Hanging Loose Press: 6 books

Gerald Fleming's poetry and prose poems have appeared widely over the past thirty years. He has won numerous awards and fellowships and between 1995 and 2000 he edited and published the literary magazine, BARNABE MOUNTAIN REVIEW, whose archives can be found at U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library. His...

''The language is extraordinarily charged. The words themselves undergo desire and take action...'' --D. Nurkse

Praise for MY BODY: "Over the decades of writing, Joan Larkin has proved her mastery, whether the poem is mythic, elegaic, or biographical. Her honesty is overwhelming....She is a poet of compassion and pity."—Gerald Stern "Deft, probling language surges in these poems, to...

"M.L Smoker's poems are tough, funny, magical, but not in a goofy way. This is blue-collar magic. Unemployed magic. Living on government cheese magic. I highly recommend this collection."-Sherman Alexie "Not many poets can give vast to vast land, tall, cold mountains, powerful...

Jen Benka's elegant and superbly crafted poems reinvigorate our notion of the lyric. Welding language from diverse spheres—military, political, legal, literary, pop—she enlists the reader to help in this renewal process, urging: "trespassers take up your tools." "I'm a huge fan...

"THE TRAPEZE DIARIES is a slight and a good book. Not a slightly good book: a very good book and a very slight book. It consists of only 94 slim pages, some with only one or two lines per page. Marie Carter, a young woman born in Scotland, now living in Manhattan, has real talent and more wisdom...