Your hold is ready! (9. 11. 21)

Happy September, everyone! I write having just returned from home to California, where I’m enjoying the last bit of summer before returning to classes later in September.

I’m also writing to celebrate some exciting news –– I have a small press! swallow::tale press is a Mad press for Mad manuscripts, co-run by myself and my co-conspirator and fellow Mad creator, Feyxuan. Check out the website for more info on what we’re looking for, and don’t forget to pre-order our first items. We’re so excited to get rolling on what’s long been a dream of ours. Don’t be a stranger –– get in touch with us, submit, and ask questions via the info our website. We’re excited to hear from you.

Okay, now to the (other) recommendations!

Today’s Recs:

Books:

• Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

• Matt Bell, Appleseed.

• Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted.

• Sybil Lamb, The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond All Reason That She Could Fly.

Lit Mags:

• Cream City Review (Issues 44.2 and 45.1 - grab them in print!)

Albums

• AhMerASu, Incandescent Body (2019).

• Dawn, Emma Donovan & The Putbacks (2014).

Poetry & Prose & In-Between:

• Deirdre Danklin, Dream Sequence (2021).

• Spencer Reece, Two Poems (2021).

• Jessica Poli, Balm (2021).

• Ahlam Bsharat, Obeidah the Cow (2021).

Essays and Articles:

• Shelli Nicole, The Story of My Abortion (2021).

• A. H. Reaume, Brain Fog: An Essay (2021).

• Tom Whyman, Is it Hopepunk to Have a Baby? (2019).

• Julia Aguiar, Afsheen Chowdhury, Misha Falk, Lizzy Hinds-Heuglin, Aakriti Kapoor, Yaniya Lee, Katherine McKittrick, Milka Njoroge, Channon Oyeniran, Nat Rambold and Victoria Valliere, Impermanence: On Frantz Fanon’s Geographies (2021).

• Mankaparr Conteh, How Noname Is Reimagining Fame (and Everything Else) (2021).

• Amethyst Ganaway, A Safe Place to Fill Up (2021).

• Tamiko Beyer, Poems are Only Mine to Give Away (Part 1) (2021).

My Recent Work:

• Chapbooks! Buy The Dream Journals and A Hole Walked In( link is to my PayPal –– pay what you can, $3-6 recommended, and include your email for a PDF copy. Yes, you are “friends and family.”) And add them on Goodreads! [x] [x]

• The wrong body in Whale Road Review

• Salvation in Santa Fe Writer’s Workshop.

• On Loving Red in Blue Marble Review.

• Again Soon in Flypaper Lit.

• Review: Minerva A Miscarriage of the Brain by Johanna Hedva in Carousel.

• Making a madwoman in Lavender Review.

• affective turn and Mealtime Scene in Hooligan Magazine.

• Butch flight in you are here: the journal of creative geography.

• THIS IS NOT A MEAL. in New Delta Review.

• Narrow Flights in Superstition Review.

• DIRECTOR’S CUT in Lammergeier Magazine.

That’s all for now –– again, feel free to let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more of, and if you have any recommendations of your own!