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A-Minor Magazine Recruitment

A-Minor Magazine is looking for an Associate Editor (Prose) to run the magazine together with chief editor Nicolette Wong and art editor Eryk Wenziak. Work includes, but is not limited to: reading submissions, handling correspondences, and generating/uploading social media content for the magazine.

This is an unpaid position. Please email Nicolette at [email protected] if you’re interested in joining our team.

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New Release - Ghosty Boo by Kate Litterer

First edition (March 2016). Cover art by Stephen Welch. Design by Ryan W. Bradley. Book layout by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong.

"Ghosty Boo lives inside of a book by Kate Litterer who lives with “a hard job to hurt out of revolted love.” Poetry is always asking us what is it we're willing to do, and when we take into our own private worlds what's sincere and true, fierce and relentlessly unforgiving are we able to ever feel safe again? Ghosty Boo has an answer for that." -Dara Wier, author of You Good Thing

Available at our e-store, Amazon, and independent retailers. 

About the author:

Kate Litterer received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for Poets and Writers. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Coconut, The Destroyer, Dusie, Finery, Forklift, Ohio, h_ngm_n, Ilk, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, La Vague, Mistress, NonBinary Review, Phantom Limb, Route Nine Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Spoke Too Soon, Quaint, the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, and the anthology Hysteria. She is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on queer and feminist historiography, butch/femme experience, and archival research. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her two maine coon cats. Her website is katelitterer.com.

Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine:

Six from Ghosty Boo

Selected publications:

Interview with Kate Litterer Spoke Too Soon (audio recording) Quaint Magazine DUSIE Real Pants (audio recording) Phantom Books Jellyfish Magazine

Visit Kate Litterer at her website here.

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Post Human by Nate Pritts

First edition. Cover art by Eryk Wenziak. Design by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong.

"Weaving his poems together as a meditative critique of technology and its numbing effect on the everyday, Pritts asks readers to imagine other possibilities amid "this daily flood/ of ephemera, this electronic life."

-Publishers Weekly

“Clouds, leaves, sun, seasons, Google, Google Maps, email after email, afternoon coffee, surplus root vegetables, snow - this is poetry hungry for the emphatic or the manic, an exploration of what we gave away when we give of ourselves.”

-JoAnna Novak “These poems are everything I fear, the collapse of what I know and expect and the period after, the fumbling, the tripping through, until the new becomes the known. Maybe it’s everything we all fear: a brokenness, an unraveling of the familiar. This is a manifesto on how to learn to be human when you are already human, or maybe it’s a lesson on the recovery of being too human, a nervous breakdown of the mind and the heart, the softening of everything we know until we don’t even recognize our own bodies, until we are empty, until we ask “how do I love when there is no one there?”” -Jen Lambert

Available at our e-store, Amazon, B&N and independent retailers. 

Reviews of Post Human

Publishers Weekly The Collagist Democrat and Chronicle 

About the author:

Nate Pritts is the Director and Founding Editor of H_NGM_N (2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph ‘zine.

He is the author of six previous books of poetry, most recently Right Now More Than Ever (2013). Publishers Weekly described his fifth book, Sweet Nothing (2011), as “both baroque and irreverent, banal and romantic, his poems […] arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity.” POETRY Magazine called his The Wonderfull Yeare (2009), “rich, vivid, intimate, & somewhat troubled” while The Rumpus called Big Bright Sun (2010) “a textual record of mistakes made and insights gleaned…[in] a voice that knows its part in self-destruction.”

Pritts is Associate Professor at Ashford University where he serves as Curriculum Lead and Administrative head of the Film program. He lives in the Finger Lakes region of NY state.

Visit Nate Pritts here or hear the author read an excerpt from Post Human.

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A-Minor Magazine News & Recruitment Call

Photograph by Eryk Wenziak An excerpt from Ghosty Boo by Kate Litterer, forthcoming from A-Minor Press, is featured in the September issue of A-Minor Magazine. The issue also features poetry from j/j hastain & Juliet Cook, Sara Biggs Chaney, Joy Ladin, Jill Khoury; art/text from Heller Levinson & Linda Lynch; artwork from Aliza Tucker and Craig Svare. Cover art by Jürgen Smit. Curated by editor in chief Nicolette Wong and art editor Eryk Wenziak.

