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Letters for the End Times, Vol 1

cover of the anthology Letters for the End Times, edited by Paul Corman-roberts and E. Lynn Alexander. Collapse Press.

Letters for the End Times, Vol. 1 came out in July 2023 from Collapse Press. It is currently available through us or here. This anthology, the first produced by Collapse, assembles the work of a diverse range of poets exploring the challenges of a society under stress. Coming out of a pandemic with environmental, economic, and natural crises and uncertainties about futures and fates these writers contributed poetry that speaks to these concerns in their own ways. Edited by Paul Corman-Roberts and E. Lynn Alexander, this volume features: Rich Ferguson, Juba Kalamka, Han Raschka, K.R. Morrison, Westley Heine, Ed Canavan, Dee Allen, Norm Mattox, and Missy Church. We will be working on volume 2, to be released a year later in July 2024.

Collapse Press Anthology: Letters for the End Times Vol 1

We finally released the first anthology, “Letters for the End Times” (vol 1) in July 2023. We had a great event in Oakland, and recently hosted a virtual reading for contributors in September. This anthology is available now, either through us directly or here. The recording archive of the reading is on our facebook page from the livestream, at Collapse Press. Edited by Paul Corman-Roberts and E. Lynn Alexander, this anthology is a curated collection of diverse voices and perspectives reflecting the challenging times we are living in and facing together. Climate change, disasters, war, greed, profiteering, exploitation, destruction, depletion… How do we find places of hope, joy, power? Community? Thank you to our contributors: Juba Kalamka, Missy Church, Norm Mattox, Han Raschka, Dee Allen, Westley Heine, K.R. Morrison, Edward Canavan, Youssef Alaoui, and Rich Ferguson.

LFTET Vol 1 Anthology Launch Event! Oakland

The first volume of the Letters for The End Times Anthology is here, and we are doing a launch party event on Friday, July 21 in Oakland. You can order this book online here. You can also get it at an upcoming event or from us directly, just reach out. We will try to make it easy! The launch event will be at the Oakland Photo Workshop and we will have information on our FB and Instagram pages.

Release of “Four Crescents” by Norm Mattox

Cover of the poetry book "Four Crescents", by Norm Mattox

We are happy to announce that “Four Crescents” is now available, by poet Norm Mattox. We hosted an amazing virtual launch in June 2023, and if you missed it you can check out the archived video of the Facebook livestream on our page. You can purchase the book here, or reach out to the author or to us. We will make sure that you can get a copy! Norm Mattox is a poet, returning to New York, after raising a family, and “growing up” in San Francisco for over 30 years. He served as a bilingual educator in the public school system of San Francisco Unified School District. Though retired, Norm is a teacher (‘maestro’ in Spanish) for life. His next journey for teaching and learning is through the voices in his poetry that tell a story of love in a time of struggle and challenge. Norm has shared his poetry as a featured reader and at open mics around the San Francisco Bay Area, select venues in New York City and other parts of the world across the ‘zoom universe’. Norm’s poetry has been published in two chapbooks. his first collection is titled, Get Home Safe, Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. Norm’s second chapbook length collection, Black Calculus, was published in 2021 by Nomadic Press. “In his follow up to Black Calculus, MATHMattox takes readers on a journey of beautifulepiphanies and gruesome truths, painted with masterful wordplay where his pen becomeshis Saber. In these pages, MATH invites readers to step into his vast imagination to seelife, days, nights and words in new and refreshing ways. Tackling issues that rest on tongues of revolutionaries and conspiracy theorists alike,these pages are filled with clarity, honesty and color from the purest palette. From “Heartof Illusions,” filled with a treasure of emotions, to the stunning ekphrastic “CottonBowl,” readers are…

“Splinters”, by Han Raschka, Release

Purchase Splinters Poetry by Han Raschka

Splinters, the debut poetry collection by poet Han Raschka, is out now from Collapse Press. A virtual launch event with featured poets will be hosted on Friday, November 11, 2022. You can look under events on the Collapse Press facebook page for details. Joining Han for the virtual launch will be poets K.R. Morrison, Kelliane Parker, Norm Mattox, Richard Loranger, and Paul Corman-Roberts. The book is available on Amazon here. The ISBN is 978-1-7352669-4-7. $20.00 US.

Book Launch: “Splinters”

Book release announcement for the poetry book Splinters, by poet Han Raschka from collapse press

Please join us at Collapse Press for a special virtual poetry event to launch the release of “Splinters”, by Han Raschka. We are scheduled to release this title on September 23, 2022. Please check out the Collapse Press Facebook page for the event to RSVP and share. (Thank you!) Han will be reading from their new book of poetry and will be joined by additional featured poets to celebrate. We will be adding more details about the features and their bios soon.

