Monkey Puzzle #8 has been unleashed!
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Here’s what people are saying about Monkey Puzzle:
“Reading Monkey Puzzle is the literary journal equivalent to listening to Jim Morrison scream ‘COME ON!’ before the guitar solo in ‘Five To One,’ or watching a bad-assed version of Kurt Russell murdering a 1980’s computer chess machine with a glass of mid-shelf whiskey in John Carpenter’s ‘The Thing,’ or driving to Woody Creek Tavern for the first time and spending the entire afternoon getting loaded while sitting in Hunter Thompson’s old chair. Nate Jordon and Crew have a unique talent for collecting works that will make you want to dance, scream, rage, get drunk, affectionately latch onto the genitals of that special someone who’s genitals need a good latching on to, climb a mountain, change the world for the better, compose an opera and donate blood—all at the same time.”
- Rob Geisen, Author of Paper Thin and Beautiful Graveyards
“Have you ever paddled deep into the waters of the Lower Orinoco in Venezuela and looked longingly over the side of your oak dugout and there under the jungled canopy stuck your arm to the elbow into the muddy freshwater and felt the needle-teethed caribes suckling and gnawing at your digits until you lifted your hand and waved your bloody bone fingers at your face, blowing them kisses from your ecstatic mouth? Reading Monkey Puzzle is a lot like that. Reading Monkey Puzzle is like plunging into dark waters needleworked with piranhas, and coming away raw and stripped and blowing and laughing. Reading Monkey Puzzle is like discovering a honeyed mystery deep at the heart of your most cherished bloodied escapade.”
- Shane Joaquín Jiménez, Author of It Can Be That Way Still
“In a time when the written word is being pushed around by trendy-leather-pouch-eye-burning-Kindles, a human being can still pick up a book that is just as enthralling to read as it is to peer at. With poetry and prose that tickles the brain, teamed with photography that jumps off the page, Monkey Puzzle will continue to grow uninhibitedly. Monkey Puzzle, along with its founder and editor Nate Jordon, has cemented its place in a long history of rebellious publications.”
- Daniel Dissinger, Editor of In Stereo Press
Monkey Puzzle #8 features the following works of prose:
“excerpt from Visions of Neal” by John Allen Cassady
“excerpt from Searching for Suzi” by Nancy Stohlman
“A Real Sweet Thing” by Shane Joaquín Jiménez
“Snow Globes Are the Bane of Our Existence” by Leah Rogin-Roper
“Hills Like Golden Arches” by Dale Bridges
“excerpt from The Whole to The Parts” by Paige Doughty
“Z-Eros” by Paul A. Toth
“So, this is the beginning…” by Lily Scarborough Heehs
“Slowly Ringing Bells” by Ian Washburn
“War Wounds” by Stan Flukinger
“Getting Published” by Allan Richard Shapiro
“Van Gogh” by Lori Heflin
and the following works of poetry:
“Theosophy” by Tim Skeen
“4/4/09″ by Irene Joyce
“8th Week” by Violet Monday
“11:11 Didn’t Work” by Jonathan Montgomery
“black transistor series” by Michael Bernstein
“Classifications of Space-time Intervals…” by LaVonne Natasha Caesar
“The Coda” by Naomi Lore
“Coffee Shop Poetry” by Carlos Ponce-Melendez
“Danchel” by Mark Lamoruex
“Espresso” by Naomi Lore
“extermination of boredom” by Aimee Herman
“Graffiti on Mission Street” by Gerard Morel
“I Hope You Got a Copy of the Memo, Louise” by Barbara Price
“Impasse” by William Benton
“Isaac Newton’s Sister” by Karen Douglass
“Island Theory” by Andrew McEwan
“Jazz Toad” by Carolyn Zaikowski
“Letter Redacted” by Adrienne Dodt
“Musical Score for Desire” by Megan Burns
“My Dishy Canadian Cousin” by Corey Mesler
“No Apologies” by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
“Pacific” by Dennis Caswell
“A Phone Booth in Boylston” by William Doreski
“A Photograph of Rilke” by Barry Spacks
“Photographs” by Leticia Luna
“Possession” by Jessey Nickells
“Sanctuary” by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
“Sea Blanket” by Leticia Luna
“Side Effects” May Include by Howie Good
“Something Comforting There Is” by Matt Dennison
“Speaking of Tehran on a Train” by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong
“Standing Naked” by Olatundji Akpo-Sani
“This is Not about Performing Anal” by Get In the Car, Helen
“Tipsy Love Song to Charlie Parker” by Emily Owens
“To a God Undiscovered” by Diane Klammer
“Walloon at Walgreens” by Lois Leveen
with photography by:
Alexandra Parsons
Cecilia Kunstadter
Jennifer Hamilton
Lily Scarborough Heehs
Michael Filimowicz
Nate Jordon
Peter Schwartz
Philip Meersman
Stacy Walsh
and artwork by:
Alex Nodopaka
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