CMP Featured Writers, June 2023

Invasion of the June beetles!! Opened the door last night and they were all over the place, clinging to the screen; crawling on the porch rail; flying around the light. Crazy how they show up right on time seemingly out of nowhere every year. I’ve seen a few here and there over the past week or so, but last night, they were having a party on the porch! Nature is a trip.

Below you’ll find the June featured writers. I’m always open for submissions! If you’d like to send some work, email 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com with a bio and author photo.

Cajun Mutt Press has released five books so far in 2023! Shooting Myself in the Dark by Carrie Magness Radna, After the Fall by William Teets, Holding the Door for Barbarians by Mark Berriman, Tales From The Rotten Land by Efe Tusder, and our latest release was destructive paradox slips on banana peel by Joshua Martin. You can find them and a list of all other CMP titles by following this link:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

Keep your eyes peeled for Written Under Duress by John Tustin on June 13th!! I reworked the cover, so I’ll have a new cover reveal for y’all over the weekend and more details about the book as well.

Stay tuned for updates, and keep kicking ass out there! My biggest joy is helping people get their words out to the world. Cajun Mutt Press wouldn’t exist without writers & readers.

Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀

3 Semagrams
by Patrick Sweeney
06/02/23

The first thing I learned from boxing
by Matt Borczon
06/05/23

BANGING ONE OUT
by Bradford Middleton
06/07/23

Saudade
by Jacob R. Moses
06/09/23

vantablack
by C. Cimmone
06/12/23

Meditātiōnēs ēvellentia mala
by Douglas Colston
06/14/23

The Radar
by Allan Lake
06/16/23

Walter
by Shane Allison
06/19/23

breasts
by Jacklyn Henry
06/21/23

Master Or Servant
by Lynn White
06/23/23

Ritual
by Damon Hubbs
06/26/23

Midlife and Exit Seeking
by David Alec Knight
06/28/23

SILENCE
by Jasna Gulic
06/30/23

2023 Book Schedule

I’ve officially finished the 2023 book schedule and wanted to let y’all know what’s forthcoming/available. I remembered what else I was going to say as well; I need featured writer submissions! Sen 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com with a bio and author photo.

Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀

All CMP Books:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

Jan: Shooting Myself in the Dark
by Carrie Magness Radna

Feb: After the Fall
by William Teets

Mar: Holding the Door for Barbarians
by Mark Berriman

Apr: Tales From The Rotten Land
by Efe Tusder

May: destructive paradox slips on banana peel
by Joshua Martin

Jun: Written Under Duress
by John Tustin

Jul: Bad Weed Never Dies
by JDCIV

Aug: Vital Decay
by Timothy Dodd

Sep: Fear of Falling Backwards
by Ian Mullins

Oct: Poems to Die By
by Frogg Corpse

Nov: A Long Walk
by John Drudge

Dec: Beneath Napalm Dreams
by Merritt Waldon

Now Available from Cajun Mutt Press

Now Available from Cajun Mutt Press, destructive paradox slips on banana peel by Joshua Martin!! Brother Martin is a wordsmith of the surreal. This collection takes you on a journey through his intelligently absurd mind.

Follow the link below to grab a copy, and please leave a review!

🤟💀📚

destructive paradox slips on banana peel
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C47R267Y

“destructive paradox slips on a banana peel is another triumph in the prolific Martin canon—a resounding trumpet of nonsense bordering on good sense and forcing you to draw your own conclusions. You will be transported to Martin’s own idiosyncratic world of almost realised ideas that leap out of the shadows and pound you into submission; you will be delighted, you will be terrified, you will laugh out loud and you will cower in the corner—Martin’s words have this power and more. Read on! Read on! See what lessons Martin has to teach you!”
—Lachlan J McDougall, LJMcD Communications

“Joshua Martin’s paradox is loaded with image after striking image, the bizarre co-existing with the quotidian; the manufactured with the organic; the benign with the downright unsettling. Surreal and playful, vivid and vital with recurring base notes of the performance, serial disguise and orchestrated misdirection to which twenty-first century existence is routinely subjected.”
—A J Moore, author of m(p)atriarchive (Beir Bua Press)

“Joshua Martin is an expert cartographer of our collective smartphone psyche. In destructive paradox…, he not only maps these beleaguered mindscapes saturated by “collagen portraits” and “dissociative wincing” but alchemizes what he finds there into a surreal wonderland of daring, lexically deft poems.”
—Kenneth M. Cale, author of Greater Vegas Bleeds Into The Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber

Coming Soon from Cajun Mutt Press

Look for destructive paradox slips on banana peel by Joshua Martin on May 16!! Please leave a review if you grab a copy.

