Wednesday, June 26, 2024

New Book! ECT In Crayon by John Sierpinski



Halfway House
(Angelic Mansion)

The young lady
with the ornery tattoo
brings me bread,
and tells me,

My husband
is in prison.
Then she asks,
I don’t even know

why you’re here?
I look at her serious
toughened face
before I shrug

my shoulders
and say,
Sometimes I
don’t either.

- - - -

John Sierpinski is a master storyteller. I think about Goldilocks and the Three Bears when I consider how he uses color and images; landscapes and incidents – not too much or too little, but just right. Just enough. If he’s ever had an impulse to show off his mastery of language (which I seriously doubt), he’s had the sound artistic judgment and humility to restrain it. He intends to connect and to banish loneliness through doing so and succeeds. - Sue Blaustein, 
poet

John Sierpinski is also the author of two previous books of poetry published by Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library available on Amazon: Sucker Hole (2018), and Vacancy/No Vacancy (2022).

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

New Book! HOWL's Legacy edited by Greg Gilbert

 


edited by Greg Gilbert
in association with Mojave Sage Writers

Cover & inner art by L. I. Henley
Additional inner art by Chloe Allred

Literary contributions by:
Nathan McClain
J.J. Starr
Greg Gilbert
L.I. Henley
Jenna Baillargeon
Michael Green
Michael G. Vail
Kent Wilson
Renee Gurley
Brenda Littleton
Wendy Costello
& lalo kikiriki


Saturday, June 1, 2024

New Issue! Cholla Needles 90



Edited by Juan Delgado
Cover and interior art by Carly Creley

Literature by:
Carly Creley
Edward Ferrari
Allyson Jeffredo
David Puma
Sonja Christenson
Larry Eby
Scott Noon Creley
Tristan Acker & Sean Bobo
Everette Davidove
Shannon Brazil
John Perham
Russell McDermott