Preorder Katy E. Ellis' "Gravity"

Katy E. Ellis - Gravity

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Katy E. Ellis - Gravity
Chapbook (2015), 5.5 inches x 4.25 inches.

First Printing
65 lb. textured card-stock covers, 60 lb. card-stock interiors.  20% Cotton thatched linen paper. Hemp binding with hand-stamped cut-outs. Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies.

A beautiful five part poem exploring space, wombs, and water, and the absence of weight.


Katy E. Ellis grew up under fir trees and high-voltage power lines in Renton, Washington. She teaches creative writing through Seattle Arts & Lecture’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) program. She studied writing at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and at Western Washington University. Aside from her chapbooks Urban Animal Expeditions (Dancing Girl Press) and Gravity (Yellow Flag Press), her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals including Literary Mama, MAYDAY Magazine, Redheaded Stepchild, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and the Canadian journals Grain and Fiddlehead. Katy also teaches writing to home school children in West Seattle, where she lives a stone throw away from the beach with her husband and daughter.

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Preorder Dan Nowak's "We were never meant for warmth, but for finding"

Dan Nowak - We were never meant for warmth, but for finding

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Dan Nowak - We were never meant for warmth but for finding
Chapbook (2014), 6 inches x 9 inches.

First Printing
65 lb. textured card-stock covers with inner pocket fold. All-broadside, 67 lb. card-stock interiors. Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies.

Second Printing
65 lb. textured card-stock covers with inner pocket fold. All-broadside, 67 lb. card-stock interiors. Limited to an edition of 50 numbered copies.

Fourteen interlocking sonnets that explore how life and love is all in the finding.


Dan Nowak is the editor of Imaginary Friend Press. He is the author of five collections of poetry; his first book, Recycle Suburbia, won the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Award. The most recent is the hows and whys of my failures, published by Hyacinth Girl Press. Dan has lived all over the rust belt and recently settled in Pittsburgh with his cat, his partner Margaret, and an overarching desire to never adjunct again.

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Elizabeth Burk - Louisiana Purchase

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Elizabeth Burk - Louisiana Purchase
Chapbook (2014), 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches.

 Second Printing
60lb. card-stock covers and inserts. Hand-sewn hemp binding. Limited to an edition of 100 numbered copies.

In the follow-up to her breakout chapbook Learning to Love Louisiana, Elizabeth Burk explores lives, lovers, and the houses that contained them. Louisiana Purchase continues Burk's plainspoken, witty, and touching verse.

Elizabeth Burk is a psychologist who currently divides her time between a practice and family in New York and a husband in southwest Louisiana.  Her chapbook, Learning To Love Louisiana was published in January, 2013 by Yellow Flag Press and is in its sixth printing. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies including RATTLE, CALYX, Atlanta Review, New Madrid, About Place, Ithaca Lit, Louisiana Review, Spillway, and The Southern Poetry Anthology: Louisiana.  She was a finalist in the Annual Greenburgh Poetry Contest.  Her poems have been read on public radio, KRVS, La, and her work has been performed at a variety of venues in New York

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Darrell Bourque - if you abandon me, comment je vas faire: An Amédé Ardoin Songbook

Chapbook (2014), 8.5 inches x 5.5 inches.
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First Printing Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies. 60lb. Card-stock covers,  20% cotton linen paper. Hand-sewn binding. ($10).

Darrell Bourque explores the life of Creole musician Amédé Ardoin (1898-1942) in this haunting collection of inverted sonnets. Using imagination and historical research, Bourque delves into Ardoin, an influential but enigmatic artist.
This chapbook is the first installment of The Louisiana Series of Cajun and Creole Poetry (La Série de Louisiane de Poésie des Acadiens et Créoles).