“destructive paradox slips on banana peel is another triumph in the prolific Martin canon—a resounding trumpet of nonsense bordering on good sense and forcing you to draw your own conclusions. You will be transported to Martin’s own idiosyncratic world of almost realised ideas that leap out of the shadows and pound you into submission; you will be delighted, you will be terrified, you will laugh out loud and you will cower in the corner—Martin’s words have this power and more. Read on! Read on! See what lessons Martin has to teach you!”
—Lachlan J McDougall, LJMcD Communications

“Joshua Martin’s paradox is loaded with image after striking image, the bizarre co-existing with the quotidian; the manufactured with the organic; the benign with the downright unsettling. Surreal and playful, vivid and vital with recurring base notes of the performance, serial disguise and orchestrated misdirection to which twenty-first century existence is routinely subjected.”
—A J Moore, author of m(p)atriarchive (Beir Bua Press)

“Joshua Martin is an expert cartographer of our collective smartphone psyche. In destructive paradox…, he not only maps these beleaguered mindscapes saturated by “collagen portraits” and “dissociative wincing” but alchemizes what he finds there into a surreal wonderland of daring, lexically deft poems.”
—Kenneth M. Cale, author of Greater Vegas Bleeds Into The Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber

Follow this link to see a list of all Cajun Mutt Press titles:
https://cajunmuttpress.wordpress.com/2021/06/08/cajun-mutt-press-bibliography/

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May 2023 Featured Writers

May is here, which means spring is upon us! It’s warming up outside, the trees are turning green, flowers are blooming, and it’s time to start cutting grass. My least favorite part, but it’s not so bad because our yard is kind of small. The thing I’m looking forward to the most is BBQ. I love to cook, especially grilling outside on a nice day.

Anyway, it’s time for the monthly rundown! Below you’ll find the May featured writer lineup. If you’d like to submit some work, send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com with a bio and author photo.

Keep your eyes peeled for our next book release, destructive paradox slips on banana peel by Joshua Martin!! I’ll have an official publication date and more details for y’all soon.

We have several books available as well! Tales From The Rotten Land by Efe Tusder, Holding the Door for Barbarians by Mark Berriman, After the Fall by William Teets, and Shooting Myself in the Dark by Carrie Magness Radna are our 2023 releases so far. Follow the link below to see all CMP titles.

Cajun Mutt Press Bibliography

I’m also working on several manuscripts, and have a few people I still need to get back to. Please be patient with me. Be on the lookout for books from John Tustin, Frogg Corpse, Ian Mullins, Timothy Dodd, Merritt Waldon, Aleathia Drehmer, John Drudge, and more!

That’s all for now. I’ll have more info for y’all soon about upcoming books. Keep kicking ass out there.

Love Y’all, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀

May 2023 CMP Featured Writers:

Tapetum Lucidum
by Mykyta Ryzhykh
05/01/23

4 POEMS
by Tim Kahl
05/03/23

Arguing With Myself Over Sushi
by Jeff Taylor
05/05/23

3 POEMS
by JJ Campbell
05/08/23

2 POEMS
by Chris Butler
05/10/23

Back in the Bowery
by John Drudge
05/12/23

Come To Grief
by Ted Jackins
05/15/23

2 POEMS
by Joanna Grant
05/17/23

TWISTED SISTER
by Vern Fein
05/22/23

WATCHING THE ASHES
by Dr. Roger G. Singer
05/24/23

Blues Man
by Daniel S Irwin
05/26/23

3 POEMS
by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
05/29/23

Sticking it to the Man
by Jc Rammelkamp
05/31/23