Virgogray Press is an independent publisher operating out of Texas. Virgogray follows D.I.Y. ethics to accomplish it’s goals, and is using this along with other grassroots efforts to crawl up the collective suits of corporate America. Virgogray Press is a proud publisher of chapbooks, and produces primarily poetry and sees the chapbook as a tool and vehicle for the independent voice: one with truth, passion and creativity at its root.
We publish and promote the spoken and written word. We support artists, poets and creative types who work from genuine places. We’re interested in poetry, poets and writers from all walks of life; art and artists, individuals who not only think outside the box, but destroy the box and create their own foundation; those who see the folds of reality that we often forget in our daily, consuming lives; and desire the growth of expressionism as a means to supplement the brain food we don’t always have a chance to eat.
Hi, It has been a good day, made better by discovering your page. I placed an order for three of your books and look forward to swimming deeply in their words. -Duane
Just rec'd my copy of the "So It Goes Anthology." What an amazing collection of poetry on death. Powerful, moving and poignant. Positive as well with this most difficult of subjects. Love the pieces by Puma Perl, Chris D'Errico, and Gillian Prew. A brilliant collection.
I read a beautiful poem with a secret message from afar, Of needles and a damage done With a hint of broken words with a pain to reach so far. In an open grave, covered only by the gentle loud of whispers, Screaming, silent poems cried from a distant, running slave With puncture wounds and oozing, bleeding blisters From old decaying highs as he reaches in and out to find his very name.
He ponders and he wallows in the beauty of his murky past To think of glimpsing moments when his friendships might just last. He reads a poem from other writings Forgetting his role with a magik quill with all the demons fighting In the absence of his own forgotten will to connect his hurting soul.
Friendship never really runs away. It never really fades away. It’s only blocked by the solid white of stone within the mental frame of all escape today. He utters a word of hurt and dirt assuming a power to alter the very nature of our way, A twisted ego with no control over a friendship we so freely give to him today.
With the silky smooth of all denial, With a blindness to all his judgment, He only sees his wrongs and bads and puts himself on trial. If only to remember the greatest gift to give away, An inner truth from deep inside To show the darks and bads to each and all, To fight the demons that make us hide, To feel and scream a pain so sad.
It is the pain of real. No more blocks and covers and pretending. No fakes, no masks, no mending, Just the non-ending task to keep the needle out To live in a time to fucking shout! Holy fuck, it’s real! Holy fuck, I feel! The good will feel so bad! Wallow in your sad. Be real! Shout out the way you fucking feel! No one ran away, “a little run for cover maybe” As you began to show the truest beauty of the cover of your naked way.
We, the group of twelve, are the jury in the end. The verdict is “not fucking guilty!” The verdict is we still remain your friends.
now available for pre-order thru paypal ($5 plus S/H)...j. michael niotta's chapbook, "the devil's doin the same damn thing he's always done.'
noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.
"look, the stuff is good. quite good. straight up - like a good half-glass of whiskey." —dan fante, author of ‘mooch,’ ‘spitting off tall buildings,’ ‘kissed by a fat waitress,’ & ‘a gin pissing raw meat dual carburetor v-8 son of a bitch from los angeles.’
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