radioactive moat press

“Marty Cain is one of the most brilliant and inventive young poets writing today.” -Tim Earley, author of Linthead Stomp “If Holden Caulfield had acid-tripped on friendship and death in the aughts—if he’d then fallen through a therapy-hole to ride shotgun in a dark-energy jalopy—he might have dreamed this long, wild narrative lit up on uncertainty and sex. To steal a phrase from Cain: this poem has risen from the dead to eat lesser poems. It glows.” –Cathy Wagner, author of Nervous Device “Inhabiting the space between elegy and prophecy, Marty Cain’s poem floats in a drowning country parallel to the United States of America. Where loss flickers at the edge of each frame, ‘the earth turns itself inside out’ like a teenager in a dreamscape, baptized in tears.” -Lucas de Lima, author of Wet Land Now available from Trembling Pillow Press

8/15 @ccmpress cover art by @shywatson

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“Cassettes. Cassette tapes, mixtapes. videotapes, magnetic tape, pre-recorded tape, pirated tape, blank tape, Krapp’s Last Tape, these books are none of these. They aren’t cassettes, these are books. Why? The idea came from the idea of C86, the free tape that appeared on the NME (UK) in 1986. We wanted a title for a literary sampler and the first thing we thought of was a free sampler of music. We don’t know why. Does everyone always need to know why? Anyway…press play.” Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Cassette 68 sampler is now available to purchase [here] What’s an onion kid? In case you missed it, check out my interview with Richard Brammer over at Misfits.

Entropy interviewed me about Radioactive Moat Press and added it to their Small Press Database! (FYI I’m also currently reading submissions for the next issue of Deluge) Entropy: “Tell us a bit about Radioactive Moat. What are your influences, your aesthetic, your mission?” “I’m interested in whatever fascinates, but simultaneously repels. When Radioactive Moat debuted I originally stated that our values included reactivity, corrosivity, ignitability and toxicity. I think that’s still true today. I also find there is both value in what people consider low art and what people consider high art. As an editor, you could say I’m tasteless in the way I choose to resist a dichotomy that just doesn’t work. Why put a limit on what you can take seriously or think critically about?!”

I did a Q & A with Richard Brammer for Misfits Mag and discussed my poems forthcoming in the latest lit sampler from Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Cassette 68! 

“In the first incarnation of The Book of Repulsive Women, Djuna Barnes writes “[Her lips] bloom vivid and repulsive / As the truth.” 101 years later, Carrie Lorig has usurped Barnes’s title to expose the contemporary repulsive woman: she is a thinker, a feeler, a poet. She is intellectual emotion, relentlessly inquisitive and just plain brutal. She exclaims, “All reading is blood,” and the literature she reads is “So Polluted.” This text is blood, polluted with punctuation and form and accusative words that may as well be curses. And we are all accountable. Harkening to Barnes, Lorig declares “There is a Devil inside me / There is a Flower inside me,” and so we watch them both bloom and wilt and decay. We twist our faces in disgust at revelation; we squint against all that beauty.” -Lily Hoang