Getting Through Gold Beach by Barbara A. Meier

Published August 24, 2020

Chapbook - 28 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8676501648

Yet
there’s something in a Sunday
on a highway lined with roadkill,
where the body and the blood
lead to forgiveness and one dead body
will not stay still

Johnny Cash
and Sunday Morning Dead

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Getting Through Gold Beach was one of the Winners of Writing Knights' 10th Anniversary Chapbook Contest Winner

Little Fire Grows by Casey Krysztofik

Published July 6, 2020

Chapbook - 36 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8663892001

No ships on pudding moana surface.
Pink shores with boa constrictors.
Contained from shifting by halter strap.
Cameo at the heart protected by beads.

Organza dress and fascinator
with peacock curved feathers.
Waiting at the balcony.
Enjoying the fresh air.

VII: Gabriella

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PUNATIC by James Schwartz

Published March 31, 2019

Mixed Media - 39 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1091931534

About the Author:
James Schwartz is a poet, slam performer & author of The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (2011), Arrival and Departure (2014) & Secular, Satirical & Sacred Meditations (2016).

His poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry 24, The Good Men Project, Silver Birch Press blog, RFD Magazine, WritersResist.com & numerous anthologies including Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology & most recently Not My President: An Anthology of Dissent (2017) & an essay in Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices From the Gay Bars (2017).

Watch his podcasts with Torah Bontrager on growing up gay & Amish at torahbontrager.libsyn.com & iTunes.

He resides on the Big Island, Hawai’i. 

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"I Know a Place" - The Wayward Sword (Poetry Submission)

"I know a place and it's not the moon (or the sea)"

'Poets be like "I know a place" and it's the moon. Again.'
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A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.
Joseph Campbell's summary of the monomyth.

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Fried Everything & Booze by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published August 13, 2019

Chapbook - 48 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1088941508

we got a little liquored
at the old opera house and
went parking on the west pond dam
windows down, radio blaring
as bold as back when, and laughed
at coyotes calling to classic rock
-- coyote calls

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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 467 pieces of work in 158 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.