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* new work up at Pretty Owl Poetry

José Angel Araguz 4 Comments
* pretty owl poetry/issue 5 *

* Pretty Owl Poetry/issue 5 *

Just a quick post to announce the release of the latest issue of Pretty Owl Poetry which includes my flash fiction pieces “Spinster” and “Oceans.” The issue also includes fine writing from Jill Khoury, Howie Good and fellow UC poet and friend Les Kay as well as artwork by Heather Simon.

Check out the issue here.

I’m especially excited for this publication. These two pieces are part of “Reasons (not) to Dance,” a flash fiction/prose poem chapbook forthcoming from FutureCycle Press. The project explores ideas of risks as played out in short prose pieces that range from the fabulistic to the memoiristic. My guides in writing these come from the Latin American microcuento tradition, writers such as Augusto Monterroso and Julio Cortazar.

Thank you to Kelly Andrews, Gordon Buchan, and B. Rose Huber for putting together a great issue!

See you Friday!

Best,

Jose

* “Moth Season” in Cactus Heart’s Speculative e-issue

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Just a quick note to announce the release of Cactus Heart’s Speculative issue (e-Issue #11) which includes my prose poem noir sequence “Moth Season,” which follows the adventures of one Inspector Moth.

Here’s a sample of the  piece:

Inspector Moth walked from one end of the brightness to the
other. Still, the pane remained. He had crashed into it not
knowing why. He paced, tapping at the glass now and then,
boxing with his reflection, the colors he was made of pushing
back. The whole world, he thought, can see that I am stuck.

(from Moth Season)

The e-issue is available for purchase here.

The issue also includes work by UC friend and poet extraordinaire Madeleine Wattenberg and a host of other great writers.

Special thanks to Guest Editor Kate Sheeran Swed as well as Sara Rauch & co. for putting together an engaging read of an issue!

See you Friday!

Jose