http://www.conundrum-press.com Conundrum Press Wed, 15 May 2013 14:25:53 +0000 http://www.conundrum-press.com en http://conundrum-press.com/Columbine-A-True-Crime-Story http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Columbine-A-True-Crime-Story Wed, 15 May 2013 14:25:53 +0000 Conundrum Press 5623002 <img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5623002/9781938633263-cov2front_900.jpg" width="596" height="900" width_o="596" height_o="900" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5623002/9781938633263-cov2front_900_o.jpg" data-mid="30336361" border="0" align="left"/>Ten years after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, Columbine remains the world's most iconic school shooting. Columbine: A True Crime Story, a Victim, the Killers and the Nation's Search for Answers is the first book of investigative journalism to tell the complete story of that day, the far-reaching consequences, and the common denominators among school shooters across the country. Jeff Kass was one of the first reporters on the scene and has continued to cover the story as a staff writer for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. He has broken national stories on the shootings such as leaked crime scene photos, and the sealed diversion files of the killers. He has also reported the story extensively for the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and U.S. News & World Report. The result of ten years of research and exclusive information, the book reaches into fundamental American themes of violence, racism, parenting and policing. Concluding with the tale of the tattered police investigation and how one of the most controversial victims' families faces down a modern American tragedy as the cameras roll, Columbine: A True Crime Story is a classic in the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song. Foreword by noted historian Douglas Brinkley, exclusive cover art by renowned artist and cultural commentator Ralph Steadman, and photos from the archives of the Rocky Mountain News, which won the Pulitzer for its Columbine photography. Watch for an updated second edition with new content from the author. Available now on Amazon. Ten years after Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher, Columbine remains the world's most iconic school shooting. Columbine: A True... http://conundrum-press.com/Memory-s-Rooms http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Memory-s-Rooms Wed, 15 May 2013 14:19:53 +0000 Conundrum Press 5622983 <img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622983/red_lantern_cover_web_640.jpg" width="640" height="989" width_o="1650" height_o="2550" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622983/red_lantern_cover_web_o.jpg" data-mid="30336210" border="0" align="left"/>Advance Praise for Memory's Rooms: “Even the unlucky and the unacknowledged watch from high-up windows as Eleanor Swanson reminds us, I know what I saw,” says Andrea Watson. That’s part of it indeed. I know what I saw, and I wrote about it. And Joe Hutchison, author of Thread of the Real, says this: “We're made of star-stuff, the poet seems to say, and only by staying in touch with that fact can we know our worth and comprehend the worth of others.” Isn’t that so true? I believe this book makes it clear that we are creatures of mystery. Each of the four sections of the book explores different sorts of mysteries: Listening, Divining Two things we must do, every moment of our lives Stepping into Night We cannot discern light without darkness. Everything Wants to Live Affirmations and a recognition of the thinness of the veil between life and death. A Posture of Supplication Supplication can lead to grace or conditions of grace. Buy your copy in the Conundrum Press store. Advance Praise for Memory's Rooms: “Even the unlucky and the unacknowledged watch from high-up windows as Eleanor Swanson reminds us, I know what I saw,” says... http://conundrum-press.com/Some-of-These-Days http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Some-of-These-Days Wed, 15 May 2013 14:16:30 +0000 Conundrum Press 5622946 <img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622946/someofthesedays_front_640.jpg" width="640" height="989" width_o="1652" height_o="2552" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622946/someofthesedays_front_o.jpg" data-mid="30336115" border="0" align="left"/>Robert Wendell King was born Dec. 7, 1937, in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1955. He received his B. A. in English in 1959 from the State University of Iowa and returned to Colorado, getting his M. A. in American Literature from Colorado State University in 1961. He received his Ph. D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1965. After three years of teaching at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks, he began his career at the University of North Dakota in 1968 where he had a joint appointment teaching creative writing in the Department of English and in Elementary Education. In 1971, he was named Outstanding Professor. From 1975-1979 he also worked in the North Dakota Poet in the Schools Program. He retired as Professor Emeritus from the University of North Dakota in 1996, having received the UND Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, Creative Activity, and Service. He has since lectured at the University of Nebraska and the University of Northern