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Moving Sounds by Casey Krysztofik

Published February 14, 2022

Chapbook - 65 pages - 5" x 8"
ISBN: 979-8-41723-297-8

Raindrops no longer from sky –
continue from plants above ground.
Hosta spade leaves hold water:
wine from Roman shell shaped cups.

Woman soaked after slip and fall.
Cling from clutches assisted by flood absorbed.
Blouse unbuttoned – free and comfortable.
Flesh painted with precision before sprayed with clear coat.

Screen room she rests mostly hidden in lush woods.
Viewing the mouth between river and bay.
Jaws opened at snake’s pinnacle showing off fangs.
Its saliva becomes a waterfall.

--Second Concerto’s Andante
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The third poetry collection by Casey Krysztofik explores the sonic relation of words and movement. He kicks up the technique of his previous collections to bring the reader to a new and eldritch world. A concert of poetry.

Plumes: and Other Flights of Fancy Flash Fiction by Andrena Zawinski

Published January 31, 2022

Chapbook - 80 pages - 5" x 8"
ISBN - 979-8-40927-643-0

In her debut collection of stories, Zawinski melds flash fiction with memoir. She entertains, piques curiosity, even exacts revenge in characters enjoyable to come to know, whether through love or through hate, all cast on a smooth and well-crafted journey that invites the reader to return to its pages again and again.

“Andrena Zawinski presses pause, and purity appears: a long ago encounter with a friend chanting, a much younger lover who becomes a mature woman in 300 words. More social documentaries than pure fiction, these stories record zeitgeist—lesbian zeitgeist, baby boomer zeitgeist, coal country trading-sex-for-bread zeitgeist. The narrator in the final story confesses: ‘I am a convicted eavesdropper.’ That's the real pleasure in Plumes—getting the skinny the strictly forbidden way by listening to what you're not supposed to hear.”

—Judy Juanita, The High Price of Freeways, Tartts Fiction Award

“Reading Andrena Zawinski’s terrific flash fiction/memoirs about love, travel, mishaps, drinking, and searching is like sitting down at a table at your favorite coffee shop with your best friend and listening to her unfolding the best and wildest stories of her life. You never want her to stop!”

—John Guzlowski, Echoes of Tattered Tongues, Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal

“Andrena Zawinski's powerful imagery, from ‘the kewpie doll draped in party beads’ to ‘a candle-toothed smile,’ is as strong in this collection of flash fiction as in her award-winning poetry. The personality and panache of the globe-trotting woman at these tales' centers, savoring a glass of fine wine as much as she does new locales, imbue these stories with their particular she-ness. Pour yourself a glass of your favorite to accompany the gorgeous writing of Plumes, which will certainly garner its own accolades.”

—Jan Steckel, The Horizontal Poet, Lambda Literary Award

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Andrena Zawinski, born and raised landlocked in Pittsburgh, PA, makes the San Francisco Bay Area her home where she lives on a city island beneath a Pacific flyway. An established poet, her writing
has received accolades for lyricism, spirituality, social concern. Veteran teacher of writing, she has been an instructor or writer-in-residence for many public, private, educational, and community organizations.

Pinholes: Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night by Cat Russell

Kindle: Published November 9, 2021, Hardcover: Published March 26, 2022

Hardcover Novel - 296 pages - 6" x 9"
ISBN: 979-8-43576-022-4

The brilliant scientist Portage McPeeve does not want to take over the world.

He’s discovered a way to travel the stars, using them as gateways into other realities. With his Gateway Manipulator, he hopes to rule all the worlds of the multi-verse with an iron fist. However, when his beloved kitten becomes lost through the machine, he does not hesitate to cast plans for multi-world domination aside; instead, he follows her through the cosmos – encountering zombies, higher education for Supers, Greek gods, and killer ninjas along the way.

Will Portage find Mrs. Bumblefrost before it’s too late?
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Cat Russell shares her life with her high school sweetheart, their son, and another ferocious creature in the wilds of Ohio while writing short stories, composing poetry, and learning more about the craft every day. Her work has been published in print and online, and she is the author of three books: Soul Picked Clean (March 2019), An Optimist’s Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories (August 2020), and Pinholes: Traveling through the Curtain of the Night (November 2021).

