New From the Porch:

Tavern Keeper Blues by Marc Pietrzykowski 77 pps, $11 US ISBN: 978-1-948920-35-3 Poems! Written to help stay alive, and in hopes that others might find them and get a little joy as well. Or sadness. Anything but indifference, we’ve plenty enough of that already. Poems about running a bar in Western NY, about the passing

Revisiting the Porch

The Taste of Red-Orange by Guinotte Wise 130 pps, $13 US ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-33-9 From the author: “The Taste of Red-Orange” is my latest (5th) book of poetry, eighth book overall, and it was released January 2024. I designed the cover and back for this one, shot the art, and Sara Pence provided the finished art

New From the Porch: 3 Books

by Marc Pietrzykowski Just Keep On Doing What You’re Doing: Poems 89pps, $15 US ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948920255ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948920254 Maybe I’ll Get it Right This Time: Poems  91pps, $15 US ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948920263ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948920261 The House Across The Way: A Novel 375pps, $15 ISBN-10 ‏ :

New From the Porch: She Calls Me Cinnamon

She Calls Me Cinnamon by Lane Chasek 133pps, $10 US ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-30-8ISBN-10: 1-948920-30-1 “I assume my human body, my human self, is dead. I say this because it doesn’t make sense for a human me and a puppy me to exist simultaneously.” “She Calls Me Cinnamon is more than a shaggy dog story. Original and

New Book From the Porch — Something To Be: Poems On The Workday

Something To Be: Poems On The Workday by Mark J. Mitchell 127pps, $10 US ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-29-2ISBN-10: 1-948920-29-8 Eclogues for the hypermodern work-a-day round, Mark J. Mitchell swims through city streets gathering sensations and folding them into bread, or roses, or most often, both: A MINOR GODDESS, BEFORE WORK The fog’s back, licking the city. Low

New Book from the Porch: Pages of a Broken Diary

Pages of a Broken Diary by Toti O’Brien 181pps, $13 US ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-28-5 ISBN-10: 1-948920-28-X Memoir seen through a window, down a hall, through the wall of a small apartment with a view of the inner courtyard. O’Brien’s work is strange in the best way, and we should always invite strangers in, they have the

New From the Porch: Still Life With City

Still Life With City by Marc Di Martino 97pps, $10 US ISBN-13: 978-1-948920-23-0 ISBN-10: 1-948920-23-9 Still Life with City, Marc Alan Di Martino’s second collection, features poems about the Velvet Underground playing live in 1969, CBGBs in the heyday of the late 1970s, working in famous – and infamous – New York City bookshops, the

New from the Porch: The Museum of Heartache

The Museum of Heartache by Paul Luikart 165 pages ISBN-10 : ‎ 1948920271 ISBN-13 ‏: ‎ 978-1948920278 $15 Like fireworks seen from a distance, Paul Luikart’s stories burst across the page and leave their imprint on your eye, while revealing details of the landscape beneath. “Paul Luikart earns his spot on the shortlist of writers

Now Available: Unexpected Mergers

Unexpected Mergers by Jordan Trethewey and Marcel Herms $20 US 97 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1948920247 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1948920247 Another brilliant collaboration between poet Jordan Trethewey, poet laureate of Fredricton NB, and painter Marcel Herms, Unexpected Mergers is a haunting, and often hilarious, conversation. An emblem book for the 21st century. Jordan Trethewey gets it