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My Medicine Cabinet: and Other Stories by Christopher G. Bremicker

Published December 28, 2017
Chapbook - 5.5" x 8.5", 50 pages, ISBN: 978-1981422265
“It took me four hours before I drove to the emergency room for my first heart attack,” I said. “My second heart attack was not an emergency.”
“Go ahead.”
“If we could hang in there until we got to the access, we could make it.”
“In other words, call 911, leave the decoys, and head for the access.”
“Yes!” I shouted, to make my point.
“I carry nitroglycerin.”
“So, do I.”
“Let’s go to the ceremony.”
— Pelican Lake
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About the author:
Christopher Bremicker was a Special Forces medic at Ft. Bragg NC from 1968 to 70. He has a BA in English and an MBA, both University of Minnesota. He is a handball player, downhill skier, grouse hunter and a sales associate at Walgreen’s in St. Paul, MN. His hometown is Cable, WI.

young and unadorned by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published December 21, 2017
Chapbook - 5.5" x 8.5", 52 pages, ISBN: 978-1981399277
she complimented the ring
calculated my breast cup –
unsatisfied I’d barely fill her
smallest available

it was discrimination
before discrimination had teeth –
hiring and firing
for the exact same reason
— young and unadorned
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About the author:
Wanda Morrow Clevenger wrote eight poems in a handful of months in 1974; thirty-four years later she returned to writing. She has since placed over 465 pieces of work in 157 print and electronic literary journals and anthologies.

In August of 2013, while compiling the manuscript for this book she fell ill with pancreatitis, further complicated by necrosis in the following nine months, and wasn’t expected to survive. One year later, almost to the day, she sat down to finish where the hogs ate the cabbage.

She has her husband to thank for the title.

Seventeen Monologues by Jacob King

Chapbook - 5.5" x 8.5", 48 pages, ISBN: 978-1979721561
I was pieced together
like Dr. Frankenstein’s monster
from all the deceased
remnants of the very first stories
told in this place

this is why
I am patron saint
of so many things
wisdom and just warfare
always at odds
with the pieces of myself

— Athena: Warrior (Philosopher) Princess
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About the author:
Jacob King is a poet, playwright, professor, husband, father, and caffeine addict. He likes to think he has his priorities in order, but he understands that his wife, sons, baristas, students, and readers are better judges of that than he could be. Jacob's plays include: "Teaching Abraham" (North Canton Playhouse, 2005) and "Raising Angelina" (Laboratorio de Beleco, 2012).

Something from Nothing by P.C. Vandall

Chapbook - 5.5" x 8.5", 40 pages, ISBN: 978-1979393065
Aviary
— Excerpt —
“She told me to stay
but I flew the coop--
took flight in a field
and let you
have your way.
I can hear you
whistle
through a maze
of corn stalks.”
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About the author:
Pamela is a Canadian writer from Gabriola Island and resides there with her husband and two children. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and she is currently working on her first full length collection.

Reading Backwards Through the Yellow by Carolyn Srygley-Moore

Full Length - 6" x 9", 70 pages, ISBN: 978-1978284227
In previous works, Carolyn Srygley-Moore has proven herself superior to any secular GPS navigational system through her ability to intertwine precise locations in physical space with their affiliated emotional state. "Reading Backwards Through the Yellow" takes us beyond Euclidean geometries as though we clicked on Street View in Google Maps. Srygley-Moore's stark and beautiful photographic images provide a rootedness to each group of poems that follow, encouraging the reader to declare, "I believe, because I was there."
- Loring Wirbel , writer, poet, community activist

"Carolyn Srygley-Moore carries the DNA of the New York and Black Mountain schools into the beginning of the short 21st Century. Every bit as attuned to the ecology of the word and the language of nature as Bernadette Mayer and Alice Notley have been, Carolyn's poems will knock your socks off, and make you forget you even had hands to put them on. The rediscovering is wondrous."
- Dan Coffey, Iowa Center for the Book, and Poet's Quarterly





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About the author:
Carolyn Srygley-Moore is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she won awards for her poetry. She is a Pushcart and Best of the Web nominee.

Ms Srygley-Moore is an animal rights advocate, and has rescued dogs, cats, rats, and one iguana. She worked, as a social advocate, with the HIV population in the late 80's; now, she works primarily with persons living with traumatic brain injuries or neurological disorders, in an effort to promote independence.

Carolyn has published five books of poetry, full length or chapbook: the latest being MIRACLES OF THE BLOG: a series. She also explores versions of the world through photography and random collage. Carolyn lives in Upstate New York with her husband and daughter.

She loves to swim.