Coming Soon: “Splinters” from Collapse

Cover of the poetry book Splinters, by Han Raschka

We are thrilled to share that we are on track to release our next title- “Splinters” by poet Han Raschka. If you have not encountered them before, please check out the book launch in September 2022 and see what some in our community had to say after some background on Han: Han Raschka (they/them), is a bipolar, bicoastal, non-binary poet currently residing in Boston, MA. Born in the Midwest and forged by both the arts and an unhealthy dose of Catholic fear, Han spends their time drinking coffee at an unacceptable time, begging their mother for pictures of their three dogs, and writing poetry like it hasn’t gone out of fashion. You can find Han on Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites. Their work has appeared in Anti-Heroin Chic, Eunoia Review, Brooklyn Poets and the Lake County Bloom. Splinters is Han’s first collection of poetry. “writing poetry is a lifesaving, life affirming ‘super power’ that acknowledges trauma, sees the multiple deaths that are in store with the clearest vision, and the voice of love that heals the broken heart and the broken mind.” “in han raschka’s collection of poems, splinters, the voices that have the most volume, in the front of our minds, fill the silence with horrorful words and things that should never be spoken as truth. raschka writes poetry in the voices of their tormentors. they are a captive audience to the replay and echo of trauma in memorized detail.” “describing the inner battles to breathe one more breath, we are granted light and peace when their voice speaks a whisper of a lover’s glance, and the promise of love they will live for.” -norm mattox, author of Black Calculus (Nomadic) and the forthcoming Get Home Safe: poems for crossing the community grid “A poem, a prayer,…

Book Launch: Find Me in the Iris

Please join us for a virtual launch reading on Friday, July 1, 2022 for Find Me in the Iris, by E. Lynn Alexander. This event will be hosted on zoom and streamed/archived on the Collapse Press Facebook page. This reading will feature poets K.R. Morrison, Taneesh Kaur, Chansonette Buck, Karen Lillis, and E. Lynn Alexander. Please see the Facebook/Instagram posts for more details and links. This is the second book of poetry by E. Lynn Alexander, from Collapse Press. In Find Me in the Iris, she continues to explore the themes of The Shouldspeak Disease on the language of shame and internalized expectations, conditioning, regulating norms and binaries as effacing and modern measurements that are increasingly toxic to both individual and nature. The destructive relationships between reduction and disrespect vs honoring and co-validity have modern consequences. Increasingly disconnected from a silenced but ancient maternal psyche, the modern contrasts of hierarchy and individualism pull us away from our roots and exploring the natural, mystical, and spiritual can be restorative acts of reclaiming. “Mother” in this case is origin, generational and collective, where a consciousness of legacies tapped affirms the past and honors the future. The state of the world is in front of us. Why are we destroying everything at such an alarming rate, turning the corner on so much that is irreversible? Our path is one that rewards extremes: self centered, immediate and empty gratification, consumption, competition, exhibitionism, self interest. To commune and cooperate is to be “weak”, to share knowledge is to lose “advantage”. Where shame is the tool, coerced participation is the result. The desire to diminish and destroy pushes us to channel our energies defensively and we are depleted. We feel hopeless and powerless because we are surrounded by that message. But it was not the message of our mothers. “In…

Book Launch: “deathaiku”

deathaiku book launch, poetry by Missy Church

Join Collapse Press and a great line up of featured poets for the virtual launch of “deathaiku” by Missy Church on Saturday, March 12, 2022. This event will be hosted by Collapse Press on zoom and on facebook live, streamed on the Collapse Press facebook page. The featured poets for the evening will be Andrew J. Thomas, Carla Christensen, Youssef Alaoui, Vaughan Barrow, and the author herself- Missy Church. There will be information about purchasing the book during the show. If you miss it, the recording will be available on the facebook page after it streams live.

“Deathaiku” by Missy Church- Out Now!

Collapse Press is pleased to announce the release of “Deathaiku”, by poet Missy Church.
“It takes the spirit of a death doula and the soulfulness of her carefully enlisted imagery to capture the dichotomous dance that is life and death, shadow and light. In DEATHAIKU, Missy Church divulges the seasons of the departed, the “eyes of death’s final cold sigh” while syllables later, she signals a sun that “rises soft,” breath of a baby and an ancestor within the Law of Three – so appropriately held in haiku structure.
In an era where more than ever, death seems to have the last word, Church bears a lantern for every reader wandering the veil, with eloquent yet humble diction that respects grief and loss while making room for new life, for the living who harbor light in the memory. DEATHAIKU is a necessary read for anyone who values a cycle we cannot escape.”
– K.R. Morrison, poet and educator, author of Cauldrons

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