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  Epic Rites: any press is only as “small” as its thinking.™


“Tree Killer Ink is not an arts and literary magazine that invites calm reflection. It is meant to engage the reader—enthusiastically and aggressively.”
—Chris Yurkoski, 
Domesday Notebook
“Tree Killer Ink, from Epic Rites Press, is probably the best thing to come out of Alberta since the Calgary Stampede.”
—David Blaine, 
Outside Writers

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“Most books are prettier as trees.” ™

ISSN# 1927-8179

PUNK CHAPBOOK SUBSCRIPTION

     

PRESENTLY SOLD OUT!

15 chapbooks

No bullshit. No pretense. 
No bells and fucking whistles. 

Edited by Wolfgang Carstens.
Art by Janne Karlsson

$50 plus shipping
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What's "punk" you ask? Punk is no bullshit, no pretense, no bells and fucking whistles—just reaching into the marrow of your bones and smearing the good stuff across the page! 

15 chapbooks
180 pages of madness
Printed on 28lb white paper
Saddle stitched

The PUNK CHAPBOOK SUBSCRIPTION will go down differently than previous ones. Everyone who orders won't have to wait around for new issues. That's bullshit. Life is short. As soon as your order is processed, "season one" will be packed in an envelope and sent to your front door:

Season One
Locked, loaded, and ready to blow the hinges from your mailbox:

THE BEAST GENERATION by Zarina Zabrisky
A KISS IN HELL by Bill Gainer
BRUJA LOCA by Misti Rainwater-Lites
NOT MUCH LEFT FOR YOU TO STAB by Rob Plath
MAGIC FINGERS by RD Armstrong
IN BACK OF MADAM WONG'S by Doug Draime
ENDURE by John Yamrus
THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF by Matt Galletta
BLUES OF HEX & BONES by Tony Moffeit
THEMSELVES AS STONE by John Macker
BACK IN BLACK by Mike Meraz
PRAYING FOR A SPARE by Lawrence Gladeview
DYING UNDER AN UNFORGIVING SUN by Brenton Booth
STREET LIFE by Janne Karlsson
DRUNK, TIRED AND HUNGRY by Wolfgang Carstens

Every PUNK CHAPBOOK features an exterior by the insanely talented Janne "I don't use fucking photoshop!" Karlsson.

PUNK COVERS
...yes, you click on them!


That's 192 pages of marrow hitting your mailbox! 

Did I mention there will be a bonus issue?  The BELA LUGOSI drinking/hangover anthology featuring poetry by Mike Meraz, John Yamrus, Doug Draime, Brenton Booth, Linda Papineau-Couture, Adrian Manning, Robert Whiteley, Janne Karlsson and Wolfgang Carstens.
I almost forgot to mention the best part: the subscription will be cheap, dirt fucking cheap! $50 plus shipping. That's $3.13 per issue!  And that, my friends, is how the PUNK CHAPBOOK SUBSCRIPTION will go down!

Easy on the pocketbook; hard on the heart; absolutely fucking brutal on the brain!

O yeah brother!

Here comes the boom, baby, boom!
Wanting postage to be accurate, please use the contact form to order. Make sure to include your shipping address.

Submissions for season two of the PUNK CHAPBOOK subscription series will open soon. If you have 12 pages of material that sings, I want to see it.  It can be a series of poems, aphorisms, a short story, or cartoons.  Your submission should be intricately connected, unified under a main theme.  A great chapbook is hard thing to get right, but when it happens, it's pure magic!

The only catch is that if you want me to consider your work for publication, you must be a paid PUNK CHAPBOOK subscriber.  The only way for you to understand the series is to read the series, and if you can't support the series, I don't see why the series should support you.


AVAILABLE NOW!
12 SHOTGUN BLASTS FROM UNDERGROUND

     

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Edited by Wolfgang Carstens
Exterior by SAMMY! | IAmSammyDesign.com
Interior images by Elizabeth A. Soroka

Tree Killer Ink, 2014

12 authors, 12 poems, 12 shotgun blasts! 

My mission with 12 Shotgun Blasts From Underground was simple one. Assemble 12 of the best and brightest authors currently working the marrow of contemporary poetry and ask them to write me their best love poem. 12 authors; 12 poems; 12 shotgun blasts.

Every great thinker from Plato to Leonard Cohen has taken their 
pot shot at “love.” Well, now it’s our turn. There are no sonnets or rhymes or form or structure or literary rules to get in the way of meaning. No, not here. What we have here are honest attempts put the right words in the right fucking order.

Enjoy!

—Wolfgang Carstens


Sharpshooters include:

 
John Macker
William Taylor Jr.
RD Armstrong
Wolfgang Carstens
Zarina Zabrisky
John Yamrus
Lawrence Gladeview
John Dorsey
Rob Plath
Jack Shaw
Tony Moffeit
Stephen T. Berg
Featuring 16 full page images by Elizabeth A. Soroka that tell the story about a boy, a gun, and his transition through the extreme range of emotions that falling in and out of love produces.

Order your copy of 12 SHOTGUN BLASTS FROM UNDERGROUND today!
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HELLBOUND

Poetry by David McLean
48 pages
$10 plus shipping
ISBN: 978-0-981184-42-5

Epic Rites Press, 2009
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Art and Design by Pablo Vision
“Forget cheesy horror film remakes.  If you want to get scared, really scared, wrap your trembling fingers around Hellbound and let David McLean lead you deep into the labyrinth of the human psyche and leave you for dead.”
—Wolfgang Carstens, Factory Reject
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  • SPLITTING SKULL
  • Punk Chapbook Series
  • Poets Underground
  • The Blood Machine
  • ...rumors and rumblings of war
  • Submissions
  • Contact