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EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED!
Box Turtle Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Jill Hoffman’s long-overdue EXCITING second novel, STONED, coming end of April! We welcome your pre-orders.
In Jill Hoffman’s irresistible Stoned, the poet Maud Diamond not only indulges in reefer madness in her Beresford bathroom, but takes a much younger live-in lover, a handsome Russian (would-be-famous) artist, to the horror of her precocious children. An explosive triangle, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, brilliantly drawn with outsized characters worthy of Dickens, lavish imagery, and impeccable comedic timing. Hoffman has written a book so poignant and pleasurable, like a Crème Brûlée for the eyes, you’ll read it again and again. And yet for all its seeming decadence there is a purity here like a fawn running into the water.
Stephanie Emily Dickinson, Author of: Razor Wire Wilderness
Mudfish 23 is coming soon!
Mudfish Poetry Prize #17 Now Open!
Judged by Deborah Landau
Contest deadline: June 15, 2023
First Prize Winner is awarded $1,200 and publication in Mudfish 24
Two Honorable Mentions awarded publication
Click here for more details!
COMING SOON, INDIVIDUAL POET SERIES
#17: The Cruelties of Brooklyn, Paul Schaeffer
#18: Dear Yiddish, Richard J. Fein
#19: Death, Please Wait, Rochelle Jewell Shapiro
“The poems in Paul Schaeffer’s first poetry collection, The Cruelties of Brooklyn, instruct us in how to mourn and endure our living and give us an occasion to follow a family line through its most valued asset: the voice of one who remembers and sings the memory of the lives of those now gone, those who loved him. And yet, Schaeffer does not dwell in sorrow and grief-‘life isn’t suffering…‘ at least not completely. There is joy here, too. ‘We are even ok with less than nothing/Even less contains a drop,’ I’m thankful Schaeffer tells us, ‘That drop nourishes us/We learn to love it so much.‘”
Curtis Bauer, Author of American Selfie
Join the Mudfish Workshop, now on Zoom!
Mudfish 22 has launched! Better than ever — our constant theme — is true once again.
Mudfish 22 is bursting with beautiful outrageous poems, lavish selections from diverse poets, and new art by up-and-coming New York-based artists. The readers include the judge of the Mudfish Poetry Prize, Erica Jong, the first prize winner from Kentucky, two honorable mentions from Canada and Texas, a new poet from London, the guest Art Editor, John Yau, and many others. Available through Barnes & Noble or via PayPal at mudfishmag@aol.com
Or, send checks to:
Box Turtle Press, 184 Franklin Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY, 10013
Mudfish 21 still available!
$20 + $3.50 shipping and handling
WAREHOUSE SALE!
Our storage room is jammed.
Our cartons are overflowing.
Here’s the deal:
The Epic is back!
3 book-length poems that rival the Odyssey. A $60 value for half price.
$30 for:
The Gates of Pearl by Jill Hoffman,
Notes for a Love Poem by Mary Du Passage
Conversations with the Horizon by E.J. Evans
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Vilnius Diary by Anna Halberstadt and Single Woman by Dell Lemmon
2 masterpieces for the price of one. A $40 value for $20!
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Buy Notes for a Love Poem by Mary Du Passage and get her first book, Marbles, for free.
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Box Turtle Press, 184 Franklin Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY, 10013;
or, pay by PayPal at mudfishmag@aol.com.
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Warmest thanks to our poets, readers, and judges.
LATEST BOOKS
Books Available for Purchase!
The Gates of Pearl
MUDFISH INDIVIDUAL POET SERIES #11
MUDFISH INDIVIDUAL POET SERIES #10
MUDFISH 20
MUDFISH 19