Colorado. He has three children—Lisa, Lynn, and Lawrence, all living in North Dakota—and he currently lives in Greeley, Colorado, where he writes and directs the Colorado Poets Center. "He is the editor of the Colorado Poets Center quarterly newsletter, The Colorado Poet. He is also the editor for the Poudre Learning Center’s newsletter, The Poudre River Current, and the monthly newsletter for the Upper Poudre Canyon Association, The Riverbank Reporter." Buy your copy in the Conundrum Press store. Robert Wendell King was born Dec. 7, 1937, in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Fort Collins High School in 1955. He received his B. A. in English in 1959 from... http://conundrum-press.com/Language-for-the-Living-and-the-Dead http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Language-for-the-Living-and-the-Dead Wed, 15 May 2013 14:05:38 +0000 Conundrum Press 5622860 <img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/ransick_language_front_300.jpg" width="500" height="771" width_o="500" height_o="771" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/ransick_language_front_300_o.jpg" data-mid="30335945" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/chris ransick-11_640.jpeg" width="640" height="427" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/chris ransick-11_o.jpeg" data-mid="30335695" border="0" align="left"/>Language for the Living and the Dead is a new collection of poetry by Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006 and winner of the Colorado Book Award. These hauntingly beautiful poems explore the tense, sometimes sloppy line between life and death, joy and despair, and how paying attention to the simple delights of good friends, love, and natural beauty are the ingredients for a good life. Here is a master of words and imagery at his finest. The voice of these poems lives in myth and dream, and therefore holds the secrets of our deepest hopes and desires. Ransick knows how to beautifully turn a line, forging music and image into moments masterfully crafted—moments that contain the high and low, bird wing and cloud, screwballs and mud. These poems haunt, humor, and cajole, while moving me to higher ground. By which I mean to say they lift me up and give me a new perspective on what it is to be human. —Michael J. Henry, author of No Stranger Than My Own Preorder your copy in the Conundrum Press store.<img src="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/ransick_language_front_300.jpg" width="500" height="771" width_o="500" height_o="771" src_o="http://payload166.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/5622860/ransick_language_front_300_o.jpg" data-mid="30335945" border="0" align="left"/> Language for the Living and the Dead is a new collection of poetry by Chris Ransick, appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006 and winner of the Colorado Book Award.... http://conundrum-press.com/Untitled-project-2 http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Untitled-project-2 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:43:06 +0000 Conundrum Press 3749778 <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749778/9780971367869-front-cover_smaller.jpg" width="193" height="300" width_o="193" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749778/9780971367869-front-cover_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19488643" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749778/ChrisRansick_smaller.jpg" width="300" height="204" width_o="300" height_o="204" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749778/ChrisRansick_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19488654" border="0" align="left"/>A Colorado Book Award finalist, A Return to Emptiness is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick's words, "Loss is common to us all, yet multifarious in individual experience. I wrote these stories not primarily to describe loss but to circumscribe it-which is to say that I drew a circle of narratives round the experience to both locate and limit it. I was vaguely aware of this at the time of the writing. It's quite clear now. "Nobody gets out of this life without experiencing loss, as well as what is offered in recompense to those with the humility and quietude to accept emptiness. Stories are an ancient way of communicating experience and a collection of short fiction is a unique and complex symbol set that can, in the best cases, fill a void, turn loss to gain. If I had my way, this book would do that for the reader." Author Chris Ransick appointed Denver Poet Laureate in 2006, is the author of four books, including Never Summer, which won a Colorado Book Award for poetry, and A Return To Emptiness, a Colorado Book Award fiction finalist. Chris worked as assistant to the editors of the definitive anthology, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology and has been teaching at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver since 2005. He has served as a member of PEN USA's Freedom to Write Committee, and closer to home, spent eight years on his local public library board. His new collection of poems, Language for the Living and the Dead, is forthcoming in 2012 from Conundrum Press, which will be issuing new editions of his earlier books. ISBN: 978-0-9713678-6-9 $14.99 Now available in the Conundrum Book Store or anywhere fine books are sold. A Colorado Book Award finalist, A Return to