JOSEPH
SALVATORE
AVERSANO

“When a tea-master has arranged a flower to his satisfaction he will place it on the tokonoma, the place of honour in a Japanese room. Nothing else will be placed near it which might interfere with its effect, not even a painting, unless there be some special aesthetic reason for the combination.” This passage comes from the flower chapter of Kakuzo Okakura’s Book of Tea. It has probably inspired my decision to have all my rose bushes recently removed. Now don't get me wrong.

While I don’t go out of my way to adopt permaculture principals, I find that my preferences and concerns tend to overlap with them. For instance, going with local drought-resistant plants tends to be more low-maintenance than fussing over more exotic high-maintenance varieties.

Half Day Moon Press now archives audio recordings of poets reading their own work published in either issues of Half Day Moon Journal or in the Half Day Moon Press chapbook series.

A special print edition of Peter Yovu's engaging new chapbook What Is Least Me is Most Who I Am can now be ordered here:

Half Day Moon Press is delighted to announce the digital-format release of Peter Yovu's new poetry chapbook What Is Least Me Is Most Who I Am (HDMP NO. 19). While the work on one level draws from the wilds of Yovu's Vermont, his youth, and travels to far-flung shores, it primarily plunges the reader into the core of what is most us.

Half Day Moon Press is pleased to announce the digital-edition release of John Martone's poetry e-chapbook Particles (HDMP NO. 18). Originally published as a print edition under the Half Day Moon imprint, it contains dynamic particle units of verse that combine or collide to create more complex and kaleidoscopic arrangements. The particles also sail right through us like ghostly neutrinos...

An announcement about the availability of the print edition of Half Day Moon Journal, N. 3.

I am delighted to announce that the digital edition of Half Day Moon Journal N. 3 is now available. (The print edition is set to be...

Those waves, we follow on till the dark Euxine roll'd Upon the blue Symplegades ... -----Lord Byron in Childe Harold's...

F. J. Seligson's field notes on microcosmic life in his digital chapbook from Half Day Moon Press, Little Creatures of Love (HDMP No. 17).

Half Day Moon Journal N. 2 includes exciting new poems by twenty-eight poets and collage work by Rod T. Boyer.

Half Day Moon Press welcomes Donna Fleischer's e-chapbook Baby in Space (HDMP No. 16) into our ever-unfolding cosmos. It is, as...

Half Day Moon Press' exciting new e-chapbook release Meeting / Listening / Gallivanting (HDMP 15) is a collaborative work featuring...

Half Day Moon Press is very pleased to announce the release of Grzegorz Wroblewski's new digital chapbook The Life of a Tenement House....

To keep your Christmas stockings tapping, I've whipped together this Spotify playlist titled, "An Alternative Christmas Mixtape" feat....

En sevdigim kisa Orhan Veli şiirlerinden olusan kucuk bir koleksiyonu Half Day Moon Press sayfamda bulabilirsiniz. //// I am now...

If Julian Cope, the former frontman of the 80s new wave band The Teardrop Explodes, can be counted as a "modern antiquarian", then...

I was happy to see that my haibun "The Useless Tree" is the featured haibun in issue 19.2 of Contemporary Haibun Online (editied by Peter...

"I have always been far more drawn to uncertainties than certainties, as the former compels us to continually question ourselves about...

Ron Scully's Bureau of Weights and Measures, a mini digital chapbook release from Half Day Moon Press, has us peer into an existential...