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February 2017

Watch Lynn Melnick Read Her Poems from ‘A Shadow Map’
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Watch Lynn Melnick Read Her Poems from ‘A Shadow Map’

by CCM February 28, 2017
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Lynn Melnick is one of our contributors in “A Shadow Map,” which came out on February 22, 2017 from CCM. The essays and poems contained within this anthology are not only compelling but also harrowing stories of sexual assault. None of these pieces were easy to write–and were born out of traumatizing and terrible experiences. CCM believes in providing a safe space within the literary community where we can not only talk about painful experiences and issues but also necessary considering the current political climate.

Watch Lynn read her poems below. Don’t forget to read her full interview here.

Lynn Melnick is the author of Landscape with Sex and Violence (forthcoming, 2017) and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), both with YesYes Books, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015). She serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

 

 

 

joanna valenteJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (ELJ Publications, 2016), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

February 28, 2017
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NOW AVAILABLE: The Winter 2017 CCM Catalogue

by CCM February 22, 2017
written by CCM

“Choi recasts the familial legacy of war and displacement, but also of joy and triumph, into a private spiritual kingdom, where “even after the city is destroyed” he writes, “I will touch you on the surface of everything.” This is poetry as preservation, as an unrelinquished archive of ghosts, but mostly, it arrives, to our luck, as a testament of a self earned and re-earned, like how yellowness, caught in its own dizzying light, turns itself golden. This book is golden.”
—Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds

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“This book is so meticulous and so absorbing, I am in awe. It is declamation, reflection, proposal, documentation, blueprint. Gabrielle Civil is revealed as an artist perfectly poised to speak to how race, gender and sexuality enact embodied performativity. She writes and performs herself into history in ferociously intelligent and relentlessly personal ways. How the specificity of identity mixes with desire to confound, comfort or disrupt public space. As with so many things that I love, I want everyone to read this book.”
—Miguel Gutierrez, performance maker

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The essays and poems contained within this anthology are not only compelling but also harrowing stories of sexual assault. None of these pieces were easy to write–and were born out of traumatizing and terrible experiences. CCM believes in providing a safe space within the literary community where we can not only talk about painful experiences and issues but also necessary considering the current political climate.

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“‘Fuck understanding,’ Christopher Higgs writes in his yearlong project, “live in confusion.” For Higgs, the self is not so much a mystery as an opinionated porosity. Though purposely artless, Higgs offers some stunning passages, such as an extended rant about his probable deaths, which makes the ground of reality tremble. Simultaneously superficial and profound—like all worthwhile books—As I Stand Living is a highly-relatable manifesto against relatability.”
—Dodie Bellamy, author of When the Sick Rule the World and The TV Sutras

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“Living in San Francisco, I’ve known of Lorenz’s work for years, and now the secret is out. Here’s an artist whose palette holds the colors beauty and brutality, squalor and tenderness. Lucky for us, he mixes them into literary combinations we’ve never known before. One Way Down (Or Another) might be the best debut I’ve ever read!”
–Joshua Mohr, author of Sirens

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“Rathore’s writing is exhilarating; funny, daring, and deeply, deeply moving. This collection is one of the best I’ve read all year; it’s a book of rare ambition and scale.”
–Keiran Goddard, author of For The Chorus

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February 22, 2017
Coping with Lynn Melnick, Contributor in ‘A Shadow Map’ & Author of ‘If I Should Say I Have Hope’
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Coping with Lynn Melnick, Contributor in ‘A Shadow Map’ & Author of ‘If I Should Say I Have Hope’

by CCM February 20, 2017
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Lynn Melnick is a contributor in our anthology “A Shadow Map,” which is due for release on February 22, 2017 (although it did be launch at AWP this year in DC). Lynn is also the author of the book “If I Should Say I Have Hope” published by YesYes Books in 2012. Of the book, the Matthea Harvey has said, “On the melancholy-go-round of these poems, there’s a swan-seat for sadness but also a tiger called Beauty and a horse called Hope.” Lynn’s second book is due out from YesYes Books, “Landscape with Sex and Violence” (forthcoming October 2017).

Describe your favorite meal.

My favorite meal is an Eastern European Jewish dish made with egg noodles, cottage cheese, and sour cream. (Sadly, I can’t eat dairy anymore so I can no longer eat my favorite meal!)

What music do often you write to, if at all?

I find music distracting when I write.

What are three books that you’ve always identified with?

Hmm. Identified with, as opposed to loved?? Ok. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch by Diane Wakoski, It Could Always Be Worse (a Yiddish folktale) by Margot Zemach and The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West

Choose one painting that describes who you are. What is it?
The Storm, 1893 by Edvard Munch

Choose a gif that encompasses mornings for you.

What do you imagine the apocalypse is like? How would you want to die?

I don’t. I want to die knowing my children are safe and happy.

If you could only watch three films for the rest of your life, what would they be?

All About Eve, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Mulholland Drive

How would you describe your social media persona/role?

Less shy than I am in life.

What’s your favorite animal and why?

Until I was well into adulthood, I thought seahorses were mythological and then one day I saw one.

What do you carry with you at all times?

Worry, doubt and tampons.


Lynn Melnick is the author of Landscape with Sex and Violence (forthcoming, 2017) and If I Should Say I Have Hope (2012), both with YesYes Books, and the co-editor of Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation (Viking, 2015). She serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

 

 

 

joanna valenteJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (ELJ Publications, 2016), & Xenos (2016, Agape Editions). She received her MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, as well as the managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM. Some of her writing has appeared in Prelude, The Atlas Review, The Feminist Wire, BUST, Pouch, and elsewhere. She also teaches workshops at Brooklyn Poets.

February 20, 2017
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Watch Wendy C. Ortiz Read an Excerpt from ‘Bruja’

by CCM February 6, 2017
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente


Wendy C. Ortiz’s dreamoir, “Bruja,” came out on October 31, 2016 from CCM. Of the book, Roxane Gay has said, “In Bruja, Wendy C. Ortiz deftly navigates the land of dreams in what she calls a dreamoir. By telling us her dreams, by revealing her most unguarded and vulnerable self, Ortiz is, truly, offering readers the most intimate parts of herself–how she loves, how she wants, how she lives, who she is. Bruja is not just a book–it is an enigma and a wonder and utterly entrancing.”

Watch Wendy read a clip below. Don’t forget to read her full interview here.


wendy c ortizWendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is the author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, 2014), Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015), and the forthcoming dreamoir Bruja (Civil Coping Mechanisms, Oct. 31, 2016).

Her work has been profiled or featured in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and the National Book Critics Circle Small Press Spotlight blog. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Hazlitt, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Nervous Breakdown, Fanzine, and a year-long series appeared at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

February 6, 2017
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