2020: manuscripts received

[Manuscripts are posted here as they are received, alphabetically by title. Please check back often & remember to refresh this page.]

The Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series

(postmarked or emailed between October 1 and November 15, 2020):

  • Abstaining from Pastry
  • After the Garden
  • All Things That Rise
  • And Just Like That
  • Autopsy of a Fall
  • Ball Pit Bucket Filled with Bridge Water
  • Baluarte
  • Because You Previously Liked or Played
  • Becoming More Beige with Each Passing Prayer
  • A Book of Short Novels
  • The Bridges and the Disappeared
  • Broken Glosa
  • Bruising
  • Busted Compass
  • Cantata for the Desert Poet
  • The Cast Line
  • Catch of the Night
  • Cave with Two Mouths
  • Child Bed Fever—Number 17 in series: Kelly Rowe
  • City of Honesty
  • Combustion Suite
  • Dead Names
  • Discovery Channels
  • Dithyrambos
  • Epithalamion with Missing Groom
  • Escape Casualties
  • Even the Statue Weeps
  • The First Annual Fassbinder Film Festival in Verse
  • A Fool Grimacing at the Reader
  • “the girl with him” in hemingway
  • Give me away, or sell me cheap
  • Going Places
  • Gone Rogue
  • Gorilla by Jellyfish Light—Number 16 in series: James D’Agostino
  • The Heart of It All
  • HIM
  • Honey and Ash
  • How to Grieve Nothing
  • How to Make an Adobe Brick
  • How to Make An American Mass Shooter: A Primer
  • I Know a Cockroach Is Not a Beetle
  • If the Sky Is Never Finished
  • The Kids of Brown Street
  • The Kind of Dreams That Bleed into Reality
  • klaʊdz 
  • Ladies’ Abecedary
  • Lamentations
  • Life
  • Life Changing
  • Love Love to Love
  • Luminous Blue Variables
  • Lumumba Says
  • Magnifying Glass
  • Making Figures in the Ward
  • A Manual of the Weather Underground
  • Mother Want
  • Next Startle
  • No Man’s Land
  • Noise Prophets
  • Now and Then
  • Now That’s Funny
  • O Brother, Wiggle Your Fingers & Toes
  • On the Exam Table
  • One Day Vincent Would Sing
  • Open Sesame
  • The Optimist Shelters in Place
  • Our Last Luxury
  • Pedestals
  • Planetary Alignment
  • Poems 24
  • Poems I Wrote on My Arm
  • Poetry for Mr Gould
  • Queering the Hearth
  • Rapsodies
  • rejo¡ce
  • Reply to All
  • Rock of Dreams
  • Running Into an Ex
  • A Series of Septembers
  • Sketching
  • The Snow in Poland, 1942
  • Sonnets from the Quarantine
  • The Sound of Sonnets
  • Spring Is Dead
  • Still Life with Skull, Cluster of Grapes, Nintendo 64 Controller
  • Strange Eatings
  • This Earth Has Been Too Generous
  • This January Sun
  • This Must Be the Place
  • To the Lost Children & Other Poems
  • Toy Gun
  • Transfer
  • Unwritten Municipal Codes
  • Upward Spiral
  • The Water Cycle  : accepted elsewhere : congrats to Beth Gordon
  • What River the Day Is
  • what they don’t tell little girls
  • When There Is Little Light Left in the Late Afternoon
  • Wildlife
  • Wintering Time
  • A Yooper Bestiary
  • Zillennial Elegies

The Keystone Chapbook Series

(postmarked or emailed between June 1 and July 15, 2020):

  • But I Am Childlike That Way
  • Comfortable in Cities
  • Coronaverse
  • epicycle
  • Folk Gospels
  • The Grieving Bone
  • Having Visions Again—Number 22 in series: Deborah Fries
  • Here from There
  • Hypergraphia
  • It Is, It Is, It Is
  • Left-Handed Poetry
  • Man in a Crow Suit
  • Mast Year
  • A Matter of Time
  • Pennsyltucky
  • Said and Done
  • The Same Breath
  • Seascapes
  • Strange Body
  • Sunrise Bloom
  • This Hard Business of Living
  • A Two-Thirds Kind of Day
  • What Persists
  • Word of Our Crossing
  • Words in Place
  • Wrinkles

The Robin Becker Series

(postmarked or emailed between April 1 and May 15, 2020):

  • Antlers
  • Bloodwater Parish
  • blue-lipped lovers
  • Bones to Peaches—Number 23 in series: Iris McLoughan
  • Breathe
  • Chorus for the Kill
  • Clouds Can Cry
  • Coughing Up Planets  : accepted elsewhere : congrats to Samantha Fain
  • Deviant
  • Enough Light to Pawn
  • Etiquette for a Pandemic
  • The Family Gems
  • Fault Lines
  • Field Notes on Incandescence
  • For Pit and Skin
  • Fossils
  • garbage
  • The Great Ocean of the Plains
  • The Handwasher’s Tale
  • H21
  • In Place—Number 24 in series: Brad Richard
  • Incident on the Green Line
  • Instructional Days
  • Leftover Film
  • Like Sweet Mint
  • The Line Dance
  • Love Letters from the Body
  • Lying to the Riverbed
  • The Magician’s Daughter
  • The Moment and the Sequence
  • The Museum of Hideous Bridesmaid Dresses
  • pain has its kitchen; love is a bell
  • Paradise (is a point of transmission)
  • Pilgrimage
  • Playing House
  • Posthuman  : accepted elsewhere : congrats to Risa Denenberg
  • Pulse
  • Quarantine Dreams
  • Queer Creatures of Kansas
  • Rilke’s Ghost
  • Ritter’s Psychiatric Diner
  • Self-Portrait as Mockingbird After Sobering Up
  • a subtle archive
  • This is not about that
  • Underbelly of the False Ballet  : accepted elsewhere : congrats to Barb Reynolds
  • What My Body Carries

The Summer Kitchen Series

(postmarked or emailed between February 1 and February 14, 2020):

  • Buried with a Mouth Full of Pearls
  • Crepuscle: An Atget Album
  • Death Salon—Number 8.03 in series: Robert Julius
  • Don’t Ask Why—Number 8.01 in series: Michelle Ortega
  • Earworms
  • In a Place of Broken Things
  • In the Weeping Sift
  • Italian Time
  • The Kind of Ending You Can Believe In
  • Missing Ella
  • On the Way to Man in Moon Passage
  • The Place Wind Comes From
  • The Sickness We’ve Become
  • Stem and Blooming
  • This Object Has Temporarily Been Removed
  • The 29