Dream Pop Press

06/16/2023

Please enjoy this collaboration of poetry and photography from Joanne Diaz and Jason Reblando ✨

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06/14/2023

We are delighted to share 3 poems from Andrew K. Peterson. ✨

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06/13/2023

It is with profound sadness that we share news of the death of Chloe Rose / B’ellana Johannx / Sophie Duchess / No'eau Pa'ikai-Rose, one of our chapbook authors. Chloe was one of the first people we published, both online & in print. She was a brilliant writer & a dear friend & she will be missed by so many, forever. 🌹

06/13/2023

"will i even
love someday?
yes, the truth hurts
and you’d rather be
smoking a cigarette
under this moon"

- from "someday," one of two poems by Carina Solis ✨

flowers where they fall at sunrise we shoot bullets into yellow daffodil fields curled by the scent of spring. there are flowers where they fall, hollow point petals smothered in the rotted reek of…

06/13/2023

"The horses see horses when they’re in the fog. The goats see goats and bleat helplessly the whole time, so that the fog can be said to have a sound, which is their helpless bleating; though they, like me, must know that it’s coming, must have, at this point, incorporated the period of low visibility, or rather the severely impaired, form-assaulted visibility into their daily routines, which I’ll say from two weeks’ observation consist mainly of eating and sh****ng, things that could be done despite the fog, by blind goats even, so the helpless bleating must be a form of idle commentary, not dissimilar from what I’m doing here with the fog in the notepad."

- from "The Fog" by Don Television ✨

The Fog The forms in the fog don’t know that they’re forms, don’t know that they have, for instance, arms, legs, faces, in sometimes inordinate numbers. The forms in the fog are oriented bipedally,…

06/05/2023

Today we are featuring a poem from Samantha Duncan: "Gasoline Smell in the Simulation" ✨

Samantha Duncan is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Playing One on TV (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018) and The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016), and her work has appeared in BOAAT, SWWIM, Kissing Dynamite, Meridian, and The Pinch. She lives in Houston.

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05/30/2023

Kym Cunningham's chapbook, New Mythologies, received a lovely write-up in Broken Pencil Magazine. 🤩

"New Mythologies leans primarily in two stylistic directions. Various formats of erasure poetry comprise the first — words are either removed, redacted or obscured to reveal new meaning within a larger text. Something close to a cut-up technique covers the remainder, where words are split and glued back together in a corrupted syntax.

On first read, this collection is as bewildering as the lyrics to a Flaming Lips album. It takes time to connect with Cunningham’s poems, to unpack the rearranged speech and to try and find meaning that goes beyond the surface stories. Understanding is eventually found in the universal language, symbolism and metaphors of fairy tales."

Review: New Mythologies March 28, 2023 Scott Bryson Issue 97 New Mythologies Chapbook, Kym Cunningham, 44 pgs, Dream Pop Press, dreampoppress.net, $11.95 USD The stories in these poems literally grow from women’s bodies. A “girlmadeofrocks” inhabits one. In another, a character recounts that ....

05/30/2023

Check out Broken Pencil Magazine's sweet mini-review of Ryan Downum's I Wear My Face in the Field.

"I Wear My Face in the Field is a weird and wonderful treatise. It resists full comprehension and manages to do so with both elegance and gruesomeness."

Review: I Wear My Face in the Field May 24, 2023 Scott Bryson Issue 98 I Wear My Face in the Field Chapbook, Ryan Downum, 40 pgs, Dream Pop Press, dreampoppress.net, $11.95 Behold a carnal metamorphosis that blurs the lines between person, animal and some grotesque in-between. See the blood pooling....

05/04/2023

Our co-founder and poetry editor Carleen Tibbetts has a new chapbook now available from Carrion Bloom Books! Check out what the blurbers have to say:

Part aphoristic treatise, part nightshift log, part maternity diary, part maternity diary of a sentient shipboard computer hurtling towards a cosmic destination, Tibbetts' collection of miniatures moves us inside the terms of the terminal where we may perceive a thicket of "charmed structures" and infinitesimal adjustments to our fashionable habits of endtime thoughts. A work of lyric speculation, discipline, and discovery.

