Lightning'd Press

03/07/2016

Issue 9 is up! xo

shambles this way / antipodean being / come full circle / sparks in darkness / lightning'd eternal return / flipped the ecliptic

03/02/2016

Designed by Brea Wilson

03/02/2016

Also, Issue 9 is basically done. One poem left to add. XO

02/04/2016

review of eric elshtain's poetry book, this thin memory a-ha.

It's been awhile since I've reviewed a poetry book. I don't personally enjoy reading reviews of poetry books, and I hate writing them. I'm certain they must be useful and serve a function (what that...

11/12/2015

Jeff on Basil Bunting and Apophasis

On Bunting and Apophasis by Jeff Miller It was not so, scratched on black by God knows who, by God, by God knows who. --Bunting, Villon In an interview published in 1977 the English poet Basil...

07/15/2015

Our very own Jamie Felton has a review of Transparent up at Stackedd Magazine. Check it.

Some people could easily site their privilege if they thought about it, and most people, whether privileged or not, have spent time so engrossed in their own problems, they’ve forgotten to be there for the ones they love. Though suffering from a few of the same issues as the television show Girls, A…

07/02/2015

An interesting article on a recently translated letter of Ezra Pound to Rene Taupin: The Severity and Sympathy of Ezra Pound Enjoy! Jeff reading: Ronald Johnson, The Book of the Green Man ; Sachiko...

06/22/2015

Hello! I know that a new issue was promised in January and then... silence. A variety of personal items have taken the bulk of Jamie and I's attention for many months now, forcing us to leave...

05/22/2014

Our review of Joel Felix's excellent The Limbs of the Apple Tree Never Die; check it out!!

Verge Books 2013 come and learn it should hurt, extracting host code from graft to acquire some synthesis lashing bone to cracked bone in steroid pathways at the lab Joel Felix's Limbs of the Apple...

04/20/2014

Our new issue is finally out!

Poems from Anna Levistky, Collin Shuster, Stu Hatton, Simon Petkovich, Patrick Longe, Mark Young, Evan Jones, Jnana Hodson, Robert Okaji, Jennifer Firestone, Ross Hair, Jimmy Lo, Sarah Rosenthal, Whit Griffin, Ric Carfagna, Steven Manuel, Jamie Felton, Ryan Barker, Taviri Issa Raian Barker, Jeff Miller, and more from our continuing interview with Peter OLeary.

Issue 8 is up! Let us know what you think. It's quite a doozy as far as size is concerned. There are some new poets and some of our old faves, as well as more from our ongoing interview with Peter...

08/10/2013

An apology for the continued lateness of our summer issue; our excitement over the new Basil Bunting biography.

LIGHTNING'D PRESS

03/28/2013

Steven Manuel, one of very favorite poets, has a new chapbook out from Longhouse.

2013. Bob Arnold. Beautiful Days. 96 pages. New and limited. Fine bright glossy pictorial wraps with crisp bright text throughout. New poems by Bob Arnold ~ living and writing to Hurricane Irene and life in those Vermont woodlands ~ $16