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I.

Glass Poetry is having a bundle sale on its chapbooks from its first three years.

a portion of all sales through the Glass store, from June 2019 through September 2019, will be donated to @RAICESTEXAS, in support of their mission to help separated families, detained families, unaccompanied minors, and others who are seeking asylum in the United States.

http://www.glass-poetry.com/store.html

know, that Glass Poetry puts out wonderful chapbooks and you should take their word as opposed to mine, but I have had words for some of them:

How to Cook a Ghost, Logan February:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/28/how-to-cook-a-ghost-poems-logan-february/

The Unbnd Verses, Kwame Opoku-Duku:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/11/05/the-unbnd-verses-poems-kwame-opoku-duku/

As If, Anna Meister:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/09/17/as-if-poems-anna-meister/

What Is Not Beautiful, Adeeba Shahid Talukder:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/21/what-is-not-beautiful-poems-adeeba-shahid-talukder/

Bad Anatomy, Hannah Cohen:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/05/25/bad-anatomy-poems-hannah-cohen/

ghost exhibit, Melissa Atkinson Mercer:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/04/17/ghost-exhibit-poems-melissa-atkinson-mercer/

also, Anthony Frame, editor of Glass, has a wonderful collection, Where Wind Meets Wing, here:

https://siblingrivalrypress.bigcartel.com/product/where-wind-meets-wing-by-anthony-frame

also of which I tried to say:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/08/where-wind-meets-wing-poems-anthony-frame/

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II.

some recent reflections:

on Eve and All the Wrong Men, by Aviya Kushner:
http://www.drunkmonkeys.us/2017-posts/2018/06/01/100-word-reviews-eve-and-all-the-wrong-men-by-aviya-kushner

on Kill Class, by Nomi Stone:
http://isacoustic.com/2019/06/11/kill-class-poems-nomi-stone/

on As One Fire Consumes Another, by John Sibley Williams:
http://isacoustic.com/2019/06/09/as-one-fire-consumes-another-poems-john-sibley-williams/

on Emily As Sometimes The Forest Wants The Fire, by Darren C Demaree:
http://isacoustic.com/2019/06/05/emily-as-sometimes-the-forest-wants-the-fire-poems-darren-c-demaree/

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III.

have some private (self) publications available below. am going to be doing this, more, rather than visibly self-publishing. I take up a certain amount of space. as such:

Animal Masks On the Floor of the Ocean, 114 pages, 10.00
poems, June 2019
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)

MOTHERLINGS, 52 pages, 4.00
poems, June 2019
can be purchased via paypal (bartsmock@gmail.com)