 Enjoy the 2010 poetry collection book from Scars Publications, with poetry from cc&d magazine, Down in the Dirt magazine, and July-December 2010 Scars Publications poetry chapbook releases, titled “an open book”.
|
an open book
|
below is a listing of the accepted writers and titles
| ||||
| Je’free | Self-Respect | |||
| Charlie Newman | jobbed | |||
| Erica Hegenderfer | Eruption | |||
| H. Sosnowski | Probable Cause | |||
| CEE | Why did J_______ Kill Herself? | |||
| kalifornia | Just for fun | |||
| Colin James | The Optimism of the Criminal Mind | |||
| Mike Berger, PhD | 53 Chevy | |||
| Julie Kovacs | When Daddy Comes Around | |||
| Max Evans |
BACKSPACE & |
|||
| Devin Wayne Davis | Puss | |||
| John Buckley & Martin Ott | School Trip to the Vegas Strip | |||
| Andrew H. Oerke | The Poet’s Monkey Ears | |||
| Christopher Woods | Why We Follow Them | |||
| Randall K. Rogers | Nuts | |||
| Michael Lee Johnson | California Summer | |||
| Rose E. Grier | He loves you and doesn’t want it to end | |||
| I.B. Rad | Flutter | |||
| Mike Wilson | Advancing age | |||
| Douglas Holder | A Holocaust of Toads | |||
| John Thompson | the backwater tree | |||
| Kevin Michael Wehle | Difficult | |||
| David E. Cowen | Timekeepers | |||
| John A. Grochalski | where i’m sitting tonight | |||
| R. N. Taber | AS IF... | |||
| Christopher A. Scarber | Dust | |||
| Michael S. Morris | Into the Blue | |||
| K.D. Iredale | Just Because I’m A Female Soldier | |||
| Tom (WordWulf) Sterner | Sans Solitude | |||
| Michael M. Marks | Tails of Wee Captured Creatures | |||
| Michael Hoag | My friend says | |||
| Eric Obame | The Day After | |||
| James L. Jones, Jr. | The Distances | |||
| TWIXT | Entry | |||
| Jeff Wyman | Democracy | |||
| Fritz Hamilton | Black blood rains from a gray sky | |||
| Changming Yuan | Charon | |||
| Maricelle Jeannette | My Fallen Sisters | |||
| Barbara Panos | Indifference? | |||
| Lana Santorelli | the Enemy is Generous | |||
| George Gott | Invocatio #039 | |||
| Lauren M. Jones | My Left, Your Right | |||
| Terry-Hamilton Poore | Old Poem, Fresh Take | |||
| Anne B. Scheerer | The Blacksmith | |||
| Jane Stuart | Untitled | |||
| Mel Waldman | the Fixer | |||
| Emmanuel Jakpa | Bond | |||
| Maxwell Baumbach | Keys to the Kingdom | |||
| Louie Crew | The Only Four Poems | |||
| Brooke Bailey | Safe Words | |||
| Hank Threadgill | Senility Prayer | |||
| John Grochalski | teenage poem | |||
| John Grey | the Killer in Repose | |||
| Raud Kennedy | Love Games | |||
| Roger Cowin | Cancer | |||
| J. J. Brearton | Broken Heart City | |||
| Sarah Deckard | Flying Lessons | |||
| John Ragusa | The Unhappy | |||
| Alex Sagona | Planet Pluto | |||
| Andrew Jefchak | Airport Music | |||
| G. Tod Slone | A Nation of Citizen Expurgators | |||
| Shane Collins | A Love Sonnet | |||
| Ben Macnair | The Empty Chair | |||
| Ms. N. A’Yara Stein | the Age of Innocence | |||
| Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal | Closer To Your Door | |||
| Bethany Young | The Great American Poet | |||
| Melinda J Nevarez | Duerme con la sangre | |||
| Ines Lopes | For Dan | |||
| Patrick Longe | Squatted Upon By The Hippo’s Dollars | |||
| Jessica Barido | Whisper | |||
| Regan M. Barry | Demons Let Me Be. | |||
| H.D. Brown | my old men | |||
| Frank De Canio | Reverie | |||
| Brad Buchanan | Swimming Lessons | |||
| Luke Laubhan | a Little Dirty | |||
| Adam Graupe | A Letter I Found On a Bus Stop Bench | |||
| Adrienne Christian | Our Guardian | |||
| Ben Nardolilli | The Humors | |||
| Brian Spaeth | Combustion/Dream-Spark/Saturnalia | |||
| Chloe Viner | She is a Library | |||
| Chris G. Vaillancourt | Forgetting | |||
| Courtney Watson | Playing My Hand | |||
