Drunk Monkeys Volume One Issue Two April 2016: Suddenly, We Are Flying

by Kai Coggin, Donald McCarthy, Charles Joseph

More literary goodness from your favorite inebriated simians. Featuring the debut of "Mr. Butterchips" by Alex Schumacher!

POETRY

"Nosferatu" by Charles Joseph
"Creature From the Black Lagoon" by Charles Joseph
"Skeletons of Former Selves" by Eric Mattson
"He Kills Butterflies" by Sarah Lilius
"OK Corral" by John Stupp
"True Story" by Scott Stoller
"Billet-doux" by Scott Stoller
"Sleeping in the Closet in the Storm" by Martina Reisz Newberry
"In the Event of a Decompression" by Gabrielle Sorge
"If You Fall in Love With a Writer" by Gabrielle Sorge

WRITER OF THE MONTH

Kai Coggin

“Presidential Tears”
“Meteor Shower/Meeting Her Shower”
“An Open Letter to My Arm Flaps”
“Mona Lisa, A Study”

FICTION

"The St. Thomas More Band Break Up" by David Garvey
"The Astronaut Theory" by Joseph Kasler
"Hell is a Place Full of Window Shoppers" by Olin Wish
"Lost Kittens at the Window" by Trev Hill
"The Squirrel" by John Teel
"Following Orders" by Scott Waldyn

FILM

Captain Canada's Movie Rodeo

POLITICS

"With Liberty and Justice For Partisanship in American Politics" by M.G. Poe
"Work Examining a Capitalist Myth" by Donald McCarthy

ESSAY

"Naming An Essay in Six Parts" by Naima Karczmar

MUSIC

"The Standard of Vulnerability in Tannhauser and Les Miserables" by Bill Cushing

ART

Mr. Butterchips a comic by Alex Schumacher

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 20, 2016

About the author

Kai Coggin (she/her) is the author of MINING FOR STARDUST (FlowerSong Press 2021), INCANDESCENT (Sibling Rivalry Press 2019), WINGSPAN (Golden Dragonfly Press 2016), and PERISCOPE HEART (Swimming with Elephants Publications 2014), as well as a spoken word album SILHOUETTE (2017). She is a queer woman of color who thinks Black Lives Matter, a teaching artist in poetry with the Arkansas Arts Council and Arkansas Learning Through the Arts, and the host of the longest running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country—Wednesday Night Poetry.

Recently awarded the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award and named “Best Poet in Arkansas” by the Arkansas Times, her fierce and powerful poetry has been nominated four times for The Pushcart Prize, as well as Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Best of the Net 2016, 2018, and 2021. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Cultural Weekly, SOLSTICE, Bellevue Literary Review, TAB, Entropy, SWWIM, Split This Rock, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Luna Luna, Blue Heron Review, Tupelo Press, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. Coggin is Associate Editor at The Rise Up Review. She lives with her wife and their two adorable dogs in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas.