I Am Heavy W/ Feeling: A Correspondence by Alexis Pope & Joshua Young
Softcover Pocket Book
Perfect Bound
126 PP/ B&W / 4" x 6"
SBN 978-0-9972986-5-9
Alexis Pope is the author of Soft Threat (2014) and That Which Comes After (Big Lucks Books, 2017), and, with Joshua Young, I Am Heavy w/ Feeling: A Correspondence (Fog Machine, 2017). Poetry and nonfiction has appeared in cream city review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, Poor Claudia, Powder Keg, Prelude, Sink, The Volta, and West Branch, among others. Pope lives in Chicago with her daughter.
Joshua Young is the author of Psalms for the Wreckage (Plays Inverse, 2017), The Holy Ghost People (Plays Inverse, 2014), and, with Alexis Pope, I Am Heavy w/ Feeling: A Correspondence (Fog Machine, 2017), as well as three other collections. Work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Fugue, Court Green, and Vinyl, among others. Young lives in Chicago with two humans.
"I'm standing in my kitchen, waiting for potatoes to bake, reading your book. It's beautiful. Thank you."
- Val, Joshua's Boss
"Your poems are pretty. Your poems are cool. And naked. My house from the book is cool. Can I have a lollipop?"
-Willa, age 5
"I don't get it."
- Elliot Young, age 6
Interglacials by Dalton Day
Softcover Pocket Book
Perfect Bound
82 PP/ B&W / 4" x 6"
SBN 978-0-9972986-4-2
Dalton Day is the author of Exit, Pursued (Plays Inverse) and Actual Cloud (Salò Press), and a recipient of a James A. Michener fellowship. His poems have appeared in publications including The Offing, Columbia Poetry Review, and PANK, among others. He lives somewhere between North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas.
"Dalton's poems in this book consistently do my favorite thing that a poem can do, which is to jar a strange image from my own life out of wherever it's been hiding and flourish it in the new light the poem creates. These poems created a hole in me and then filled it with bees that reminded me of my childhood. These poems took my memories of childhood and shaped them like clay on a wheel into a teacup that holds sound. They reminded me of a mountain range I once saw from the highway after seven hours of driving alone. They made me feel alone and yet so, so held."
-Cassandra de Alba, author of habitats
Fail Better by beyza ozer
Softcover Pocket Book
Perfect Bound
62 PP/ B&W / 4" x 6"
SBN 978-0-9972986-3-5
beyza ozer's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from the Offing, Shabby Doll House, Columbia Poetry Review, and others. beyza is the author of I Don’t Mean to Redshift. They are deputy director of social media at YesYes Books. beyza lives in Chicago and, besides working at W&CF, also attends Columbia College and interns at the Poetry Foundation.
"The first time i read beyza's poetry, we were in a high school photography class & they were doing my homework for me while i edited work that was truly, truly above my 17 year old head. i'm telling you right now, they were amazing then & now they are writing poems that can kill you if you aren't careful. this book is my favorite book until they write their next one."
- Isabelle Davis, author of I Am Sorry Because This Is Not About Sex
"Reading FAIL BETTER felt like being stuck in a thick, opaque, nearly solid embodiment of translation, flailing my arms but moving at 1/1000th the speed that my arms would normally flail. I thought beyza, beyza, beyza, after every page, and as I finished the book my body seeped out of the cloud and rested on the floor."
- Sarah Jean Alexander, author of Wildlives
"beyza's words are so deft and tender that you won’t notice them changing you until it’s already happened. FAIL BETTER is waiting patiently to become a part of you."
- Kimmy Walters, author of Uptalk and Killer
"Beyza Ozer's FAIL BETTER is a book full of poems that understand that being sad and being alive is another way to tell a stranger that we don't have to be alone if we don't want to be. Beyza Ozer's FAIL BETTER is here for you, and it always will be. How many things in this world can we really truly say that about?"
- Sasha Fletcher, author of It Is Going To Be A Good Year