A Character Studies by Scaramouche Black

Published October 15, 2017
Mixed Media - 8.5" x 11", 48 pages, ISBN: 978-1978284241
About the author:
Scaramouche Black
is nowhere near so dark
or mysterious as her name
might imply - though
for better or worse,
she's just as dramatic
as you'd suspect.
Fear not, Dear Readers -
she is working on that.
When not writing and drawing
in a mad attempt
to exorcise various demons,
Ms. Black
can be found
gracing local stages.
And by "local"
she means the stages
of Northern England.
For now....
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These assorted ramblings and doodlings are devoted to a life interestingly-, if not always well-, lived in the Land of Cleve, with assorted diversions in more exotic locales.

Beach Dweller Manifesto by Leah Mueller

Published October 12, 2017
Mixed Media - 48 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1978145856
"Or perhaps I was the end
of your clown career, later
with my legs in the air. It was
the same carpet I'd rolled on
when the quake waves hit, and there
I was again, in the same position,
doing my best to dodge falling objects."

-- from "Cirque du Soleil"

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About the author:
Leah Mueller is an independent writer from Tacoma, Washington. She is the author of one chapbook, "Queen of Dorksville" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2012), and two books, "Allergic to Everything" (Writing Knights Press, 2015) and "The Underside of the Snake" (Red Ferret Press, 2015). Leah was a winner in the 2012 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, and a featured poet at the 2015 New York Poetry Festival. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Blunderbuss, Outlook Springs, University of Chicago Memoryhouse, Atticus Review, Open Thought Vortex, Sadie Girl Press, Origins Journal, Quail Bell, Silver Birch Press, and many other publications.

#RESIST -- The Wayward Sword

Published July 21, 2017
Mixed Media Anthology - 44 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1548865177
...words are your weapons, ready...
...make your art alive and dangerous, aim...
...it is our job to initiate the change we want to see in the world, fire...
...burn systems of oppression down!!!!

This edition also contains entries from the Writing Knights Grand Tournament competition and Writing Knights National Poetry Month "Contronyms" contributors.
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THE RESISTANCE:
AD Hurley, Alexis-Rueal, Alicia Cole, Ann Christine Tabaka, Azriel Johnson, Casey Krysztofik, CE Harrington, Daria Quinn, Deborah Dalton (D-Squared), Emily Reid Green, Graham Whittaker, Hollie Neil, James Schwartz, Jamie Laubacher, JM Romig, Judith Minow, Karlo Silverio Sevilla, Keely Aaliyah, Kerry Trautman, Layla Lenhardt, Liz Senn, Marcus V. Calvert, Mark Antony Rossi, Michael Bernstein, One Single Rose, Peter D. Marra, Quartez Harris, Rory Stone Mehlman, Ryan Kinney, S. Rubein Geterminah, Scott Thomas Outlar, Skylark Bruce, Soumyadeep Bhattacherya, Steve Brightman, Sunil Sharma, Sy Castells, Zach Ashley

A Feast of Salt by Paul Grant

Published June 10, 2017
Chapbook - 42 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1543243369
It was the hand colouring your dreams
Finally holding yours.

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Other Books by Paul Grant: The Loose End of the Night - IRON Press
Coming Through the Far End - Writing Knights Press

The Frayed Edge of Memory by James Croal Jackson

Published May 10, 2017
Chapbook - 44 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1546495215
Excerpt
a week ago we soared through the sky
with all parts intact and fully functional.
I didn't need to look out deep, endless windows
we will never have the biology to fly, no matter
our construction, no matter the fantasy of the air-
and the air is a fantasy you breathe easy and pure
descend slowly on telephone lines beyond reach
to know what I am made of will never be enough.

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About the author:
James Croal Jackson is a writer, filmmaker, and musician born in Akron, Ohio. He rediscovered his love for poetry while working in the film and television industry in Los Angeles. He is the winner of the 2016 William Redding Memorial Poetry Prize via The Poetry Forum in his current city of Columbus, Ohio. This is his first chapbook. Visit him at jimjakk.com.

Challenging Submissions -- The Wayward Sword

Published May 10, 2017
Mixed Media Anthology - 36 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1545490778
...poetry should be subversive turning
your heart and mind against one another,
making them rivals and best friends
because of it. poetry should challenge
the reader without alienating them.
stimulate them without stringing them out.
it should be concise without being spare.
poetry should be a lover
you can never get enough of...


