kingsoftrain

publications, readings, etc.

eating the animal back to life
10.00
315 pages
published July 2015
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/eating-the-animal-back-to-life/paperback/product-22277755.html

reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5eL2HQQr2c

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the boy who touched all the eggs
11.00
258 pages
published June 2017
-this is a combined publication of three previous works (surprise for me a crow / name calling / paw five) as well as some newer poems
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/the-boy-who-touched-all-the-eggs/paperback/product-23224033.html

reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sapnBxOjtU

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L A I T Y
8.00
116 pages
published August 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/l-a-i-t-y/paperback/product-23291654.html

reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oald2N2NvNM

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everything I touch remembers being my hand
9.00
172 pages
published November 2017
http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/everything-i-touch-remembers-being-my-hand/paperback/product-23423003.html

reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV3jEfKFDfg

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mood piece for baby blur, 60 poems, privately published June 2018

available to anyone donating 5.00 or more to {isacoustic*}

donation can be made, here:
https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock
or it can be sent to (bartsmock@gmail.com)

reading from the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5oShcu6eHA&feature=youtu.be

one can check out {isacoustic*}…

UPDATE

A brief change to submission guidelines, here:

https://isacoustic.com/about/

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DIRECTION

in Ohio poetry news, something you should know is that poet Ruth Awad just won the 2018 Ohioana Book Award (poetry) for Set to Music a Wildfire

I had some words for it, here, and still mean them:

https://isacoustic.com/2017/11/14/review-set-to-music-a-wildfire-poems-ruth-awad/

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RECENT

CONTRIBUTORS, volume fifth (to print late August, early September 2018):

Amy Soricelli
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-amy-soricelli-one-poem/

Kristin Garth
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-kristin-garth-one-poem/

Kat Giordano
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/person-kat-giordano-three-poems/

Nadia Wolnisty
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/10/person-nadia-wolnisty-three-poems/

Rebecca Kokitus
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/10/person-rebecca-kokitus-one-poem/

Cathryn Shea
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/11/person-cathryn-shea-one-poem/

James Diaz
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/12/person-james-diaz-one-poem/

Alicia Cole
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/12/person-alicia-cole-two-poems/

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On Heather Minette’s HALF LIGHT

review by George Salis:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/20/a-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light-by-george-salis/

review by Sara Moore Wagner:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/18/sara-moore-wagners-review-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

review by Crystal Stone:
https://isacoustic.com/2018/07/09/a-review-by-crystal-stone-of-heather-minettes-half-light/

Half Light release announcement ;
https://isacoustic.com/2018/06/15/heather-minettes-half-light-release-announcement/

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INFO, SUPPORT

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*for donations of 5.00 or…

James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (2018) and founding Editor of the Literary Arts & Music mag Anti-Heroin Chic. His work can be found in Occulum, Bone & Ink Press, Moonchild Magazine and Philosophical Idiot. He lives in upstate New York.

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Oh Friend,

I am a banshee wailer
I am small details
the rain makes blurs of
each important little word
I meant to say
but instead
I am the silent type
sits in his suffering for days
and days

I want to wipe your slate clean
with my dirty hands
but what good am I at brand new starts
days linger on
and each beat
is faster than you’d expect
a heart to be
tearing its weird sister fingers
into your hollow neck line
the gas trace of stars
collecting in our bones

I make a soup of loss
and spoon feed…

Cathryn Shea is the author of three poetry chapbooks, most recently “It’s Raining Lullabies” (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and the micro chapbook “My Heart is a Salt Mirror Like Salar de Uyuni” (Rinky Dink Press, 2018). Her poetry has been nominated for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net 2017 and recently appears in Tar River Poetry, Gargoyle, Permafrost, Rust + Moth, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. She resides in Fairfax, California. See http://www.cathrynshea.com and @cathy_shea on Twitter.

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Surrounded at Pyramid Lake

Ghost horse mad-galloping in greasewood,
Eugene Angel’s soul escapes a petrified pillar of salt,
ascends the eroded cliffs above the Truckee.
Painted Paiute kicked his bones off their sacred tufa.

This is where sun-poisoned miners
drunk on whiskey and lack of sleep
raped two Paiute girls
igniting the Battle of Pyramid Lake.

A century after hordes of Comstock miners died out,
here come tech people on their way
to Burning…