Editorial Board: Darcie Dennigan, Robert Krut, Clay Matthews, Gina Myers.

To publish one full-length book of poems per calendar year selected through an open reading period, as well as whatever else we can manage.

Manuscripts are accepted from January 1st until April 30th.  There is a $10 reading fee, payable through the paypal link below.  Manuscripts are judged & read blindly; all identifying information in the manuscript will be scoured & removed before it is passed to the editors. 

We anticipate announcing the selected manuscript by June 1st. We anticipate publishing the selected manuscript before the end of the year.

$10 - Open Reading Period Submission, Jan. 1 - April 30

(please forward your paypal receipt & attach your manuscript, in .doc or .pdf format, to editor [at] h-ngm-n.com)

#1.  Clay Matthews.  MUFFLER.

#2.  Daniel Becker.  CHANCE.

#3.  Matt Hart.  SONNET.

#4.  Erica Bernheim.  BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY.

#5.  Evan Commander.  A THING AND ITS GHOST.

#6.  Robert Krut.  THEORY OF THE WALKING BIG BANG.

#7.  Julia Cohen.  WHO COULD FORGET THE SENSATIONAL FIRST EVENING OF THE NIGHT.

FLIP/CHAP #1.  Samuel Amadon.  ADVICE FOR YOUNG COUPLES. // Dorothea Lasky.  ART.

FLIP/CHAP #2.  Brad Liening.  KER-THUNK. // Gina Myers.  FEAR OF THE KNEE BENDING BACKWARDS.

MC Hyland.  EVERY NIGHT IN MAGIC CITY.

“I am shouting in my sleep in this hot junkyard then / I am picking your pocket with extraordinary affection”

Michael Sikkema. “SAYING THINGS AS AN ENGINE WOULD.”

“a composition for blood and emotional memory “

Adam Fell.  TEN KEYS TO BEING A CHAMPION ON AND OFF THE FIELD.

“I think a hammock between two trees / is what we should be shooting for.”

Nate Slawson.  THE TINY JUKEBOX.

“is not yr soul / a tiny jukebox, / a pain in yr heart”

*printable / foldable version!

Ben Mirov.  COLLECTED GHOST.

“I act like myself at a coffee shop and try not / to shake. My day is a petal in a glass of vodka.  My bed is an ear that / cannot record. I try hard to feel the flow.”

Amber Nelson.  THIS RIDE IS IN DOUBLE EXPOSURE.

“I am a human being. So much the / tremor. I am a human being. Looking to the lights // & a standing ovation, building / such miniature cathedrals.”

Lauren Levin.  FLAMING TELEPATHS.

“mother brushes hair from her face      waves on her forehead / oddly frowsy or troubled      chrysanthemum composed      petals slender / then, you see.      cracks and it becomes ancient / a black halo”

Please note that there is no formal submission policy for chapbook consideration.

LORD DRAGONFLY: FIVE SEQUENCES by William Heyen.

originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press // REISSUED, 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS.

- with critical apparatus/appreciations by Matthew Henriksen & Nate Pritts.

:: $14.95 ::

Coming October 2010.

Open Reading period selection to be announced June 1st.