| Dawn Schout | Another Woman | |||
| Derek Richards | confessions of wayward reason | |||
| P. A. Levy | glove down | |||
| Don Pesavento | Mamma Mia | |||
| Howie Good | Gimmie Fallout Shelter | |||
| Duane Locke | Interpretations | |||
| Evvy Gordon | A National Geographic View | |||
| Gregory Liffick | Prone | |||
| J. Kingston Reed | Poem #1 | |||
| Jamie VanGeest | Love Is | |||
| Jack Jones | The childish ability to dream. | |||
| Jackson Warfield | dinner guest | |||
| Jennifer Licata | Clementines | |||
| Jim Carson | The Deeper Stain | |||
| Kalp Joshi | Troubles in This World | |||
| Katrina Cahall | Lead Me Not | |||
| Kenneth R. Fox | David and Goliath: the Stage Play | |||
| Kevin John Dail | End of the Road | |||
| Mark Fleury | Western Meditation #1 | |||
| Megan McDonald | Jumper | |||
| Neil D. Mulac | The Twins Paradox | |||
| Peycho Kanev | Hotel room | |||
| Red Chatham | “Symphony for Lies” or “To Tell a Stranger” | |||
| Richard Lighthouse | note to self | |||
| Sean Anthony McGhee | Unnoticed acts of God | |||
| Adrienne Sass Paek | Wait | |||
| Amber Rothrock | Dear Conscience | |||
| Benjamin C. Krause | Snapshot of an All-Nighter | |||
| Cherese Eudlyn Nelson | Jump Rope | |||
| CJ Wilson | Darwin & Jesus | |||
| David Lawrence | The Driver’s Test | |||
| Diane Fleming | She Doesn’t Eat Eggs | |||
| Dina Stuart | the Mess | |||
| Eric Obame | Then Again | |||
| Elizabeth De Sa | Slave Rebellion | |||
| Greg Moglia | Buttons | |||
| Henry Sosnowski | Wrong Reflection | |||
| Holly Day | Tuesday | |||
| Irene Ferraro | White Moth | |||
| John Hartness | Change | |||
| John T. Hitchner | Hard Love | |||
| Josh Oldham | The Last Chapter | |||
| Sarah Ahmad | No Man | |||
| Peter Magliocco | Myopic Vistas | |||
| Joshua Copeland | Escalators and Vertigo | |||
| Julia O’Donovan | Amnesia, In A Sense | |||
| Kenneth DiMaggio | Poem from the Spaghetti Scrapbooks (Angie) | |||
| Maya Gurarie | They Left Because | |||
| Michael Ceraolo | Cleveland Cinquain | |||
| Nathan Wellman | Hills of my Childhood | |||
| Paul Handley | Right Place | |||
| Paul Pikutis | “On Tattoos” by a tattooist | |||
| Richard King Perkins II | Roadside Cross | |||
| Robert Lawrence | Haiku (Sky) | |||
| Sonya Feher | My First Girl Love | |||
| Tendai R Mwanaka | Milk With Marvin, My Cat | |||
Chapbooks
All of these chapbooks have been released as free downloadable PDF file | ||||
|
Charles Michael Craven Upside down fun as a free PDF file chapbook |
Hidden hope Salvation Lie detector Fuck a clock Please cry wolf Mirage Final last words A sucker for hope Worldwide Chuck Lost and found My new addiction Too many bars Starving for pain The mistake Circle of life Her Two words, no goodbye The repeat History 101 |
|||
|
CEE (You Have Finally Won) as a free PDF file chapbook or as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book |
Something Vichy about this All Warm and Gentle...Red Slow trucks, little babies’ butts, little pizza pies and sadism Why he needed to own the joint “I Love You, Protector Buddy!” Sieg Smeal YHWH, Zip It a Second! “HAAAAA—BEEDEEHEE—HAAAAA...!” Phantom of the Hitler sings from the sewers Bloodred Submarine Show #001 (of 2) Hitler goes for a Snickers Yeah, you’ll THINK, “cay-sirrah, sirrah”! Senor Adolf Wences The Dunderback’s Machine Solves a Riddle Mein Kampf Will Go On (cue tuba solo) Hitler does a little Maypole dance The Guardian of McHistory RAD: “We Do Our Part” God Isn’t ONLY Love (I Heart Me) Mr. Ed Goes Application of the Chaplin Postulate Triumph of the Dickens Conscience Science Con (PBS sucks) Zloty Say Quadro-stompic Conquering Robot, 2028, or Common Denominator, Right Now I Don’t Like Your Symbol! Be Nice to Me |
|||
|
