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Alan Michael Parker
Award-winning author Alan Michael Parker displays his love for playful narrative and breaking all the rules in Bingo Bango Boingo, a collection of flash fiction told through Bingo cards
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An absurd look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk
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In light of her impending death, thirteen-year-old Beatrice Danzig has changed her name to Christmas. She’s at the center of Christmas in July, a novel in ten stories told by…
Wild and calm, boisterous and quiet, these accessible poems contain surprisingly complex philosophical and personal knowledge.
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Alan Michael Parker’s latest collection, The Age of Discovery, is a work of enduring beauty, filled with his signature ten-derness and surprise
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In the darkness of a May night in the middle of rural Ohio, Ray Stanton is thrown, naked and injured, from a pickup truck. For hours, he struggles to get…
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Just for fun, the vandals toss monkey wrenches into the machinery of life, wreaking poetic havoc.
This newest collection showcases Parker’s ability to wed fiction elements to his own distinct poetics.
The poetic manifesto has a long, rich history that hasn’t been updated until now. What does a poetic manifesto look like in a time of increased pluralism, relativism, and danger…
Poetry lovers will delight in this hugely enjoyable and enlightening collection of poems beginning in the age of Chaucer and ending in the present day.
Poetry lovers will delight in this hugely enjoyable and enlightening collection of such poems beginning in the age of Chaucer and ending in the present day.
Describes the inner workings and dynamics of democratic therapeutic communities (TCs) in prisons. This work explores the complexities of working in therapy with the powerful emotional impact generated in the…
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