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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOTICE OF RESIGNATION FROM William James:
Effective immediately, I am stepping down, and will no longer be serving in any editorial capacity for Tired Hearts Press. I will be helping to assemble the final product for the remaining manuscripts in the publishing queue, including forthcoming selections from this year’s reading series, but I will not be making any decisions regarding who is selected as a finalist. All books currently slated to be published will be printed, but as of now I am removing myself from the editorial board and abstaining from making any executive decisions. I would like to thank all of the poets who took a chance on this idea, and allowed me to be involved in the process of sharing their work with the world. I am utterly confident that Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory and Karolina Manko can quite capably handle things on their own from here on out. I wish Tired Hearts Press all the best from this point forward.
-wj
TIRED HEARTS Chapbook Series #2: SEMIFINALISTS ANNOUNCED!
TIRED HEARTS PRESS is pleased to announce the semifinalists for our 2014 Series II chapbook contest! An overwhelming number of poets responded to our call for submissions, and sent us a metric boatload of amazing work; after intense deliberation, we've narrowed the list down to eleven incredible authors. Over the next couple of weeks, we'll be whittling down this list even further, in order to announce our top 4 picks - who, along with our respective editor's picks, will represent the sophmore class for Tired Hearts!
2014 TIRED HEARTS PRESS SEMIFINALISTS:
Benjamin Barker
Tony Brown
Lee Busby
Zachary Caballero
Amy David
Megan Falley
Thomas Fucaloro
Matthew Landis
Bea Cordelia Sullivan-Knoff
Stephanie Lane Sutton
NOW AVAILABLE
Today marks the official release of the collection AFTER GENESIS - poems by Karen Grace! An exciting voice from the New York City poetry scene, Karen's book is "a story about what happens AFTER you come out, after you settle into your skin, and after you realize that what makes you YOU will mean losing the people that fought hardest to keep you who they wanted you to be." TIRED HEARTS PRESS is proud to give this collection a home. For a preview of the book, feel free to check out Karen's's author page, where you can read a sample poem from this stunning collection.
If you want to grab a copy of any of our currently available titles, copies are available through our Storenvy page at http://tiredhearts.storenvy.com.
Just a reminder, $1 from every single book we sell will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
 
NOW AVAILABLE
Out now on TIRED HEARTS PRESS is the new collection"RAPE JOKE - poems by AMY SILBERGELD". For a preview of the book, feel free to check out Amy's author page, where you can read a sample poem from this stunning collection. Coming VERY soon will be pre-order information for Rob Sturma's "WHY YOU TREAD WATER" as well as some of our other upcoming titles.
If you want to grab a copy of any of our currently available titles, copies are available through our Storenvy page at http://tiredhearts.storenvy.com.
Just a reminder, $1 from every single book we sell will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
I Still Believe: A Conversation With Frank Turner from Tired Hearts on Vimeo.
Tired Hearts Press spoke with FRANK TURNER a few weeks back via email about music, inspiration, survival, the road & more. This photo essay combines the conversation with pictures from his July 31st show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Interview + Photography by Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
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SERIES ONE: Now Available!
Our first two titles are now officially out and available! "Another Small Fire - poems by ADAM LOVE" and "A Small City Of The Mind - poems by GRAY BRIAN THOMAS" had their release date recently, and the response has been great! Two solid efforts from a couple of SLC neighbors, and rumor has it, these two are set to hit the road soon! Check here in the upcoming weeks for tour dates and other info as Gray and Adam blaze a trail in support of the inaugural titles from TIRED HEARTS PRESS
If you haven't yet picked up a copy of either of these books, copies are available through our Storenvy page at http://tiredhearts.storenvy.com.
Just a reminder, $1 from every single book we sell will be donated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. A huge thank you to our readers who've already bought a book or two. Without your support, none of this happens.
Introducing Our Poets:
We are pleased to announce the lineup for Tired Hearts Press' inaugural 2013 campaign. We had an overwhelming response to our call for open submissions, but at the end of our reasing period, these titles stood out the strongest - due not only to the caliber of the work presented, but also in their focus relating to the mission statement of our press. We put forth the challenge to poets - give us the work you believe will change, the work that you believe will SAVE lives.
These six poets, among all the submissions we recieved, clearly answered the call.
TIRED HEARTS PRESS 2013 ROSTER
(click on the names for author pages)
ADAM LOVE
ADRIANA RAMIREZ
AMY SILBERGELD
GRAY BRIAN THOMAS
KAREN GRACE
MELISSA MAY
ROB STURMA
STEVIE EDWARDS
About Our Press:
Tired Hearts Press publishes poetry with a pulse.
With a firm belief that art has the power to save lives and that words can be a tool for positive change, we at Tired Hearts Press have set out to publish writers whose ethos embody the stuff of humanity, perseverance and survival and whose work challenges the status quo to see the world in a different light.
Our lives have both been saved by words at different times and in different ways.
This was the most logical way we could figure out to give back.
Rather than being the stuff of testimony, our aesthetic is soul-shaking poetry
unafraid to let its skeletons show, carefully-crafted work that embraces
mortality and metaphor in the same breath.
Our hearts are tired - tired of presses putting a stronger focus on appearances
than authorial aims, claps than catharsis, and that value pretense over poetry.
It ends here.
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