new book coming out!

Foreword by Dan Denton, Edited by Ezhno Martín

“Michele McDannold is a literary rebel and this irreverent, delicious book, her best yet, is proof. McDannold has a way of stripping everything down to its essentials, leaving the reader sated, and yet with a strange sense of longing. “i guess/that’ll have to/be enough” the poet says in the last line of the final poem of this fine collection. Indeed.” – Alexis Rhone Fancher, author of Erotic, New & Selected, poetry editor, Cultural Daily

“Michele McDannold’s By Plane, Train, or Coincidence is a book that takes you to L.A. and lets you get lost in the gritty, quiet moments of a big city. She dials in on what happens to the mind in the desert, how all that space is damaging to the heart and mind if you are from somewhere in the Midwest. It’s a book about what happens when a heart sets itself free, gets knocked around, and goes home to the memories of what love used to look like. There is a lot of emotion and raw views about being in love in McDannold’s collection, but you’ll have to pick through the shadows and candor to find it. When you do, it will hit you squarely in the jaw.” –@Aleathia Drehmer, author of Running Red Lights (Gutter Snob Books)

“McDannold’s mastery of language thrives raw and unsparing in By Plane, Train or Coincidence …lines living in “a city that gnaws on itself”. With pathos, humor, and her driving fearlessness she transforms any landscape into languid rhythms of fertile hauntings. She is a phenomenon, a fierce visionary. Get a copy of anything she writes!” –Meg Tuite, author of White Van

“If you’re looking to explore your deepest dreams, Michele McDannold can walk you through the jungle they hide in. She unwinds the truth of the day’s ragged edge, while allowing the magic of the good night to breathe deep – one last time. McDannold truly leads the life of a seasoned writer. She knows things, she shares them here. Her latest book – By Plane, Train or Coincidence. I like it. Lots.” –@Bill Gainer, A True Story

By Plane, Train or Coincidence is now available for pre-order through MAGICAL JEEP DISTRIBUTING. Reserve your SIGNED copy today! https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/coincidence/95

Monkey Bars

Monkey Bars

Isn’t it just a bit usual these days
to be talking shit fuck?
I was reading this novel by this great
guy ‘so and so’, oh, it was only a few
years back, and it actually said
shit fuck. shit fuck.
then later on when I was reading some
other stuff–
poetry and the like, well … and I had really
already noticed lots of cunts for some reason.
I’ve never really cared for that word, and don’t use it
myself
but back to shit fuck.
it’s losing power these days
you know, it used to turn heads
but even my mother doesn’t flinch anymore, when I let it slip
…fucking shit.
it started for me on the playground, a game.
with Tracey, the toughest girl in town I wanted to be.
and Jeff, the dirtiest boy I wanted,
even in Grade 3.
man, don’t tell me you’re not born with it.
so I learned all my shit fuck bastard piss
on the monkey bars
but I never really perfected it until the year I worked in that
slaughterhouse, I was nineteen and desperate.
everyone there was desperate,
shit fuck became– I ain’t takin’ no fuckin’ shit
piss off, bitch
suck my dick
and it became an art form…and second nature.
I know at times you gotta keep it in check
and I do try to tone it down
but damnit, it’s sewn deep.
and when people keep talking shit fuck shit fuck,
I hate to hear others say it sounds cheap,
`cause baby, it comes at a price.

from Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days (Punk Hostage Press)

Available at Magical Jeep Distributing

Michele McDannold is the author of SpaceTime Continuum for Dummies (Gutter Snob Books), Point of Departure (COCKLEBUR PRESS) and Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days (PUNK HOSTAGE PRESS). She was the Editor-in-Chief at Red Fez Publications for five years and is currently the editor/publisher at Citizens for Decent Literature. She has an extensive collection of flannel and rubber chicken heads. For more, please visit michelemcdannold.com.

crossings roadtrip

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Noticia De Traspaso

borderland: an area of overlap between two things.

days that remove themselves from the regular–monumental, no. askew just right

02/09/15 Trinidad, Colorado
the ol’ Savoy, best post office I’ve ever been in & the eyes have it…

Trail’s End

 

Trinidad, Colorado 02/09/2015

 

 

City of Trinidad – Burlington Route

rolling into Trinidad

02/08/15

Comanche National Grassland

i don’t know why i didn’t take more photos. it was breathtaking but i think i was just sick of taking pictures and needing to sleep in a bed so on to being in the moment & finding a good place to stop over for a minute

02/08/15