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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Sleeping with Animals Second Editions Now Available

The first editions of Ashley Mace Havird's Sleeping with Animals have SOLD OUT!

We have released a second edition printing of 60 numbered copies so grab one before they are gone as well.

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Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals - OUT NOW!

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Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Chapbook (2013), 8.5 inches x 5.5 inches.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies. 60lb. Textured Card-stock covers (in 14 varieties) with 20% cotton Antique Laid Paper, and vellum inserts. Hand-sewn ribbon binding. ($10).

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We are proud to release the new chapbook by Ashley Mace Havird, Sleeping with Animals. This collection spans the globe as it contemplates family and growth.

Ashley Mace Havird’s book, The Garden of the Fugitives, won the 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize for poetry (Texas Review Press).  Her chapbook, Dirt Eaters, won the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize and was published in 2009.  Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.  In 2002 she was awarded a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Literature.  She lives with her husband, the poet David Havird, in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus - OUT NOW!!

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Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus Broadside (2013), 6 inches x 12 inches. 60lb. Textured Card-stock covers with 20% cotton Antique Laid Paper.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 28 numbered copies in 4 varieties: Rust, Blue, Forest, and Ivory. ($3).

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Our newest broadside is Anthony Frame's Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus. This is a 6"x12" folded broadside in 4 varieties: Fire/Rust, Water/Blue, Earth/Forest, and Sky/Ivory.Click the link below to order any (or all) of the four versions.

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Anthony Frame is an exterminator who lives in Toledo, Ohio with his wife. His first chapbook, Paper Guillotines, was published by Imaginary Friend Press and recent poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Harpur Palate, Third Coast, The North American Review, Redactions, The Dirty Napkin, Gulf Stream and diode among others.. He is also the co-founder and co-editor of Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Learn more at http://www.anthony-frame.com/.

Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters OUT NOW!!!

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Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters
Chapbook (2013), 5.5 inches x 4.25 inches.

First Printing Card-stock covers, saddle stapled. Limited to an edition of 37 numbered copies, half with red card-stock inserts, half with parchment card-stock inserts.

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This mini-chap contains five of Daspit's "Bar Coaster" poems, #1, #7, #16, #22, & #37. As such, this  first run is limited to an edition of 37 numbered copies, half with red card-stock inserts, half with parchment card-stock inserts.

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Toby Daspit, the self-proclaimed “Bard of the Blue Dog Cafe,” is Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the National Writing Project of Acadiana at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Toby is a frequent reader in the Lafayette and New Orleans poetry scenes and conducts poetry workshops frequently in area schools. Toby’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies including “The Quarterly,” “Never Bundle Review,” “di-vêrsé-city,” and “The Maple Leaf Rag”. He is the author of the chapbook “Anatomy of a Ghost and other poems not about you” (2006, Southern Hum Press) and was a featured poet for the 2010 Festival of Words in Grand Coteau, Louisiana.

Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi - OUT NOW!!!

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Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi

Broadside (2013), 5 inches x 8 inches. Heavy textured fiber backs, handmade paper, card-stock. Hand-embossed titling.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies.
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"And if all flesh is grass, then let us live humbly, as grasses do."

from "Spiritus Mundi"


We are proud to release this stunning poem from one of the best poets writing today. Enough said.

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Amy Fleury is a native of Nemaha County in rural northeast Kansas. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals, including American Life in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, North American Review, The Southeast Review, Laurel Review, 21st, and The Yalobusha Review. Southern Illinois Press published her first collection of poetry, Beautiful Trouble, in 2004. It was the winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.  As of Fall of 2008, she became the poet in the M.F.A. program at her alma mater, McNeese State University. Her new book is Sympathetic Magic.

Pushcart Prize Nominations

Yellow Flag Press has made our Pushcart Prize nominations for this year and the nominees are:

Katie Manning “The Interview”
from the chapbook I Awake in My Womb, (YFP-115, 2013)
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Bonny McDonald, “Kloster”
from the chapbook Kloster, (YFP-92, 2013)
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Kevin Dwyer, “Time Marches On”
from the broadside Time Marches On, (YFP-105, 2013)
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Joel Ferdon, “To the Belly and Back”
from the broadside To the Belly and Back, (YFP-114, 2013)
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Rodney Gomez, “Grackle”
from the broadside Grackle, (YFP-98, 2013)
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M. Rather, Jr., “Miracle”
from the broadside Miracle, (YFP-101, 2013)
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Upcoming Releases

We have six new releases that we will be rolling out in the next few months: Two broadsides, one mini-chapbook, and three full chapbooks. Here's the list (in no particular order...)

