At long last the Pamela Hirst books have arrived from our manufacturer! We are thrilled to be releasing Forgotten Graves, our first bilingual collection. Also, what a wonderful tribute to the legendary Beatlick Joe Speer with this three volume Travels with the Joe series. Visit Amazon and get your copies today.

Rhythmical Approval for All Things Poetical A review by Bob McNeil Hand clapping normally signifies approval for some feat performed. Certain African American fraternities and sororities express themselves with synchronized dance moves called stepping, and those students’ hands keep the beat like a drum. Kaff, an Arabic artform, takes the slapping of appendages to a […]

Hear a new poem “Praise for My Forebears” by Bob McNeal

PERSONAL AGENDAS Written in the spirit of Anaís Nin and Marcel Proust, Personal Agendas kicks off the three-part series Travels With Joe, comprised of diaries and journals from Pamela Adams Hirst. This volume includes her first book of poetry, Personal Agendas, written as she and Joe Speer burst on the poetry scene in Nashville, Tennessee, as the Beatlicks.Autobiographical poems of 1016 […]

Pamela Adams Hirst is a Beatlick. She is a performance poet and also, along with her partner Beatlick Joe, produced many amazing videos and documentaries. Joe and Pamela and sometimes other performance artist and poets were known as The Beatlicks. Getting their start in Nashville, Tennessee, they were responsible for bringing SLAM South of the […]

CLAP YOUR HANDS, STOMP YOUR FEET BY CARLA M. CHERRY AVAILABLE NOW! Cherry’s new chapbook is piercing, alluring and extremely strong. The narrative arc, density, and warmth in this sequence of poems make it one of the most stunning chapbooks we have ever published. Line by line Cherry leads the reader through love, heartbreak, and […]

We are so pleased to announce that we will be publishing the chapbook Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet by Carla M. Cherry. We discovered her work through our poetry journal Cacti Fur. We hope to have this exciting chapbook available for purchase by March, 2023. In the meantime, here’s some info on the poet: […]

Our literary journal CACTI FUR has officially opened its submission window!!! Cacti Fur has been a premier online poetry journal since 2015, which makes it one of the oldest onlinepoetry journals of all time. If we are blown away by your Cacti Fur submission we may even invite you to submit a chapbook or full […]