:20 - 8:30pm: Short break
8:30 -10:00pm: Open mike
10:00 - 10:20pm: Second set

Joel Allegretti and Roy Lucianna are both well-regarded poets and musicians. Their musical collaborations include original compositions by Joel Allegretti, as well as new arrangements of folk and blues pieces, and even some Middle Eastern tunes. Joel plays acoustic guitar, oud and harmonium. Among Roy’s instruments are wooden flutes, harmonicas and Tibetan drums.

Paul Nash and Denise La Neve host this series, now in its 13th year.

Sun Dec 12: JOHN J. TRAUSE @ THE LITERARY LOUNGE, West Orange NJ

Dear Family and Friends,

Please join me and my fellow writers, Janet DenBleyker and Julia Roberts, in an unusual program of readings and author interviews. This is designed especially for those of you who want to know more about John J. Trause.

The Literary Lounge

Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 6:30 p. m.

Janet DenBleyker, Julia Roberts & John J Trause

Luna Stage

555 Valley Road

West Orange, NJ 07052

(973) 395-5551

Hosted by Mike Traynor

A $5 Suggest Donation Benefits the Featured Writers

For more details, please see the program flyer attached to this message as a JPG.

***

In the world of JOHN J. TRAUSE :

A visit to the barber is a trip to Auschwitz or a glimpse at a gangland slaying.
Walter Hudson is not really the 1,200 lb. man on Long Island, but a giant pre-hibernating dormouse.
Eleanor of Aquitaine gets caught up in mirrors and mazes.
Animals are found in the zoo and outside the zoo, and owls whisper.
The Emperor Caligula loves (no, I mean really loves) bridges.
Georgia O’Keeffe never grows old, and Rose Kennedy never dies.
Sappho and Lewis Carroll perform cunning stunts, and Nico, Lou Reed, and theBrothers Grimm interface. John Giorno reveals all.

John J. Trause

SUPERSTITION REVIEW Issue 6 Features KAREN NEUBERG

Read Karen Neuberg's poem "Tremendous Idea" in Issue 6, Fall 2010 of SUPERSTITION REVIEW:

http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/n6/bio.php?author=karenneuberg&bio=poetry

SUPERSTITION REVIEW is The Online Literary Magazine at Arizona State University. This month issue also contains 2 non-fiction works by Paul Lisicky (http://superstitionreview.asu.edu/n6/bio.php?author=paullisicky&bio=nonfiction) among the works of the 66 artists and authors who are featured in our latest edition. To read more, go to: http://www.superstitionreview.com/

Karen Neuberg's work has appeared in Barrow Street, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, and Phoebe, among others. She's a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, holds an MFA from the New School and is associate editor of Inertia Magazine. Her chapbook, Detailed Still, was published in 2009 by Poets Wear Prada Press. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn and West Hurley, New York.

Shakespeare Anyone?

David Morneau's "No Pianos Allowed" concert is on Wednesday, 12/8.

David will be presenting three songs from his LOVE SONGS PROJECT:

"Behind Corneal Gates," Shakespeare's Sonnet 56 with poetry by Patricia Carragon
"Music In Me," Shakespeare's Sonnet 8 with poetry by Susan Maurer
"Now I Love You Best," Shakespeare's Sonnet 115 with poetry by Roxanne Hoffman

These will be performed by Mary Hubbell (soprano), Roberta Michel (flute) and Ernesto Ramos (guitar).

LOVE SONGS is a new songwriting project that pairs sonnets by William Shakespeare with poems by contemporary writers. Each collaborating poet selects one sonnet and pairs it with a work of their own—an existing poem or one written especially for the project. David is setting each pair to music.
You can preview "Behind Corneal Gates" at the 5OF4 website: http://5of4.com/love_songs/sounds.html

The text for all 3 pieces as well the other pairs selected for the project can be read at the 5OF4 website:
http://5of4.com/love_songs/poets.html

Also Robert Voisey and David Morneau will performing MONKEY LAB.