— Joyelle McSweeney, author of Toxicon and Arachne

Tibbetts offers poetry as philosophical excavation: what happens to the self—to identity (self-definition)—when language fails? What becomes of personhood? And how does a now meaning-less view of the future (like the facade of language falling as scales from the eyes) affect gender, trauma, selfhood? How much does inadequate grammar weigh on our lives as humans? An elegant meditation on the impossibility of an accurate language; on poetry as both implausible and inevitable.

— M. Forajter, author of Interrogating the Eye

Specular and spectacular, Carleen Tibbetts' dossier for the postverbal/ wields its Deleuzoguattarian scalpel like a sharp tongue, cutting deep into the unseeable psychoanalytic concept of Lack. Bold, luminous, and lyrically extravagant, Tibbetts' project is one of uncompromising subjectness. Exploding with disfigurements of language and otherness, this thrillingly helical dossier considers the philosopher’s mind and offers the ultimate sugar rush: “go ahead, perform / your honey.”

— Paul Cunningham, author of Fall Garment

Carrion Bloom Books is an independent press based in Salt Lake City.

12/16/2022

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12/05/2022

Jessica Lawson beckons us into a realm of nightmarish birth fantasies with “Bellyfish.” ✨

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12/05/2022

Check out ’s “A real surfer’s paradise” with a multi-voiced audio version read by Joseph Donahue, , and ✨

Full piece: https://www.dreampoppress.net/jeff-russell/

11/28/2022

Today we are loving “Figs” by Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes / ✨

08/24/2022

This week we have two poems from Laurie Kolp ✨ Follow the link in our stories to read them in their entirety!

08/17/2022

This week we’re featuring 5 visual poetry pieces from Andrew Brenza / ✨
Andrew Brenza’s recent chapbooks include O (nOIR:Z), Geometric Mantra (above/ground press), Poems in C (Viktlösheten Press), and Waterlight (Simulacrum Press). He is also the author of a number of collections of visual poetry, including Automatic Souls (Timglaset), Gossamer Lid (Trembling Pillow Press), Alphabeticon & Other Poems (RedFoxPress), Album, in Concrete (Alien Buddha Press), and Spool (Unsolicited Press). He newest book, Smear, was recently released by BlazeVOX Books.

08/11/2022

This week we are thrilled to feature these 5 visual art pieces from Federico Federici. ✨
Federico Federici is a conceptual artist working in the fields of writing, video art, installations and physics. His works have appeared in international journals and anthologies including 3:AM Magazine, Art in America, DIAGRAM, Perspektive, Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Poet Lore, Sand, The Shanghai Literary Review, The Manhattan Review and others. Among his books: Liner notes for a Pithecanthropus Erectus sketchbook (2018), with a forward by SJ Fowler; A private notebook of winds (2019); Transcripts from demagnetized tapes (2021); Biophysique Asémique (2021); Lettere d’amore a Peter Rabbit curated by Paolo Giovannetti (2021); Profilo Minore curated by Andrea Cortellessa (2021).

08/10/2022

In honor of this year’s Sealey Challenge, we have put all of our book bundles on sale for 20-25% off! Grab all 6 chapbooks for $45 or a bundle of 3 for $25! If you’re looking to round out your reading list for the month, or simply want to add to your current poetry collection, Dream Pop is here for you. We might even throw in some swag. 👀 Follow the link in our bio to buy some books. 📚
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📕 new mythologies by .era
📕BLUE 4 U by
📕 I Wear My Face in the Field by
📕 The Mothercake Cycle by
📕 B’ellana Johannx’s Satanic Verses: A Guidebook for the New Transfaggot
📕 Invention of the Mouth by L. Reeman
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08/02/2022

Only the dog in the mobile version has free will. It lopes through the yard—the door blowing open—and sleeps on the kitchen floor. I love you plastic greyhound, unisex name I scramble. I love you locking pixel to pixel, your legs into running. I love you your three pairs of eyes. I love you fat birds glowing from the heat. I wish I could kiss my body on the hand but I remember everything that matters.

- from “The Sims” by Alana Solin ✨

07/19/2022

Years of compression make the glacier blue. No bubbles, no holes, just tightly packed blue. You can lick and lick and lick, and nothing. When the glacier is wrapped around you, you know the meaning of interconnectedness. No socialist memes necessary; ocean is snow is glacier is sea floor is continental shelf is iceberg. You wander but never find the place where you separate, and for a time, that seems hot.

