Gnashing Teeth Publishing

"The Angel Gabriel brought me a message, but forgot it the second he saw his first cat video," begins the tumultuous relationship between an angel and a human that is at the core of (Text) Messages...

A Dangerous Heaven creates personal and political conversations that resound through both the sacred and the secular worlds. Jo Angela Edwins has spent the past many years excavating those personal...

McAllister confronts the loss of her first-born son from overdose. These poems, written over the course of his lifetime and after his untimely death, weave in and out of the past, flow into a bleak...

Ann Weil's Blue Dog Road Trip brings the reader along on a journey no mother expects to take, as she tells her story-one poem at a time-of raising a child with mental illness.Through free verse,...

Drawing from the original text of Dead Girl Running by Christina Dodd, this collection of erasure poems brings together poets from around the world. Each page was mailed to a poet, who then lived...

The poems of Excavator explore the landscapes of daily life, both those exterior as well as interior, covering ground from the South and Southwest U.S. to Mexico City and Spain. From the daily life...

Fragmentation and Volta by Paul Ilechko is a carefully formulated book with a structure that is more architectural than conceptual. One part of the book (the fragmentation) is composed of sets of...

In this honest look at sex addiction and grappling with identity, L Scully has laid bare their most intimate scars and dared the reader to trace the outlines. With personal essays, photographs, and...

This selection of 13 audio dramas is sure to deliver those old-time radio vibes. Some of these plays were originally produced exclusively for Narada Radio Company. From ghosts to musical comedies,...

Most journeys begin without knowledge of ever beginning. "Ghostword" is inspired by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's, A Fool's Life (1987, Eridanos Press), written on June 20, 1927.Akutagawa's writing...

Girl. by Anastasia DiFonzo is a study in coming of age within the constraints and freedoms of femininity. DiFonzo walks readers through her own experience of girlhood, both directly and from the...

The companion to the highly lauded "Sleep Cinematic: A Golem's Quarter", "Lorenzo by the Ghost Light: A Spiel" is a mock epic infused with absurdly operatic situations and allusions as well as to an...

In Moonlight and Monsters the poems move between wonder and fairy-tale, earth and sky, fire and things that go bump in the night. Scharhag has given birth to wondrous monsters and dances with fearful...

Shared Blood centers on the author's fascination with and ultimate estrangement from his own father as he becomes a father himself. It navigates this space through surreal renderings of lived...

A collection of quaint and quirky speculative fictions, Y.M. Valentonis' Short Stories Without Provocation are experimental narratives from the beginnings of history to today's coffe blog post. These...

A tale of a Golem in pursuit of community and a greater purpose for a man of clay who has trouble dating and simply relaxing. "Sleep Cinematic" is a quartet of books which follows the Golem, Pearl,...

You walk out the door for work on a Monday morning and immediately drop your coffee in the apartment hallway. You take a bad step on the stairs and almost do the splits. It's raining and your...

Surrealia is a collection of poems that form a narrative about a sentient world that is a place of ease, deep philosophical inquiry, self-growth, and revolution. Its protagonist Max discovers much...

Teddy Orloff is a baker, whose home and community have been rocked by scarlet fever. His children are stricken and the home under quarantine. As a baker he cannot stay with his family yet he finds a...

the catastrophe of after: a short-stay diary by Emily Kay MacGriff, is a chapbook written in response to the (unpublished) full manuscript, Catastrophic States of Water. The latter investigates the...

There are things we carry with us through life: physical, emotional, metaphorical. A teddy bear you've had since you were a child, the resentment at a family member who let you down, the fear which...

The Mansion: Liberated Zones Inside The Controlled Inner CityAuthor: Dee AllenPublisher: Gnashing Teeth PublishingPublication Date: 45671Number of Pages: 104 pagesBinding: PoetryISBN-10: ISBN-13:...

In childhood, our obsessions often lie in seemingly the most trivial of objects. Be they simple sticks, stones, or other bone-breaking things, these totems carry weight normally reserved for relics...

In this new thriller collection Zary Fekete writes stories of religious tension, haunted art, body horror, rampant artificial intelligence, climate disaster, mental obsessions, and unrequited love.....

Trash Poems is a collection of poems from daily writings on found items: receipts, coffee cups, gum wrappers, and even a leaf. Each poem was written in the moment, with no thought to spelling or...

When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes by Thomas Murphy is a unique look from inside the mind of Tom outward at the landscape of America today. He pulls no punches as he rages against injustice while finding...

Where It Will probes the struggle for acceptance in an individual's history, the tension and disconnection with his gay partner and friends at pivotal times and one's place in the family, coupled...