Michael Lee Johnson Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems as a free PDF file chapbook or as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book with a night cover or with a night cover |
Electric in the Sun Indolent Sun Hookers on Archer Avenue Charley Plays a Tune (Version 4) Harvest Time Version 6 California Summer Gingerbread Lady (Version 3) I Brew in Broth Nikki Purrs Rod-Stroked Survival, With a Deadly Hammer Willow Tree Night and Snowy Visitors (Version 3) Manic is the Dark Night Poem From My Grave Illinois Farmers (Version 3 09-09-09) If You Find No Poem Thoughtful Raindrop Baby (Version 1) Fog Feathers (V2) Rose Petals in a Dark Room South Chicago Night and Day (Short Version) Mother, Edith, at 98 South Chicago Night (Version 2) Chicago Catch on the Fly Forked in Itasca, IL. Bird Lady (Version 2) |
|||
|
Kristine Ong Muslim Our Mr Flip as a free PDF file chapbook |
Mr. Flip as a Sarcophagus Mr. Flip as a Suicide Note Mr. Flip as a Blackbox Mr. Flip as a Clock Tower Mr. Flip as a Dollhouse Mr. Flip as a Hearing Disorder Mr. Flip as a Sack of Flour Mr. Flip as a Wishing Well Mr. Flip as Hell Mr. Flip as the Angel of Death Mr. Flip and the Elephants Mr. Flip leans on the harbor rail Mr. Flip in his first grade art class |
|||
|
Maxwell Baumbach Suburban Rhythm as a free PDF file chapbook or as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book |
Image Depressed Paint Chips for Breakfast The Diamond The Romance Poet Far Off Nice Guy Decency Oops About the Shoes A Cold Confusion Stolen Army Days My Dad Could Beat Up Your Dad Staircase Slight If People Hush Hush The Perks of Being Maxwell Baumbach Shelter Really Good Poem R-E-S-P forget it What’s Easier Despite My Academic Excellence, There Are Times When I Mess Up My Seat Never Again The Suburban Rhythm of Things Fashion Sense A Country Morning |
|||
|
Kyle Hemmings Avenue C as a free PDF file chapbook or as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book |
Avenue C Nine Reasons Not to Kill Yourself East of St. Marks Big City Goya’s Tenth Ave. Mistress Unsolved Mysteries in Scatology SS Girlfriend The Junkies of Gethsemane On Being Mistaken for a Gay Go-Go Dancer at The Too Late to Die Night club, Avenue C The Colonel’s Younger Lover Forget Me Not Mass Production Why I Prefer a Stick of Margarine to Elvis Presley’s Ghost: A Short Memoir by an Employee of Heidi Fleiss Until the Lone Ranger Reveals He’s a Drag Queen A Girl Named e Cannot be Your Prisoner The Magical Thinking of Birds Miranda Blue Dirk Bogarde A Forecast for More Snow Inspiration The Death of John Lennon 16 Traumas Bunny Slippers The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna Dig That Girl! Last Night I Dreamt of Virginia Woolf Walking across the Thames Pancakes The Amazing Headless Chicken-Wire Girl The New Siberia Is the Old Siberia Last Call |
|||
|
Chris Butler Down Syndrome as a free PDF file chapbook or as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book |
GOD Baby Jesus Youth in Asia HN Colored Generation Why Ordered Work Wishing Well Beggar’s Elegy Bilderberg Hail to the Thief Holiday in Guantanamo Bay Mohammed’s Self-Portrait Atom Bombs Away! The Eagle Has Landed Moth Suicidal Squirrel Whites of their Eyes Dead Bait Leafers Tree Farm Stagnant Water Multiple Personality Disorder Dandruff Below Zero Acedia Anemic Rust Insominache How Did I Get Here? Blind i Thought Once –ism ADD Boredumb Ennui Nothin’ New Blues Gland On TV I Hate my Face Happy Each Breath is an Excuse to Sigh Nipple Empty Luck of the Irish Drunk Five Cent Deposit Alcohol Withdrawal Devolve Alcoholics Anonymous Liver It Hurts When I Pee Dirty Wings Cut and Paste G.I. Cocktail |
|||
Order an open book asthe 5.5" x 8.5" paperback ISSN# bookor the 6" x 9" paperback ISBN# book
| ||||