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After some months of delays, computer failures, and winter blues, I am back at the helm trying to steer the press back in the right direction. I know that some of you reading this are like, wtf, but long story short the press laptop after 8 years of trusty service bit the dust leaving me
Dear gesture fam, Jason Schenheit & I started Gesture when we were both in the MFA program at San Francisco State University, back in 2012. I had wanted to start an online literary magazine, & he had recently started a small press with its own website. He said we should just join forces, so we
I would like to take this time to congratulate Cathleen Chambless on becoming a finalist in The Bi Writers Association annual award in Poetry. It’s has been a long journey since Cathleen and I started working together to bring her wonderful book Nec(Romantic) to the world. On June 10th 2017 Cathleen went to NYC for the
Cathleen Chambless and I met at AWP 2015. At that time I was running a gorilla press table trying to sling our punk aesthetics to a book loving crowd. Cathleen really dug our style and after exchanging emails I asked her for some poems. She sent me a chapbook idea called “Sugercoated” were each poem
Editors’ note, Thanks for clicking. Enjoy the new issue of Troop. Volume Two Issue 3 is Poetry, and lives in the Cargo of life. Talk to you again next issue. Peace. Thank you to all our contributors, and Thanks for reading, The Editors thegorillapress.com ::: READ NOW ::: ::: CARGO Contributors ::: S.j. Cruz is a native
LATEST ISSUE OUT NOW feat. sarah jean alexander, amy mcdaniel, mike young, mark cugini, amanda huckins, taj bourgeois, theron jacobs, joshua jennifer espinoza, carmen e. brady, e.a.hyde, eva mckenna, oliver mol, & penny goring cover art ::: lexi roberts editer at large ::: matthew sherling layout ::: jason schenheit read now ::: gesture_8
I can’t explain how much fun I had @AWP15. Got to catch up w/ writers, presses, and fans, basically everything but sleep. During my time I worked the Gorilla Press booth, alongside Punk Hostage, getting gorilla’s name out and about Minneapolis and hopefully beyond. In the middle of all the chaos that is AWP I
come find us w/ punk hostage press @ AWP 2015 (4/8-4/11) in minneapolis, mn. gorilla press will be there w/ authors Lizzy Acker and Nate Waggoner. There’s a reading on the AWP schedule and a book fair. TABLE 656, come say hello. Click here to be taken to the Facebook Invite link. Best Regards and
we are fully functional at the moment, no amount of weird drops or large amounts of files deleted can stop us, and we are stronger then before because of the mishaps. you will still find free zines to read, videos of readings to watch, and now through our Square Store be able to purchase some