NO PIANOS ALLOWED CONCERT

Wednesday, December 8, 9:30pm

The Tank

354 West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)

$10 ($7 - students)

(212) 563-6269

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

Take the 7, N, Q, R, 1, 2, 3, A, C, E to 42nd Street Times Square

For more information about David Morneau and various projects visit:

http://5of4.com
http://60x365.com
http://www.immigrantbreastnest.com/releases/ibn009/

Check Out George Held's New Blog! And In Person This Friday in NYC.

PWP Author George Held has a new blog: http://georgeheld.blogspot.com/ A frequent book reviewer for Small Press Review, as a well a regular columnist for INFAUXTAINMENT, George has posted his review of Nicole Cooley's MILK DRESS (Alice James Books, 2010), Saturday December 4th.

George will be the featured reader at the Son of Pony Friday Night Open Mic at The Cornelia Street Cafe this Friday, December 10th.

Friday, December 10th, 2010

GEORGE HELD

Open Mic (3 minute limit)

6pm - 7:45pm

(arrive by 5:45pm to secure spot at the open)

The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY 10014
212.989.9319
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

$7 cover includes 1 house drink

Host: Jackie Sheeler

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DEAD RECKONING: Poems by Gene Auprey

GATHERED AT HER SKY: Life Poems by Tantra-zawadi

OUTSIDE GIRL by Cyndi Dawson

Fall 2025 Releases

Eject City
by Jason Morphew
Poets Wear Prada: Sept. 30, 2025
ISBN-13: 978-1946116291
Paperback: 88 pages
List Price: $21.00 (unsigned)

Can you accomplish whatever you set your mind to? What if you set your mind to being someone else, detached from your Southern Gothic roots, huddled on the western edge of the continent with your wife and kids? This is the spirit of EJECT CITY, Jason Morphew’s second full-length collection of poems. It’s a memoir in verse. It’s the fear that the darkness of your family tree might also shade your soul. A cult-favorite singer-songwriter, Morphew’s thirteen full-length indie rock albums haunt these poems. COLLEGE MUSIC JOURAL once said that Morphew “has the soul — and the lyrics — of poet.” Now he has the poems, too, which never completely abandon the cadence of popular song. EJECT CITY will appeal to fans of the fiction of George Saunders, the films of Ari Aster, and the poetry of Ada Limón. THE WASHINGTON POST says Morphew’s “perspective is always surprising.” Come, get surprised!

One doesn’t simply read Morphew’s poems, one experiences them. Beware, these poems have teeth. EJECT CITY is a palpable core of sadness shot through with wicked glee — SILAS WEIR MITCHELL, American Actor

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Spring 2024 Releases

Bright-Eyed
by Sarah Sarai
Poets Wear Prada: March 1, 2024
ISBN-13: 978-1946116284
Paperback: 60 pages
List Price: $18.00 (unsigned)

Thirty-two poems recall this native New Yorker’s childhood relocation with her family to sunny California (The San Fernando Valley); growing up on the West Coast in the 1960s — as a preteen, teen, and young adult; and her responses to her new surroundings and the times. Several poems explore interracial tension and coexistence from the viewpoint of a young person whose older sister created an interracial family. The poet explores her relationships with her nephew, niece, and brother-in-law from the perspectives of both family and race. If you like the work of Diane Wakoski or James Broughton, you will enjoy the whim and wit of this book.

With Sarah Sarai’s Bright-Eyed, I’m reminded of the Miles Davis idea that music’s not the notes but the attitude of s/he who blows the notes, and this book of poems is filled with attitude. It’s a joyride through the old neighborhood informed by a vital wit that ranges from Sun Ra to Nietzsche and drops aphorisms the way Hansel and Gretel dropped crumbs — “My past doesn’t haunt me. / I haunt my past.”; “youth is a superpower”; “To have a self / That’s an art”; and on and on — reminding us, if we need reminding, that you can’t go home again, but you do anyway. — TIM TOMLINSON, author of This Is Not Happening to You; co-founder, New York Writers Workshop

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Good Housekeeping
by Bruce E. Whitacre
Poets Wear Prada: April 1, 2024
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-27-7
Paperback: 56 pages
Price: $18 (unsigned); $20 (signed)

The contradictions of privilege and want, the dynamics of gay marriage, the joy of a good cocktail — all enter the mix as these 24 poems explore home, marriage, travel, war, sensuality, tea, and, yes, housekeeping. Selected as an Editor’s Pick by BookLife Reviews, Good Housekeeping includes “The Fold Out Couch,” which was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. Some poems have appeared in The Journal of American Poetry, The Mandarin Magazine, and World Literature Today, among other places. Mainstream audiences, LGBTQA+, and readers interested in social justice or climate issues will enjoy this book. Comparative titles include Carolyn Forché’s In the Lateness of the World and Mark Wunderlich’s God of Nothingness.

