Phantom Books

Online journal. Offline chapbooks. EMPIRE Reading Series.

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So sorry for the delay in responding to submissions! Our site was hacked & we're recovering the journal. Hoping to be back on our feet soon!

[Kelly Forsythe @kellyforsythe_]

Today is my last day as a full-timer at @CopperCanyonPrs. I wanted to share 20 books I've loved working on over the past 6+ years. (thread!)

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"I can make out truth and fiction taking turns. Each mimicking the other." @jennymxie at #EMPIRE by @Phantom_Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

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These fishbone days, this fatty grief." @jennymxie at EMPIRE Reading Series by @Phantom_Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

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"Beatiuful things happen when we rotate as if we could press on the tails of each others lips." #EMPIRE cohosted w/ #EARSHOT

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"...the energy of collapse." @HellsBellsworth at EMPIRE Reading Series by @Phantom_Books co-hosted w/ #EARSHOT

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Nothing like a little collaboration. @emily_skillings of #EARSHOT introducing @HellsBellsworth

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"Some sorrow from your own childhood has kept her hidden from sight."

Alex Morris at EMPIRE Reading Series by @Phantom_Books

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"The gator was a crumbled moon thrown in a wastebasket."

Alex Morris at EMPIRE Reading Series by @Phantom_Books

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"Nothing is yours. Not even the positive fact." @simonefonsiba at EMPIRE Reading Series by @Phantom_Books

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"I am the woman of your first maturity." @simonefonsiba

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TONITE at Arts Cafe: EMPIRE & EARSHOT present @simonefonsiba @HellsBellsworth @jennymxie and Alex Morris https://t.co/o36FKRUi9q

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I have lost, yes, a sense of my own possible beauty, grown external, I externalize beauty.

— @simonefonsiba https://t.co/o36FKRUi9q

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"Does she feel a body larger
than her own dilated boundaries?"

— @jennymxie reads for EMPIRE tomorrow https://t.co/o36FKRCGKQ

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CORRECTION: Empire is on Friday, not tonight! https://t.co/KEDNEVNNzL

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TONIGHT: 7:30pm at Art Cafe — hear the words of @simonefonsiba @HellsBellsworth @jennymxie and Alex Morris https://t.co/o36FKRUi9q

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I am in, therefore, a time of mass apprehensions.

— @simonefonsiba https://t.co/o36FKRCGKQ

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I am in, therefore, a time of mass apprehensions.

— @simonefonsiba https://t.co/o36FKRCGKQ

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TONIGHT: 7:30pm at Art Cafe — hear the words of @simonefonsiba @HellsBellsworth @jennymxie and Alex Morris https://t.co/o36FKRUi9q

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"The world is alive with appetite"

— @HellsBellsworth reads this Friday for EMPIRE https://t.co/o36FKRUi9q

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What red flowers,
what hummingbirds,
what storms have had to die
for this moment

— Alex Morris https://t.co/o36FKRCGKQ

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The clean square cells of this city
contain so many faces.

Each brightened by a fear
which makes them commonplace.

— @jennymxie