Hello Internet. We have a pile of left-over thread scraps from binding Karl's book. Anyone have any suggestions for how to use them? Our goal is zero waste.
Everything is Loose
If you live in the Kansas City area, make sure you track down Karl and buy a copy from him to support your local author. We hope to have them available in a few bookstores in Kansas City, Lexington, and Milwaukee real soon. Otherwise, you can buy them right here for $5. Don't forget that we still have copies of RCR Issue #3 and #4 for sale as well.
Coming Soon From Rabbit Catastrophe Press...
by Karl McComas-Reichl
Everything is Loose is the latest ScrapChap of poetry by the wonderful writer Karl McComas-Reichl. The poems are beautiful and strange and very hard to describe. McComas-Reichl is not necessarily writing about this world, but it all seems familiar. It might be our world but with different rules. His poetry is shockingly fresh, sometimes tender, sometimes funny, but always unexpected. Here is a list of our attempts to describe the book which we ultimatley rejected but are going to list here anyway:
-grounded in uncertainty
-part magic realism, part vegan adventure story
-Gene Hackman meets Q-Tip... finally!
-Everything is Loose is loose.
-post-poetry or super-poetry?
Here is an excerpt from Everything is Loose.
IX
Moving to California in the
middle of the night with no
stuff. Trying to find our new
house based on the salvia plant
that is supposed to be grow-
ing in the front yard. We end
up finding Danielle Wheeler’s
house towards the dawn side.
It has a small small small
fenced-in yard with bleached
grass. She is loading her three
horses and thirty or so ducks
into a U-haul for the night. I
help her close the back door
and lock it; this seems natu-
ral. She hugs us both for a
long time and I think that per-
haps I should tell her that one
of our horses has fallen off
the mountain.
Karl McComas-Reichl is also an accomplished musician, and you can learn more about him here.
RCR now open for submissions
We will be reading for issue #5 until Dec. 1st. Please send us your best poetry, short stories, and artwork. For this issue, we're going to instate the one-word bio. We'll let you all figure out how that's going to work. Send it along with your submission. We're hoping for a formidable dictionary of writers.
RCR #4 Is Available
RCR won't stop changing. Progress: it's not just the ironically eponymous theme of the opening piece of issue 4, in which Aaron Anstett imagines a sort of nightmarish community college night class in self-improvement. While Greg stayed up late learning how to stitch the new binding, Robin accidentally sewed an underlining seam of progress throughout the collection. But progress comes with the baggage of nostalgia and regret for the past. And always present, the never-ending question "What next?" Dillon J. Welch drops in unexpectedly on the tenants of his old house in "Bienvenue." Emma Ramey realizes "I have always wanted, yet what do I have to dream?" in "Tenant." Mercedes Lawry wonders what would have happened "if only the out-of-control truck wouldn’t hit the pedestrians" in "Tabloid Fodder or Simply Life." In Billy Howell's "Remains," an obsession with a benign cysts leads to the assumption of a past life as Alexei Romanov. Richard Boada revives ghosts on the Mississippi. Sally Molini warns us of "another long spell of Curious Choices" up head. Progress requires the moments of reflection and observation that occur in many other pieces in the issue. But it does not necessarily ask "Is it better? Are we right?"
Issue #4 is a short, but focused issue. We are lucky to have had the opportunity to publish such a talented group of people. The list of contributors is as follows:Aaron Anstett
Richard Boada
Scott Ditzler
Billy Howell
Mercedes Lawry
Sally Molini
Joseph Mulholland
Katie Jean Shinkle
Emma Ramey
Dillon Welch
Also we would like to say a special thanks to:
MC Hyland
Robert J. Baumann
Jenna J. Rolle
Krista Callahan-Caudill
The Morris Bookshop
The Midwest Small Press Festival
Eric Casero's Table