2025 Chapbooks
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"If poetry and standup comedy had a baby, it would be this book. Sharp-witted and side-splittingly hilarious, Heroes rescues poetry from taking itself too seriously. Each poem sparkles as an insightful wink and nod to counterculture and inevitable sea change—served with devilish disharmony." Yona Harvey "Is an immigrant an animal, a fish, or a whitening strip? What this question does is what these poems do. Imagine a lotus flower wobbling on its stem in the lobby of a Hyatt Regency in 2016, about to check in. Michael Chang will put you off ‘green-gold’ forever. Don’t even try." Bhanu Kapil "Michael Chang’s Heroes is everything I look for in a poetry collection. It’s wild, funny, and a little bit dangerous as in ‘where is the gun emoji ???’ In this world of Cheeto dust and ‘unmedicated dick,’ a pelican with a beak full of poems delivers psychedelic images—'Van Gogh’s ear wrapped in bacon’—and fantastically memorable lines. Chang made me laugh and cry, using language to dismantle the ‘sweet myths’ of the 21st century, exposing its miserable core with both tenderness and brilliance." Sandra Simonds |
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In this haunting collection, Sadie McCarney places the confusion of dementia somewhere at once familiar and uncanny—IKEA. There, a queer elder searches for her lost wife amid disorienting store sections that pulsate with long-buried memory. Deep love persists alongside the indelible traumas of life as an LGBTQ couple in a heteronormative society. Readers will be moved further than the in-store restaurant by this bittersweet poetic journey.
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Beginning with a searing update of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” for the age of Grindr, Michael Russell’s gallery of heartache is a reflection on queer love, desire and loss. Peppered with pop culture references, by turns uproariously funny, melancholy, and raunchy, but always deeply human, the poems are marked with complex tenderness and raw emotion. An essential read.
“In gallery of heartache, the spectre of Daddies ravishes and brutalizes reverent, resilient boys amidst a soundtrack of melancholic pop. In this modern lyric, Russell pries at the shadows of intimacy, charting how desire and fear ricochet off of each other. The poet’s willingness to stretch and break the poetic line refracts social media, sexuality, mental health and grief like a disco ball in a dark basement bar.” ADÈLE BARCLAY |
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2020 Novella
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Pandemic Anthologies to Support Charitable Giving
Second anthologyNow freely available for all
June 2020: A Pandemic Anthology
First anthologyNow freely available for all
March 2020: A COVID-19 Anthology
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