A-Minor Magazine is looking for an associate editor to run the magazine together with Nicolette and Eryk. Work includes, but is not limited to: reading submissions, handling correspondences, and generating/uploading social media content for the magazine. Both fiction writers and poets are welcome to apply.

This is an unpaid position. The new editor may be invited to join A-Minor Press, in which case there may be some monetary payment. 

Please email Nicolette at [email protected] if you’re interested in joining our team.

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In Memory of Walter Bjorkman

We are deeply saddened to share the news that our Managing Editor, Walter Bjorkman, passed away on 8 October 2015. 

Over the past years, Walter was an important force in the writing community to which he lent tremendous support. He was one of the editors for the 52/250 Project, an initiative that made a huge impact on the lives of many writers and artists and brought the community together. As a former editor and designer for Thrush Poetry, and Managing Editor of A-Minor Press, he helped launch and promote the work of many fine writers. He was a compassionate friend to those of us who’ve shared our thoughts and work with him -- Walter was, quite simply, a man who made a difference in our lives. 

 A-Minor Press wouldn’t have happened if not for Walter. We’re indebted to him for the work we’ve done and will continue to do -- and we’ll always miss him.

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Coming Soon - Ghosty Boo, POST HUMAN

Artwork by Eryk Wenziak

Our 2015 titles, Ghosty Boo by Kate Litterer, and POST HUMAN by Nate Pritts, are currently in production. Stay tuned.

Kate Litterer’s poetry at the destroyer.

Three poems from POST HUMAN by Nate Pritts at InDigest. 

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Forthcoming Titles 2015

      Photography by Eryk Wenizak

    A-Minor Press is pleased to announce two forthcoming titles:

    Ghosty Boo by Kate Litterer (Spring/Summer 2015) 

Kate Litterer received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for Poets and Writers. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Coconut, The Destroyer, Dusie, Finery, Forklift, Ohio, h_ngm_n, Ilk, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, La Vague, NonBinary Review, Phantom Limb, Route Nine Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Spoke Too Soon, Quaint, and the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation. She is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and focuses on queer and feminist historiography and archival research. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her two maine coon cats. 

    POST HUMAN by Nate Pritts (Autumn 2015)

Nate Pritts is the Director and Founding Editor of H_NGM_N (2001), an independent publishing house that started as a mimeograph ‘zine and which has grown to encompass an annual online journal, an occasional digital chapbook series, a continuing series of single-author books and sporadic limited edition/low-fi projects.

He is also the author of six books of poetry, most recently Right Now More Than Ever (2013). Publishers Weekly described his fifth book, Sweet Nothing (2011), as “both baroque and irreverent, banal and romantic, his poems […] arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity.” POETRY Magazine called his The Wonderfull Yeare (2009), “rich, vivid, intimate, & somewhat troubled” while The Rumpus called Big Bright Sun (2010) “a textual record of mistakes made and insights gleaned…[in] a voice that knows its part in self-destruction.” 

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TRANSLATIONS ON WAKING IN AN ITALIAN CEMETERY by Michael Keenan

First edition (June 2014). Cover art by Eryk Wenziak. Design by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong.

"Michael Keenan’s poems illuminate that ‘other world, inside this one.’ Wearing line breaks to score your heart beat by, these poems limn the phantasmagoric backstreets till dawn, never settling for the comfort of the nihilist’s pose.  “Etched, fragrant, dark” his sound is original and played with a cutthroat dreamer’s intensity. Listen for the shiver, look out for the shiv."  --John Duvernoy, author of Something in the way// Obstruction Blues 

Available at our e-store, Amazon, and other independent retailers.

About the author:

Michael Keenan received his MFA in Literafry Arts from Brown University. His first chapbook, Two Girls, was published by Say No Press in 2009. He was nominated for a Puschart Prize in 2011 and was recently chosen by C.D. Wright to be featured in the PEN Poetry Series. His writing has appeared in Fence, Alice Blue Review, Shampoo, NYQ Reviews, Paul Revere’s Horse, A-Minor Magazine, Leaf Garden Press, The Stolen Island Review, Ad-Hominem Art-Review, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Caketrain, Inter|rupture, Arsenic Lobster, Negative Suck, The Josephine Quarterly, and The Blue Fifth Review, among others. His writing is forthcoming in Poetry International. Michael no longer drives a waffle truck in Northern Florida, but he wishes that he did.

    Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine: Four pieces from TRANSLATIONS ON WAKING IN AN ITALIAN CEMETERY

Poem at Verse Daily: Dusk Litany

  Readings and Interviews: Michael Keenan Poetry Chronopolis Book Culture TRANSLATIONS on Facebook

    Selected Publications: PEN Poetry Series Posit Phantom Kangaroo alice blue interrupture Shampoo Poetry Chronopolis Alba Arsenic Lobster Fanzine

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If We Could Know Our Bones by Mary Carroll-Hackett

If We Could Know Our Bones, by Mary Carroll-Hackett is a 82 page collection of poetry. First edition (January 2014). Cover art by Eryk Wenziak. Design by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong. Two words--"listen; build"--nest quietly in one of the poems from Mary Carroll-Hackett's beautiful/tough/fragile collection, If We Could Know Our Bones. They are seeds from which she conjures and nurtures a world of words simple and complex; lives brief and infinite; love physical and soul-full; spirit deeply rooted in the earth and carried on the wind. "The apples don't last. She buys them anyway," she writes, and: "The only reason to live / is to give ourselves away." We do... to her poems... without hesitation-- Robert Gray, Editor, Shelf Awareness

If We Could Know Our Bones was named one of the 9 Innovative Books of 2014 by Peter Tieryas

Available at our e-store, Amazon (print and Kindle), and other independent retailers. 

About the author:

Mary Carroll-Hackett earned an MFA from Bennington College. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Carolina Quarterly, Clackamas Literary Review, Pedestal Magazine, Superstition Review, Drunken Boat and The Prose-Poem Project, among others. She was a North Carolina Blumenthal Writer and winner of the Willamette Award for Fiction. Her chapbook, The Real Politics of Lipstick, won Slipstream’s 2010 poetry competition. Another, Animal Soul, was released in 2013 from Kattywompus Press. She founded and teaches in the Creative Writing programs at Longwood University. She also teaches workshops on Writing Grief and Loss, Writing the Body, and Writing the Earth at The Porches Writers Retreat in Virginia. Mary founded and edits The Dos Passos Review, Briery Creek Press, and The Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry. Most recently, she co-founded SPACES, an online magazine of art and literature. Mary is currently at work on a collection of personal essays.

  Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine:  Four pieces from If We Could Know Our Bones

  Selected publications: Red Wolf Journal Superstition Review Anomalous Press Doorknobs & BodyPaint

  More about Mary Caroll-Hackett: Writing for Peace

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Cinéma Vérité by Sam Rasnake

Cinéma Vérité is a collection of 46 ekphrastic poems from award-winning poet, Sam Rasnake. First edition (September 2013). Cover art by Eryk Wenziak. Design by Walter Bjorkman. Edited by Nicolette Wong.

"While other poets have explored the entwined connections of film and poetry, no American poet is doing so more effectively today than Sam Rasnake. He writes: "Like the puppeteer's hands/ that refuse to hide or the stir/ of wings... something/ lets go its darker elegance." But the elusive other in these poems never goes away; not at all. What is seemingly lost to the speaker of this and so many other poems in this book appears luminously on every page, as if projected by the magic lanterns of old - framed, examined - with each image fully realized. There is not an outtake, not a single process-shot among the poems in Cinéma Vérité. This is the real stuff; the long-rumored master reel - language from the very heart of things." - Greg Rappleye, author of A Path Between Houses, winner of the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark, winner of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series

Available at our e-store, Amazon (print and Kindle), and other independent retailers. 

About the author:

Sam Rasnake’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in OCHO, Wigleaf, Big Muddy, Literal Latté, Poem, Pebble Lake Review, Poets/Artists, New World Writing, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Santa Fe Literary Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, as well as the anthologies MiPOesias Companion 2012, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, LUMMOX 2012, Flash Fiction Fridays, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Deep River Apartments, The Lost Children, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011. He is the author of Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), Religions of the Blood (Pudding House Press, 1998), Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010). He is chapbook editor for Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and from 2001-2010 was editor of Blue Fifth Review. Since 2011, Rasnake has edited, with Michelle Elvy, the Blue Five Notebook Series from BFR.

Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine:

Four pieces from Cinema Vérité

Reviews and Interviews: PANK MadHat Flash Fiction Chronicles Bent Country 

More about Sam Rasnake: Biography and online links Cinéma Vérité on Facebook Blue Fifth Review