Leaf Garden Press: 13 books

A new Leaf Garden Press chapbook by Kyle Hemmings. Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. He has been published in Elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, Blaze Vox, Matchbook, and elsewhere. He loves 50s Sci-Fi movies, manga comics, and pre-punk garage bands of the 60s. His latest collection of poems and prose is Future Wars published by Another New Calligraphy.

Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago in 1955. His family moved to Southern California when he was four. He attended Catholic schools in Torrance and Redondo Beach. He went on to the University of California at Santa Cruz where he studied writing with George Hitchcock, Barbara Hull and Raymond Carver....

JASON FISK is a husband to one, a father of two (soon to be three), and a teacher to many. He lives and teaches in the suburbs of Chicago. His long list of employment before he became a teacher includes working as a mental health professional in a psychiatric unit, a driller of holes in a kitchen...

J de Salvo is a proud native of Los Angeles. His poetry, fiction, and articles have been published extensively in print and online. He is the editor and publisher of the Bicycle Review and the Pedestrian Press. He lives in Oakland, CA.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Our Poetry Archive, Setu, Literary Yard, and The Oklahoma Review. His personal website is: http://ryanquinnflanagan.yolasite.com/

Poetry and prose. No specific theme. A lot of yata yata and plenty of la-de-da.

Cockahoop, Xianggang, February 4thWe were greeted by the denizens with a parade and small gifts. I received a microscopic elephant carved neatly from an actual tusk. My guide, Actaeon, was given a timepiece showing earthly hours alongside those of heaven. Spent a peaceful day eating the local...

Stacy Lynn Mar is a poet, closet collage artist, introverted closet hipster, and occasional fan of The Beatles. She splits her lives between stay-at-home mother, forays into bohemian feminist literature, and part time psychology nerd. Stacy has been writing poetry since her lengthy introductions to...

"Mr. Glass" is a coherent chapbook of poems by Kyle Hemmings on the character of Mr. Glass. Kyle Hemmings lives and works in New Jersey. He has been published in Elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, This Zine Will Change Your Life, Matchbook, and elsewhere. He loves cats, dogs, and garage bands of the 60s.

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a native of Barrie, ON; a city known for the tornado of 1985 and little else. He presently resides in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada under ten feet of snow with a nurse who drives a big blacked out truck. His work can be found both in print and online. He has an affinity for dragonflies, discount tequila, and all things sarcastic.

John Michael Flynn is an English teacher at Piedmont Virginia Community College in central Virginia. Various links to his published prose and poetry can be found at his web site, http://www.basilrosa.com. He has earned writing awards from the U.S. Peace Corps and New England Poetry Club.

"One of These Things Is Not Like the Others" -- A woman screams. / Another was alive just a few days ago. // Everyone else looks dazed / except Nussbaum, // who turns his collar up / & furtively appraises / the mortal brilliance of blood. // Context means a lot. / You can’t know how...

Chris Vola is the author of Monkeytown, a novel. His work has appeared in The Rumpus, Monkeybicycle, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Paste Magazine, and elsewhere. A former contributing books editor at The Brooklyn Rail and chapbook reviewer at Short, Fast, and Deadly, he lives in New York and can be found at smalldrunkencog.blogspot.com.