Lonely Christopher made the following announcement yesterday: “Monk Books will soon be announcing that within the year it will publish Lonely Christopher’s fully collected Death & Disaster Series in one volume. The series includes three books of poetry: Poems in June, Crush Dream, and the previously unpublished final installment Challenger. More details forthcoming.”
Crush Dream—now sold out—was distributed by RM Press last summer as a limited release of 100 copies.
Deluge—a continuation of Radioactive Moat—is now considering submissions for its inaugural issue (Fall, 2013).
Additionally, Radioactive Moat Press will be reading chapbook manuscripts of poetry and prose during the month of May.
Radioactive Moat Press realizes that art exists beyond Internet HTML—which is why we would like to announce that we’re proudly supporting two documentary film projects this year: the first of which is Fursonas, a “documentary that focuses on the lives of several fursuiters in the U.S.” and Line Assembly, a road trip poetry tour “of libraries and community spaces” seeking to help “locals create and sustain poetry programming and workshops.”
^REASONS WHY BEING A NONPROFIT IS AWESOME!!
“An evil Leaves of Grass — not a welcoming cosmic paean to all American citizens, but a nihilistic porno where the pure and the fake copulate with a sordid glory. By real, Göransson means: children burning in bombed buildings, the bodies of foreigners, sperm and blood, traumatized soldiers strangling their wives. By fake, he means: film sets, stunt doubles, poetry. You can see this combo in how he depicts America: America is not an emancipatory pluralistic haven, but an atavistic theater of war, brutally real and, as Baudrillard has written, as simulated as a video game.”
-Ken Chen on Haute Surveillance (Tarpaulin Sky, 2013)
(Source: pecunningham)
New work by Thom James over at Housefire.
![“The floodwaters have risen!”The final issue of Radioactive Moat has gone live. The “Deluge” issue features fiction by Codi Suzanne Oliver, collaborative poems by Carrie Lorig & Russ Woods, and safety hazard materials from Gina Abelkop, J. Fossenbell, Shannon Hozinec, Jonathan Escoffery, M. Forajter, Tony Mancus, Matthew Harrison, Leif Haven, Alice Ladrick, James Capozzi, and Marcus Slease, a writer who was also featured in our debut issue back in 2009.The “Deluge” issue also features an editorial note from Paul Cunningham regarding the future of Radioactive Moat Press’s bi-annually published online journal: “Despite the seemingly infinite excess and despite canonical entanglements, many of us have refused passivity. Our multiplicities have been mistaken for naivete, but our reactions are never soft. We’ve all been quite noisy! Quite stubborn! Quite attractive (for, most importantly, the “wrong” reasons)! QUITE, BUT NEVER QUIET! Never fundamental, never polite, and no need for apologies.” Read more [here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3727e4bc2951bc16e81749b3ba352a53/tumblr_mjv5j9jm0M1r7p7p0o1_500.jpg)
![Amy Lawless discusses her book of poetry—My Dead—as well as her experience with Octopus Books in the latest issue of Interview Magazine:“Then one day my phone rang, and it was Zachary Schomburg from Octopus Books, he was like, ‘Hey, Amy. Is My Dead being published?’And, I was like [assumes a drab, pathetic voice], ‘No.’ Meanwhile, I was staring at dead flowers while I’m on the phone with him. And he asked if he could publish the book, and I was like, ‘Yeah! Of course!’ And, suddenly the fear of death was quieted by the idea of having a book come out. I mean, no one wants to die, it’s just one of those things that gets louder and quieter depending on what life is like.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/ecce539a72d355960dc6bad830da4a95/tumblr_mjq2m56RPo1r7p7p0o1_500.jpg)
Amy Lawless discusses her book of poetry—My Dead—as well as her experience with Octopus Books in the latest issue of Interview Magazine:
“Then one day my phone rang, and it was Zachary Schomburg from Octopus Books, he was like, ‘Hey, Amy. Is My Dead being published?’And, I was like [assumes a drab, pathetic voice], ‘No.’ Meanwhile, I was staring at dead flowers while I’m on the phone with him. And he asked if he could publish the book, and I was like, ‘Yeah! Of course!’ And, suddenly the fear of death was quieted by the idea of having a book come out. I mean, no one wants to die, it’s just one of those things that gets louder and quieter depending on what life is like.”
Coming soon: the eighth and final installment of Radioactive Moat.
The official online journal of Radioactive Moat Press will continue under a new title: Deluge.
![Radioactive Moat asks Rauan Klassnik some questions about his latest book of poetry, The Moon’s Jaw (Black Ocean, 2013).“Holy Land, you see, is I think mostly a victim book. The universe is fucked up. Bad things happen. And in Holy Land I stand with a fist against that and this is something a lot of people can relate to and even champion. But in The Moon’s Jaw the vibe’s more decadent. More Bad Caesar. More perverse, self-indulgent and monstrous—”Read the full interview [here]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4bf0a80349f6ad92a6cb83aa5cca28c5/tumblr_mihkvpfF191r7p7p0o1_500.jpg)
Radioactive Moat asks Rauan Klassnik some questions about his latest book of poetry, The Moon’s Jaw (Black Ocean, 2013).
“Holy Land, you see, is I think mostly a victim book. The universe is fucked up. Bad things happen. And in Holy Land I stand with a fist against that and this is something a lot of people can relate to and even champion. But in The Moon’s Jaw the vibe’s more decadent. More Bad Caesar. More perverse, self-indulgent and monstrous—”
Read the full interview [here]
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