“A joyful and precise exploration of the queer domestic, a long love explored in four decades of devotion and routine. By turns playful, erotic, and nostalgic, these poems map out a fully lived life, punctuated by dishes to serve and dishes to wash. Whitacre's dazzling formalism and gorgeous soundwork carry this book forward with a gentle power, like the wind in a sail.” — JASON SCHNEIDERMAN, author of Hold Me Tight

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Fall 2021 Releases: Present Imperfect by Ona Gritz

Present Imperfect
by Ona Gritz
Poets Wear Prada: Fall 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-23-9
Paperback: 104 pages
List Price: $15.00

This debut essay collection by Ona Gritz, 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.

[These] essays and their attentive questions contain rich textures, with many moments of humor in the midst of hope, pain, and insight. ... Gritz's approaches to storytelling are subtle and detailed, while always attentive to large-scale issues and patterns. .... As readers, we are asked to join with Gritz in her descriptions of her disability experiences: her hemispheres, in myriad aspects. I was reminded of how the well-worn question, "why can't I be like everyone else?" becomes "why should I?" Gritz's striking, relatable essays affected me deeply.
-- LAURA ANNE SPENCER, Wordgathering

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Long-awaited reissue of David Elsasser's 2009 classic chapbook, Last Call

Last Call
by David Elsasser
Poets Wear Prada: 2009, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0981767-88-8
Paperback: 33 pages
List Price: $12.00

David Elsasser celebrates a generation’s moment of deliberation. Born during the post–World War II baby boom, a period of economic prosperity from 1946 to 1964, his generation, known for breaking with tradition and redefining values, is now reaching retirement age. One of approximately 76 million contributing to the Graying of America, the shift in population from forever young to Immitigably gray panther, Elsasser muses on the coming of old age in his debut poetry collection, a chapbook classic, first released in 2009, yet pertinent and still most entertaining today.

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POETRY HOT OFF THE PRESS: Manhattan Moments by Rosalie Calabrese

Manhattan Moments
by Rosalie Calabrese
Poets Wear Prada: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-0997981-14-8
Paperback: 52 pages
List Price: $12.00

Management Consultant for the Arts, native New Yorker, and a frequently anthologized Poet — counting the New York Times and Cosmopolitan Magazine among her nearly 100 publication credits — Rosalie Calabrese shares her love affair with Manhattan in twenty-nine memorable vignettes.

A smorgasbord of memories and images for addicts of New York City ... [by] a wry, experienced, quizzical, compassionate, knowing woman who staunchly maintains the innocent eye.
— CAROL JOCHNOWITZ, former Production Editor of Jewish Currents

Sassy yet introspective observations of an anything but jaded New York native ... this is a joyous, lyrical diary of urban life.
— IRIS LEE, Author of Urban Bird Life

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HOT OFF THE PRESS! New Anthology of Women's Voices from Editor/Activist Daniela Gioseffi

#Me Too, Anch'io
Edited by Daniela Gioseffi
Poets Wear Prada: 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1946116-08-6
Paperback: 112 pages
List Price: $12.00

Twenty-three Italian American women writers respond to #MeToo, sharing their thoughts and experiences through poetry and personal essays. Edited with a foreword by Daniela Gioseffi.