Early records are sketchy but Amédé Ardoin's birthdate is now believed to be March 11, 1898. Born to Thomas Ardoin and Aurelia Clint Ardoin, he grew up in the Eunice-Basile area. The family was but a generation from slavery and it is believed the Ardoin name was taken from an early family the Ardoin's predecessors worked for. One census record shows him listed as a farmer but his work was always directed to being a professional musician, something unheard of in his time and unperceivable for a Negro at the time.  He was beaten in a racial assault sometime late in his life and spent the last six months of his life as Case 13387 at the mental institution in Pineville, Louisiana where he died on November 3, 1942. The same medical index card that gives his case number also indicates that he was buried in an unmarked grave in the Negro section of the graveyard at the hospital. Legendary Cajun fiddler Dennis McGee, his friend with whom he played and recorded, called Amédé Ardoin une chanson vivant, a living song.

Purpose of fundraising effort:  Family and friends of Amédé Ardoin have tried to get information from the Central Louisiana Hospital in Pineville for several years now.  The inquiry was part of an effort to return Ardoin's remains from the cemetery at Pineville to his home place in the Eunice-Basile area. The hospital maintains that he was buried in an unmarked grave in the Negro section of the graveyard there and that no possibility of retrieval of remains is possible.  That being the case, Amédé Ardoin's family, friends, and lovers of his music would like to see some kind of public commemorative placed in his community to honor his life and his immense contribution to the Cajun and Creole culture he helped define through his artistry, perhaps something in the form of a statue or a plaque near the home he loved and kept trying to return to. A portion of the proceeds from if you abandon me, comment je vas faire: An Amédé Ardoin Songbook will be donated to the effort to realize such a public commemorative. 


Darrell Bourque's latest full-length book of poems is Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie. Bourque is professor emeritus of English at the University of Louisiana Lafayette where he directed the interdisciplinary humanities program and served as the first Friends of the Humanities professor. He is a founding member of Narrative4, an international story exchange program, a member of the board at the Ernest J. Gaines Center at ULL and a former Louisiana Poet Laureate. The chapbook if you abandon me, comment je vas faire: An Amédé Ardoin Songbook is his ninth work.

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Milk & Water preview

We are gearing up for the release of Milk & Water by Amy Watkins. Here is a sneak peek of the book, and probably one of the best poems we have ever published.

Never Never

Outside the supermarket, beside the fiberglass horses,

women gossip about a dead child in the newspaper.

The mothers must blame the mother,

and they do; another way of saying

That will never happen to me.

My mother, buying milk and bread for her living children,

knows better.

I will sing an ode to fear and call it

Never Never Never.

I’ve made it too, the impossible promise
I will never let anything happen to you.

But I fell and watched my baby falling.

I thought I’ve ruined you.

I thought I’ve killed my child.

I must surely die.

And as I watched her, later, sleeping, hurt but

healing, I thought I will never

I will never

But I will.

And my mother is still walking to and from my sister’s grave.

And my daughter is older now than my sister lived to be.

And the women outside the supermarket

are still feeding quarters to the fiberglass horses, saying

Never Never Never

while their children lunge forward and are pulled

gently, mechanically back. 

Milk & Water by Amy Watkins will be available for pre-orders soon, and fully released February 25th.

Burk Giveaway

We still have copies of Elizabeth Burk's Learning to Love Louisiana. This is a new alternate art sixth edition with wraparound cover art by Burk's husband Leo Touchet. Limited to an edition of 50 copies. We have also dropped the price of this book to only $7 for this sixth (and possibly final) printing.

We are having a giveaway on our Facebook page for a free copy of Learning to Love Louisiana. Like us on Facebook and share the post for a chance to win.

Here's one of our favorite poems from the collection:

from "The Road Widow"

My body tilts south
where you have gone.
I taste cane sugar,
feel the wilting heat.
I am surrounded
by weepy trees,
gnarled arms reaching out
over sultry swamps
where the murky deep rises,
merges with mirrors of sky.

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Learning to Love Louisiana in its SIXTH printing!

Elizabeth Burk's Learning to Love Louisiana is now available in a new alternate art sixth edition. 60lb. card-stock with wraparound cover art by Burk's husband Leo Touchet. Limited to an edition of 50 copies.

We have also dropped the price of this book to only $7 for this sixth (and possibly final) printing.

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