Poetry. We like Jean Cocteau's goal "to astonish." VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.newsinspress.com
Music
Big influence on us as individual writers. Perhaps we can come up with a project around the idea of music.
Movies
More and more, we prefer watching them at home. Last time the two editors liked the same film: Hotel Rwanda.
Television
Where are the sitcoms and dramatic scripts about writers?
Books
More please!
Heroes
Charles Henri Ford, a gay surrealist poet who taught us how to give to the next generation. There is a way to make the old new again! Here are videos based on 1) Sylvia Plath poem and 2) The Balcony, the play by Jean Genet 3) Loaded Gun--Emily Dickinson as Action Hero!!!
Edge
About me: New Sins Press is a poetry publisher that supported chapbooks and books of writers such as Barbara Hamby, Richard Collins, Julie Parson-Nesbitt, Amy Yanity, Exia, Diane Williams, and Thomas Vaultonberg, among others. The founding co-editors are Glenn Sheldon and Rane Arroyo who have now established their careers as poets and return to the work of editing and publishing. James Penha's book, No Bones To Carry, won New Sins Press manuscript prize for 2007 and No Bones To Carry will soon be available for purchase.
Other New Sins Press editors: Dan Nowak, Stacia Fleegal and Melanie Dusseau--all of them dedicated poets.
Who I'd like to meet: Writers, readers, publishers. We welcome new writers, of course, but also established writers who may especially have a project they have kept to themselves because it is too different from their published work. We celebrate difference(s) here--gay or straight or bi or trans or racial spectrums and even heterosexuals. New Sins Press is about being inclusive--and we know there are many borders that many of us cross daily and sometimes simultaneously.
After the New Year Eve party, --in bed, awake in the dark and otherwise silent house,-- after a light rain pecks on my roof and windows, I rise to listen more closely to the rhythm, hear the tap-tap tap-tap tap-tap --a motion I accept, a light rain, a quiet dance-- forward-shuffle into the new year.
Here's wishing you a very happy and creative new year.
Thanks for sinning some. Hope this gets you grinning some-
ALMOST VIRGINAL
She’s the witch Bewitching the bewitched, The home-making siren Screaming run. She’s got everything You might conceivably desire Bar one.
I’d be so disappointed If her clit was in fact it, All there was. I’m not of that persuasion Inclined to lick the little critter Stiff, Forever waiting for her Yes, yes, yes.
My taste runs to other shit- Shoving my dick in a difficult fit, Swopping dead hard tales Of properly sex adjusted Hetero males Who turn out for a drink, A respite from the gobby missus, And think nothing Of backroom bristle kisses, Tonguing a naked butt with fervour Urging The livid rectile muscle on To open up just a little bit further.
‘Man’, he says, ‘Man’, Between slow strokes Making an instant comparison With the slack fuck bucket back at home ‘Jesus! You feel Bloody tight tonight cowboy, Almost virginal!’
Our press is shaping up--and serious. Our next deadline for poetry will be May 1, 08. By then James Penha's book will be available to study! You poets, feed your ghosts. Rane
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