Lit Fest Press / Festival of Language

With carefully tuned eye and ear, Jeannie E. Roberts places us, threading the names of very real streets, parks, trails, and towns of her childhood and adult life among poems that pop and snap with...

Poetry painted on a bomb falling out of a plane. BLASPHEMER doesn't fuck around. Yarrow is wonderfully possessed.-Bud Smith, F-250 Enthusiasm like percolating lava courses through these poems,...

FULL COLOR INTERIOR. From the author, "It all began on a date night with my wife a couple of years back. We live in a rather boring town, and money was kind of tight, so after a relatively...

IS Several forms of language - poetry, prose, dialogue, essay, opera - take shape in Is. Once we use language with imagination, the definitions/constrictions of traditional form fall away. All...

Joani Reese is a poetry blues angel. Think of Bonnie Raitt with steel strings. Think of an embodied muse who confronts danger and loss with heart, with the kind of music that makes us forget misery...

Collected works, creative and critical, from the first annual David Foster Wallace Conference by Illinois State University, Department of English, Normal, Illinois in May 2014. Works by: Diego B?ez...

Collected works form the Second Annual David Foster Wallace Conference in Normal, Illinois, including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, criticism, original artwork, and hybrid work.Author: Carissa...

Reliquary of Debt takes on the familiar topics of pilgrimage and travel in order to ask new questions about the intersections of parenting, god, economics, feminism, art, and culture. Margaret Rozga,...

-This bomb-ass, brilliant book is, without question, as serious as a heart attack. The storyworld of REAL survival: Amy Eggert is the only person I know brave enough, badd enuff, to go there. Aiming...

The best stories get repackaged and retold over centuries, millenia. Think Angela Carter's masterful retellings of Little Red Riding Hood and others in The Bloody Chamber. Think Maxine Hong...