Rick Harsch, rest in peace

Author and publisher Rick Harsch passed on. At present, I do not have details other than that he had pneumonia but seemed to be doing well, all things considered, as he continued to recover from a stroke and various complications from the initial medical event. The books I most associate with him are The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas, America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic, and Robert Arlt's The Seven Madmen and The Flamethrowers, although Rick wrote or published many more than that. Rick Harsch, rest in peace.

a white child crying like that

"My father / fit a slim, ragged hand over the head of my newborn son / and said he sounds like a white child crying like that."

 ~~ from "Snow for Wallace Stevens" in Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

Wallace Stevens

"This song is for my foe, / the clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron / of Hartford, the emperor of whiteness / blue as a body made of snow."

~~ from "Snow for Wallace Stevens" in Lighthead by Terrance Hayes

Z.H. Gill's "Ladies' Night" Success

Last Wednesday evening's Zoom reading was entertaining, engaging, and extremely well attended. Readers included Lilly Merrill, Kelly Erin Gray, Alexandra Naughton, Ursula Carroll, C. Hightower, Kristin Lueke, and Carly Zoldaz.

The Poems of Jay Roberts

Grab a copy to go!

e-singles

Frade Killed Ellen, Turquoise Truck, and The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity are longer short stories available as stand-alone e-books at Amazon, Apple, Smashwords, and other locations. Because they're "sold separately" and appear as electronic books, I italicized these titles, but because they're short stories and not novels or even novellas, we could argue quotation marks are more appropriate for these titles.