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A Poem More than 2 Decades in the Making: On Argonautics
Those waves, we follow on till the dark Euxine roll'd Upon the blue Symplegades ... -----Lord Byron in Childe Harold's...
josephaversano
Jun 31 min read


Donna Fleischer's new creation myth e-chapbook: Baby in Space
Half Day Moon Press welcomes Donna Fleischer's e-chapbook Baby in Space (HDMP No. 16) into our ever-unfolding cosmos. It is, as...
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Aug 13, 20241 min read


Wortis, Cole, and Levy's Art and Poetry e-Chapbook Release
Half Day Moon Press' exciting new e-chapbook release Meeting / Listening / Gallivanting (HDMP 15) is a collaborative work featuring...
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Jun 2, 20241 min read


My poem selected as "Featured Haibun" in issue 19.2 of Contemporary Haibun Online
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...
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Sep 29, 20232 min read


Engaging the uncertain in Angela Caporaso's digital chapbook of visual poetry, Dots (HDMP 11)
"I have always been far more drawn to uncertainties than certainties, as the former compels us to continually question ourselves about...
josephaversano
Sep 19, 20232 min read


New Digital Chapbook Release: Mark Young's Mercator Projected: selected geographies (HDMP 9)
Poet and visual artist Mark Young offers us cut-up and collaged travellor's accounts and descriptions of both obscure and well-trodden...
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Aug 24, 20233 min read


Forthcoming Half Day Moon Chapbooks on the Horizon...
Exciting new digital chapbooks are on the way from Half Day Moon Press following the launch of the first issue of Half Day Moon Journal...
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Aug 18, 20231 min read


Half Day Moon Journal, Issue N. 1 (Art & Literature)
Featuring Asemic Work by Stephen Nelson Edited by Joseph S. Aversano C O N T R I B U T I N G P O E T S : Michele Root-Bernstein; ...
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Aug 4, 20231 min read


New Release: A Message from the Meadows: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts (HDMP 8)
From the introduction of A Message from the Meadows: Emily Dickinson's Manuscript Fragments in Three Short Pictorial Essays, compiled by...
josephaversano
Jul 1, 20231 min read


New Release: Cairns by Sabine Miller (HDMP 7)
The cairns in Sabine Miller’s new e-chapbook Cairns are at once memorial monuments and trail markers. They are monuments dedicated to...
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Jun 17, 20233 min read


New Chapbook Release: Cherie Hunter Day's The Rattle Inside
It is probably no coincidence that the Northern Californian poet and visual artist Cherie Hunter Day has received the 2022 Touchstone...
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Apr 22, 20233 min read


Sonic Boom's Final Issue
I am happy to have a poem included in what is Sonic Boom's final and wonderfully colorful issue (No. 24) released last Friday. It is...
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Apr 2, 20231 min read


Dedication to Ground
It's now a week on from the two big quakes that wreaked havoc on SE Turkey and NE Syria and that shifted the Anatolian plate several...
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Feb 13, 20231 min read


New Poems
I am glad to have 3 new poems in the issue sixty-eight of Otoliths, edited by Mark Young, and also 2 prose pieces in issue twenty-three...
josephaversano
Feb 5, 20231 min read


New multimedia release: Levy's Raining at the Moment (HDMP No. 3)
Half Day Moon Press is very pleased to announce the publication of John Levy's multimedia chapbook Raining at the Moment. It contains...
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May 2, 20221 min read


Learning from Klee (Fig. 1)
An artist I have found to be a replenishing source of inspiration all through life is Paul Klee. While recently revisiting the Sibyl...
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Apr 9, 20221 min read


Unpainted Landscapes
of simple subtraction the steppe ^ ^ holding in focus the sum of one smooth stone by Joseph Salvatore Aversano (first published...
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Apr 7, 20221 min read


Angulimala Stops
the one with a necklace of fingers while running after what was after what was to be his thousandth victim and all the while running from...
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Feb 5, 20221 min read
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