Eve the Inventor by Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a hybrid collection of poems, prose, and short fiction inspired by the Jewish story that God will not destroy the world as long as there are 36 good people, good souls in it. The characters in this collection aren't secular saints, they are decent people, deeply decent, struggling against painful burdens. Eve the Inventor explores the painfulness that exists simply because of the way the world is.
Eve the Inventor by Karen Greenbaum-Maya is available now.
Karen Greenbaum-Maya is a retired clinical psychologist, former German major and restaurant reviewer, and three-time Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her work in fairy tales and dream interpretation and her obsession with Kafka and flirtation with Buber have led her inevitably to prose poems. Her poems have received Special Merit and Honorable Mention in the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial contest from Marge Piercy and from B.F. Fairchild. Her work has appeared in journals including Comstock Poetry Review, B O D Y, Rappahannock Poetry Review, CHEST, and Spillway. Kattywompus Press publishes her chapbooks Burrowing Song, Eggs Satori, and, Kafka’s Cat. Kelsay Books publishes The Book of Knots and their Untying. Bamboo Dart Press publishes The Beautiful Leaves, a collection of poetry about her late husband’s diagnosis, illness and death, and her grief. She co-curates Fourth Saturdays, a long-running poetry series in Claremont, California. Her first complete sentence was, “Look at the moon!”
Website: www.cloudslikemountains.blogspot.com
Facebook: @karen.greenbaummaya
Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is an illustrated collection about iconoclasts, perpetual dreamers, tightrope walkers, living room magicians, cat lovers, and female friendship. The "old girls" in these linked hybrid pieces are women of a certain age who, in an alternate reality, refuse to accept the stereotypes of aging. The collection, illustrated by Cooper Renner, is conjured from dreamscapes of what just may be true. The poems, prose poems and micros in this collection invite us into an alternate reality where joy and love for same sex friends become a magical force to be reckoned with.
Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is available now.
Meg Pokrass, series editor, is the author of 7 flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, 2 flash-novellas and 2 new co-written collections of flash, The House of Grana Padano, co-written with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis, 2022) and Disappearing Debutantes, co-written with Aimee Parkison (Outpost 19, 2023). Her work has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and international anthologies including Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Washington Square Review, American Journal of Poetry, McSweeney's has appeared in 2 Norton anthologies of the flash fiction form: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015). Meg is the Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Challenge Columnist for Mslexia Magazine, and teaches private microfiction workshops.
Bluesky: @megpokrass.bsky.social
Facebook: @megpokrassauthor
Website: megpokrass.com
From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is a collection of micro and flash stories that explore life at a slant. Often surreal/fabulistic, there is a universality that threads their fabric in unexpected ways. In these tales, imagination is a welcomed guest. And it is clear that light and dark can, in easy union, inhabit these small but flexible spaces.
From the Book of Atmospheres by Robert Scotellaro is available now.
Robert Scotellaro is the author of 9 flash and microfiction collections, most recently: Breath and Shadow: Six-Sentence Stories (in collaboration with Meg Pokrass) by MadHat Press, and a collection of prose poems: The Weight of Certain Moments by Červená Barva Press. He is also the author of 7 poetry chapbooks and has, along with James Thomas, co-edited New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, published by W.W. Norton & Company. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including the Norton anthologies: Flash Fiction International and Flash Fiction America, and has been included in 5 Best Small Fictions and 3 Best Microfiction award anthologies.
Website: www.robertscotellaro.com