More of her work can be found online on her writing blog: www.catrussellwriter.wordpress.com

and on her Patreon at www.patreon.com/authorcatrussell

Bryant Park Poems by Gary Beck

Published July 18, 2021

Chapbook - 24 pages - 5" x 8" - ISBN: 979-8539674052
I couldn’t find a dry spot
to sleep at night
and my cardboard bed
got soaked,
so I threw it away.
Maybe if I’m lucky
I’ll find a dry doorway
where no one will bother me,
but I’ve never been lucky.
If it rains for forty days
and forty nights
I’ll probably drown,
but so will everyone else.

— Homeless III






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Gary Beck has spent most of his adult life as a theater director. He has worked as an art dealer, a tennis pro, a ditch digger and a salvage diver. His original plays have been produced Off Broadway. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and his published books include novels, poetry, short story, essay, and one-act play collections.

Gary lives in New York City.


Poemaholic by Azriel Johnson (2nd Edition)

Published January 25, 2021

Hi, I'm Azriel and I'm a poemaholic.
I've been intoxicated now for 15 years.
Some years more word drunk than others,
but always with a pencil close by
and paper to spill words onto...


 

Only Available on Kindle!

 

Azriel Johnson is the founder and director of Writing Knights Press. He enjoys writing poetry, fiction, nonfiction and stage plays. He makes money teaching English in China. He thinks "the best way to avoid writer's block is to write the stuff you don't want to write just as much as the stuff you do want to write. This will keep your mind limber and your pen light."

***This edition contains updated and complete versions of three poems from the original Poemaholic released by the Poet's Haven.***

bore for the sale barn - Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published January 25, 2021
Chapbook - 41 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8599253525
some letters
on my keyboard
have lapsed into coma
the q and x and 3
and Cap Lock

I pound on their
little chests,
a distraught surgeon
desperate to
resurrect
their little deaths

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Wanda Morrow Clevenger wrote eight poems in a handful of months in 1974; thirty-four years later she returned to writing. She has since placed over 467 pieces of work in 158 print and electronic literary journals and anthologies.

In August of 2013, while compiling the manuscript for this book she fell ill with pancreatitis, further complicated by necrosis in the following nine months, and wasn’t expected to survive. One year later, almost to the day, she sat down to finish where the hogs ate the cabbage.

She has her husband to thank for the title.

Getting Through Gold Beach by Barbara A. Meier

Published August 24, 2020
Chapbook - 28 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8676501648
Yet
there’s something in a Sunday
on a highway lined with roadkill,
where the body and the blood
lead to forgiveness and one dead body
will not stay still

Johnny Cash
and Sunday Morning Dead

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Getting Through Gold Beach was one of the Winners of Writing Knights' 10th Anniversary Chapbook Contest Winner

Little Fire Grows by Casey Krysztofik

Published July 6, 2020

Chapbook - 36 pages, 5" x 8", ISBN: 979-8663892001
No ships on pudding moana surface.
Pink shores with boa constrictors.
Contained from shifting by halter strap.
Cameo at the heart protected by beads.

Organza dress and fascinator
with peacock curved feathers.
Waiting at the balcony.
Enjoying the fresh air.

VII: Gabriella

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Little Fire Grows was one of the winners of Writing Knights 10th Anniversary Birthday Chapbook Contest!

PUNATIC by James Schwartz

Published March 31, 2019

Mixed Media - 39 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1091931534
About the Author:
James Schwartz is a poet, slam performer & author of The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America (2011), Arrival and Departure (2014) & Secular, Satirical & Sacred Meditations (2016).


His poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry 24, The Good Men Project, Silver Birch Press blog, RFD Magazine, WritersResist.com & numerous anthologies including Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology & most recently Not My President: An Anthology of Dissent (2017) & an essay in Our Happy Hours: LGBT Voices From the Gay Bars (2017).

Watch his podcasts with Torah Bontrager on growing up gay & Amish at torahbontrager.libsyn.com & iTunes.

He resides on the Big Island, Hawai’i. 




