Middle House Review

220+ pages of Middle House Review! Get your copy here: barnesandnoble.com/w/middle-house… This anthology includes work by: @kathyfish, @mcarphil, Brandon Marlon, @djvorreyer, Marcy McNally, @E_Hockaday, @JudithSkillman, Michael Cocchiarale, Carl Palmer, Toshiya Kamei, @jackbedell 1/4

FLP POETRY BOOK OF THE DAY: Zero Is a Number by Michael Hammerle On SALE now! Pre-order Price Guarantee: finishinglinepress.com/product/zero-i… Michael Hammerle teaches creative writing and composition at a college and university. He holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas, Monticello, and a BA in English from the University of Florida. He is the founder of Middle House Review. His work has been published in The Best Small Fictions, Split Lip Magazine, Tendon at Johns Hopkins, Michigan State University Short Edition, Foothill Poetry Journal, New World Writing, Louisiana Literature, and elsewhere. He lives and writes in North Florida. mikehammerle.com PRAISE FOR Zero Is a Number by Michael Hammerle Set in crowded homes, pool-halls, and hospitals, the poems in Zero Is a Number are often tender, sometimes infused with violence, and relentlessly searching for meaning among stapled thumbs, snake tattoos, and gasoline baths. This propulsive pursuit of truth—words rushing across the pages in a passionate excavation—made me sit up straighter. Reading Michael Hammerle is like dreaming yourself into somebody else’s vehement, breakneck, ardent life. –Rachel Pastan is the author, most recently, of In the Field. Winner of the Science + Literature award from the National Book Foundation in 2022. Michael Hammerle’s Zero Is A Number is a poetry collection conveying snapshots of a family history—a family history full of fire, and Hammerle threads a nostalgic sentiment of a calm torment throughout these poems as he reveals a tiny splinter of the world, mixing and mashing video games with tattoos and skating rinks and wrenches and nails and sibling fights. There are variations of a household—a cracked image for each memory and a family member for each cracked image, as if we’re standing in the front yard and facing a home under the evening sun with our eyes barely open, squinting perhaps, as we try to make sense of the complications that come with those we love and remember. A door opened—indeed, into a living room of a family in search of each other’s hands. Zero Is A Number creates tangible ghosts and hazy realities, and it’s through these flashes and flickers of light, a marvelous poetry collection hums before us. –Shome Dasgupta, author of Iron Oxide and several other books. If we’re lucky, we live long enough to fix the math. Zero Is a Number allows us to go back to the board, and if not to erase the mistakes, then to at least stare at them again. In poem after startling poem, Michael Hammerle looks back with a searing honesty at a life you’ll have to read to believe. There are no symbols here. There’s just the burn of the Florida sun, a staple stuck in child’s hand, stepfathers troubled with the cost of love, and grandparents who would press their last nickel into your palm. There are elegies. There is plenty of beauty. Maybe all we ask of poetry is that it tell us something we can’t forget, and Zero Is a Number does just that. –Jack Heflin, author of Local Hope Please share/please repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #poetry #read #poetrybook #poems

My review of @TaylorByas3 collection is live at @rhinopoetry Reviews. Trust me, you want this book. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/taylor…

I have a flash piece in EPOCH on eating expired food and all that fun 😋 You can get a copy here! epochliterary.com/shop/p/volume-…

Zero Is a Number (@FLPress) is my first book and it includes poems from @Foothilljournal @coffin_bell @GhostCityPress @LaLiterature @NewWorldWriting @ParenthesesArt @The_Temz_Review @tendonmag. The book is on pre-sale and will go to print in November. finishinglinepress.com/product/zero-i…

Verse Daily: Ghost Forest by Jack B. Bedell from BEST SPIRITUAL LITERATURE: VOL. 7, 2022 versedaily.org/2023/ghostfore… via @versedailypoems

Hey I made @EllenDatlow’s best horror longlist this year?? Neat! Thank you @dark_matter_mag for publishing my story! And @philmclaughlin for being a cool guy. ellendatlow.com/2022/11/28/rec…

Very glad to have a story on the @wigleaf top 50 longlist. Also congrats to @Mynachang.

Congratulations to @MynaChang and @ThadRutkowski for making the @Wigleaf Top Fifty longlist. Here are excerpts of their stories from the MHR anthology. So happy for y'all! Thank you to the editors, @VenitaBlackburn and @laughingyeti!

The team would need to get together. I want to begin reading for book 2 this year or 24. I have a lot going on w/ work and PHACES and can't fully say how the future will go. It's been an honor searching for work that I can't put down & paying writers. I hope you all understand.

Hi Everyone, an update is in order. I cut ties with Wix. I couldn't afford them anymore. I'm sorry the links won't work. Everything MHR published, including @HeightChartLit, will always be available in the print book. Moving forward, I'd like to come out with another print book.

Issue Fourteen is live! The issue release is our gift to you for the new year, full of vibrant selections. Our interview feature includes a conversation with the wonderful Kemi Alabi @kemiaalabi. Read here: bit.ly/readissue14. Buy here: bit.ly/buyissue14.

“… I’ve found myself faraway from the things that could break me, like a little chunk of time when I was 12 years old, but here I am now, like I was then, (only I’m running from myself) learning how to make it right.” @mike_hammerle in @ParenthesesArt parenthesesjournal.com/issue-14/run-t…

My poem "Run Toward" is in this issue. Another poem published from my manuscript. Thank you, Sneha for accepting it. I'm happy the poem found a home alongside all of this strong work. Looking forward to the print issue. parenthesesjournal.com/issue-14/run-t…

@MiddleH_Review 's Height Chart gave this poem an Honourable Mention in their contest, and later even nominated it for BOTN! middlehousereview.com/boyle-looked

I have two poems in issue 5: Sanctuary of @tendonmag! Thank you to the editors and @JHUmedhum. It means so much to me that my poems are in this issue. hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/tendon-magazin…

Halloweenie pub! Thank you to @dark_matter_mag for housing this fall morsel! (P.S. The whole issue is free to read online 🎃) darkmattermagazine.com/issues/hallowe…

A poem by Kira K. Homsher @bogcritter 🐕💗 mootpointmagazine.com/post/croissant…