Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Sudden Denouement Publishing has made its mark publishing contemporary and divergent poets such as force of nature Nicole Lyons, social commentator extraordinaire David Lohrey, and stunning Bruised But Not Broken’s founder Rachel Finch. Although providing a vehicle to publish such extraordinary poets remains a priority for Sudden Denouement Publishing,… Read more

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Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: You were twenty-three when we met, rebel of unrefined rhetoric. I was twenty-six, what a perfect age to be. Idealism wasn’t dead and I could still make you love me for all these ideas which had yet to erode the fantasy. You were twenty-five when I proposed, wearing plainclothes… Read more

Originally posted on Sudden Denouement Collective: Sudden Denouement Publishing is proud to announce the release of Christine E. Ray’s book Composition of a Woman. “Poet Christine Ray’s first printed collection of poetry, Composition of a Woman (Sudden Denouement Press, 2018) is a striking, fearless foray into the psyche of womanhood, both highly relatable and intensely personal for female… Read more

Originally posted on samantha lucero: The brightening world blanched before their narrow squints, and their brows clenched with unmendable, burdened lines that worried with curiosity underneath the prying sun. Off the Mississippi came an unbidden advance of that familiar, slithery breath of humid afternoon and it dragged with it the fetor of last nights piss… Read more

Originally posted on samantha lucero: i was once obscure like food stains under skirts or a film of oil on a flowers tongue but i grew to be a bigger blemish like a birthmark on gods face until i had to hide away so no one saw death had come on many occasions and i,… Read more