New World Writing Quarterly

has published five new pieces--thank you, Kim & co.! 

E-ratio

 has accepted two pieces from the collection I'm currently working on for publication--thank you as always, Gregory!

*Update* The pieces are now live.

The 2022 Big Other Book Award for Fiction Finalists

have been announced, & I'm happy to say OR has made the list! I'm also proud that fellow Ravenna Press author Kim Chinquee's Pipette has made the list of finalists. 

OR,

the follow-up collection to This Is A City, is officially released! I'm quite grateful to Ravenna Press & my editor Kathryn Rantala & to Louis Bourgeois, Ken Sparling, & Christopher Kennedy for their blurbs. Happy Halloween!

My new collection

OR will be released on Halloween! Thank you as always to my lovely press (Ravenna Press) & publisher Kathryn. Blurbs below!

"The prose poems in Parker Tettleton’s OR are “in the moment” snapshots of the heroic condition of living one’s life with its non-sequiturs of intimacy and distance. These are relational poems that understand language’s limitations as well as its ability to surprise and weave together the incongruous fabric of our relationships with others. Self-conscious in their awareness of the absurdities of the miraculous nature of the quotidian, the poems establish themselves as interlocutors between what happens and how we try to make sense of what happens, the ultimate aim of poetry."

Christopher Kennedy, author of Clues from the Animal Kingdom

"This book is Parker Tettleton's invitation to go running with him. If you just run with him, trust him, he’ll take you places you never expected to go. But if you try to figure out where he’s going, he’ll veer off in a different direction, and probably leave you behind. You’ll be missing out."

Ken Sparling, author of Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

"I think what's going on in Parker Tettleton's OR, this book that floats somewhere between Russell Edson and, who, Andy Warhol?, is that there is only language, and there is nothing particularly real or interesting going on outside of the poem." 

Louis Bourgeois, VOX PRESS

Thrilled

to have two pieces (one from OR, forthcoming from Ravenna Press, 2022) included in the 75th print edition of Gargoyle--thank you again, Richard!

Book News!

OR is officially part of Ravenna Press' 2022 lineup:

http://ravennapress.com/blog/happy-new-year/.

Thank you again (& always) Kathryn, Cooper, & Harold!