Home Planet News 24 is packed to the pink with poems by Esther Fishman, Ken Gosse, John Grey, Roger Hecht, Justin Hollis, Janis La Couvée, Terri McCord, George Murray, Kenneth Pobo, John Popielaski, Ken Poyner, Ron Riekki, Tracey Schaeffer, James Toupin, & Watt Worris; fiction by Julie Brandon, Craig Loomis, Beate Sigriddaughter, & Andrea Tillmanns; songs by Tom Wordwulf Sterner; & artwork by Cynthia Yatchman. Many thanks to all!
Happy to say Half Inch Press, LLC, is in the pink with 3 new book releases:
The prose poems in Justin Hollis’s debut collection, Ferrying the Stars, navigate the inexplicable province between wake and sleep, the mundane and the absurd. Reminiscent of the surrealistic fables of Jacob, Simic and Tate, these brief, witty narratives present the world as reflected in the funhouse mirror of childhood, where the real and the make-believe interact in altogether astonishing ways. Modulating between the comic and the serious, the philosophical and the irreverent, the poems invite the reader to escape into their unique, enigmatic worlds.
Beate Sigriddaughter's They Didn't Know What to Say is a collection of stories of surprise and bafflement. Everyday people meander through what they see as fixed realities with justified expectations—until the door opens to the unexpected: a pregnant woman ponders her husband making love to a former lover for old times sake; an unpleasant present unsettles an otherwise happy bride; a girl making a wreath for her grandfather's grave is accused of vanity. Drawing upon the many misunderstandings, inadvertent injuries, and clashing concepts of how things are supposed to be, Sigriddaughter depicts the inevitable disconnect between people that often leaves us astonished and shaken.
The Tale of the Peahen, the Tortoise, and the Hangman's Voice, a free verse novella by Aryan Kaganof, is a quirky love story centered around a mysterious peahen. Though interspersed with sly humor, Kaganof takes the lives of his anthropomorphic characters seriously, depicting their emotional highs and lows in a language that is very human.
You may have noticed that we've added a new link to the Home Planet cover that takes you to Half Inch Press books. Go check it out now if you want--I'll wait till you get back--or, what the heck, simply click here.
Anyway . . .
As a card-carrying pinko peacenik, I hope everyone is well & staying out of the way of whatever might be falling from above or falling out below.
Enjoy HPN 24.
Many thanks!
Matt
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