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2023
More favorite reads of 2023, listed alphabetically by author:
• Diagrams of Remarkable Bicycles by Nathan Anderson (2023)
• Please Plant this Book Coast to Coast by Susan Kay Anderson (Finishing Line Press, 2021)
• Night School: Selected Early Poems by Glen Armstrong (Cyberwit.net, 2022)
• Bathtub Poems: drum beats on a typewriter by Jerome Berglund (Setu Publications, 2023)
• Funny Pages by Jerome Berglund (Meat For Tea Press, 2023)
• AND MASH: Warm Rejections by Jerome Berglund (Yavanika Press, 2023)
• triskaidekaphilia & thirteen other minimal poems by Kristopher Biernat (LJMcD Communications, 2023) (Free PDF)
• The Sincere by Paul Corman-Roberts, with illustrations by Ray Swaney (Libran Apocalypse Books, 2022)
• Appetites by Alexander Dickow (MadHat Press, 2018)
• The Sensory Cabinet by Mark DuCharme (BlazeVOX [books], 2007)
• Memo from Alamut by Vernon Frazer (C22 Press, 2023)
• Chainsaw Gender Reveal by Keith Higginbotham (LJMcD Communications, 2023)
• Demitasse Fiction: One-Minute Reads for Busy People by Roberta Beach Jacobson (Alien Buddha Press, 2023)
• COLLECTED by Charlotte Jung (Timglaset Editions, 2023)
• letters to Pluto by Shoko Kanenari (Blank Rune Press, 2023)
• Ongoing Repairs to Something Significant by Linda King (BlazeVOX [books], 2017)
• EMOJI REVIVAL by Marzi Margo (Be About It Press, 2022)
• Dance of Resistance Brainwaves by Joshua Martin (C22 Press, 2023) (Free PDF)
• Artefacts by O Mayeux (Post-Asemic Press, 2019)
• PAINTINGS by Lachlan J McDougall (LJMcD Communications, 2023) (Free PDF)
• cauldrons by K.R. Morrison (Paper Press, 2021)
• Practitioner Joy by Rich Murphy (Resource Publications, 2020)
• Toys For Telepaths by Stephen Nelson (Redfoxpress, 2023)
• 100 Covers for 100 Imaginary Asemic Books by Carmen Racovitza (2021)
• XXXX Centones from the Cantos of Ezra Pound by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2023) (Free PDF)
GX Jupitter-Larsen receives a copy of COPY LEFT. (Audio by Serse Luigetti.)
Fifty-one more favorite reads of 2022, in the order in which I read them:
• chapped lips (part exposé) by P. Hope (wrong revolution publishing, 2021)
• Songs to Come for the Salamander by Mark Young (Sandy Press & Meritage Press, 2021)
• The Wet Motorcycle: a selected by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino (E·ratio Editions, 2019) (Free e-book)
• EDEN by Robert Frede Kenter (Rare Swan Press, 2021)
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• Grassbleed by Mehreen Ahmed (Mindfield Publishing, 2021)
• Urban Mustang by Linnet Phoenix (Impspired, 2021)
• Post-ed on Your Mirror by Linnet Phoenix (Posthuman Poetry & Prose, 2021)
• Hydrogen Sofi by Tanya Rakh (Posthuman Poetry & Prose, 2021)
• Liminal Zenith by Clayre Benzadón (SurVision Books, 2019)
• Calibration by Keith Higginbotham (Argotist Ebooks, 2011) (Free e-book)
• I am the Rage by Dr. Martina McGowan (Sourcebooks, 2021)
• Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? by Shareen K. Murayama (Small Harbor Publishing, 2022)
• Habits of Totems by Ivan Peledov (Impspired, 2021)
• Pomegranate Flesh by Strider Marcus Jones (2012)
• Requiem for a Robot Dog by Lauren Scharhag (Cajun Mutt Press, 2019)
• Works & Interviews by Michael Jacobson (Post-Asemic Press, 2018)
• Before the Bridges Fell by David L. O’Nan (Cajun Mutt Press, 2022)
• <Reboot> More So…Disconnected by Wayne Mason (Beir Bua Press, 2022)
• Mexico Honey by Nathan Anderson (2022)
Nathan Anderson reads Mexico Honey.
• Somnolent Game by Michael Jacobson (Post-Asemic Press, 2022)
• Pulp by Robert Dean (Finishing Line Press, 2022)
• RED RULES bent by Charlotte Jung (Viktlösheten Press, 2022)
• Dog Days: haikus of summer by Jerome Berglund (2021)
• Walter Takes a Staycation: the romantic disease by Jerome Berglund (2021)
• Dissolving by Mike Andrelczyk (Alien Buddha Press, 2019)
• Gateway 2000 & Other Poems by Mike Andrelczyk (Ghost City Press, 2020)
• The Drone Outside by Kristine Ong Muslim (2017, Eibonvale Chapbook Line #1)
• The Last Unkillable Thing by Emily Pittinos (University of Iowa Press, 2021)
• Housebreak by Shareen K. Murayama (Bad Betty Press, 2022)
• inside the black hornet’s mind-tunnel by Giorgia Pavlidou (Trainwreck Press, 2021) (R.I.P. John C. Goodman)
• The Book of Clyde by Sylvia Van Nooten (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
• Close to the Tree: Poems by Robert Gibbons (Three Rooms Press, 2012)
• Sad Sad Boy by Michael O’Brien (Back Patio Press, 2022)
• Genesis by Crisosto Apache (Lost Alphabet, 2018)
• Your order is now equipped for shipping by Mark Young (Sandy Press, 2022)
• Teaching and Learning Haiku in English by David McMurray (The International University of Kagoshima, 2022)
• Left of the Dial by Jessie Lynn McMains (Scumbag Press, 2022)
• Here, Which Is Also a Place by Mark DuCharme (Unlikely Books, 2022)
• 21 Koans by Christian Garduno (2022)
• automatic message by Joshua Martin (Free Lines Press, 2022)
• Soul Etchings: A flash fiction collection by Dr. Sandra Arnold (Retreat West Books, 2019)
• Kahi and Lua:: Tales of the First and the Second by Melissa Llanes Brownlee (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
• Small Shadows by John Hawkhead (Alba Publishing, 2016)
• Bone Moon by John Hawkhead (Alba Publishing, 2022)
• A Curious Mix in Free Verse by Dr. Lindy Warrell (Wattletales Publishing, 2022)
• The Book of I.P.: Idle Poems by Chris Courtney Martin (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
• Beyond the Spaghettiville Bridge by Matt Stefon (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
• Backstories by Jonathan Penton (Argotist Ebooks, 2017) (Free e-book)
• The Strangest Thankyou, 10th Anniversary Edition: Poems and illustrations of the surreal rooted in reality by R.C. Thomas (R.C. Thomas Things, 2022)
• WHEREAS: Poems by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press. 2017)
• Venusian Sands by Lachlan J McDougall (2022)
2021
(The 2021 list is coming soon.)