“You Are Alive When They Start to Eat You”, my debut poetry chapbook, is available from Bottlecap Press @bottlecappress . Order your copy today! Please 🙏
(Link below, in bio, & comments)
https://bottlecap.press/products/youajtl?keyword=John%20T.%20Leonard
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Issue One of Rawhead is officially out! Huge thanks to our contributors, our staff, and our readers for making this first issue possible. Go check it out and show these creators some love.
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I’m helping out with a lot of lit/art social media accounts right now and have greatly neglected Bluesky. @rawheadjournal will have a social media manager beginning June 1st so we’ll have more of a presence over there! So will @42milespress and @theglacierjournal which share an account. Follow if you like what we’re doing 😎
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We are accepting submissions for the 2026 42 Miles Press Poetry Award! Check our website or Submittable for more details and to view our past winners. Submissions are open until June 15th so you have just over a month to send us your manuscripts!
This contest is judged by series editor David Dodd Lee @davidlee2588 . The winning poet will receive $1,000, publication of their book, and 50 author copies. The winner will also be invited to give a reading at Indiana University South Bend as part of the release of the book.
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I have two new poems in the “The Alien Buddha’s Got Beef” anthology from @alienbuddhapress . Get your copy today!
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“Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn, then, represents a skillfully edited assortment of peculiar tales and images, all of them Midwestern, some of them provocative, and others quite delightful. The variety of voices contained here lends to surprises and suspense—even occasional humor and irony. The arrangement of these cryptozoological entries is thoughtful and charming. It’s an enjoyable read, never base nor gory, but occasionally unnerving … in a good way.”
—Poet, midwesterner & former public school teacher turned law professor Thomas E. Simmons
Check out the full review here!
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Here’s a poem from my debut chapbook, You Are Alive When They Start to Eat You. It’s available now from Bottlecap Press @bottlecappress . If you buy it (or any chapbook from Bottlecap) you’re helping to support small presses and that’s pretty rad.
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“Lady with Ermines”, one of five mixed media pieces by GJ Gillespie in Issue Two of Rawhead.
Bio:
GJ Gillespie is a mixed-media collage artist living in a 1928 Tudor Revival farmhouse overlooking Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, Washington. Inspired by the haunting work of the Northwest Mystics and the formal innovations of mid-century abstract expressionism, his layered collages transform found materials — grocery advertisements, tissue, newsprint, and paint — into figurative and abstract works that explore existential meaning through cultural iconography.
A prolific and widely recognized artist, Gillespie’s work has appeared in more than 210 publications, been exhibited in 71 shows, and earned 23 awards. He has completed six artist residencies at the University of Washington’s Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs on San Juan Island.
Beyond his studio practice, Gillespie founded The Creativity Initiative (501c3), a nonprofit dedicated to donating art supplies to schools, and runs Leda Art Supply, specializing in premium sketchbooks for artists.
Website: gjgillespieartistic.com
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I’m excited to announce that my very first chapbook is now available from @bottlecappress . Order your copy today! (Link below, in bio, & comments)
https://bottlecap.press/products/youajtl?keyword=John%20T.%20Leonard
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