mannygrimaldi
He is the Managing Editor for Yearling at the Lexington, Kentucky press, Workhorse. Publications include Tint Journal, The Rye Whiskey Review, Crossroads Literary Magazine, Disturb the Universe Magazine, The Dope Fiend Daily, Moss Puppy Magazine, Keeping the Flame Alive Magazine, Pegasus: the Journal of the Kentucky State Poetry Society, Jerry Jazz Musician, Drinkers Only, Club Plum, The Abyss Magazine, and Lexington Poetry Month anthologies.
Manny's first full length collection Riding Shotgun with the Mothman was released in late 2024, also with his chapbook anonymously released by Anonymus Scriptus, entitled ex libris Ioannes Cerva. That may be a recipe for Super Bowl chili with results.
Mothman is, according to a reader, a "transfiguration through time and identity." My words: one confused motherfucker. Alcohol will do that to a person.
The Whiskey City Press team holds the reins of an upcoming book that explains something about obsessions. The unanswering loves that don't bite you back (for fun), the loves that coin a language of block that kick and hold that thought baby, while one stands there as if he'd had his guts spilled out on the fishing dock. Do you know that lover? Sure you do. Mom buys her a game of Candy Land for her first grade birthday party and she wordlessly looks past you while looking at you. The wound can be great at age6, that a drink waits at age 7. You still think of this one in high school.
A novella is draft rough for real writing with the assistance of She Who Must Not Be Named. Working title is a secret too. Nothing really happens for the people in this book, and that's why life is a shit ball.
A 3rd poetry full book project is underway in boot camp. Working title TAXONOMY... trying to name the places we went wrong in what might have worked out. Very wistful. Some transformative energy here.
Don't forget: EVERY 1st Wednesday of the month at Kenwick Table--201 Owsley Avenue, Lexington Kentucky, 40502-- go to Poetry at the /'tāb-ǝl/ for featured poets and open mic players. It's a hootenanny to be sure.
Don't forget: EVERY 1st SUNDAY of the month at Flywheel Brewery in Elizabethtown, KY., there is a poets' gathering with a feature and open-mic.
Don't forget: EVERY 2nd SUNDAY of the month from 6-8pm virtually Uncloistered Poetry hosted by Jonie McIntyre. Look for them on Facebook for information.
Don't forget: EVERY 2nd SUNDAY of the month from 5-8 pm at BK's Cookies. 356 Longview Plaza. 160 B. Lexington, Kentucky. OPEN MIC hosted by Hunter Nelson.
Come to the Dark Side, you know you must...
We Have Cookie.
