first published at https://www.i94bar.com/reviews/books/3126-disaffected-dan-denton-must-be-your-new-fave-author Disaffected? Dan Denton must be your new fave author The Dead and The Desperate By Dan Denton (Roadside Press) Way back in the New Wave/Post punk era, one of my only friends was a kid with a very similar name to mine. He was really into Depeche Mode and Tubeway Army, and he had a real …
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Jun 22
Alan Catlin reviews INNOCENT POSTCARDS by John Pietaro
first published at misfitmagazine.net John Pietaro, Innocent Postcards: poetry ciphers, verse, Roadside Press, distributed by Magical Jeep, also available on Amazon, 2024, 87 pages, $15 Moving back and forth throughout the Cold War years to the present, Pietaro’s unusual but affecting collection effectively renders a state of mind that was dominated by Cold War politics. I …
Jun 21
Alan Caltin reviews DISPOSABLE DARLINGS by Todd Cirillo
first published in misfitmagazine.net Todd Cirillo, Disposable Darlings, Roadside Press, distributed by Magical Jeep Distribution and available on Amazon, 2024, 84 pages, $15 Reading Cirillo put me in mind of working in the neighborhood bar and hanging out with the regulars. When I dedicate a book, as I often have, “to the regulars as they made life …
Jun 20
Alan Catlin reviews ALL IN A PRETTY LITTLE ROW by Dan Provost
first published in misfitmagazine.net Dan Provost, All in a Pretty Little Row, Roadside Press, Magical Jeep Distribution, available on Amazon, 196 pages, 2023, $15 All in a Pretty Little Row, collects ten of Provost’s chapbooks published over the past 20 years. Some of these are rarely seen, extremely limited editions, so this recent trend by prolific poets to …
Jun 09
“A Circle Amuses Itself”: A Review of Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet by R. M. Corbin
“… he clarified his intention, which was “beat” as beatific, as in “dark night of the soul,” or “cloud of unknowing,” the necessary beatness of darkness that proceeds opening up to light, egolessness, giving room for religious illumination.”—Allen Ginsberg In some ways, Gregory Corso represented a darkness within a darkness: a beat within the Beat. …
May 24
Susan Ward Mickelberry reviews: These Many Cold Winters of the Heart by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
Ryan Quinn Flanagan’s These Many Cold Winters of the Heart begins with an epigraph from Emily Dickinson “I am out with lanterns looking for myself,” a perfect depiction of this collection. You will be riveted from the opening poem, “I Grew Up in a Brewery Town,” where the Molson plant closes down but “people survived, they usually …
May 03
Roadside Press Unveils Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet, an Unprecedented Tribute
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Roadside Press Unveils Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet, an Unprecedented Tribute Release Date: June 20, 2024 Available via magicaljeep.com, Amazon, Ingram, and Major Online Book Retailers In the annals of American literature, the Beat Generation remains a luminous chapter, resonating with the harmonious blend of rebellion and creativity that defined an …
Apr 24
Excerpt from THE DEAD AND THE DESPERATE by Dan Denton
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1. I never intended to live in Ohio again in the first place. After my first divorce, and all the ensuing debacles; a rehab here, probation there, a dab or two of homelessness, or years of barely clinging to a roof over my head, and I found myself drunk and alone a lot, watching the …
Apr 21
2 poems from ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT IN JUKEBOX HELL by Alan Catlin
Parallel Lives Every city has one, a block God forgot, some unofficial war zone, demilitarized, but alive and active with all the usual suspects cops roust on periodic missions to clean up after some particularly rowdy disturbance, something so embarrassing, around election day, even the mayor is moved to act. After the votes have been …
Apr 20
Review by Alan Catlin: How to Play House by Heather Dorn
Heather Dorn, How to Play House, Roadside Press, 2023, 116 pages $15 “Heather Dorn is a real mom with real life issues. She’s more Journal of a Mad Housewife than Kate Middleton, though she’s not a stuck at home mom going crazy with her kids but a PhD in English Literature who teaches at the …
