Chapbook | Vol LV, Mo (Movember Special Edition)

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Vol LV, Mo

Mo: Special Movemeber chapbook from Silkworms Ink. Featuring Corey Mesler, Nicolas Pillai, Kyle Hemmings, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé and Teresa Chuc Dowell.

The chapbook is free for your enjoyment, but please consider throwing a couple of quid into the Silkworms Ink Movember fund raising page - HERE

Out With The Old | Chapbook | Vol LIII, Things I Never Want You To Find Out, by Brittany Fonte

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Vol LIII, Things I Never Want You To Find Out

by Brittany Fonte

Brittany Fonte holds an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Fiction. She teaches Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing, as well as Composition, at the university level. Her fiction and prose poems can be found in journals such as Literary Mama, The Wrong Tree Review, 42nd Opus, and Pemmican Journal. She is an assistant poetry editor with Low Brow Press.

Sea | Chapbook | Vol LI, Patterns of Decay by Claire Trévien

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Vol LI, Patterns of Decay

Claire Trévien (22.4.11)

 

Claire Trévien was born in 1985 and is a poet, academic and literary translator. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies including  Under The Radar, Ink Sweat & Tears, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Warwick Review and Nth Position.

Mini | Chapbook | Vol XLIX, Infinity Pool by Sam Riviere

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Vol XLIX, Infinity Pool

Sam Riviere (1.4.11)

Sam Riviere co-edits the anthology series Stop/ Sharpening/ Your/ Knives. He was a recipient of a 2009 Eric Gregory Award, and Faber & Faber published his pamphlet in 2010. 'Infinity Pool' is taken from '81 Austerities', a poem series appearing in weekly instalments from May 2011 here.



China | Chapbook | Vol XLVIII, For Anacreon by Terence Kuch

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Vol XLVIII, For Anacreon

Terence Kuch(28.3.11)

 

Terence Kuch is a consultant, avid hiker, and world traveler. His poetry credits include Commonweal, New York magazine, Poetry Motel, Slant, Thema, Timber Creek Review, and Yellow Mama. He has read at the Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, the International Monetary Fund Visitors’ Center, the MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary) Theatre in Dallas, and elsewhere.

Radio | Chapbook | Vol XLVII, Frequently Asked Questions by Howie Good

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Vol XLVII, Frequently Asked Questions

Howie Good (20.3.11)

 

Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as 26 previous print and digital poetry chapbooks.

Leap | Chapbook | Vol XLVI, Fantasy Girls by Kyle Hemmings

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Vol XLVI, Fantasy Girls

Kyle Hemmings (4.3.11)

Four short stories from our New Jersey regular Kyle Hemmings. In his third chapbook us we meet in sequence four mysterious women. Fantasy Girls.

Silence | Chapbook | Vol XLV, Let Dinggedicht Speak by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

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Vol XLV, Let Dinggedicht Speak

Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé (25.2.11)

 The Dinggedicht, translated as “thing poem”, is a type of poetry that explores objects from within rather than from without.

"I’m spoofing my awkward Chinese name of four characters (an anomaly where I come from since most Chinese first names comprise two characters), rendering it a strange idiomatic personality. The parenthetical heteronymic names featured in these pieces are traditional Chinese idioms, used here to characterize the particular speaker/s within each piece." D. K Z-M

Advert | Chapbook | Vol XLIII, 'Holograms of Rotten Roses' by Bobby Parker

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Vol XLIII, Holograms of Rotten Roses

Bobby Parker (28.1.11)

'for the drug dealers who never gave me a chance' and now for all of you who happen to click. 

Sideways | Chapbook | Vol XL, Graphic by Kristine Ong Muslim

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Vol XL, Graphic

Kristine Ong Muslim

For our 40th chapbook we thought it would be a grand idea to go 'XL' - so here you go, an extra large chapbook from 5 time Pushcart Prize nominee Kristine Ong Muslim.

FINKPOINT | CHAPBOOK | VOL XXXVII, Fractures & Religious Affairs by Ken Champion

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 Vol XXXVII, Fractures & Religious Affairs by Ken Champion

YET AGAIN, READERS OF THE WEBSITE ONCE KNOWN AS SILKWORMS INK, FINKPOINT  (YOUR NEW LITERARY DJ) HAS PULLED ANOTHER GLORIOUS RABBIT OUT OF HIS ELECTRONIC HAT. HERE, FOR YOU, TODAY, A COUPLE OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE BRILLIANT KEN CHAMPION.

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FINKPOINT | FINKBOOK | VOL FINKKK, LOST AND FOUND BY ROWENA KNIGHT (FINKPOINT)

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Vol XXXVI, Lost and Found

 by Rowena Knight.

I SEE IS NO NEED FOR OUR DEDICATED READERS TO GO WITHOUT, CHAPBOOK-WISE. SO HERE'S FINKPOINT'S PICK OF THE SUBMISSION PILE (I'VE GOT THAT TOO). BROUGHT TO YOU BY FINKPOINT.

Swamp | Chapbook | Vol XXXV, Chords by Michael Patrick McSweeney

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Vol XXXV, Chords

Michael Patrick McSweeney

 

Comics | Chapbook | Vol XXXIV, After Stikklestad by Michael Egan

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Vol XXXIV, After Stikklestad

Michael Egan

Type | Chapbook | Vol XXXIII, All my friends died in the Eighties by Alex Stolis

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Vol XXXIII, 'All my friends died in the Eighties' by Alex Stolis

National Poetry Week | Chapbook | Vol XXXII, Not for Profit by Gary Hardaway

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Vol XXXII, Not For Profit
by Gary Hardaway


Gary Hardaway was born October 24, 1950 and has earned his living as an architect and urban planner.  He lives with his wife, Joan Reese, in Plano, Texas. He developed a taste for reading poetry at 16 and began to write at 17. He admires the poems of T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, Phillip Larkin, and Mark Strand but especially values the work of Elizabeth Bishop.

Generation | Chapbook | Vol XXXI, Long and other short poems by Alistair Noon

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Vol XXXI, Long and other short poems

Alistair Noon (1.10.10)

 

Alistair Noon’s chapbooks of poetry include At the Emptying of Dustbins (Oystercatcher), In People’s Park (Penumbra), Animals and Places (Longbarrow), and Some Questions on the Cultural Revolution (Gratton Street Irregulars, forthcoming).

Post | Chapbook | Vol XXX, Afterwards by Jamie Baxter

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Vol XXX, Afterwards

by Jamie Baxter

Jamie Baxter is 20 and has been writing poetry for four years. He has just finished his second year at Durham University studying Engineering. He attended Tower Poetry Summer School at Christ Church, Oxford last August. He has been recently published in Pomegranate, The Delinquent, Spark Bright and on the website of Read This Magazine as well as two Durham University publications The Grove and Forced Rhubarb.

Jazz | Chapbook | Vol XXVIII, Variants of Dialogical Voices by Felino A. Soriano

 

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Vol XXVIII, Variants of Dialogical Voices

Felino A. Soriano (10.9.10)

Variants of Dialogical Voices by Felino A. Soriano is a series of ispriations plucked out of the grand jazz canon, featuring Jackie McLean, Matthias Bergmann, Julius Hemphill & Albert Ayler.

Freaks | Chapbook | Vol XXVII, The Bearded Woman by Blake Lynch

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Vol XXVII, The Bearded Woman

Blake Lynch (3.9.10)

 

Welcome to this whopping big, fantastic weird debut chapbook from Blake Lynch. The title poem is an epic not to be missed and a perfect accompaniment to our Freaks week. As always, it’s on the house.