The Friday Collapse June 2022 Anniversary Edition

The Friday Collapse June 2022

Hard to believe that it has been a year of Collapse! We are celebrating our first year of The Friday Collapse with a robust roster of features from our first year. The event will be on the Collapse Press Facebook page, and we will also stream this virtual event on Facebook. Note- no open mic for this show. Below are our guests, you won’t want to miss this. Friday, June 24, 2022- THE FRIDAY COLLAPSE ANNIVERSARY EDITION: Joel Landmine Han Raschka Richard Loranger Cleveland Wall Jack Varnell Darrell Parry Taneesh Kaur Josiahluis Alderate Kelliane Parker Chad Frame Mimi Gonzales Norm Mattox KR Morrison Kim Shuck

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Spring 2022 at Collapse

The Friday Collapse May 2022

We had a busy but amazing Spring here at Collapse Press with another book release, launch event, and monthly poetry series The Friday Collapse. In February, we hosted features Missy Church and William Taylor Jr. in anticipation of Missy’s book release later in the month. Deathaiku was released, and you can check out the “Purchase Books” tab above for information on ordering. This book explores death from a perspective of dignity and the natural cycle of life. Find out more about Missy Church and her new book by checking out the above tabs. In March, we hosted poetry features Ruth Crossman and Norm Maddox, along with a full list of open mic participants. In April, we hosted K.R. Morrison and Kelliane Parker, who collaborated on a poem for the reading. In May, we had features Han Raschka and Darrell Parry. We will be publishing a manuscript by Han in Fall, 2022.

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The Friday Collapse: March 2022

The Friday Collapse March reading

Please join us for The Friday Collapse, a monthly virtual reading series with featured poets and open mic. Hosted by Paul Corman Roberts and E. Lynn Alexander, this series brings poets together from all over to transcend the typical barriers of geography, travel, and access. We typically post the event details on the Collapse Press Facebook page and instagram @collapsepress. The vent is hosted on zoom with a livestream on Facebook. Our features for March are Ruth Crossman and Norm Mattox. This will be on Friday, March 25 at 9:30 EST and 6:30 Pacific.

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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.

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Events: Richard Loranger

We are pleased to announce the publication of Unit if Agency, by Richard Loranger. (October 2021) You can find information about the book and purchase by using the top tabs- see Purchase page. We have been working on events to celebrate the book launch, and will be adding them below. Friday, October 29, 2021: The Friday Collapse, Special Book Launch Edition Please join us on Friday, October 29, 2021 for a special book launch edition of The Friday Collapse to celebrate the release of Richard Loranger’s new book of poetry- “Unit of Agency”.This will be a virtual event on Zoom, 6:30 PST, 9:30 EST. We will welcome Richard Loranger, who will read from his new book. We will also feature Mimi Gonzalez-Barillas. Per usual, an open mic will follow.The zoom link and bios, and book information will be posted in the event. Unit of Agency is currently available through the Collapse Press website at www.collapsepress.com/purchase and on Amazon at www.amazon.com/Unit-Agency-Richard-Loranger/dp/1735266914. Get one early and read along! The Friday Collapse reading series is hosted by Collapse Press, with Paul Corman Roberts and E. Lynn Alexander. Mosswood Park- Oakland, CA- November 6, 2021 In person reading with Collapse Press and Be About It Press. Richard Loranger will partner with Natasha Dennerstein for a double header book launch event. Event on Facebook, weather permitting. Live at the Mosswood Park Amphitheaterin the SE corner of Mosswood Park. Be About It Press and Collapse Press are collaborating to celebrate two new fantastic books! UNIT OF AGENCY by Richard Loranger BROKEN by Natasha DennersteinOther featured readers include James Cagney, Cassandra Dallett, Juba Kalamka, Dena Rod, Peggy Morrison and Kai Sugioka-Stone! Collapse Around America- Virtual Book Launch November 13, 2021 Please join us on Saturday, November 13, 2021 for “Collapse Around America”, a final Collapse Press launch party for the…

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Collapse at the Beast – Beast Crawl 2021

Darrell Parry Darrell Parry is a writer, artist and event organizer from Easton, Pennsylvania. He founded the online publication Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly and the monthly Stick Figure Poetry open mic. He also co-hosts Lehigh Valley Poetry’s Virtual Salon, which meets on Zoom the first Monday of every month. His alter ego works in higher education, not a professor, but as one of those reviled peddlers of unaffordable course materials. Believe it or not, he even sometimes sells poetry books. https://www.stickfigurepoetry.com Steve Goldberg Steve Goldberg has been part of the Cleveland poetry scene for longer than anyone expected. Steve has been published in many of Cleveland’s small press zines and is included in the book Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama & Anthology (Bottom Dog Press) and the coffee table book, Hotel Poem, Poets of Cleveland (Language Foundry). As a poetry event organizer, Steve led the legendary Literary Café Reading Series for four years, the bombastic Metrical Singularity Supernova festival, and Broken Pulpit poetry weekend and crawl in Cleveland. He has read all across the country and participated in poetry festivals such as Kansas City’s Unregulated Word, Oakland’s Beast Crawl, the Tremont Art and Cultural Festival, and has been the MC for Rainy Day in Seattle poetry festival. He has written chapbooks, Corner Café Drugstore and other Poems (Inkstained Dagger Press) and sold out in its 3rd printing Tremont Crawl (WhatsInTheBag Press). His full length book, History is An Afterthought (Spartan Press), is due out in October. Youssef Alaoui Youssef Alaoui is a Latino Arab. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. He has an MFA in Poetics from New College of California. He is a quiet individual experiencing the swirling cosmos as it taps against his window in a house not far from the sea. www.youssefalaoui.info Photo by…

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The Friday Collapse: July 2021

The Friday Collapse virtual monthly reading for July will feature poets Cord Moreski, Chad Frame, and Cleveland Wall on July 30, 6:30 PST and 9:30 EST. We have an event page on Facebook, Collapse Press. This is a virtual event hosted on the zoom platform with a livestream on Facebook. Hosted by E. Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman Roberts, Collapse Press. Cord Moreski is a poet from the Jersey Shore. Moreski is the author of The News Around Town (Maverick Duck Press, 2020), Shaking Hands with Time (Indigent Press, 2018 ), and Stay Afloat Inside (Indigent Press, 2016).  His work has been featured in As It Ought To Be Magazine, Eunoia Magazine, In Between Hangovers, Indigent A La Carte, Philosophical Idiot, Rusty Truck Press, Rye Whiskey Review, The Piker Press, and Silver Birch Press. When he is not writing, Cord waits tables and teaches middle school children that poetry is awesome. Cleveland Wall is a poet, performer, and teaching artist in Bethlehem, PA. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cleveland performs with interactive poetry group No River Twice and with poetry/guitar duo The Starry Eyes. Current obsessions include dream life, embodied poetics, ephemeral art, and the power of persistent, incremental change. For more info on The Starry Eyes’ album “The Garden of Terrors and Delights” or on Cleveland’s book, Let X=X, drop by clevelandwall.com. Chad Frame’s work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Rust+Moth, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere, as well as on iTunes from the Library of Congress. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry improv/performance troupe, and founder/director of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His collection, Little Black Book, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

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