Black Maze Books is an independent publisher in NYC. A growing catalog of literary works can be found at blackmazebooks.com.
The publisher is open to unsolicited queries for book length manuscripts of poetry, horror fiction, supernatural/weird fiction, and non-fiction until October 31st, 2009. Queries regarding books of other genres will be disregarded without reply.
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I love narrative poems, but they’re hard to write. Anyone who thinks narrative poetry is easy to write has obviously never tried to write one. The reasons I think narrative poems are difficult are many, but in a nutshell:
The struggle is in maintaining a balance between the narrative and the poetics
Too much narrative and the [...]
I’ve talked to several writers of multiple genres who have said that they love poetry more than anything, but since they can’t make any money writing poetry they write other stuff to make their living. Is that good?
All I can say is, it can’t be bad. I personally think that writing poetry will strengthen one’s [...]
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3:AM Magazine – I love their tagline: “Whatever it is, we’re against it.” You might think that says it all, but you’ve got to read the magazine. They publish interviews, fiction, flash fiction, poetry, music, criticism, nonfiction, and opinions. This [...]
Prologue
A professor at Dickinson College was denied tenure for promoting “flarf” poetry.
What David Pogue thinks about free distribution.
What the Granta staff reads.
A Glimpse Into Future Projects
As I near the completion of my book of poems titled Rumsfeld’s Sandbox I begin to reflect on what to do next. I haven’t talked about it much on this [...]