Emptiness is a collection of short stories about life, loss, and love. In Ransick's words, "Loss is common to us all,... http://conundrum-press.com/No-Stranger-Than-My-Own http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/No-Stranger-Than-My-Own Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:55:57 +0000 Conundrum Press 3749506 <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749506/9780971367883_front-cover_smaller.jpg" width="192" height="300" width_o="192" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749506/9780971367883_front-cover_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19487369" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749506/mhenry_author_photo_smaller.jpg" width="252" height="300" width_o="252" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749506/mhenry_author_photo_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19487375" border="0" align="left"/>Michael Henry's poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday. Author Michael J Henry is co-founder and Executive Director of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, an independent creative writing center located in downtown Denver. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in places such as 5280 Magazine, Georgetown Review, Threepenny Review, Pleiades, and Rio Grande Review. Over the years, he’s been awarded a Colorado Council on the Arts fellowship, a PlatteForum fellowship, an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College, and an undergraduate degree in English from University of Rochester. Recently, he collaborated with choreographer Garrett Ammon on a full-length narrative ballet, Intersection, which was performed by Ballet Nouveau Colorado in 2010 and 2011. Born in Buffalo, New York, he currently lives in Thornton, Colorado with his wife and two daughters. ISBN: 978-0-9713678-8-3 $12.99 Now available in the Conundrum Book Store or anywhere fine books are sold. Michael Henry's poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly... http://conundrum-press.com/Lost-Sheep http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Lost-Sheep Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:36:48 +0000 Conundrum Press 3749353 <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749353/lost-sheep_front-cover_smaller.jpg" width="192" height="300" width_o="192" height_o="300" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749353/lost-sheep_front-cover_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19487031" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749353/k_smaller.jpg" width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3749353/k_smaller_o.jpg" data-mid="19487060" border="0" align="left"/>Lost Sheep: Aspen's Counterculture in the 1970s--A Memoir recounts the author's journey from the "real" world of 1970s America to the rollicking, freedom-loving, outlaw world of Aspen. Blending personal narrative, local history, dramatic interlude, and cultural analysis, the story begins as a literal journey but quickly evolves into the memoir of an entire town--a time and place many consider to be Aspen's "Golden Age," when artists, eccentrics, and outlaws took over the city and transformed it into an alpine bohemia. The noteworthy cast of characters--famous, infamous, and unknown--includes Claudine Longet, Jack Nicholson, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Steve Martin, and Ted Bundy. The local residents are even more colorful, from a woman who feeds her dog nothing but vegetables to a bookstore owner who believes in "psychic surgeries," while everywhere art is being made--and a good deal of hay. Author Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers' Conference, and Writers' Conferences & Centers. His poems have appeared in many literary periodicals, and he is the editor of several anthologies including his most recent (with Harold Schechter), Killer Verse:Poems About Mayhem and Murder from Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series. ISBN--978-0-9713678-7-6 $14.99 Now available in the Conundrum Book Store and anywhere fine books are sold. Lost Sheep: Aspen's Counterculture in the 1970s--A Memoir recounts the author's journey from the "real" world of 1970s America to the rollicking,... http://conundrum-press.com/Crazy-Chicana-in-Catholic-City http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Crazy-Chicana-in-Catholic-City Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:22:33 +0000 Conundrum Press 3629252 <img src="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3629252/Fatula_front-cover_640.jpg" width="640" height="994" width_o="1642" height_o="2551" src_o="http://payload66.