Here you’ll find antidotes to apathy and calls for the compassion that just might help us rid humanity of the evils of accepting gender injustice.
— FRED L GARDAPHÉ

In telling their stories, this anthology affords these Italian women the ability to free themselves from the agony of a story untold!
— ANTHONY JULIAN TAMBURRI

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New Chapbook from a Favorite Poet

MEOWKU
by Patricia Carragon
Poets Wear Prada: 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-21-5
Paperback: 46 pages
List Price: $12.00

Patricia Carragon, author of Urban Haiku and More, and probably close to a thousand published Haiku, Senryū, Hay(Na)Ku, and other very short poetic forms, returns with a collection of meditations and observations, often poignant, often humorous, all deftly penned, and all inspired by her favorite muse, our sphinx-like companion, the CAT. Not only will you find her Meowku engaging but she has also included superb examples of her photo- graphy to futher enhance the reader’s experience.

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New Poetry from New Voices: Emerging Poet Robert Anthony Gibbons

FLIGHT
by Robert Anthony Gibbons
Poets Wear Prada: 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-07-9
Paperback: 36 pages
List Price: $12.00

New York-based performance poet, native Floridian, recent MFA graduate and Cave Canem Fellow Robert Anthony Gibbons takes us on a transcontinental and transformative voyage, sweeping and spectacular, across the United States in search of America and self. Seventeen poems log his observations and meditations on the national psyche and his own as Gibbons quits the confines of urban life for spacious and sunny skies, Lincoln's logs, Georgia O’Keefe's cow skulls, the Wishram man's papoose -- only to lose nativism, rediscovering Walt Whitman's passage to India, while establishing his own unique voice and prominent place in literary America.

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Hot Off the Press: A New Expanded Edition of Doctor Cone from Bob Heman!

Hot of the Press: Poet and Artist Collaborate! New Illustrated Poem for Young Adults (of All Ages)

The Little Entomologist
a poem by Roxanne Hoffman
with illustrations by Edward Odwitt
Poets Wear Prada: 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-946116-03-1
Paperback: 24 pages
List Price: $12.00

Poet Roxanne Hoffman and Artist Edward Odwitt (aka Shawn Christopher Martin) team up, once again, for their long-awaited second book of poetry. Cathy Buburuz, Editor of Champagne Shivers calls “The Little Entomologist”: “a fascinating little poem.” B. R. Lyon, author of You Are White Inside, curator of Hydrogen Jukebox, says: “It’s a keeper! I mean, 'keepsie'!” For Young Adults (of all ages) — and the little monster in all of us.

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April Reads: More Short Fiction by Iris N. Schwartz; SHAME: And Other Stories

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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Autumn Reads: More Poetry by George Held: Second Sight, Available September 2019.

Second Signt: Poems
by George Held
Poets Wear Prada: 2019
ISBN: 978-1-946116-02-4
Paperback: 40 pages
List Price: $12.00

In his 22nd poetry collection, Held explores, with candor and craft, the psychology of perceptual blindness: how, blinded by faith, love, innocence, ego, tradition, prejudice, self-preservation, etc., we blunder through our lives — even as we seek enlightenment; and how such inattention can sometimes work in our favor.

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Get Your Brain Fuel: TEN ... more by John Edward Cooper

TEN ... more
by John Edward Cooper
Poets Wear Prada: October 29, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0997981124
Paperback: 32 pages
List Price: $12.00
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Blogger Jack Cooper joins the ranks of Dorothy Parker, John Donne and Confucius with his haiku-esque witticisms: “ROMEO AND JULIET, EXPLAINED / You cannot live for love” [Monday, February 11, 2013]; “WORDS FROM A STONE / Both terrible and vain / to have sought love // at a time one felt so little” [Wednesday, March 6, 2013]. No candy-coated sugar pills served here! It seems Cooper’s systematic and objective distillation of his truth serves as an inoculation from fullblown despair. At the pinnacle of disaster, even its perilous aftermath, like a magician he produces the “aha” moment for spiritual uplift and buoyant rebound.

New Fiction From Poets Wear Prada!

