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Songs from a Shipping Container

Here’re three songs

live

from a shipping container

In the Mower’s Wake anthologized in Made of Rust and Glass

My creative nonfiction piece about a robot lawn mower in a cemetery was anthologized in Made of Rust and Glass, the second anthology from Toledo’s Of Rust and Glass. Big thanks to editors Curtis A. Deeter, Leah McNaughton Lederman, and Jonie McIntire. You can buy the paperback or ebook here.

Celebratory reading and open mic on Zoom on 10/24/22 at 7PM EST.

Shipwrecked on Liminal Island

I’ve got a new poem in the October Issue of Drunk Monkeys. It’s called Shipwrecked on Liminal Island.

Read the poem here.

Read the full issue here.

Shipwrecked on Liminal Island will be included in my Gutter Snob Books chapbook Songs for Leaving, which will be out in November. You can preorder that here.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Songs for Leaving Cover Reveal

Later this year Gutter Snob Books will publish a new collection of my poems called Songs for Leaving. These songs/poems helped guide me through a difficult period in my life. There are songs for life. Songs for learning. &, later, songs for leaving.

Beautiful cover by the boss behind the wheel of a Magical Jeep: Michele ‘One L’ McDannold, who you should be reading and following.

Preorder here.

Publication date to be announced.

Special audio production of Songs for Leaving is in the works.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

SWAY Out Now

Happy Friday, y’all.

Today is publication day for SWAY, a limited edition collection of haiku from Michael D. Grover and myself. The book contains 100 poems: 50 from Grover, 50 from me. Only 30 copies are being printed. 5″x 8″ | 42 pgs | $7.99

These poems were written in and about rural places. You can hear the sway of brittle branches in the desert breeze. Morning mist blankets your face in the crisp Fall Kentucky morning. Watch the Floridian birds flit and dance. The moon smiling down its pale luminescence. It’s all there. And more.

“In this new American haiku collection from Laughing Ronin Press, SWAY, tercets are as uncoached as raindrops falling on parched earth. Birds wing away, trees sway in the sky, jets vapor trail like comets. Both A.S. Coomer and Michael D. Grover, are dueling tercet counters of syllables. Coomer sketches and hears the heartbeat of the rural West and heartland, while Grover touches on what flies and comes to him in his Florida backyard. You’ll be easily swayed to read these American shorts.

—Paul Cordeiro, moderator of Zen Poetry group on Facebook, author of Bare Earth, Wild Violets, archived at the Haiku Foundation Digital Library.

I have two copies of SWAY for sale. $11 includes the signed paperback and shipping.

SWAY

$11 gets you a signed (by A.S. Coomer) paperback copy of SWAY, a collection of haiku from A.S. Coomer & Michael D. Grover. I only have two copies of this very limited edition collection for sale. Just two. There are only 30 copies of SWAY in total. Get yours today.

$11.00

Click here to purchase.

You can also order SWAY directly from Laughing Ronin Press here. You can also buy a signed copy from Michael Grover here.

Big thanks to publisher Joseph Fulkerson.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Gundrunk Blues for Uvalde

I hope this Sunday finds you well and surrounded by your loved ones.

Senseless death weighs heavily on our shoulders. There have already been over 200 mass shootings this year in the US. Over 200. Not even half a year in and so many lives lost.

I wrote a poem following the horrific massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The poem was published early today in Issue #33 of Topical Poetry. You can read it here.

Keep your loved ones close & tell them you love them.

-A.S. Coomer

LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT – Live at the Rack

Happy Friday, y’all.

The morning after our Toledo release party for LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT, Todd Elson & I got to sling all four songs from our EP for the good dudes at Bikes Rack Records.

Watch the vidyuh on the Youtubes.

Big thanks to Mark & Mike for all their hard work. Always a joy to spend some time with those guys. Much love

-A.S. Coomer

LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT

Hope this Wednesday finds you well. I’m writing to let you know Todd Elson and I made a four-song EP called LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT. It’s out for streaming/downloading now.

Late last winter Todd came down to Philpot, Kentucky from Bowling Green, Ohio. We set up some microphones in my office and hit record. We did all the recording ourselves: singing harmonies (we got Rachel Coomer involved), laying down guitar solos on resonator and electric guitars, recording hand claps and other percussion sounds, etc. We had a great time making this record. It was mixed and mastered by Travis Geiman of Bigfoot Studios.

You can stream/download LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT on Spotify, Bandcamp, Amazon, Amazon Music, Apple Music/iTunes, YouTube, HyperFollow, & several other platforms.

We had an excellent release show/party at the Switchboard in Toledo, Ohio last week to celebrate. We’re having another EP release show on 5/28/22 at Flywheel Brewing in Elizabethtown, KY. There will be living music from my brother Ethan Coomer, Todd Elson, and myself. There might even be a musical surprise.

We have a limited run of LATE NIGHTS IN PHILPOT CDs available. We’re selling them for $5 in-person and $7 online, which includes shipping in the continental US.

Thanks for listening. Nod yer heads.

-A.S. Coomer

Photos by A.S. Coomer, Edits and Layout by Michelle Elson of Twin Owls

In the Mower’s Wake in Of Rust & Glass

The Spring Issue of Of Rust & Glass is out. It’s full of amazing writing and art from creatives from all over the place. I’ve got a little piece of creative nonfiction in it called In the Mower’s Wake.

You can read it here.

You can purchase the print edition of the journal here.

Make sure to check out all the great lit this journal has to offer. One of my favorites is Kerry Trautman’s Sentimental Poem.

All the best,

A.S. Coomer

Featured Poetry Reading at THAT FUCKING POETRY READING

Happy Poetry Month, y’all!

I performed a set of old and new poems at March’s THAT FUCKING POETRY READING. I read poems from my collection FLIRTING WITH DISASTER & OTHER POEMS, as well as newer, as of yet unpublished poems, several of which will be included in my Gutter Snob Books chapbook SONGS FOR LEAVING, due out this holiday season. Underground legend Michael D. Grover hosted the reading.

Featured alongside me were the amazingly talented Aleathia Drehmer and Catfish McDaris, both of which have new books out on Gutter Snob Books you should get.

After the features was a killer one-poem open mic with poems from Michele McDannold, Dan Denton, Trina Stolec, Jonathan S. Baker, Michael Grover, Donna Snyder, Craig Firsdon, & others.

Watch the full reading here: https://www.facebook.com/100002151556628/videos/1056684435193625/

All the best,

A.S. Coomer