new year / new river

can't not pop up for the new year!!
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Xui Avila was born in Mexico and raised in Houston, Texas where he earned his B.A. in English from UH-D. In Houston, he worked for several outreach programs including Writers in the Schools, Voices Breaking Boundaries, and Talento Bilingue de Houston.  He was accepted into LSU’s Creative Writing Program in 2010 and earned his MFA in the Spring of 2013.  Much of his poetry consists of complicating and compounding the human anatomy, the desert terrain, with religious rite and iconography.  He is currently piecing together a chapbook version of his larger work des-milagros. 

Claire Dixon was born in England and grew up in Canada, an experience that tempered her general moodiness with excessive politeness and also gave her minor nerve damage in the form of three lightly frostbitten toes. When it's cold, her toes feel like they are floating loose in her socks like Lincoln logs. She has an MFA from LSU and recently won first place for poetry in the Words and Music/Faulkner Wisdom Writing Competition. She has embraced the cliche of being a writer with a library science degree and works in records management. In her spare time, she can be found overinstagramming trees, food and her two year old daughter.

Charles Garrett, has published no books; has no published collections for you to buy or pretend to care about. He has no stake in making you like him or his words, but you will undoubtedly love his voice. He does not do radio, nor does he sing. He loves cooking for his son, and learning the extremes of his own tolerance. He is not a "teaching artist" nor a professional one, but will gladly talk and share with anyone, willing to listen. He doesn't remember the names of most individuals he meets, so repeat your name to him if you care to be remembered. He believes poetry is in the way we bleed, not how much we do so. His poetry is meant to be read at the most inopportune times: in churches, gynecologist waiting rooms, unemployment lines, welfare lines, admissions and financial aid offices, as well as funerals. He knows that you will most likely remain lost after reading/hearing his work. This is by design. He is not here to walk the path for you, merely to light your way, as he tries to find his. Hold your glasses firmly and know that you are in the best place for poetry.

Muriel Leung is a multimedia poet and former teaching artist from Queens, NY. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Coconut, Ghost Proposal, TENDE RLOIN, Nepantla, Bone Bouquet, and others. She is a recipient of a Kundiman fellowship and is a regular contributor to The Blood-Jet Writing Hour poetry podcast. Currently, she is a MFA candidate in poetry at Louisiana State University where she also serves as the Assistant Editor of New Delta Review.

unlikely books LA release tour

2014  unlikely books launch at multiple regional ports / ashes & seeds and ship's itinerary:

11.4:crescent city books @ 6pm_nola
11.5: blood jet reading series @7pm_nola
11.6: healthcare gallery special triple book release 
         with Ben Lowenkron's Bone River Hymnal @ 7pm _br
11.8: la festival of words + artwalk/earthseed party_ grand coteau_lafayette
11.14: underpass reading series @ 7pm_br
11.15:prospect 3+ reading (chase bldg. suite 102) @ 5pm_br

Michelle Greenblatt is the Poetry and Music Editor for Unlikely Stories: Episode IV and previously served as Co-Editor of Poetry for the now-defunct AND PER SE AND. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she has been published in literary journals such as Poetry Magazine, Sugar Mule, Free Verse, Altered Scale, Sawbuck, Hamilton Stone Review, Moria, Shampoo, Coconut Poetry, BlazeVOX, X-stream, Counterexample Poetics, Word for/ Word, and Otoliths. Her first solo book, brain:storm, was published by Anabasis Press. More recently, she has focused on collaborative works, such as Ghazals with Sheila E. Murphy (Cricket Press, 2007) and Dark Hope with Vernon Frazer (Argotist E-Books, 2011). She lives in South Florida with her beloved, Kyle.

 

Benjamin S. Lowenkron's home is the river. Born and raised in Virginia by the Potomac, he moved beside the James and the York to attend the College of William and Mary, and now lives with the Mississippi in Louisiana where he received his MFA from LSU and currently teaches at Baton Rouge Community College.

Vincent Cellucci wrote An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011) and edited the exceptional poetry anthology Fuck Poems (Lavender Ink, 2012).  Come back river, his first chapbook, a bilingual Bengali-English translation collaboration with the poet and artist Debangana Banerjee is recently available from Finishing Line Press.  A Ship on the Line, a battleship-collaboration with poet Christopher Shipman is also recently released from Unlikely Books.

 

Christopher Shipman is the author of Human-Carrying Flight Technology (BlazeVOX, 2012), I Carved Your Name (Imaginary Friend Press, 2012), a chapbook co-authored with DeWitt Brinson, Super Poems (Kattywompus Press, 2012), and the collaborative poetry and art book with paintings by Benjamin Cockfield, Romeo's Ugly Nose (Allography Press, 2012). Christopher's forthcoming books include a chapbook of short prose pieces The Movie My Murderer Makes (The Cupboard, 2014), and a new full-length collection Cat Poems: Wompus Tales and a Play of Despair (forthcoming from Kattywompus Press).

new collab release: _ a ship on the line

 

Unlikely Books is thrilled to present the new book of collaborative poetry
by Vincent A. Cellucci & Christopher Shipman

_a ship on the line is available from Amazon. Buy it now!

_ a ship on the line trailer

This video is promotional material for the collaborative book of poems _A Ship on the Line by Vincent A. Cellucci and Christopher Shipman to be released from Unlikely Books at the Brooklyn Book Festival, September 21, 2014.