Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing …
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In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman’s fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages …
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What began as countless daily texts from Brutus to make Stevo laugh at work soon evolved into their final collaborative venture. The pair’s original scheme, Stevo working at a fortune cookie factory swapping standard fortunes for Brutus’ quotes, failed when he was fired for refusing to wear a hair net. They quickly moved on to …
Some artists don’t or can’t tour. They don’t meet and greet. They are not on Ex or Insta or some sort of Abra app dopamine delivery. They work a few jobs maybe, or raise kids, and tend to that art thing in the late eves, between things. So the artist is not here, near or …
Patrick John Brayer was raised on an egg ranch in the steelmill town of Fontana, California. Think Hell’s Angels, think Sammy Hagar, think Shelton Brooks. Developing a unique style of writing early on as an answer to his inability to speak, he went on to receive an education in music from an array of dirt parking …
Fantastic eve a few days back when Dirty Opera screened the Dimitri Coat’s film Free LSD in Claremont, California. The sold out screening at The Laemmle 5 had a panel featuring the band, actors & crew members from the film. Here is a pic by Bamboo Dart Press author Stevo Lution (his forthcoming collaborative book …
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Eve the Inventor by Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a hybrid collection of poems, prose, and short fiction inspired by the Jewish story that God will not destroy the world as long as there are 36 good people, good souls in it. The characters in this collection aren’t secular saints, they are decent people, deeply decent, struggling against …
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Meg Pokrass’ third book for Bamboo Dart Press is out today and available at better independent bookstores, lesser big boxes and direct from us. Her unique voice and groundbreaking work in helping to define Flash Fiction has been seen and published in New England Review, Five Points, McSweeney’s, Passages North among others and have been …
Meg Pokrass’ third book for Bamboo Dart Press is out today and available at better independent bookstores, lesser big boxes and direct from us. Her unique voice and groundbreaking work in helping to define Flash Fiction has been seen and published in New England Review, Five Points, McSweeney’s, Passages North among others and have been …
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From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant. Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric in unexpected ways. In these tales, imagination is a welcomed guest. And it is clear that light and dark can, in easy union, inhabit …
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