Poetry book by Andrea Horowitz
AUGUST 2025 - AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE HERE
"Rita Dove once said in an interview with The Paris Review: “bad confessional poetry exclaims ‘Ooh, look at all this blood!’ and good ‘make[s] me bleed as I’m reading.’” What would she say about Andi Horowitz’s poems, which, in this marvelous debut collection, does both? So many are about death and loss: of her mother, father, brother, and several cherished friends. They’re about hard, sticky subjects: terrorist attacks, wars, and the small, everyday tragedies of women and men living desperate lives. They’re about broken friendships and fickle love. Despite the blood on the page, though, the collection is anything but depressing. Andi’s contagious spunk, indignance, and hopeful impetuosity in the face of life’s often cruel vicissitudes shine through in her every image, her every fearless, language-loving line."
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- Whitney Fuller, formerly an assistant editor at The Oprah Magazine
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Andrea flourishes on splashing bumblebee and ballet slipper-like colors, dripping with emotion to the beat of adverbs and vers, which help her readers feel connected. Together they payve the way through life's puzzles, passions, and heartbreaks until they reach a unique side of the rainbow, where home-churned oreo ice cream is served as dinner.
Poetry chapbook by Carmen Cornue & Donna Morton
Spleen is a poetry collective of desire founded by two queer women.
Carmen Cornue (she/her) resides in San Francisco and her work is deeply indebted to French poetry, international arthouse films and classic American cinema. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Apricity Press and other publications. She holds positions as a poetry reader with the Los Angeles Review and judge with NYC Midnight.
Donna Morton (she/they) writes poetry inspired by filmic landscapes, morbid literary cues, and the lifestyles of meandering flâneur and cloistered nun. Morton’s poetry has been published in The Shoutflower and Fauxmoir Lit Mag, among others. Donna writes under several pen names and also wrote a Mad Lib horror story based on experiences in spooky, swampy Pennsylvania.
Both poets have been featured in Southword: New International Writing, Mad Gleam Press and on the podcast Beyond the Screams. Forbidden Flowers was a finalist in Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry International Chapbook Competition in 2021 and Host Publications 2022 Chapbook Prize.
Find Carmen and Donna reading their poetry on Instagram, @spleen1857.
Find out more about Carmen at carmencornue.com.
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Poetry e-chapbook by Robby Auld
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“I thought if I wanted to write I needed to risk,” says the speaker in the opening poem of Robby Auld’s chapbook, Belly. The poems that follow document the risks of coming and living out as queer and non-binary. The risks and the gifts. Community. Intimacy. These poems dive into “the belly the body” of memory, remembering, reflecting, remaking. Love, queer love, self-love, ever- evolving. Self-image and the poems as a space in which to embrace and reimagine gender and sex(uality). History, family, all we inherit and enact. The speakers of these poems reckon with the pasts in their presents, not forgetting but facing. The poems as paths forward. “I’m glad you survived,” the speakers say to their queer elders and, through these poems, themselves. And the reader. Reclaiming resilience as a radical act of queer surviving, or better: thriving.
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ROBBY AULD currently lives and writes in Waltham, MA. Their poems have appeared in Corporeal, Ghost City R eview, and the lickety~split, among others. Find them on Instagram @robbyauld.
