Amanda Marie Chiado
Today I Wear the Bear Head
Press 53, 2026
$17.95
Playlist:
“Today I Wear the Bear Head"
“The Lonely Moon Opera"
“My Grandmother had the Face of a Beast"
“Ode to My Cheeseburger Funeral"
former DMQ Review contributor
Michael Garrigan
Ghost Hunting Glaciers
Grayson Books, 2026
$18.00
Playlist:
Ghost Hunting Glaciers is an earthly, surreal narrative woven together by four distinct voices: Black Bear, a woman, Stone Swimmer, and Dead Elk (who I met during my Artist Residency in The Bob Marshall Wilderness Area).
Poems read:
“Dead Elk Snores"
“Epistemology: Gut Road"
“Bird Song According to Stone Swimmer"
“Soft Churches of Black Bear"
“Dead Elk Sleeps Next to a Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant"
Peter Johnson
Observations from the Edge of the Abyss BlazeVOX [Books], 2026
$18
Playlist:
Andrew Hui, author of A Theory of the Aphorism: from Confucius to Twitter, describes the book best when he writes, "Peter Johnson’s prose poems in Observation from the Edge of the Abyss are small, explosive containers of grief, humor, and metaphysical musings. A bit absurdist, they burn with a uniquely American nostalgia of what never could have been and never will be. Observations is a masterclass in the comedy of cosmic dread, a Book of Disquiet for our benighted times."
former DMQ Review contributor