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#THEACCOMPLICES: Our Forthcoming Spring 2020 Titles
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#THEACCOMPLICES: Our Forthcoming Spring 2020 Titles

by The Accomplices
written by The Accomplices

SPRING 2020:

be/trouble
by bridgette bianca

POETRY / AFRICAN-AMERICAN

This is the Los Angeles not shown on television and movies: the everyday minituatea of Black Angeleno life. If you’re lucky enough to be a part of it then you know this heritage was handed from one generation to the next.

bridgette bianca moves beyond witness and holds us accountable in the harsh-tender way we do when we love someone, but love ourselves more. White and institutional nonsense, beware. This collection is essential to understanding what it means to be alive in the United States of America in 2019.

–Sara Borjas, Heart Like a Window Mouth Like a Cliff

 

The Depression
by Mathias Svalina & Jon Pack

POETRY / SHORT FICTION / PHOTOGRAPHY

A dream-like collaboration of fables and photographs, and a surreal and shifting deep-dive into clinical depression, THE DEPRESSION absurdly expresses the mind and life as we both know it and don’t.

I went on a state-sponsored summer exchange trip to Germany when I was 16. I arrived in Munich with 49 other kids from all across the US and was picked up by my very excited host family, who screamed like they won the lottery when they saw me. I was then spirited to their home for lunch, a short walk in a fragrant wood, introductions to the giant family dog Oskar, dinner with the punk older sister and her staring boyfriend, then back home to unpack and crawl into bed. I hardly slept on the flight and had never felt so tired nor so discombobulated, being newly arrived among kind and strange strangers. The floor seemed to undulate, my bones felt like they were made of acid. Everything shone with brilliant unfamiliarity. I was alive in a different way–more fragile, unnerved, a sense of absurdity like a veil over my face… And that’s what this book feels like in me. Hugs.

–Sueyeun Juliette Lee, author of No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise

Joel Filipe
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#CopingWith: 13 Poems, Essays & Fiction That Will Break Your Bones

by CCM
written by CCM

These pieces need no introduction, except that they’ll rip your organs out.

1. Lauren Milici – “Two Poems” (Yes Poetry)
2. Alexis Groulx- “My Body Dysmorphia” (Luna Luna Magazine)
3. Sarah Jordan – “Our Father Dave” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
4. Nathan McClain – “Against Melancholy” (Tinderbox Poetry)
5. Nadia Alexis – “How to Be Friends With a Sex Worker” (Tinderbox Poetry)
6. Isabel Sobral Campos – “Three Poems” (Typo Magazine)
7. Maggie Queeney – “Love Wildered/Re-Wilding” (Typo Magazine)
8. Sean H. Doyle – “Hallucinatorium” (Storychord)
9. Juliet Escoria – “Five Poems” (Fanzine)
10. Isobel O’Hare – “Rhiannon” (Entropy)
11. Hannah Cohen – “Self-Portrait as Grendel” (Calamus Journal)
12. Sonya Vatomsky – “It’s Time for Goth Culture to Embrace the Gender Identities of All Its Members” (Slate)
13. Meredith Talusan – “Why Can’t My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid?” (VICE)

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere.

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#CopingWith: 13 Fiction Pieces You Need To Read

by CCM
written by CCM

This week, I rounded up some fiction you should read.

1. Ilana Masad – “Hamlet, Claudia, Zanzibar” (Volume 1 Brooklyn)
2. Michelle Lyn King – “Ghosts You Loved More” (Joyland)
3. Rion Amilcar Scott – “The Party” (Joyland)
4. Kamil Ahsan – “The Bare-Bones Facts” (Entropy)
5. Han Yujoo – “The Impossible Fairytale, excerpt” (Cosmonauts Avenue)
6. Henry Hoke – “Genevieve Exists” (Entropy)
7. Bud Smith – “Temporarily Here” (Digging Through the Fat)
8. Celeste Mohammed – “When a White Man Paints Black People” (The Rumpus)
9. Becky Mandelbaum – “Straw House” (The Rumpus)
10. Chavisa Woods – “A New Mohawk” (Lit Hub)
11. Nick Cave – “The Sick Bad Song” (Lit Hub)
12. Kerry Cullen – “Tell Me What to Do” (Luna Luna Magazine)
13. Justin Lawrence Daugherty – “This Is Conquest” (Joyland)

Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.