Alpine Ghost Press is a small, independent poetry publisher that made its first corporeal appearance with the release of HCR: Ten Year Anniversary Issue, and now more books, chapbooks, and anthologies are coming forward through the pines. Scroll down to see what books have arrived and which ones hover on the horizon. At the moment, we function by invitation only.
We Have Waited Long Enough
By Gabriel Ricard, Kevin Ridgeway, and James Duncan
We Have Waited Long Enough is a collection of response poetry. It started when James sent Gabe five poems. Gabe wrote five responding to those and sent his to Kevin, who did the same and sent his to James. Then the cycle began again. Round they went, borrowing lines, images, and ideas until they came up with this book. Poems of doubt and self questioning, but also of forgiveness and declaration. Poems esoteric and epicurean, poems sweaty, tired, and crude, all connected by design and intent, happenstance and intuition, borrowing lines and repeated imagery, referencing each other throughout in subtle and deliberate ways. They waited a long time to work on a project like this together, but they’ve waited long enough.
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Vacancy: Motel Poems
By Kevin Ridgeway and James H Duncan
Poems from and about motels, hotels, and motor inns from NY to LA and beyond. Each explores the world of transience and temporary living through a world of check-ins, parking lots, payphones, addiction, abandonment, and the kind of yearning that can only come in the glow of a motel TV long after midnight. Two poets, two styles, and an endless string of vacancies until the final neon sign blinks out, leaving on the permanence of the great unknown beyond this world.
Hobo Camp Review: 10 Year Anniversary Anthology
This anthology features poems and stories from the first ten years of Hobo Camp Review, spanning 2009-2019, and will include works from such writers as Rachel Nix, David M Morton, Ally Malinenko, Bud Smith, Jason Ryberg, Kate Garrett, Sam Slaughter, Anney E.J. Ryan, April Michelle Bratten, Tobi and Jeff Alfier, Kevin Ridgeway, Knar Gavin, L.L. Jacobson, Rob Plath, and many others.