Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes Kendra Preston Leonard’s haunting and hypnotic poem “Macalla (echo)”. Kendra Preston Leonard is inspired by history, language, the environment, social issues, and the mythic. Her first chapbook, Making Mythology, was published in 2020 by Louisiana Literature Press, and her novella in verse, Protectress, was published in 2022 …
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes Jakob Glans’ compelling “the 7 deadly sins and the 4 Last things.” Jakob Glans (b. 1998) is a Norwegian composer of contemporary classical music. Alongside composing he also plays guitar in the Swedish hardcore punk band “RONÖM” and his background and current life as part of the …
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes Marin Beardslee’s stirring image “Soul Escape.” Marin Beardslee creates art and illustrations that combine beauty, horror, and fantasy into reality. She strives to create unique art pieces that encapsulates connectivity with striking glamor and the twisted dark macabre. Most of all, Marin seeks to make her art …
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes Matt Gill’s intricate composition “A Set for Harpsichord.” Matt Gill is a clarinetist, saxophonist and composer in San Diego, CA. He is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is published by Dorn Publications in Massachusetts, and has been a featured artist on Public Radio’s “Soundscapes.” …
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes two poems and one musical composition by Elisabeth Blair. They are: “hands,” “motherlover,” and “the yet-to-be-born speak.” motherlover was performed by Mike Truesdell and Elisabeth Blair. Elisabeth Blair is a Michigan-born, Montréal-based poet and editor with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. She is …
Issue #7 of The Paramanu Pentaquark is LIVE and includes two poems by Glen Armstrong: “Antonyms for “Relaxer”” and “Once a City Burns.” Glen Armstrong (he/him) holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters. His latest book is Night School: Selected Early Poems.
Contact: Connor Coyne 708.224.5297 connor@connorcoyne.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flint, MI / 23 February, 2015 – As of March 1st, 2015, the Flint-based Gothic Funk Press will be accepting submissions for two arts journals. The journals will be titled Mark’s Hat and The Paramanu Pentaquark. Mark’s Hat will be a literary journal of fiction, poetry, and …
The Flint-based Gothic Funk Press has convened the Flint Order of Orpheus (FLOOR), a social club that celebrates the carnival season in Flint, Michigan from Septuagesima until Mardi Gras. Check back for more information on FLOOR 2017 to be announced soon!
Get to know the staff at Gothic Funk Press! Reinhardt Suarez joined the Gothic Funk Nation in 2007 and the Gothic Funk Press in 2011. He has agreed to talk with us this month about his work with Gothic Funk, the Porkchop Express, and his new novel The Green Ray of the Sun. …