An Evening of Poetry with Bill Shute & Michael Aaron Casares
Ruta Maya open mic hosts featured poets, Bill Shute and Michael Aaron Casares for a night of verse and open mic. Bill Shute, a poet and publisher from San Antonio, returns for his third annual Austin reading w/ Michael, this time featuring his collection “Junk Sculpture From The New Gilded Age”. Austin … Read more
“By the Banks of the Ajoy…” Reviewed by Federica Nightingale
The last poetry collection by Subhankar Das, “By the Banks of the Ajoy, Jaideb Vanishes into the Blue”, is a true jump into a world of images and stunning views of ordinary life. Edited by Virgogray Press, the book is printed bilingual, in English and Bangla. The title poem of the book alludes to authors … Read more
The VGP Literate No. 8
Neural Piano (for my grandmother, Grace Paynter) You see, her mind was never confined to that room sea foam soothing green gall bladder attacks and projectile vomit no, it moved with music scales sliding sideways was scented all things vernal she sent it beyond that jonquil window where the sunlight was weaker than the pale … Read more
The VGP Literate No. 7
Dimensions greed is a mobile brain parasite bigger than any worm or tumor, but the chapbook factor, magazines— medicine, or futility in paper flesh, the radiant physics not fully x-rayed, expressionless, we tie shoes, and die David Scott Pointer is a friendly neighborhood political poet. He has been publishing around the horn for 21 years.
Virgogray Press Pushcart Prize Nominees
It is again that time of year when independent publishers all around submit their nominees for next year’s Puschart Prize Best of the Small Presses anthology. This year we had a plethora to choose from, including Carcinogenic Poetry, Nothing. No One. Nowhere., the individual collections, The VGP Literate, and the Occupy Poetry Project. There were … Read more
