Punk Hostage Press

Michael Marcus takes us on a wild adventure through the darkest depths of addiction, sexuality, deceit, and depravity with a raw grace and eloquence that brings to mind the voices of Jim Carroll in...

The first verb in SB Stokes' magnum opus, A History of Broken Love Things, is "wanna."He is a poet of hope, expectation, and desire, which prepare us for the erratic path of lifeas it is actually...

All That Shines Under The Hollywood SignAuthor: Iris BerryPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: November 11, 2019Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Code Blue : A Love StoryAuthor: Jack GrishamPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: Sep 05, 2020Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1940213088ISBN-13:...

S.A. Griffin's words shoot across the page, piercing readers directly through the heart and brain. His writing is the literary version of a Jackson Pollack painting, only instead of paint, S.A.'s...

Driving In The RainAuthor: Nadia Bruce-RawlingsPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: Nov 05, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1940213096ISBN-13:...

Driving With Crazy: Living With MadnessAuthor: Jack HenryPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: July 07, 2021Number of Pages: 141 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A ride through the life and heart, mind & soul of Iris Berry as she serenades her hometown's soul, Los AngelesAuthor: Iris BerryPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: Feb 22, 2022Number of...

With wit and candor, Hollie Hardy writes for her life. "Break up your own little tedium," these poems remind us. With their riffs on existing literature and recurrent crises, Hardy's poems show us...

Yeah, Mike Roche might've played with giants, walked among them, and lurched over them, but he was the one with the plan, and while it might not have served him as he wished, his rise, fall, and...

"If I were to make a diorama of 'I Will Always Be Your Whore, ' I would construct three slightly run-down Victorians: one for past, one for present, one for dream. I would make a spooky ghost figure...

Maisha Z. Johnson's elegant meditation on human difference, No Parachutes to Carry Me Home, opens with an epigraph from June Jordan's On the Black Family --we came and we come in a glory of...

Showgirl Confidential chronicles just some of Pleasant Gehman's amazingadventures, from over thirty years spent constantly on the road. Fromcross-country punk rock tours in the early 1980's to her...

Michele McDannold's, "Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days," is the recollection of a young women for whom each moment, breath, event of the day is trapped in memory. She greets sin as...

The Trouble With Palm TreesAuthor: Iris BerryPublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: Nov 29, 2021Number of Pages: 51 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1940213169ISBN-13:...

Things ChangeAuthor: Joel LandminePublisher: Punk Hostage PressPublication Date: April 21, 2021Number of Pages: 127 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1940213142ISBN-13: 9781940213149

I hate poetry. I usually find it self-indulgent, navel-gazing, cloying pap, an archaic art form that's long outstayed its relevance. In this brave new technological world where writing has evolved...

"Alexandra Naughton's poems are subversive, honest poems. They are in the spirit of resistance to dudebro culture and beefpizzle literature. This bookis a heartless and utter rejection of the white...