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News from the Ocean

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:00 -0400

Susan Slaviero’s poem “The Monster: Classifications and Explanations” from GO 8/9 will be reprinted in Pushcart Prize XXXVIII: Best of the Small Presses. That’s a win for Susan, Ghost Ocean, and Tree Light Books, who published the poem in Selections From the Murder Book, which you can purchase here.

GO 11 contributor Russ Woods wants you to know that “Our hearts are eighteen hungry wolves / that are okay with saying things about ‘our hearts.’”

GO 8/9 contributor Christopher Prewitt has new poems at In Other Words: Mérid a.

Tree Light Books author Tony Mancus must look horribly American.

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Ghost Ocean 12

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:20:05 -0400

Ghost Ocean 12:

Ghost Ocean 12 is now live, featuring new poems from J. Scott Brownlee, Tovah Burstein, John Repp, Nate Pritts, Christopher Rife, Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, and Thomas Nowak, and new fiction from the Michael Czyzniejewski!

Susan Yount reads her Pushcart Prize nominated poem, “Old...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:47:40 -0400

Susan Yount reads her Pushcart Prize nominated poem, “Old Photograph,” at Uncharted Books in Chicago. The poem first appeared in Ghost Ocean 11.

NewPages Reviews Ghost Ocean 11

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:16:00 -0400

NewPages Reviews Ghost Ocean 11:

“There wasn’t a single piece in this collection that I didn’t enjoy. This issue of Ghost Ocean Magazine completely captured my attention for the short time it took to read it; all other distractions at the coffee shop were silenced.”

NewPages sings our praises in the April 2013 edition of Screen Reading. See what other flattery they throw our way, and be sure, too, to see what other impressive things could be occupying your screens.

The Story Thief: Schedule for AWP

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:07:18 -0500

The Story Thief: Schedule for AWP:

thestorythief:

I don’t know if you care, but if you do, here it goes (everything else will be up in the air):

WEDNESDAY:

7PM Gold Wake Press Reading @ Trident Book Sellers & Cafe (338 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115)

THURSDAY:

1-2PM Signing To the Chapel of Light @ Mud Luscious Press…

Ghost Ocean contributor Joshua Young is a busy [AWP] bee.

AWP 2013

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:51:20 -0500

AWP Exclusive: Necessary Objects, autographed by Rachel Levy, plus digital copy of the chapbook, $10.

Table S19.

treelightbooks: We’ve just finished assembling Rachel Levy’s...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:43:19 -0500

treelightbooks:

We’ve just finished assembling Rachel Levy’s Necessary Objects. You can add the book to your Goodreads here. You can purchase the book here. You can learn more about Rachel and read a few of the stories from Necessary Objects online here.

The chapbook, our second, will also be for sale at the AWP Conference in Boston this week at table S19. RUMFA has been kind enough to share some table acreage with us, so, if you have time, visit with those nice folks when you pick up your copy of Necessary Objects.

If you purchase the book at AWP, you’ll be entitled to a FREE digital copy (don’t forget to give your email on the sign-up sheet!), as well as one hand-typed bookmark and and print from Ghost Ocean Magazine’s Wave series. If you purchase it now (or later) online, you’ll get all the freebies except the digital copy. Digital copies are available, also, to reviewers, so if you’re interested in reviewing the chap, please query heather@ghostoceanmagazine.com.

We’re excited to get this chap out into the world, so please spread the word!

Necessary information.

thestorythief: Just a Reminder! This...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:18:18 -0500

thestorythief:

Just a Reminder! This Saturday!!!!!!!

#youbetterbethereifyouliveinchicago

Ghost Ocean contributor Joshua Young has a book and a reading and a party, all for you.

Contributor Update: Andrew Mobbs

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:14:19 -0500

Ghost Ocean contributor Andrew Mobbs has a new chapbook, Strangers and Pilgrims, out through Six Gallery Press!

Two of the poems in Andrew’s chapbook first appeared in Ghost Ocean. You can read them (“Crow Calling” and “Dead Rabbit”) here, and then buy the chap for only $5 here.

“Exactly how God / always requests trumpets, but alone, in...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:38:37 -0500

“Exactly how God / always requests trumpets, but alone, in his room, / pulls out a harmonica.”

GO editor Heather Cox reads Sky Joiner’s “Put on a Suit When the Ship Sinks.”

Ryan Norris reads Gay Giordano’s “All the Lost...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:42:58 -0500

Ryan Norris reads Gay Giordano’s “All the Lost Ones.” Hear Gay’s reading of her poem here.

“She wanted to shed the years like a small skin, collect...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:07:04 -0500

“She wanted to shed the years like a small skin, collect the days like dust beneath her fingernails and drain the memory from her marrow and pour it all into a furnace.”

Susan Yount will give you chills when she reads Bryce Emley’s “Watercolor.”

“In the fourth room, his fingers lock together, look like...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:21:37 -0500

“In the fourth room, his fingers lock together, look like brains. He is taller than Jesus in hat and boots, worn and flannel. He persists.”

Susan Yount takes on Kristin Abraham’s “Nasty Things, Those Hearts” from Ghost Ocean 11.

You can listen to Susan Yount read her own poem from GO 11 (“Old Photograph”) here.

“And the time she responded yes, that Yahweh kept some places /...

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:53:00 -0500

“And the time she responded yes, that Yahweh kept some places / just for himself”

Andrew Mobbs reads his poem “Things I Never Told You” from Ghost Ocean 11. You can read Andrew’s previous work in Ghost Ocean here.

“a smell of hostile and hostage meat / oars out of the...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:11:00 -0500

“a smell of hostile and hostage meat / oars out of the freezer’s mist / to remind him he is still here / rowing in emptied veins”

Gay Giordano gives her second reading for Ghost Ocean 11, this time for her poem “The Butcher”

Gay Giordano reads her poem “All the Lost Ones” from...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:33:46 -0500

Gay Giordano reads her poem “All the Lost Ones” from Ghost Ocean 11. This is one of two poems by Gay Giordano in this issue.

Future Tree Light Books author, Pedro Ponce, reads his short...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:08:08 -0500

Future Tree Light Books author, Pedro Ponce, reads his short piece “Confession” from Ghost Ocean 11.

“My mother is the ocean. She is up to our knees. The salt...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:46:13 -0500

“My mother is the ocean. She is up to our knees. The salt makes us float.”

Russ Woods reads his poem “You Are a Burning Planet” from Ghost Ocean 11.

Susan Yount reads her poem “Old Photograph” which...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:25:00 -0500

Susan Yount reads her poem “Old Photograph” which first appeared in our NYE sneak-peek of Ghost Ocean 11. We also nominated the poem for the Pushcart Prize.

We’re finishing up Issue 11. This is what it looks like...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:56:50 -0500

We’re finishing up Issue 11.

This is what it looks like when we’re working on an issue, except not really, because of the filters and stuff. But you get the idea.