REALITY BEACH

We’re now offering many of our sold-out titles as free digital chapbooks, including:

  OYSTER by Amie Zimmerman

FREE DIGITAL EDITION

      Poets In A Box or Pluto In Motion by Philip Good

FREE DIGITAL EDITION

  Family, A Natural Wonder by Alex Cuff FREE DIGITAL EDITION

    WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DREAM I HAD by Sommer Browning

FREE DIGITAL EDITION

      HEART…

Keith Moul Answers Our Questions

Reality Beach Issue Six Contributor Denise Jarrott answers a brief questionnaire by Jordan Hoxsie and Adam Tedesco.

What is your favorite breakfast food? Egg and meat scrambles

Tell us a bit about your work in REALITY BEACH. Somewhat earlier poems, very much re-worked through the years.  The Illahee poem describes actual events, as accident involving my wife, daughter and in-laws, probably as…

Denise Jarrot Answers Our Questions

Reality Beach Issue Six Contributor Denis Jarrot answers a brief questionnaire by Jordan Hoxie and Adam Tedesco.

What is your favorite breakfast food? Buttermilk pancakes 

Tell us a bit about your work in REALITY BEACH. These two poems were both from a time in my life when I felt vulnerable, the people who provoked that vulnerability, and the images that opened me. the germ of “blume” began…

! NEW CHAPS by PHILIP GOOD and ALEX CUFF NOW AVAILABLE!

We are thrilled to announce that two new chaps, Poets in a Box or Pluto in Motion by Philip Good, and Family, A Natural Wonder by Alex Cuff are now available!!!

Poets in a Box or Pluto in Motion by Philip Good

This work was inspired by a box of broadsides put together as a fundraiser for Bernadette Mayer after she suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1994. The set of 25 original broadsides,…

2 Poems by Cindy Rinne

X.   And when she left me, I got into gardening. Cabbages, Anaheim’s, and chocolate mint. Daily I said the rosary, fingered beads looked like earth from space. I tossed the photographs; All, but one.     Dead Leaves Empty branches reveal a hollow nest. Body betrays. In the river Mio tries to wash away her memories Ink stays. Rice paper wrinkles like mother’s hands. One face – death. Opposite face…

A Poem by Stephen Langlois

Stephen Langlois’ work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Portland Review, Gigantic Sequins,  and Big Lucks, among other places. He has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes and is the recipient of a 2015 NYC Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction. He also curates and hosts Brew: An Evening of Literary Works, a monthly reading series held in Brooklyn.

!Video Submissions Are Open!

Reality Beach is now open for video submissions! Submissions may include video poems, video essays, snapshots of lived experience, hallucinatory montages, film and text, letters etched into celluloid, fast and loud videos, videos without sound, homages to film directors, subtitles for a film that was never made, black and white film or oversaturated–the punctual and always late, or videos that…

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Two Poems by Kevin Bertolero

CARTOGRAPHY   Perhaps it’s time again to consider hiring a new cartographer. With Google Maps and a star chart, a fifteen-year-old boy found an Ancient Mayan city, and I still struggle to understand why I needed to take tenth grade geometry. Overlaying constellations onto the cities, far from the seacoast, away from the riverbeds, he knew the system needed to be completed. He saw that the world…

Want To Hear About This Dream I Had by Sommer Browning now is now available!

https://vimeo.com/188850072 WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DREAM I HAD by Sommer Browning is a chronicle of the author’s dreamscape recorded through the first half of 2016. 44 pages in length, it captures the intersection of the surreal and domestic that the running narrative of dream life transpires at. It is a diary of an alternate form of life, featuring elements of the author’s waking life free from…

Two Poems by Ryan Bollenbach

Ryan Bollenbach is an MFA candidate in the University of Alabama MFA program and reviews editor for the Black Warrior Review. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Deluge, Heavy Feather Review, Mesmer, and elsewhere. Find him on twitter at @SilentAsIAm.  

INTERVIEW WITH THE POET ERIN DORNEY by TYLER BARTON

One time, years ago, the poet Erin Dorney and I walked through the Baltimore IKEA showroom and wrote a poem inside each ridiculous space. Every time the poet Erin Dorney and I go to an IKEA, our energy skyrockets. It’s something about the affordability. About the lighting. Maybe it’s the language. The meatballs. Some of my verrrry best tweets have come from letting IKEA wash totally over me. As…

Heart Sutra by Adam Tedesco is now available

Heart Sutra is a chapbook inspired by meditating on a line of Bernadette Mayer’s, “My heart is a fancy place”, and a text from the Tantric Buddhist tradition with which the chapbook shares its name. The pith of this text is the instructive passage “go, go, go beyond, go completely beyond.”  This phrase informed the approach taken in constructing the poems within Heart Sutra, which is to say the…

Curtis Emery Responds To The Questionnaire!

What is your favorite breakfast food? I usually don’t eat breakfast, or much food before 6 p.m., but if I am not working and have money I can always go for a breakfast sandwich. On weekends I like to get this massive breakfast sandwich called “The Barnyard” from a local coffee place in Lowell, MA–it is enough food to tide me over for most of a day. Tell us a bit about your work in REALITY BEACH.…