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The Allen Ginsberg Project

The Mystery of the Inner Moonlight

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods | Matt Bell

"Drown yourself away, my wife sang, and despite my want to stay I found myself again outside the house, for against the fury of her song my horror held neither strength nor will nor strategy."
-- In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell  

Belle Journal Volume I

With a mantra that rises from the soul of a sometimes forgotten land and a tenacity instilled by those that came before, Belle Journal emerges as a home for the voices of “alternative” southern belles. Based in Baton Rouge, La., this new literary journal features prose, poetry and visual art from women all over the South.

Runaway Dish

Runaway Dish is a private, not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the creative culinary talents and resources that thrive in Southern Louisiana while raising funds for various local charities.

Runaway Dish Culinary Journal Vol. 2:




Runaway Dish Culinary Journal Vol. 1:






















Each themed dinner will spotlight a different chef and a different charity.

Puerto del Sol | Volume 48 | Number 1

Alongside the works of:

Matt Bell,
Steven Ramirez,
Robin Lee Jordan,
James O'Brien,
Brenda Rankin,
Lisa Estus,
Sonya Huber,
Julia Cohen,
Joelle Biele,
T Kira Madden,
Jennifer Buxton,
Max Somers,
Britt Melewski,
Matthew Wimberley,
Sheryl Luna,
Dani Sandal,
Eric Morris,
George David Clark,
Noah Eli Gordon,
Myronn Hardy,
Catherine Kasper,
David Romanda,
Nora Hickey,
Sally Wen Mao,
Megan M. Wong,
Kelsie Hahn,
Sessily Watt, and
Jeanine Deibel,

"Went The Bite" can be found in  Puerto del Sol  (Volume 48, Number 1).




Puerto del Sol  (Volume 48, Number 1) is now available for preorder .

Fight Song By Joshua Mohr

"Not many authors can shift from satire to sentiment so easily, but Mohr is a clever enough writer that he manages to pull this off...As the plot in Fight Song becomes increasingly surreal, it gets funnier, and the emotional veins it taps into grow more real and textured. The novel becomes a kind of parable, a story of man searching for redemption." —LA Times

Joshua Mohr is the author of the novels Termite Parade (a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection), Some Things that Meant the World to Me (one of O Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller), and Damascus, published in the fall of 2011 to much critical acclaim. Mohr teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

Fight Song is now available at Powell's Books .

Time And Language: An Interview With Gabriel Blackwell

It was such a pleasure to interview  Gabriel Blackwell . He is the author of Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2012), Critique of Pure Reason (Noemi, 2013), and Neverland, a chapbook with video/audio/illustrations. He is also the reviews editor of The Collagist and a contributor to Big Other .

Time And Language: An Interview With Gabriel Blackwell can be found at Carbon-Based Lifeform Blues .





For more about Gabriel Blackwell , please visit his website here .

Uncanny Valley Magazine 0002

Alongside the works of:

John Colburn,
Rachel B. Glaser,
Tyler Gobble,
J. A. Tyler, Rachel Yoder,
Kathleen Rooney and Elisa Gabbert,
A. D. Jameson,
René Georg Vasicek,
Michele Harris,
Justin Anderson,
and
Lindsay Hunter,

"Mud" and "Gone Went The Rabbit" can be found in   Uncanny Valley Magazine 0002 .



Uncanny Valley 0002 is now available for preorder  (includes a free copy of issue 0001).

Other Voices Querétaro

Workshops led by:

Gina Frangello
Stacy Bierlein
Rob Roberge
Pam Houston
Josip Novakovich .



For more information: Other Voices Querétaro .

Mark Maynard, On Reading

"Reading is the antidote to loneliness. Through the characters of prose, and via the persona of poetry, we come to understand ourselves. We know that our experiences -- whether sunk in dark thought and despair, or raised by moments of joy and promise -- are things that have been felt before, and will be felt again. Our unspoken thoughts and outward actions are mirrored, and often shown to us in a new light. Reading confirms our humanity."

{ Mark Maynard is the author of Grind and the Fiction Editor of the Meadow . Visit his website  here for more information.}