Karen Greenbaum-Maya’s new book on Bamboo Dart Press is out August 8th. Trailer premieres today.

The Beautiful Leaves by Karen Greenbaum-Maya consists of poems about the diagnosis, illness, and death of the author’s beloved husband, and her grief. In the short film above, Karen reads a passage that is one part robocall and one part remains, with both halves fused together for a stunning coda. The book is available for …

Sloppy Heads announce new CD/Cassette out August 18th

The new Sloppy Heads record is out next month. Check out the first video/single below as well as details about this wonderful second record of theirs. Wig on the wonderful Gary Panter cover art above. Preorder here. https://austintownhall.com/2023/07/11/sloppy-heads-announce-sometimes-just-one-second-lp/

Emily Fernandez “Pliny and Other Problems” book on Bamboo Dart Press is out today

Emily Fernandez’ “Pliny and Other Problems” new book is out today. Like messages in bottles washed ashore, the poems in Emily Fernandez’s Pliny and Other Problems feel miraculous. They movingly catalog moments of the speaker’s life as well as the forms of life on the edge of California—mixing vignettes from adolescence and young love to marriage …