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3629252/Fatula_front-cover_o.jpg" data-mid="18811623" border="0" align="left"/> Poems by Juliana Aragón Fatula "Juliana Aragón Fatula writes histories so terrifying they feel as if they were written with a knife. She writes with craft and courage about what most folks are too ashamed to even think about, let alone talk about. Her fearlessness is inspirational. This is the kind of poetry I want to read; this the kind I want to write. She makes me feel like writing poetry!” —Sandra Cisneros From Crazy Chicana in Catholic City: Mom once took a bullet for a cookie. Grandma had an apron full of cherries. Auntie hung the wash. Lee fed the chickens. Zeke cleaned his rifle. Mom searched the cupboards. She was only three feet tall. She stood on the sink, tried to reach high in the sky for oatmeal cookies. Crack - like a lightening bolt had hit a cottonwood tree. Her blood was everywhere: on the cupboards, floor, cookies, hands. Grandma ran down the hill but she fell. She rolled, she rolled, she rolled; just like a tortilla. She ran in the house saw Zeke had wrapped mom’s legs in torn sheets while mom ate cookies. The bullet went in the left leg, out the back, and through the right leg, four holes, total. That’s why you should never clean a rifle in the house: bloody cookies. $12.99 Now available in the Conundrum Press book store and anywhere fine books are sold. Poems by Juliana Aragón Fatula "Juliana Aragón Fatula writes histories so terrifying they feel as if they were written with a knife. She writes with craft and... http://conundrum-press.com/Thread-of-the-Real http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Thread-of-the-Real Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:37 +0000 Conundrum Press 3365707 <img src="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3365707/hutchison_250x387_web.jpg" width="250" height="385" width_o="250" height_o="385" src_o="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3365707/hutchison_250x387_web_o.jpg" data-mid="17294778" border="0" align="left"/> New poetry by Joseph Hutchison Thread of the Real Who’d have thought: setting out from a gap in the seam between foothills and plains, a pinch of cocoonish dust like me might take wing northwest and seaward, away from Nixon’s nightbound America and mine,     to settle where vast sounds pour their profundities into the folds of b.c.? Who’d have thought I’d sleepwalk into Canada’s wooded raininess, there to be startled awake by a stogie-puffing Irish Taoist? Who was it who’d led me to believe there was no magic anymore? <img src="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3365707/hutchison_author_photo_web.jpg" width="287" height="214" width_o="287" height_o="214" src_o="http://payload53.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/3365707/hutchison_author_photo_web_o.jpg" data-mid="17295043" border="0" align="left"/> Joseph Hutchison is the author of eleven collections of poetry in addition to Thread of the Real, which include The Rain at Midnight, Bed of Coals (winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award), House of Mirrors, The Undersides of Leaves, and the Colorado Governor’s Award volume Shadow-Light. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Hutchison teaches graduate level writing courses at the University of Denver’s University College. He lives with his wife Melody Madonna in Indian Hills, a small community in the foothills southwest of Denver. Thread of the Real New Poetry by Joseph Hutchison ISBN: 978-0-9713678-5-2 $12.99 New poetry by Joseph Hutchison Thread of the Real Who’d have thought: setting out from a gap in the seam between foothills... http://conundrum-press.com/Let-the-Birds-Drink-in-Peace http://conundrum-press.com/following/conundrum-press.com/Let-the-Birds-Drink-in-Peace Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:17:20 +0000 Conundrum Press 2171562 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/2171562/mcbrearty_300x500_web.jpg" width="250" height="387" width_o="250" height_o="387" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/2171562/mcbrearty_300x500_web_o.jpg" data-mid="10844824" border="0" align="left"/> Each of Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories has its own sensibility, but what his characters share is a desire to know how best to live when confronted by unforeseeable chance. Here readers will meet budding writers, ailing professors, reluctant gunslingers, and kidnapped kids; they grapple with conflicts of conscience and the mysteries of love. McBrearty excels in devising believable worlds and characters with open, sometimes breakable, hearts. ISBN 978-0-9713678-2-1 $14.99 Now Available Purchase this book from Conundrum Press $14.99 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/2171562/mcbrearty.jpg" width="288" height="216" width_o="288" height_o="216" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/116154/2171562/mcbrearty_o.jpg" data-mid="10844924" border="0" align="left"/> Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories have been anthologized in the Pushcart Prize and widely published in leading literary journals including: North American Review, Missouri Review, New England Review, Narrative Magazine, StoryQuarterly, and Mississippi Review. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed short story collections, A NIGHT AT THE Y, and EPISODE, which won the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award. His stories have been selected for performances at Stories on Stage in Denver, and at Arts and Letters Live at the Dallas Museum of Art. Other awards include fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, and a New Mexico State Arts Grant. He teaches writing at the University of Colorado. Read Houston, 1984, a story from Let the Birds Drink in Peace. Read Houston, 1984 onscreen Open publication - Download a Kindle file of Houston, 1984 Link to Kindle file Download a PDF of Houston, 1984 to your computer Link to downloadable PDF Each of Robert Garner McBrearty’s stories has its own sensibility, but what his characters share is a desire to know how best to live when confronted by...