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Contributors:
Alicia Cole, Allen Berry, Bethany W. Pope, Christopher Hivner, Darrell Lindsay, David S. Pointer, Dean K. Miller, Eli Williams, James Schwartz, Jonathan Thorn, Justin Jackley, Karlo Sevilla, Ken Goldman, Layla Lenhardt, Leslie M.P. Abramson, M.V.L. Narasamamba, Mr Valery Petrovskiy, Peggy Schimmelman, PREM PALLAV, PW Covington, Scott Thomas Outlar, Sergio Ortiz

vanished faces by Peter Marra

Published April 19, 2017
Full Length - 124 pages, 6" x 9", ISBN: 9781545037393
Excerpt:
memory collapsed polluted
a recording machine broken
snapped black tips penetrate
in the July sticky rain
reaching
reaching until finally becoming limp
she told herself those delightful
virgin martyr stories
one more time
one more time
as she climaxed one more time

- Room 22: A One Dimensional Theater of Disgrace

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About the author:
A native New Yorker, Peter currently resides in Jackson Heights Queens.

His earliest recollection of the writing process is, as a 1st grader, creating a children's book with illustrations. This project contained a crayon drawing of an airplane caught in a storm.
The caption read: "The people are on a plane. It is going to crash. They are very scared."

Peter Marra's writings explore alienation, addiction, love, secrets, and obsessions.

His published work may be viewed at www.angelferox.com

this is an x-ray by Michael Bernstein

Published March 15, 2017
Chapbook - 24 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 9781544611372
excerpt
in seconds,
in corners
where the
spectrum
drains.the
product
drips

white,bored
by tics,un-
mistakeable

-- this is an x-ray

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About the author:
Michael Bernstein is an American writer and musician. He currently lives in Wisconsin, where he works as a prison librarian and music instructor.

Masha Allah by And(y)i Line

Published February 4, 2017
Chapbook - 48 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 9781542756068
"Were you proud of the way you turned them against me, as if I were the predator? This is not a poem about how much I hate you, or how broken I am; it's a celebration of reclamation and budding wings! of not feeling sick to my stomach every time a new man touches me, of not running from soft music and lit candles as if they are the fires of hell."
- Wing Buds [pt. 2]

"In a state of mind every bit as broken as 36 years of trampled eggshells, she told me she loved me. It was only the second time I'd ever seen her, but I had no doubt that those words were the closest things to truth that she owned."
- For Teri 


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About the author:
If you were to ask // Andrew who he is, // the first word out of his mouth // would undoubtedly be "artist." // More specifically, he is // a 20-something transgender *Hipster* // (shhhh! don't tell!), // a proud mother // to the most brilliant and beautiful // Princess in the world, // a Queer Rights activist, // a lover and dreamer. // His current endeavors include // learning Arabic and staying clean. // Andrew spends his free time // reading books on philosophy // that are way over his head, // watching the movie "Rent" // (over and over), // singing in the shower, // studying the psychology // of serial killers and // tearing apart enchanted forests // while slaying dragons // with his galaxy-renowned Kung-Fu skills. // His biggest pipe dreams // are to one day get his PhD // and stop moving so !@#$ much. // He firmly believes that Oxford commas // are for // conformists.

Dangerous Submissions -- The Wayward Sword

Published January 19, 2017
Mixed Media Anthology - 40 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 9781542582612
We asked those who submitted to show us what is dangerous...

They did.

See their blood, sweat, tears, shit, mucus, broken bones, stitched hearts, brains ripped to shreds.

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About the author:
Mark Antony Rossi -- Grant Tarbard -- Dr. Irum Alvi -- Lynn White -- Michael Karl (Richie) -- Michael McInnis -- Thasia Lunger -- James Schwartz -- Jonathan Thorn -- Rollo Nye -- Annika Lindok -- Sheena Zilla -- Strider Marcus Jones -- J.M. Romig -- Thomas Fucaloro -- Chris Stewart -- Craig Firsdon -- Geoffrey A. Landis -- Matthew Rempe -- Chelan Riebe -- Priscilla Alarconn -- Shabab Nahian Kabir

Hack by Azriel Johnson with Photography by Jonathan Laslo

Published January 2, 2017
Mixed Media - 48 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 9781541173811
Blurb
This diamond-sharp experiment with theme and variations cuts to the heart of Azriel Johnson's focus in forceful, intense strokes.

Watch especially how he exploits the sonnet form. Johnson doesn't pander: as a poet, he's the real deal.
-- Mary Turzillo,
winner of the SFPA Elgin Award for "Lovers & Killers" (2013)

Jonathan captures exactly with his photographs exactly what I had in mind with my poetry for this collection.
-- Azriel Johnson
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About the author:
Azriel Johnson is the Director of Operations for Writing Knights Press, hosting occasional showcases in North East Ohio.

He was a member of the 2014 Lake Effect Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam team, 2016 Lake Effect National Poetry Slam team.

He is a wordsmith in many aspects of the craft including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, stage plays and songs.

His current words of wisdom: "People like to dress up their words with labels like 'poetry'. Just write baby, just write."