www.instagram.com/p/DbnDntCGx0... #SealeyChallenge 3/31 Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels pulls no punches. Another 🌟 from @bullcitypress.com
![Book sits on silver platter etched with little stars.
Cover art is Robert Henry’s painting “Bird & Man II.” Lower half depicts a ground-sitting human figure, bent forward over raised knees, painted in dark silhouette over a red swath of background (suggestive of a plateau?). Upper half depicts a large dark bird perched in profile, facing the same direction as the human, over a pink/beige swath of sky.
In contrasting & complementary colors to the paining & evenly distributed over it in slightly dancing, slightly different sized text:
THREE
SYLLABLES
DESCRIBING
ADDICTION
[smaller] poems
[big again] KATE
DANIELS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreigyxdgzgy2f6iq2uexxb5wnma5pjlcyg3j2n3hfuwy2oondczj6ym)
![Poem on p 36 of Daniels’s Three Syllables Describing Addiction reads
DRIED FLOWERS: VISION AT A
HALFWAY HOUSE
When the full-flowering blossoms of early spring
Are at their prime, slice them from their stems
While they are still pliable and gorgeous. Before
They murder themselves with their own dark beauty.
Then bind them up in loose bunches, and carry them
Inside to the dry heat of a dark back room where
Televisions run all day, and cigarettes burn
Unheeded in ashtrays. Outside, the unchosen blooms
Have overtaken the garden. They will go on dying
Naturally, and in their time. But here inside,
The chosen few are stored away, instructed to rest
For as long as it will take to achieve the dried-out state
That mimics life and keeps them breathing. Humming
Their tuneless tune: [ital.]Not using. Not using. Not using.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreib25f26fj5yedkeqbtdkjs36jvlqvohdbg3hsvmydc57ulmedlxnq)
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Bull City Press@bullcitypress.com · last mo.Today is pub day for Alison Lubar's AMERICAN KINTSUGI, a new microchap in the Inch series. Hooray!
Today is pub day for Alison Lubar's AMERICAN KINTSUGI, a new microchap in the Inch series. Hooray!
Over 650 manuscripts were submitted in our Chapbook Open Reading Period. We're hard at work reading-- and we're enjoying it so much!
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We're a North Carolina press. Nothing would make us happier than a Carolina Hurricanes win tonight! Also, we love how this much this Stormy logo looks like Barry the Bull.
We love Arielle, who rocked our reading series last year.
Black Lawrence Press@blacklawrence.bsky.social · 2mo agoMeet Arielle Hebert, author of Bottom Feeders! ✨ Bottom Feeders is out June 16th from Black Lawrence Press—we can't wait for you to read these poems. 💜
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It's never the wrong time to enjoy some Matthew Olzmann.
HAD@havehashad.com · 2mo agoGot a submission from someone who had Matthew Olzmann read this poem at their wedding. Probably one of my fave things we've published! "...We each need a partner posted on the roof, someone with a crossbow watching high cornfields for signs of movement." www.havehashad.com/hadposts/epi...
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New @luizagurley.bsky.social poems alert!!!
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett@luizagurley.bsky.social · 2mo agoBelatedly sharing this small folio of poems from LOSSLAND @blacklawrence.bsky.social published in @tupelopress.bsky.social Tupelo Quarterly. Grateful to get to share these now, and looking forward to the whole book being out in the spring! www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/luiza...