In recognition of our the place UFP calls home and the fact that not every writer has completed a book length manuscript we bring to you our line, the Cities of the Straits Chapbook Series. Honoring both Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan in namesake, our chapbooks highlight the best fiction and poetry in chapbook format.
Biking Englewood: An Essay on the White Gaze
by Benjamin Goluboff
ISBN:978-1-988214-28-3
30 pages
"In the city of Laquan McDonald and in the season when some white Americans are beginning to learn that black lives matter, it would be absurd to set myself up as apologist for the white gaze. I seek to describe its interiority and to suggest something of what it's like to live within its limitations."
Release Date May 2019
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Four More Nights
by Jonathon Muzzall
ISBN:978-1-988214-29-0
52 pages
New short fiction from one of Montana's own up-and-coming storytellers.
Release Date August 2019
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Songs About Girls
by Carter Vance
ISBN:978-1-988214-15-3
40 pages
Sing of your sorrow, sing of your love, sing of that which you must leave behind. This premise lies behind Songs about Girls. A chapbook that marks Carter Vance's first collected volley into the literary scene. With it we are brought across borders defined by the very personal interactions in familiar places such as Ulster, Brooklyn, Ottawa, and Toronto. These are poems that ring out with song and criss-cross borders and places and rattle with the essence of what it means to be human. Hear in these words the emergence of a fresh poetic voice for a world that rejects borders and searches for connection to the places that we haunt and the people that unfettered movement forces us to leave
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Curious Connections
by Karen Sylvia Rockwell
ISBN: 978-1-988214-07-8
54 pages
In this collection of flash fiction pieces Rockwell delivers us into the various ways that people both connect and disconnect in our modern world. Rockwell tackles themes of communication, love, sexuality, identity, and even survival with characters ranging in age and life experience. From cellphone conversations to shared moments with a classic song,
these pieces are vignettes that allow the reader to connect with the experience of lives lived.
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Smack in the Middle of Spotlit Obvious
by Laurie Smith
ISBN: 978-1-988214-06-1
56 pages
From dreams to memories to the realities of life in the border cities of Windsor and Detroit, Smith's collection of poems brings us through wonder and the questionable in our everyday lives. Hers is a strong voice that emerges from the places familiar to those who inhabit the region these poems call home. From the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
to New Year's Eve spent at the infamous Coach and Horses dive bar to the seeming simplicity of breakfast with her father, these poems connect on a profoundly personal level.
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Jesus Works the Night Shift
by Caleb Tankersley
ISBN: 978-0-993769-02-3
42 pages
Tankersley brings us through a collected mediation on life's bigger picture through instances of the particular everyday. Asking questions of ancestry, end times, the passage of time before and around us, this collections of poems shines through in vivid glimmers of Pabst and Sushi diners, pigeons meeting unfortunate ends. A unique and refreshing voice in contemporary poetics,
Caleb Tankersley brings a strength of voice that wonderfully exemplifies UFP's belief in emerging lyric voices.
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Tales of a Multiverse in Peril
by William Bradley
ISBN: 9780993769047
Drawing much from the pulp science fiction of the early 20th century, Bradley’s chapbook explores both the everyday and the contemporary world with a clear eye to that tradition. From the coming of age tale of the insect queen to the a modern take on Saint Nick to a meditation on the real world use of Superman’s powers, Bradley’s collection is a thoroughly enjoyable collection that conjures up works of Cooley Windsor and Richard Brautigan.
A true border crosser, Tales of Multiverse in Peril! is the first in our Cities of the Straits Chapbook series
Upcoming Releases
Four More Nights by John Muzzall (Spring 2019)
Skyscraper by Philip Sterwerf (Spring 2019)