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Flirting with Disaster & Other Poems Out Now

Surprise!
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Those dharma bums over at Alien Buddha Press and I are proud to announce the publication of  Flirting with Disaster & Other Poems , my first full-length collection of poetry.
[image error] Death is hanging over me, mixed media on paper, 29.5 x 52 cm, 2013 by Marcel Herms
Flirting with Disaster & Other Poems is available as an 86-page perfectly-bound paperback for $8.88.

Thanks to the following literary communities for publishing versions of some of these poems: Thirteen Myna Birds; The Song Is…; Degenerate Literature; RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread; FIVE Poetry Magazine; Better Than Starbucks Poetry Magazine; The Broadkill Review; Visual Verse; Sinkhole Magazine; In Between Hangovers; Curate; Red Bird Chapbooks; Red Fez; The Rush; Foliate Oak Literary Magazine; Rat’s Ass Review; Meow Meow Pow Pow; Full Of Crow; Taxicab Magazine; Blotterature; The Drabble; Children, Churches, & Daddies Magazine; One Sentence Poems; Street Light Press; Triggerfish Critical Review; 2016 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology; Ghost City Review; The Poets Without Limits; Moonglasses Review; & Maladjusted LTD.

I had fun working with Red Focks & Jay Miner to get this thing out. Thanks Alien Buddha!

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If you’re looking for a signed copy of Flirting with Disaster, come see me at a show or drop me a line.

Thanks for reading!

-A.S. Coomer

New Song: September

Morning,

Hope ye slept well.

September done come & gone. I wrote a song. Got my wife to sing on it. Recorded it all in a little blue room in Philpot, Kentucky.

-A.S. Coomer

September
September done come & gone

I’m staring at the face of a cold, grey dawn

Your legs shake like my hands & lips

Eyes glazed with the stinging mistHold back your anger; step on your fear

Dance sweet & soft, just like that, my dear

For the night is a fickle thing: it either does or it don’t

Let’s spend the rest of it with a beautiful joint

Virginia done up & left

An empty space in a bed unkept

Can’t hold down the coffee, keep back the tears

Cue up the montage, bind your blinds

Here’s to your Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Years

The slow, slanted snow knows I’m about to go

Singing “mood indigo” under your pale moon’s glow

When winter’s bitter bite cuts like the edge of a rusted knife

You can cleave the days from the last of my nights

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Is This Living?

By A.S. Coomer

I noticed my typo

product

instead of

produce

& wondered if

I only think in terms

of the finished thing

leaving the living

to be constructed

by tomorrow’s steadier hands.

        

A.S. Coomer is a writer, musician, and taco fanatic. Novels include Rush’s Deal, The Fetishists, Shining the Light, & The Devil’s Gospel. He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a “record label” for poetry. He co-edits Cocklebur Press.

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“Is This Living?” Out Now in The Drabble

Morning,

I hope each of your wings strengthened this weekend. I hope your hair thickened and shone back the soft glow of the midnight moon. I hope your bad leg had a good few days, allowing you to take that much needed ramble and howl howl howl at the glassy-eyed stars.

I hope you fully actualized your potential this weekend. I don’t think I did, but I had a time making a go of it.

The good folks over at The Drabble published a newer poem of mine this morning. It’s called “Is This Living?” It’s short. In fact, I wrote it in the margins of the second or third draft of a new novel I was editing a few weeks back.

Here it is.

-A.S. Coomer

“Hollow Rings” Out Now in Better Than Starbucks Poetry Magazine

Morning,

Hope everybody had a spooky Halloween.

I’ve got a new poem, Hollow Rings, out today in Better Than Starbucks Poetry Magazine. I was lucky enough to have my poem chosen as the Editor’s Choice for Free Verse Poetry! Thanks to Vera Ignatowitsch & Anthony Watkins!

You can read the poem online here or order a copy of the print edition here.

Go eat all that leftover candy.

-A.S. Coomer

Three Poems to be Anthologized in This Is Poetry Volume IV: Poets of the South

Morning, y’all,

Hope you slept well or stayed up all night into the early morn having the time of your life.

Either way, three of my poems, Flirting with Disaster, I Wrote This Sober, & Maybe the Burning Bush, are going to be anthologized in This Is Poetry Volume IV: Poets of the South. Release date: TBA.

Flirting with Disaster was originally published by Juliet Cook in Thirteen Myna Birds. It was republished by Marianne Szlyk in The Song Is….

I Wrote This Sober was originally published as a digital broadside by Meow Meow Pow Pow by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella.

Maybe the Burning Bush was originally published by Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.

Michele McDannold—who is amazing, seriously—is editing the book. She runs The Literary Underground. She also writes great poetry (see: Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days & Point of Departure) and reads it all across the country.

Go on and get about your day, y’all.

-A.S. Coomer

“Passive (Aggression)” Out Now in One Sentence Poems

Short attention span?

Busy Sunday?

Love poetry?

The good people at One Sentence Poems have got you covered.

They published my short poem, Passive (Aggression), today.

Give it a read here.

Thanks to editors Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Dale Wisely, & Tony Press.

-A.S. Coomer

Dessert

Who saved room for Dessert?

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Two new songs from A.S. Coomer

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Written, Recorded, & Performed by A.S. Coomer in Philpot, KY

August 2018

2 for $20 Deal

It’s nearing the end of August, y’all!

There’s still time to get in a summer book or two.

To help y’all stay cool out there, I’m having a novel sale: one copy of The Fetishists & one copy of Shining the Light for a mere $20*, (shipping included). I’ll even slap my signature on it, if ya want.

1 paperback copy of The Fetishists & 1 paperback copy of Shining the Light

2 for $20 deal: 1 signed paperback of The Fetishists & 1 signed paperback of Shining the Light. Price includes shipping. While supplies last.

$20.00

 

Spread the word, y’all!

-A.S. Coomer

P.S. My birthday is coming up. All I want is for you to read my books. Oh, and a Corvette. Definitely a Corvette.

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*while supplies last

Quintessential Listening: Poetry

I had the pleasure of being on Dr. Michael Anthony Ingram’s BlogTalk Radio show Quintessential Listening: Poetry yesterday evening. We talked poems and empathy. Dr. Ingram was even kind enough to let me read a whole slew of my poems.

Give it a listen here.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ql_p/2018/08/28/quintessential-listening-poetry–as-coomer