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Radioactive Moat Press [This tumblog is dedicated to tracking the progress of all RM Press authors and contributors] www.radioactivemoat.com

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As you might know, Radioactive Moat Press has joined forces with poet Jake Syersak’s poetry journal Cloud Rodeo to create a micro-press called Radioactive Cloud. The chapbooks, Poems About Moss (by Dennis James Sweeney) and DATACLYSM.jpg (by Carleen Tibbetts) will be available to purchase from Radioactive Cloud tomorrow (August 1st) for just $8 (includes S&H). For more information, click [here]

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Deluge No. 9 Contributors Announced!

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“Marty Cain is one of the most brilliant and inventive young poets writing today.” -Tim Earley, author of Linthead Stomp “If Holden Caulfield had acid-tripped on friendship and death in the aughts—if he’d then fallen through a therapy-hole to ride shotgun in a dark-energy jalopy—he might have dreamed this long, wild narrative lit up on uncertainty and sex. To steal a phrase from Cain: this poem has risen from the dead to eat lesser poems. It glows.” –Cathy Wagner, author of Nervous Device “Inhabiting the space between elegy and prophecy, Marty Cain’s poem floats in a drowning country parallel to the United States of America. Where loss flickers at the edge of each frame, ‘the earth turns itself inside out’ like a teenager in a dreamscape, baptized in tears.” -Lucas de Lima, author of Wet Land Now available from Trembling Pillow Press

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The Spring 2017 issue of Deluge has finally arrived! It features work by: “I designed this mystery to be heavy / grieving against earwigs / my lived-in routines / I’m desperate for a blow up in my life”

-GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE

“When the red cloud comes / hang yellow satin over the windows”

-ZACHARY ANDERSON

“One woe man’s terrorist / is another’s brofest tourist”

-ROSE KNAPP

“we need a better word / for our lucha / we need a Latinx”

-WILLY PALOMO

“I will look for you inside this / movie they show at school. A guide / to know my own body. I want / to understand when to balance & / when to paint over my footsteps left / on the walls. I want to be good to someone else / someday. To keep coming up.”

-JULIA COHEN & ABBY HAGLER

“sinking wet fingers in our early blood / cat-masked in our sleeping bags / next to the closet”

-JESSIE JANESHEK

“THIS IS THE SOUND OF HONEYSPIGOT, HONEYSPIGOT.”

-ALEX GREGOR

“Now the play is free to follow its own viral genius. It gathers in the bladder ducts. It strip-mines the genitals for diamonds and rare earth metals. Then it vaults, limb-by-limb, toward the heart and head.”

-TOBY ALTMAN

“sugar tongue lights at / the touch of enamel, remembering / the taste of a hornet / that never belong to me”

-DANIELLE SUSI

“A copper sun has replaced the slate / moon, the police tape blows in the / breeze, people walk around it, someone / has swept the sidewalk, the garden needs / weeding”

-SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE

“How thin must I keep my coverage in order to feel all this horror?”

-ANNIE GRIZZLE

“a florescent halo of data / floating through static / tangled into her hair / a terabyte, an sd card, a cloud / archives of text / overworked articles analyzing / the historical implications of deleted tweets”

-EMILY GIGLER

“But please, mister owl, / I beg you not / To make you a schema / Of me.”

-MICHAEL SAJDAK

“Dare I talk about the delirium involved in all-day drives?”

-TYLER FLYNN DORHOLT

“the highway, its inbuilt purpose, hearing static chew pop songs / on the radio like lumps of gum with dirt in them, gazing through / frames grayed by runny splays of what were once shiny flying bugs”

-BEN GROSS

“women burned / in lacerated sleep / along the wharves / burned / coitally / from her own / lung / & ribcage”

-ISABEL BALÉE

“Then, the clock inside her strikes”

-SHARI CAPLAN

“a zone of opinions wombs this birth object / my bot plays with it / the palmworld covers its mouth / birth object you will always be here, the palmworld says, / nested in a comment thread”

-PETER COLE FRIEDMAN

“what else is there / already used three breaths / all parts pleasure and fear / lots of folks with jobs / will produce this child of queers / who knows”

-DAVY KNITTLE

“The left thrives when people are unhappy. / The right wants everyone to have the same memories.”

-ANDREW WEATHERHEAD

“There are kinds of anger / you can’t avoid / being placed on you.”

-CHARLIE D’EVE

“Through the trees to endure the leveling march of industry / to pass on.”

