https://books.elsewheremag.org beautiful chapbooks with custom-designed covers and lovely typesetting. 113841555 LOWERCOUNTRY LOWERCOUNTRY is the winner of elsewhere magazine’s 2024 prose poetry chapbook contest, judged by Monica Brashears “reading LOWERCOUNTRY felt like finding a strange door left ajar and stepping beyond it. the pieces hold the past and all its taxidermies, cloying summer, childlike wonder, and so much life—all delivered in a landslide of gorgeous language.” —Monica Brashears here's a brief excerpt from "1111 New Garden Rd": "The last day in Greensboro the disposal belched spinach potting soil and dishwater underneath the washing machine. Compost flooded the narrow hallway and you and i unfurled two rolls of paper towels and sopped every washcloth in th house in the half-organic swirl until everything was dry again." 6 in. x 4 in., cover art by Ment Nelson 12.00 USD https://books.elsewheremag.org/product/lowercountry https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/425185809/IMG_4475.JPG 113841555 new in stock 76588860 concussion fragment **WINNER of the 2022 Florida Book Award Gold Medal!** concussion fragment by Brendan Walsh is the winner of elsewhere's 2020 chapbook prize! selected by short story writer and novelist Deb Olin Unferth this chapbook contains twenty-one poems that chronicle what it means to be a teenager, a wrestler, a son, a singer of "Semi-Charmed Life," and a great ape. the author, Brendan Walsh, has five books and work published in Rattle, Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, and other journals. he has been awarded America Magazine’s Foley Poetry Prize and the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize, as well as grants from Fulbright and Broward County Cultural Division. here's a brief excerpt from "concussion fragment number two-point-five": "all summer when the cold’s flown somewhere far away, we use the fireplace room to wrestle. dead ash in concrete. slate and brick. hardness." 6 in. x 4 in., cover art and interior collages by Evan Nicholls 12.00 USD https://books.elsewheremag.org/product/concussion-fragment https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/356652559/Concussion+crop_01.JPG 76588860 new in stock 70266068 Old Habits, New Markets Old Habits, New Markets is the winner elsewhere's 2019 chapbook prize! selected by prose poet Zach Schomburg this chapbook contains twenty-one poems that interrogate the hair industry, trains of thought, bees, and lonely mechanical bulls. the author, Ori Fienberg, is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. his essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in dozens of publications including BOAAT, Cincinnati Review, Heavy Feather Review, Mid-American Review, PANK, Rattle, and Subtropics. he lives in Evanston, IL. here's a brief excerpt from “Sidekicks”: “While the bar is closed the mechanical bull awakens as a real bull. He is not the only one. They escape from wood and tarpaper watering holes across the country, trying to find the wide open land.” 6 in. x 4 in., cover art and twelve interior illustrations by Ainsley Romero 12.00 USD https://books.elsewheremag.org/product/old-habits-new-markets https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/356652544/Old+habits+crop_01.JPG 70266068 new in stock 69982727 Ursa Minor Ursa Minor is the winner of elsewhere's 2018 chapbook prize! selected by former Utah poet laureate Lance Larsen this chapbook contains twenty poems that follow a girl and a bear as they navigate an empty world. the author, Amelia Martens, is the author of The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat (Sarabande Books, 2016), and four chapbooks. in 2019, she received an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. she co-curates the Rivertown Reading Series, Exit 7, and two awesome daughters. here's a brief excerpt from “Early in the 21st Century”: “The little girl and the bear put off bedtime. The sun is still up. The sun is still up. And the moon is a bright hangnail.” 6 in. x 4 in., 45 pages. cover art by Ainsley Romero 12.00 USD https://books.elsewheremag.org/product/ursa-minor https://assets.bigcartel.com/product_images/356652523/Ursa+Minor+crop_01.JPG 69982727 new in stock