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Half Day Moon Journal Issue N. 2 release featuring exciting new poems by twenty-eight poets

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Dec 16, 20241 min read

Half Day Moon Journal Issue N. 2 release featuring exciting new poems by twenty-eight poets

Half Day Moon Journal N. 2 includes exciting new poems by twenty-eight poets and collage work by Rod T. Boyer.

Donna Fleischer's new creation myth e-chapbook: Baby in Space

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Aug 13, 20241 min read

Donna Fleischer's new creation myth e-chapbook: Baby in Space

Half Day Moon Press welcomes Donna Fleischer's e-chapbook Baby in Space (HDMP No. 16) into our ever-unfolding cosmos. It is, as...

Wortis, Cole, and Levy's Art and Poetry e-Chapbook Release

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Jun 2, 20241 min read

Wortis, Cole, and Levy's Art and Poetry e-Chapbook Release

Half Day Moon Press' exciting new e-chapbook release Meeting / Listening / Gallivanting (HDMP 15) is a collaborative work featuring...

New Digital Chapbook Release: Grzegorz Wroblewski's The Life of a Tenement House

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Mar 8, 20242 min read

New Digital Chapbook Release: Grzegorz Wroblewski's The Life of a Tenement House

Half Day Moon Press is very pleased to announce the release of Grzegorz Wroblewski's new digital chapbook The Life of a Tenement House....

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Dec 24, 20231 min read

An Alternative Christmas Mixtape

To keep your Christmas stockings tapping, I've whipped together this Spotify playlist titled, "An Alternative Christmas Mixtape" feat....

Sakın Şaşırma: Sekiz Seçilmiş Orhan Veli Şiiri

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Oct 22, 20231 min read

Sakın Şaşırma: Sekiz Seçilmiş Orhan Veli Şiiri

En sevdigim kisa Orhan Veli şiirlerinden olusan kucuk bir koleksiyonu Half Day Moon Press sayfamda bulabilirsiniz. //// I am now...

Michael Conduit's new graphic novella from Half Day Moon Press

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Oct 3, 20231 min read

Michael Conduit's new graphic novella from Half Day Moon Press

If Julian Cope, the former frontman of the 80s new wave band The Teardrop Explodes, can be counted as a "modern antiquarian", then...

My poem selected as "Featured Haibun" in issue 19.2 of Contemporary Haibun Online

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Sep 29, 20232 min read

My poem selected as "Featured Haibun" in issue 19.2 of Contemporary Haibun Online

I was happy to see that my haibun "The Useless Tree" is the featured haibun in issue 19.2 of Contemporary Haibun Online (editied by Peter...

Engaging the uncertain in Angela Caporaso's digital chapbook of visual poetry, Dots (HDMP 11)

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Sep 19, 20232 min read

Engaging the uncertain in Angela Caporaso's digital chapbook of visual poetry, Dots (HDMP 11)

"I have always been far more drawn to uncertainties than certainties, as the former compels us to continually question ourselves about...

Ron Scully's new digital chapbook release of seventeen-syllable single-line "haiku"

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Sep 8, 20232 min read

Ron Scully's new digital chapbook release of seventeen-syllable single-line "haiku"

Ron Scully's Bureau of Weights and Measures, a mini digital chapbook release from Half Day Moon Press, has us peer into an existential...

New Digital Chapbook Release: Mark Young's Mercator Projected: selected geographies (HDMP 9)

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Aug 24, 20233 min read

New Digital Chapbook Release: Mark Young's Mercator Projected: selected geographies (HDMP 9)

Poet and visual artist Mark Young offers us cut-up and collaged travellor's accounts and descriptions of both obscure and well-trodden...

Forthcoming Half Day Moon Chapbooks on the Horizon...

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Aug 18, 20231 min read

Forthcoming Half Day Moon Chapbooks on the Horizon...

Exciting new digital chapbooks are on the way from Half Day Moon Press following the launch of the first issue of Half Day Moon Journal...

Half Day Moon Journal, Issue N. 1 (Art & Literature)

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Aug 4, 20231 min read

Half Day Moon Journal, Issue N. 1 (Art & Literature)

Featuring Asemic Work by Stephen Nelson Edited by Joseph S. Aversano C O N T R I B U T I N G P O E T S : Michele Root-Bernstein; ...

5 Cinepoetry Adaptations of My Poem, "The Gone Missing"

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Jul 7, 20233 min read

5 Cinepoetry Adaptations of My Poem, "The Gone Missing"

Only months ago I shared multiple short film adaptations of Raymond Carver's enigmatic short story "Little Things" in class with my high...

New Release: A Message from the Meadows: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts (HDMP 8)

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Jul 1, 20231 min read

New Release: A Message from the Meadows: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts (HDMP 8)

From the introduction of A Message from the Meadows: Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Fragments in Three Short Pictorial Essays, compiled by...

New Release: Cairns by Sabine Miller (HDMP 7)

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Jun 17, 20233 min read

New Release: Cairns by Sabine Miller (HDMP 7)

The cairns in Sabine Miller’s new e-chapbook Cairns are at once memorial monuments and trail markers. They are monuments dedicated to...

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Jun 14, 20231 min read

Moon Images from Friends

About a month back I invited friends to send me an image of a day moon according to whatever that may mean to them. Three were posted in...

A GROVE'S WORTH OF SAPLINGS DONATED BY HALF DAY MOON PRESS

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May 7, 20232 min read

A GROVE'S WORTH OF SAPLINGS DONATED BY HALF DAY MOON PRESS

Soil and forest management is something civilations in Anatolia have had to contend with, with varying success, for millenia. With the...

New Chapbook Release: Cherie Hunter Day's The Rattle Inside

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Apr 22, 20233 min read

New Chapbook Release: Cherie Hunter Day's The Rattle Inside

It is probably no coincidence that the Northern Californian poet and visual artist Cherie Hunter Day has received the 2022 Touchstone...

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Apr 2, 20231 min read

Sonic Boom's Final Issue

I am happy to have a poem included in what is Sonic Boom's final and wonderfully colorful issue (No. 24) released last Friday. It is...