We are excited to announce that David Trinidad's Hollywood Cemetery has been selected for publication in early 2025 from nearly 500 submissions to our chapbook open-reading period. David Trinidad’s numerous books include Sleeping with Bashō, Digging to Wonderland: Memory Pieces, Notes on a Past Life, Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera, and The Late Show. He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith, and Divining Poets: Dickinson, an Emily Dickinson tarot deck. Trinidad currently lives in Chicago.
We would like to honorably mention the work of the following poets, whose manuscripts we found remarkable:
—James D’Agostino and Karen Carcia’s At the Skirt of the Storm —Denise Duhamel’s In Which —Gail Griffin’s deGeneneration: A Vision Quest —Alan Hill’s Daughterland —Eric Pankey’s Foxfire —Kylan Rice’s Little Sulfur —Mark Tardi’s The Nettles of Implication —Julie Marie Wade’s Capriccio —Julie Marie Wade & Denise Duhamel’s The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020
The other titles in the Green Linden Chapbook Series can be found in our catalog. The next chapbook open-reading period will begin December 1. A fond thank you to everyone who shared poetry.