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Fried Everything & Booze by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published August 13, 2019

Chapbook - 48 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1088941508
we got a little liquored
at the old opera house and
went parking on the west pond dam
windows down, radio blaring
as bold as back when, and laughed
at coyotes calling to classic rock
-- coyote calls

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Wanda Morrow Clevenger wrote eight poems in a handful of months in 1974; thirty-four years later she returned to writing. She has since placed over 467 pieces of work in 158 print and electronic literary journals and anthologies.

In August of 2013, while compiling the manuscript for this book she fell ill with pancreatitis, further complicated by necrosis in the following nine months, and wasn’t expected to survive. One year later, almost to the day, she sat down to finish where the hogs ate the cabbage.

She has her husband to thank for the title.

Indigo Inquest -- Dragon's Bane Series: Book 4 by Azriel Johnson

Published December 31, 2019

Novel - 352 pages, 6' x 9", ISBN: 978-1710759617
Present
Kingsley is on the hunt for revenge. An Inquest of epic proportions. His mission must be fulfilled by any means necessary, using countless unsavory characters and methods that make even the most tyrannical combatants shy away in disgust.

Past 
Plato struggles with the duality of being a man who can hear the thoughts of Dragons & Humans alike. He finds & loses love, he embraces & shuns connection, he resists & accepts the darker parts of himself. All for one goal... 

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About the Author: 
Azriel Johnson is an inkspatter analyst by day and a serial writer by night. Currently he can be found teaching English in China if you’re looking hard enough. He also is attempting to learn Chinese, but it is still poor. He admires his students for trying to learn English as he thinks speaking English is much more difficult than speaking Chinese, although the written characters trip him up. His goal is to be bi-lingual by the time he leaves, even if he is still functionally illiterate in Chinese.

Still Speak by Emily Reid Green

Published January 30, 2019

Chapbook - 40 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1795456074
Rainfall or fallout, we've come undone,
tenebrous wasteland, darkened sun,
splintered threads, ambitions none,
embarrassed by our own.

The Goldilocks convictions you validate
ad hock humanity we formed too late,
embarrassed by our own. 

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About the author: Emily Reid Green’s poetry has appeared in various publications, including: The Ekphrastic Review, Gravel, Eunoia Review, Khroma Magazine, 1932 Quarterly, and Dying Dahlia Review. Last spring, she was a sponsored poet with Tiferet Journal. She lives with her family in Toledo, Ohio.

no dyeing in machines by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

Published December 31, 2018
Chapbook - 44 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1792918278
a terminally tanned
island transplant
with a glassy eye
who claimed he once
worked for Streisand
asked us for 80 cents
he said he was hit
by an ambulance
right there on Front Street
right in the road where
we were standing --
3 lawyers were
chasing him 

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About the author: 
Wanda Morrow Clevenger wrote eight poems in a handful of months in 1974; thirty-four years later she returned to writing. She has since placed over 467 pieces of work in 158 print and electronic literary journals and anthologies. 

In August of 2013, while compiling the manuscript for this book she fell ill with pancreatitis, further complicated by necrosis in the following nine months, and wasn’t expected to survive. One year later, almost to the day, she sat down to finish "where the hogs ate the cabbage." 

She has her husband to thank for the title.

Valley Blues by Cher Guevara

Published September 13, 2018
Mixed Media - 48 pages, 8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1720270874
Valley Blues is Cher Guevara’s
most ambitious project yet,
a raw streaming epic
written while out
in the western desert;
it’s a scorching tale
of self-destruction,
self-discovery, and the search
for a road out of an exile
that has lasted nearly a decade.
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About the author:
Cher Guevara is from Avon, IN and has become a mainstay in the thriving Indianapolis poetry underground, challenging audiences and critics with their uncompromising verse and hard-hitting live performances. Valley Blues is their 10th book.

Hey by Jamie Kahn

Published July 27, 2018
Chapbook - 30 pages - 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1723577017
And even on the days
when the sun is out
shorts weather
the music skips
and my pits sweat
and my curls droop
as my hands so sticky from sweet tea
grip the steering wheel

potholes pair with twisted up
cassette tapes
and play my death song
loud enough to make
me forget anything good

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About the author:
Jamie Kahn is a writer and undergraduate student at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Jamie is also a yoga instructor, and has a passion for life, traveling, and creativity in all forms!