- from “Sleeping with the Glaciers” by Kelly Gray/
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07/14/2022

“my body is halfway submerged in the dark blue slime. i can tell this is an older picture by how my chest appears. the slime attaches itself to me and molds to the contours of my body. it’s a degree of self-care few may ever experience.”

- from “nudes please” by , this week on Dream Pop Diary ✨

07/08/2022

"Leafless trees you said
dripped with angels
In the marrow of darkness
the night’s weak lamp
'I love my scars. I love my scars.'"

- from "In the Night She Wishes" by Dylan Willoughby ✨

06/30/2022

This week we have two poems by , “Don’t Bother With a Burial” and “Bath House.” Check our story for the link to read both pieces. ✨

06/27/2022

Industrialization is like an opera that has nothing to do with romance. Each set piece is run by gyroscope, which the cast must constantly add momentum to without tipping over. The big name director, writer, and producers stunt cast every role with an untrained, regular person, a new group each week, the expectation of failure, that some will forget the lyrics, the orchestra will stall, the audience and actors thinking that could be me on stage, out there, for better or worse.

- from “Magic Box 19,” one of four pieces up today by Peach Kander / ✨
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06/15/2022

For whom does the present system work?

True or False: The system does not work.

True or False: The system works as designed.

Answer Key:
the system does not work

the system works as designed

- from "on sticks and stories of significant
cracks (& stacks),” one of 5 pieces by Jen Schneider currently featured on Dream Pop ✨

06/15/2022

Tonight! Catch Dream Pop Diary Editor Kenning JP García / in conversation with Daphne Maysonet / ! They’ll be talking song lyrics in relationship to poetry and creative nonfiction. 7PM ET on Instagram Live. Don’t miss it!

06/07/2022

in the park, i lie down in the grassy shade.
down in the grassy shade i tell a lie.
a cloud looks like a broken antique accordion.
broke, cloud-like, i tell old lies in new ways.
“today, i will not waste my life,” i say.
i am so very fully completely alive with wasting.

-from “l.” one of 5 sonnets by and this week in Dream Pop (check our stories for the link to read the rest!) ✨
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06/01/2022

It is June 1st, which means journal submissions are officially open! Thanks for your patience while our EIC adjusted to life with a new baby. We are excited to read what you've been working on these past few months! ✨

05/31/2022

This Friday at 7PM ET, join us as our new squad of chapbook authors ( ✨ .era ✨ ) reads from their work on Instagram Live!
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Behold the animals, spooking at the water, haunting the field. Behold the field, writhing with blood, a gorgeous roiling horror. Behold the bloodhorse, mouth dripping with juice and psalms. Behold Ryan Downum’s I Wear My Face in the Field, a precise gore inside of which I feel as held as I do torn. As I read, I taste copper. I hold my breath. It’s a long walk into the tender-violent chaos of flesh and flora, a field of a poem that might just be endless in its unfolding. Wade in, right up to your waist – and trust me, keep going: “it’s like getting to the haunt of a thing.” Is this decomposition? Is this regeneration? Will the field ever be the same?

– JJ Rowan / , author of a simple verb ( )

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new mythologies reads like an ancient text encoded with secret wisdom, tacit magics, and the body’s truths. Cunningham reminds me that the shape shifter shifts shapes at her/their own pace in this series of poems that astonishingly generate their own occasion. Through syntactical infidelity, Cunningham cracks the briny shell of language in order to bring forth a vibrational being, a roux ga roux moving neither inward nor outward but allward. Accept the invocation; melt into the murmuration.

– Candice Wuehle / , author of MONARCH () and Death Industrial Complex ().

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This book absorbs The Muppet Show, its guest stars, and the longing, love, joys, and despair of a poet who has created a kaleidoscope of shared and private language and experience. Teixeira inhabits metamorphic language, which can live in TV shows, music, passwords, or the lips of a lover. BLUE 4 U carries resonances from its multiple contexts and serves as a means of connection between mediums, times, places, and people. It is daring and tender, playful and intelligent, hypnotic, and heartbreaking.

— Ananda Lima / , author of Mother/land ()