Feb 27, 2024 · Alien Buddha- Anybody who has been on Alein Buddha’s YouTube page recently has seen you reading a curated pick of selections from our Best of 2023 anthology; as well as a dazzling reading from “I Will Be Free”, and some of your other chapbooks. Have you been reading poetry publicly long, or have you started recently.

Dec 30, 2024 · MM-Ever since I joined the poetry scene in my community, I make sure to sign myself up for every open mic I attend.Live readings help me become more comfortable with my material, which in turn improves my performance quality. This past year, I got to showcase my chapbook across 4 main events, which includes Restoring Petals, a local art exhibition with a focus on the love and loss experienced ...

Jan 30, 2024 · ABP- Thank you for taking this interview, Kira. Last year, Alien Buddha Press had the privilege of publishing your microchap ‘Remains’. What was the writing process like for this collection? KO- I started drafting many of these poems during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Writing was an outlet for the…

Mar 31, 2024 · ABP- Thank you for taking this interview, Chris. Two years ago, Alien Buddha Press had the privilege of publishing your 187 page story collection “Tent City”. What can you tell us about this collection? What was the writing process like? CC- The pleasure is entirely mine. For me, Tent City is as much about the…

Mar 10, 2025 · Alien Buddha Press is open for submissions! We’re on the lookout for bold, fresh voices ready to shake up the literary world. We publish poetry chapbooks, full-length collections, novels, novellas, nonfiction, essays, plays, art/photography books, memoirs, and more—if it’s got a pulse, we want to read it.

Oct 28, 2024 · ABP– Thank you for taking this interview, Jessica.Back in the spring of 2024, ABP was lucky to publish your short story collection A Cup of Truth at The Hard Knock Café.Since then we also got to work together on five more books, Maybe My Name Is Yes, Indigestion, Drifting Tomatoes, A Million Light Years From Broadway, & Bite the Wax Tadpole. ...

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Nov 18, 2024 · The Alien Buddha’s Big Backpack Full of Soup Cans (Soup for Our Families) DEADLINE: March 1, 2025 🔥 Theme: Malcontent Poems ️ Seeking anti-establishment, anti-oppression, anti-hate poetry that confronts the “machine” of war, racism, sexism, and discrimination. Pieces that rage, inspire, and organize for a hopeful future.

Sep 30, 2024 · WQC-So, From Lost to Found was written over the course of a ten-year period, basically, several of the pieces in it were between 2014-2020, obviously there was newer stuff in it, any chance I have I’m writing.It is about life with mental illness, and largely covers my journey through the symptoms initially appearing as a teenager, all the way through my diagnosis in 2015, up until a couple ...

Aug 28, 2024 · As you know, FLESH, my collection of poems about my abortion, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2023. RIPE – published in 2024 – grew out of FLESH and my poetic intention to give reproductive oppression, and its inverse, voice.