Grand Showcase 2018 - The Wayward Sword

Published July 17, 2018
Mixed Media, Anthology - 48 pages
8.5" x 11", ISBN: 978-1723113291
The Grand Showcase 2018: Writing Knights Press’ annual event marking a new year of creativity.
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Contributing Authors:
Alex Gildzen ... anasyn Red ... Anne Ellington ... Azriel Johnson ... Carrie Tangenberg ... Daria Quinn ... David S. Pointer ... Deno Sandz ... Dionne D. Hunter ... Eilmy ... Franchessca Fallucco ... Gabriel Ricard ... Jacob Paul Patchen ... James Croal Jackson ... James Schwartz ... Joe Bisicchia ... Julia Clouden ... Keith Allison ... Kenny Angelou ... Laraine Seidl ... Lennart Lundh ... Maheshwor Dhital ... Marc Mannheimer... Michael Ceraolo ... Morgan Ellington ... One Single Rose ... Raechel Aurora ... Robert Perron ... Robin Wyatt Dunn ... Ruth Morris ... Smith ... Tanya Pilumeli ... Wanda Morrow Clevenger ... William Merricle

Give Life Back to Me by Casey Kryzstofik

Published July 9, 2018
Chapbook - 44 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1722019730
Simple solutions attacked like a
honey badger
fighting a cobra.
Tell her my schedule and she accuses me
of not planning ahead of time.
Prefer the reading of letters
from an old, dead lover to my presence.
Charging me of not caring when my love
has been quite the contrary.
Friends and I advise her not to be at places
where normal people would stay
Away.
— Honey Badger
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About the author:
Casey Krysztofik is a Native of Columbus, Ohio. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree Cum Laude in Mathematics from Ohio University in 1998. He is a certified ballroom dance instructor at Inspiration to Movement Inc. in Columbus, Ohio.

Clouds in the Corner by Anna Kist

Published June 18, 2018
Chapbook - 35 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1721064700
Had a night sniper attraction
for a fraction of my youth,
Now I just spook the straights with curls
I’ve unfurled in my hair and left in the sink.
Don’t think, just rinse and flee,
find something other than me
for the torrents in life
The currents you fight but embrace
with just one turn of the face
When you say it’s right
But I’m left.
— Left
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About the author:
Kist grew up in the swamps of south Louisiana writing ever since she was child. Then she roamed the country, found her footing and came back home working as a freelancer with a bachelor’s in journalism.

The Good, The Bad, The Lorraine by Lorraine Cipriano

Published May 28, 2018
Chapbook - 44 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", ISBN: 978-1720391654
feeling it deep down in her core
flowing streams of words
washing away like white sand
all of the dreams spoken of
sadness sparks aflame the ocean red
blowing out the dangerous fire
completely by herself
wanting it to be different
needing someone to embrace fully
a Lorrainaholic existence
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About the author:
Lorraine Cipriano has just written a steampunk haiku across your heart and it is starting to infect you with its octopus tentacles. She can be typically found hanging out in a whimsical world of haiku, tanka and poetry where she is the gatekeeper to a large collection of Buddhist, feminist, steampunk and horror filled imagery scrolled in purple.

As Real by Azriel Johnson

Published April, 20, 2018

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1. The National Ransom 
     Take the National Anthem, fix it.

2. Shopping Carts
     Have some common sense.

3. New Kid
     Bullying is wrong. Fight back!

4. Homelessness
     Narrative about being homeless.

5. Heroes
     Piece about mental illness.

6. Regaining Me
     Alliterative, punchy. Like an introduction.

7. Down Below, in Between
     Whoa, whoa. I'm an ally.

8. Save It
     Appreciate the women you're around.

9. Social Beatin' Ya
     How social media is a menace to society.

10. Ancestral Memories
     How we pass down things through the ages.

11. Second Worst Pain
     Crass, just crass. Have a listen.

12. Sweet
     Concerning Diabetes.

13. Metaphor's Friend
     Based on a mishearing of "Sugarman" by Rodriguez.

14. Groovy
     A traveling to Cleveland, narrative poem.

15. After Howl
     A Cleveland litany, with many props to many folks.

16. Poet Workin' a Factory Blues
     Self Explanatory title.