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Michael Schuffler: Mascot Anastasia (prone as snowmen)

What does it mean to "use" words? How do we render words our accomplices as writers? Is that relationship consensual? What are words' own perspectives as living entities? In Mascot Anastasia (prone as snowmen), Michael Schuffler helps us to imagine what words might feel, enriching our relationship to language beyond what we can make words do on a page. A slim, 32 page pocket book, this starling collection asks us to reckon with our power to name(and)call. Fraught with intrigue and perplexity, it is a tiny but densely crafted work to be considered over time.

4.25 x 6.875". 32 pages.

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Mark Scroggins: obelisk absinthe

These six sections from Mark Scroggins' serial poem Zion Offramp were written between July 2023 and May 2024. They are bracketed by the two poems of Scroggins' earlier Bodily Press chapbook forage acanthus (2024), which contains sections 112 and 119.

6 x 9". 38 pages.

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Martha McCollough: I woke up for this

I Woke Up for This begins with a cycle of short poems meditating on the Angel of History, followed by poems embodying perspectives shifting from the internal: “once my body / carried me here and there / like a good horse” to the cosmic: “one day you realize / nature is merciless / and the gods are awful”. Through shifting, layered points of view, grim to hopeful to darkly hilarious, these poems consider solitude, black mold, bad paintings, and “the long catastrophe through which we somehow live”.

6 x 9". 58 pages.

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Jim Dunn: Angry Bull's Cadence

"Angry Bull’s Cadence is a tight volume of original poems crafted alphabetically, with surgical precision. ...A clever conceit that might initially seem simplistic, but Dunn goes the extra mile, weighing every word equally, and pulls it off with aplomb. Each poem consists of 26-word bursts arranged in a list. Rat-a-tat-tat. A thinker’s delight. These poems may prompt you to try a few of your own. A lively, colorful painting by Alex Stroup, in pitch perfect sync with the poems, completes the package by providing the wraparound book cover. Serious fun inside and out."

-Bing McGilvray

6 x 9". 44 pages.

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Heller Levinson: toward a reduced philanthropy

Cyclonic, upheavaling, remote yet close-at-hand, from Coltrane swirls, Monk-like clumps, Rothko stackings, Dolphy darts, ZAPs (zinging activation procedures), & MUPAEs (mutational update panel animation extenders), Heller Levinson's toward a reduced philanthropy is Language masquerading as poetry while defying the very category of poetry, of convention, classification, hierarchical grids, & stale conditionings.

7 x 10". 28 pages.

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Mary Gilliland: Red Tide at Sandy Bend

Barnacles sparkle, puffins glint, human practices result in fish-strewn beaches. Like blue-green algae on lakes and ponds, red tide is a naturally occurring phenomena. Nourished by human waste and warming waters, cyanobacteria multiply in harmful algal blooms (HABs) that release neurotoxins. In a whirl of games, addictions, concussions, swimming bans, Mary Gilliland's Red Tide at Sandy Bend posits a world of creaturely interdependence visceral and intimate.

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David Need: Broken Windows

"The poems in Broken Windows are from 1994-98. They look back to a spiritual emergency I’d had in my early 20s while living in the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. I’d had one of those Beatrice love encounters that seems to happen to some poets and that led me to a daily meditation practice (1-3) hours and eventually to pursue graduate work in Buddhist Studies. By the time these poems were written, I’d stopped identifying as a Buddhist and was searching for ways to tell other folks about who I was/what had happened to me. Many of these poems were written as 3-5 minute performance pieces; I’d introduce a poem with a story about one of the impossible things that had happened to me — the three miracles I’d seen, or a story from one of my hitchhiking trips across America. The language in the poems is simple because I was trying to talk about something that isn’t straightforward but matters."

—David Need

6 x 9". 66 pages.

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Eliot Cardinaux: A Species of This Invaded World

"There’s a doubled long-poem (think Nate Mackey’s Mu/Song of the Andoumboulou) sounding its way out over the flood plains of the Connecticut River outside Northampton MA. Over a series of volumes published in 2024-5, Eliot Cardinaux (who has one foot in jazz piano and the other kicking pine needles on a trail in Shutesbury) has been developing a numbered sequence of 3-4 stanza open form poems (often dedicated) alongside their Mile Marker suite. A Species of this Invaded World gives us XXVI-L of the first, and miles 72-100 of the second."

—David Need, author of Sweetbitter & Broken Windows

6 x 9". 126 pages.

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Uche Nduka: To Umber

"The act of writing is an invitation to inquiry, argument, communion. Poetry is woven into the very fabric of the sensuous, the emotional, the political. My work leans into wonder but goes beyond just beauty. I let the poem dance in the light and shadow of all kinds of truth and experience. For me, the keyword is justice. The poems in To Umber combat stoic indifference and silence. I believe that the work of a cosmic lover is never over. In me the poetry of revolt has found its writer."

-Uche Nduka

5.5 x 8.5". 164 pages.

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Scroggins à Deux (2 chapbooks by Mark Scroggins)

Includes 2 chapbooks by Mark Scroggins:

forage acanthus
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the poems in obelisk absinthe, six sections from Mark Scroggins' serial poem Zion Offramp, were written between July 2023 and May 2024. They are bracketed by the two poems of Scroggins' earlier Bodily Press chapbook forage acanthus (2024), which contains sections 112 and 119.

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2 Full-Lengths (2 Poetry Collections, one each by Uche Nduka & David Need)

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Eliot Cardinaux: Miles & Murmurations (4 books of doubled long song)

"There’s a doubled long-poem (think Nate Mackey’s Mu/Song of the Andoumboulou) sounding its way out over the flood plains of the Connecticut River outside Northampton MA. Over a series of volumes published in 2024-5, Eliot Cardinaux (who has one foot in jazz piano and the other kicking pine needles on a trail in Shutesbury) has been developing a numbered sequence of 3-4 stanza open form poems (often dedicated) alongside their Mile Marker suite."

-David Need

This doubled long song now encapsulates over 150 poems: Miles 0-100 of "Rope of Sand," and I-L of "Murmurations" span four collections, interspersed with other work, dating from 2023-2025.

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The Ocean from Here to Here
Wandering Subject
Starlings
& A Species of This Invaded World

All 4 books are 6 x 9" / US Trade.

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