TRUCK
A tough old crawler
leaking prison ink -
full of blown apart babies’
dolls and muttering bricks.
Big Bruiser Dope Boy came on The Talking Book Podcast right before everyone was quarantined. It was fun and we talked about writing, publishing, readings, and Jingle All...
Welcome to 50 Barn Poems by Zac Smith, out now from the eternally badass CLASH BOOKS. 50 Barn Poems is an evocative yet accessible sketch of that old...
Laura Theobald grew up in the Florida Keys and lives in the South. Her first book of poetry is What My Hair Says About You. She has an MFA...
Asheville's own Brandon Amico recorded some poems from his new debut collection Disappearing, Inc. from GOLD WAKE PRESS. Thanks Brandon! "Brandon Amico's debut collection orbits a dark star that burns...
Written while working at a bookstore in lower Manhattan, TOM SAWYER is a book of poems about heartbreak, depression, family, role models and heroes, and growing up in America. If you buy...
Happy reading Friday! Please enjoy a reading of 2 poems from F. Douglas Brown's new book of poetry ICON, now available from Write Large Press. F. Douglas Brown, inspired...
SOME DOVES Mourning doves don’t cry because their names cry for them. When I see them at the window beyond my Corn Chex, I play my turntable. Usually a comedy album....
two new poems by Olivia Grayson for your viewing pleasure... Memories, Like The Crusty Surface Of My Mind The silly lies we told to defend our dignity, the Trinkets that meant...
Recently, some cool poets visited our city of Asheville, NC from Baltimore, Knoxville and Oakland. We convinced them to stop by the studio on their way out of town and record some work....
a heated house she walks in laughing room to room, a ghost of her own making. there are twelve empty tallboys there are twelve hollow tall men they are all existing off each other, your eyes...
Plum Eyes She had purple sunglasses. She said she liked them because she couldn’t eat plums; they made her sick. The glasses let her enjoy purple without a stomachache. Burned Shades of Orange I think you burned a cucumber-scented candle...
Talking Book is excited to announce the release of FOREST PRIMEVAL by Vievee Francis, read by the author herself. 'A Song On The Ridge' read by Vievee Francis (Excerpt...
from one wolf howl to another, aka luna lobos humming, a rippled moon imitates the pupil of her eye/cocooned it shines dance the dervish, the dainty, the devil spin like spun like unravel...
The colour of Estefania Cabello's death shroud “El tiempo es tan preciado...” Estefania Cabello The kite swerves in the sky's licorice cloak, tornado twists tundra. Vietnam is burning. Distances are becoming distant in...
A Ghost! I thought you were a ghost? Shit. I mean Shucks. Radiation therapy is the least popular therapy right next to reiki. The wind begins to tell me a song and I find this charming....
Sometimes
when I have my eyes closed
or my back turned
or I pretend I am sleeping
I cannot discern your voice
The following is the fourth and final installment of many kickass excerpts from Brian Alan Ellis’s new book A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar POEM...