Top Cupcake Chronicles
by Patricia Carragon
Poets Wear Prada: October 13, 2017
ISBN-10: 0997981172
ISBN-13: 978-0997981179
Paperback: 42 pages
List Price: $12.00
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For her debut fiction collection, Carragon serves up a wickedly delicious baker’s dozen -- thirteen mini-cupcake-size contemporary fables presented as the selected diary entries of a women possessed by her favorite dessert. As she chronicles over a decade of biting into clouds of buttercream, she pokes fun at all we humans hold sacred -- marriage, work, the government, God, and the glorification of our species above all other -- offering us more than sweet confections to sink our teeth into when we enter the alternative universe of her Sweet Dreams Bakeshop.

New Poetry from Poets Wear Prada: What to deflect when you're deflecting by Jason Morphew

What to deflect when you're deflecting
by Jason Morphew
Poets Wear Prada: Sept. 15, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0997981186
ISBN-10: 0997981180
Paperback: 44 pages
List Price: 12.00
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A poet / song-writer on fatherhood — the good, the bad, and the scary — up close in the thick of it and then the birds-eye view. Smart, candid, often wickedly funny. The quirky title, strangely familiar, is a parody of Heidi Murkoff’s best-selling pregnancy guide, What to Expect when You’re Expecting.

Phased II by George Held

Phased II
poems by George Held
Poets Wear Prada: Oct. 18, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0997981100
Paperback: 38 pages
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“Phased II is a kind of love letter written in compressed forms of observation and meditation.” — Michael T. Young, American Book Review, January – April, 2018

The greatest strengths of Phased II are its continuity and its focus. It never strays far from the grip of the moon, and is therefore able to hold a grip on a reader. . . . I suggest reading it, pouring yourself a glass of wine, and then gazing at the moon encouraged by the knowledge that somewhere George Held is probably watching it too. — Benjamin Schmitt, At the Inkwell, January 27, 2017

2014 RELEASES: CULLING by George Held

Culling:
New & Selected Nature Poems
by George Held
Poets Wear Prada: October 07, 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0615910079
Paperback: 88 pages
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"Held’s concern for our natural world is felt throughout this contemplative and inspiring collection." -- Daniela Gioseffi, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Winter 2014

"[Held's] work is strong and strikes a fine balance between meditative appreciation and concern, capturing nature’s splendor while noting its impermanence." -- Kirkus Review, Oct. 7th, 2014

MOST LIKELY TO DIE by Hilary Sideris

Most Likely to Die
Poems by Hilary Sideris
Poets Wear Prada: Sept. 5, 2014
ISBN-13: 978-0692227695
Paperback: 68 pages
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"[You] can almost hear the first guitar string vibrate, images so sharp you feel as if you could pick out each note played as you listen to his [Keith Richard's] gravelly voice .... What Hilary Sideris has accomplished is an amazing feat; she doesn’t so much as write about Keith Richards as inhabit his very being." -- Linda Lerner, SPR, Jan- Feb 2015

2010 Titles

THRUM
Poems by Joel Allegretti
(5.5 x 8.5 inches, matt finish)
Poets Wear Prada: 2010, 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1497380455
Paperback: 42 pages
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Joel Allegretti draws creatively and knowledgeably from the musical lexicon in Thrum, a work which paints the outline of its subject suggestively, acknowledging and circumventing the shortcomings of language for articulating a total musical experience .... Thrum acknowledges and pays homage to music theory, and illustrates the capacity of poetry for capturing more than just words. -- Daniel Crouch, Liebamour, Issue 3: The Music Issue, Sept. 25, 2011

PHASED by George Held

Phased: Poems, etc.
by George Held
Saddle-Stitched Chapbook:
August 1, 2008
Mass Market Edition: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-9817678-0-2
Paperback: 34 pages
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"A delightful, entertaining, and attractively presented collection celebrating our sidereal companion, the moon." — Phil Wagner, ICONOCLAST #100, 2008

“These poems work a sort of magic as the pages turn. By the end of the book, one can almost see the pages glow with gentle lunar light. The words remind me to look for the Moon at night, like the face of an old friend.” — John Berbrich, BARBARIC YAWP, Vol. 12, No. 4, October 2008

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Hot of the Press: Poet and Artist Collaborate! New Illustrated Poem for Young Adults (of All Ages)

April Reads: More Short Fiction by Iris N. Schwartz; SHAME: And Other Stories

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Phased II by George Held

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