Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Alex Stolis’s poetry collection, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife.

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From Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife

 August 3 - Edmundston, N.B. Canada

Disregard my last letter. If you have not yet received it 
bury it away when you do. I’ve tried to stop loving you. 
It’s an impossibletask. Miles and time sharpens 

every memory. You would no longer recognize the land 
but thesky is thesame. Ilook up at your moon and your 
stars. Imagine a blanket of quiet descends on us. I close

my eyes, can almost hear nothing. I’m an experiment in 
exile. Wedon’t ever really lie. We believe and then find 
out later wewerewrong. 

About Our Author

 Alex Stolis lives in Minneapolis; he has had poems published in numerous journals. His full length collection, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower was runner up for the Moon City Poetry Prize in 2017. Two full length collections Pop. 1280 and John Berryman Died Here were released by Cyberwit and available on Amazon. 

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Beth Gordonl’s poetry collection, Crone.

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From Crone

About Our Author

Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in
Asheville, NC. She is the author of several books including The Water Cycle
(Variant Literature) and How to Keep Things Alive (Split Rock Press). Beth
is Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Assistant Editor
of Animal Heart Press, and Grandma of Femme Salve Books. Twitter,
Bluesky, and Instagram @bethgordonpoet.

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Ray Ball’s poetry collection, Trinities.

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From Trinities

About Our Author

 Originally from Oklahoma, Ray Ball currently lives on
the land of the Dena’ina, where she works as a Professor of
European and World History at the University of Alaska
Anchorage. She is the author of two history books and
two chapbooks of poetry. Her poetry and fiction have
appeared in numerous literary journals, including Black
Fork Review, Free State Review, Glass , and Waccamaw . Ray
has received multiple nominations for Pushcart and been
a Best of the Net finalist. She is senior editor at Coffin Bell
and assistant editor at Juke Joint . Ray also serves on the
board of directors of the Alaska Humanities Forum.

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Vivian Shipley’s poetry collection, Hindsight: 2020.

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From Hindsight: 2020

About Our Author

Connecticut State University Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Vivian Shipley was awarded a 2020-21 CT Office of the Arts Poetry
Fellowship, won the 2020-21 Poet Hunt from The MacGuffin
and was the Artist’s Choice for Rattle’s October 2020 Ekphrastic
Challenge. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, her 12th book, An
Archaeology of Days (Negative Capability Press, 2019) was
named the 2020-21 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist and the 2020
Housatonic Book Prize for Poetry Finalist. The Poet (Louisiana
Literature Press, SLU) and Perennial (Negative Capability Press)
were published in 2015. All of Your Messages Have Been Erased,
(Louisiana Literature Press, SLU, 2010) won the 2011 Paterson
Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, NEPC’s Sheila Motton
Book Award , and CT Press Club’s Prize for Best Creative Writing.
Her sixth chapbook is Greatest Hits: 1974-2010 (Pudding House
Press, Youngstown, Ohio, 2010). She has received the Library of
Congress’s Connecticut Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to
the Literary Community and a Connecticut Book Award for Poetry
two times. She won the 2018-19 Steve Kowit Prize for Poetry from
San Diego Arts & Entertainment Guild and the Hackney Literary
Award for Poetry. Other poetry awards for individual poems include
the Lucille Medwick Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the
Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Prize, the Ann Stanford Poetry
Prize from the University of Southern California, the Marble
Faun Poetry Prize from the William Faulkner Society, the Daniel
Varoujan Prize from the New England Poetry Club and the Hart
Crane Prize from Kent State. Raised in Kentucky, a member of the
University of Kentucky Hall of Distinguished Alumni, the highest
award the university can bestow on an alumnus, she has a PhD
from Vanderbilt University and lives in North Haven, Connecticut
with her husband, Ed Harris.

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Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Katie Manning’s poetry chapbook, How To Play: Poems Inspired by Games.

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From How To Play

About Our Author

Katie Manning is the founding editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review
and a professor of writing at Point Loma Nazarene University in
San Diego. She is the author of Tasty Other, which won the 2016
Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award, and her fifth chapbook,
28,065 Nights, is available from River Glass Books.  Her poems
have appeared in december, The Lascaux Review, New Letters, Poet Lore,
THRUSH, Verse Daily,  and many other venues. Find her online
at  www.katiemanningpoet.com.

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of E. Oliver’s poetry chapbook, Homing Pigeon.

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From Homing Pigeon

About Our Author

E. Oliver (she/her) is a queer poet and short fiction author
based in Southern California. Her most recent work can be
found in publications by Columbia Journal, The Stonecoast
Review, and Capsule Stories. Her debut collection is slated
for release with Nightingale & Sparrow Press in 2022.

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Cindy King’s poetry chapbook, Lesser Birds of Paradise.

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From Lesser Birds of Paradise

About Our Author

Cindy King’s most recent publications include poems in The Sun ,
Callaloo , North American Review , Prairie Schooner , Gettysburg Review ,
Cincinnati Review , and elsewhere. You can hear her online on
American Weekend  and The Slowdown , productions of National Public
Radio. She is the author of a chapbook, Easy Street  (Dancing Girl
Press, 2021) and Zoonotic  (forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions).
She currently lives in Utah, where she is an assistant professor of
creative writing at Dixie State University and editor of The Southern Quill.

Louisiana Literature Press is proud to announce the publication of Sneha Subramanian Kanta’s poetry chapbook, Ghost Tracks.

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From Ghost Tracks

Fifteen Ways of Saying Hunger

The birds have flown south. Gardenias blooming in the sky.
The city roars in my palm with its leafless branches.

Wounds stitched into the synapses of our mouth
the camouflage of hunger as an outsourced emptiness

water quenching our ruined kingdom of wilderness,
air suspended into nooses. A brackish aftertaste.

Somewhere a murmur, an adhesive of joint fingerprints
a collation of dead fish salting under the winter sun.

The husk of earth shears flesh in an unbound static.
A measure for rain that hems into exsiccate corners.

Trees are taxidermists for the way they store sap.
A flinch of blood. Sky turning into more sky.

Our foreheads turn into nautiluses in the blue hour.
Grief fasting into thickening blood. A sabbath for rain.

About Our Author

Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from Canada. She has been awarded the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2018- 19) at The University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, Waxwing, The Normal School, The Puritan, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal and reads for Tinderbox Poetry Journal.