Chapbooks:
Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Amy Watkins - Milk & Water
William Kelley Woolfitt - Chorus Frog

Mini-chap:
Toby Daspit - Bar Coasters
 
Broadsides:

Amy Fleury - Spiritus Mundi
Anthony Frame - Everything I Know I Learned from Lazarus

Not sure in what order these will be released yet, but they will all be released in time for AWP. 

New Chapbooks!

We have concluded our open reading period for chapbooks and are proud to announce that we will be publishing the following chapbooks in the coming months:

Ashley Mace Havird - Sleeping with Animals
Amy Watkins - Milk & Water
William Kelley Woolfitt - Chorus Frog

Two finalists we were not able to publish were excellent books by Susan Yount and Melinda Wilson.

Thanks to all who sent us books, the response far exceeded our expectations.

New releases on August 25th

August 25th is the official release date for both Bonny McDonald's chapbook Kloster, as well as Katie Manning's I Awake in My Womb.

The first editions of I Awake in My Womb have sold out, but the second edition printing is still available. Get a copy of this chapbook here http://yellowflagpress.tictail.com/product/katie-manning-i-awake-in-my-womb-pre-order

There are only four copies of Kloster left, grab one here http://yellowflagpress.tictail.com/product/bonny-mcdonald-kloster

Pre-Order: Katie Manning - I Awake in My Womb

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Katie Manning - I Awake in My Womb
Chapbook (2013), 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches.

First Printing French-fold card-stock covers, hand-sewn binding, with vellum inserts.
Limited to an edition of 26 lettered copies, pre-order only. ($10).

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We are very excited to announce the next book in our release schedule is Katie Manning's I Awake in My Womb. This collection ponders motherhood through a series of pregnancy dreams. Surreal and poignant, I Awake in My Womb  is not to be missed.

The first printing of 26 lettered copies will be available through pre-orders ONLY, but don't worry, we will be following that up with a second printing of 40 copies.


The Interview

I sit in a conference room
with 20 other people.
There’s an emergency call
mid-interview. It’s you,
newborn baby.
What will they think of me
if I take the call? What will they think
if I don’t?

The interview continues.
I have to ride a horse
around a muddy field. I wear a frilly white dress—
I want to look professional.
My left hand holds
the reins. My right
picks up the phone. You are crying.
I drop the reins and take up a sword.
I cut off
my breast to make room on my chest
for comforting you.



Katie Manning is the author of The Gospel of the Bleeding Woman (Point Loma Press, 2013) and Tea with Ezra (Boneset Books, 2013). Her poetry has been published in New Letters, PANK, The Pedestal Magazine, and Poet Lore, among other journals and anthologies. She lives with her husband and son in Southern California, where she works as an Assistant Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. Find her online at www.katiemanningpoet.com.

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Pre-Order: Bonny McDonald - Kloster

From Kloster

Paint your angels with pupils, dark.

Keep your eyes open, jewel-toned, beautiful.

Not as sapphire, blind and blinding,

but as water: silty and reflective.

Somehow, I have missed the Mississippi.

Here, all the water is clear as glass,

not a speck of debris.

No tires and cups and foam spin in your waters.

Every creek is clear as if filtered,

with no record of where it’s been. 

Pre-orders are now available for our newest chapbook release, Bonny McDonald's Kloster. This chapbook is limited to an edition of 26 hand made hardcover books, with french-folded craft paper in 14 different varieties.

Kloster is a sweeping poem in five parts that spans many times and places, a deep questioning about the past and how it determines our present.

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S. B. Ferguson reprint!

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S. B. Ferguson - Returning Home to

Chapbook (2013), 4 inches x 5.5 inches. Bound X-book with textured card-stock.

First Printing Limited to an edition of 10 numbered copies.
SOLD OUT

Second Printing Limited to an edition of 20 numbered copies, 10 on beige, 10 on blue.
AVAILABLE

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We are happy to announce that S.B. Ferguson's delightful little x-book chap is now reprinted and back in stock! This book sold out in minutes at Vision/Verse 5 so here's a second chance to grab one. This time we printed a second color, along with the original beige. Follow the link below to order!

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Open Reading Period for Chapbooks!

We are currently reading poetry chapbook submissions. Please follow the following link to submit!

Submit to Yellow Flag Press

We hope to release several new chapbooks this year, and a few are already in the works.