-JONATHAN LARSON

READ ALL OF DELUGE 8 [HERE]

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Teaser for Deluge 8! (Premiering March 2017) (In Memory of Pete Burns)

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8/15 @ccmpress cover art by @shywatson

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available to buy here

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Deluge No. 7 is LIVE!

Featuring new work from: Ella Longpre, Clay Cantrell, Ctch Bsnss, Nicholas Rys, Paola Capó-García, Bree Jo'ann, Fra Füchsl (trans. by Jace Brittain), Claire Cronin, Andy Emitt, Matthew Reiser, Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad, Liam Scott Swanson, Heath Ison, Daniel Altenburg, Patrick Samuel, Carleen Tibbetts, Manon Revuelta, Subashini Navaratnam, Ryan Bollenbach, Jared Schickling, and Torin Jensen! [ENTER]

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22 CONTRIBUTORS 45 WORKS 1 DELUGE IT'S COMING **TOMORROW**

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Trailer for Marty Cain’s forthcoming book of poems, Kids of the Black Hole

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my chap is available to download for free or s/o if you donate. so many incredible writers sharing their work at ghost city press this summer. 

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DELUGE 7 CONTRIBUTORS ANNOUNCED! (COMING SOON)

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THIS IS GROSS AND UNACCEPTABLE—PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT GOOGLE’S RECENT CENSORSHIP OF DENNIS COOPER’S BLOG!! 10+ YEARS OF WORK JUST DELETED WITHOUT WARNING.

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“Cassettes. Cassette tapes, mixtapes. videotapes, magnetic tape, pre-recorded tape, pirated tape, blank tape, Krapp’s Last Tape, these books are none of these. They aren’t cassettes, these are books. Why? The idea came from the idea of C86, the free tape that appeared on the NME (UK) in 1986. We wanted a title for a literary sampler and the first thing we thought of was a free sampler of music. We don’t know why. Does everyone always need to know why? Anyway…press play.” Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Cassette 68 sampler is now available to purchase [here] What’s an onion kid? In case you missed it, check out my interview with Richard Brammer over at Misfits.

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Entropy interviewed me about Radioactive Moat Press and added it to their Small Press Database! (FYI I’m also currently reading submissions for the next issue of Deluge) Entropy: “Tell us a bit about Radioactive Moat. What are your influences, your aesthetic, your mission?” “I’m interested in whatever fascinates, but simultaneously repels. When Radioactive Moat debuted I originally stated that our values included reactivity, corrosivity, ignitability and toxicity. I think that’s still true today. I also find there is both value in what people consider low art and what people consider high art. As an editor, you could say I’m tasteless in the way I choose to resist a dichotomy that just doesn’t work. Why put a limit on what you can take seriously or think critically about?!”

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5 years ago today we published Feng Sun Chen’s first chapbook of poetry: Ugly Fish: lonely like a bathtub. water of thinking. to think is to fuck. you be the hairdryer, or the radio. both of them sing. A digital version is still available as a free download [here]

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I did a Q & A with Richard Brammer for Misfits Mag and discussed my poems forthcoming in the latest lit sampler from Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Cassette 68! 

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Last year the poet Brandon Shimoda sent me an email asking if there were any corpses in my poems / Last year I was a thief or a guest in a classroom @ FSU reading + being haunted by Virginia Woolf Djuna Barnes Famous Men / Last year I went on tour with my first book and it was painful / full of love / violence / Last year I wrote / touched the ghost + blood / I wrote “The Book of Repulsive Women” / which was selected by Lily Hoang for Essay Press’ Chapbook Contest series / Thank you Essay Press for bringing my blooddevilflower to life / You can read it for free for free / Thank you Lily for the kind words I’m going to put below / Thank you Bob Lorig / my photographer father for taking and developing the photo of my mother which is the screaming Cover The Incredible Look I inherited and that burns + burns through me / because I am a luminous bitch / because I am here and unforgiving and writing and writing / a life.

“In the first incarnation of The Book of Repulsive Women, Djuna Barnes writes “[Her lips] bloom vivid and repulsive / As the truth.” 101 years later, Carrie Lorig has usurped Barnes’s title to expose the contemporary repulsive woman: she is a thinker, a feeler, a poet. She is intellectual emotion, relentlessly inquisitive and just plain brutal. She exclaims, “All reading is blood,” and the literature she reads is “So Polluted.” This text is blood, polluted with punctuation and form and accusative words that may as well be curses. And we are all accountable. Harkening to Barnes, Lorig declares “There is a Devil inside me / There is a Flower inside me,” and so we watch them both bloom and wilt and decay. We twist our faces in disgust at revelation; we squint against all that beauty.” -Lily Hoang