We are excited to announce that galley copies of My Cruel Invention are now available. So if you are a reviewer or blogger and would like to review our poetry collection, please contact us at info@meerkatpress.com to request a copy. Publication date is December 1st, 2015. This book would make a superb gift. *hint hint*
Authors & poems in the collection:
| Alex Dreppec | Dance with Rocket Shoes |
| Alex Dreppec | Pacemaker |
| Brett Foster | To 5-FU |
| Clare Louise Harmon | On Violin Pedagogy |
| Daniel Hales | How Yard Games Are Invented |
| David Mook | Cruel and Unusual? |
| Donald Illich | Invention of the Trees |
| Dorene O’Brien | Dr. Frankenstein’s Lament |
| F. J. Bergmann | The Heaven of the Inventors |
| F. J. Bergmann | Instant |
| FJP Langheim | 2096 |
| Gwen Hart | The Happy Marriage Machine |
| H.M. Jones | Frankensteining |
| Holly Karapetkova | Gagging Iron |
| Holly Karapetkova | Saw Gin |
| J.G. McClure | A Fable (from the Journal of Chemical Ecology) |
| Janet McNally | This is Just an Experiment |
| Janet McNally | Direct Current |
| Jean Bonin | Inventing the Clock |
| Jerry Bradley | Pity Poor Mercalli |
| Jesseca Cornelson | Infinitely Scalable Model of One Theory of Efficiency |
| Jessica Goodfellow | The Invention of the Clock Face |
| Jessica Goodfellow | LaGrange’s Problem |
| Jo Angela Edwins | The Inventors of Pantyhose |
| Joel Allegretti | Prepared Piano |
| Julie E. Bloemeke | Pinned |
| Karen Bovenmyer | Little Bone Robot Boy |
| Karen Bovenmyer | Cadaver Feet |
| Karen Skolfield | The Rube Goldberg Contraption for Kissing |
| Karen Skolfield | Musical Instrument Adapted to Emit a Controlled Flame |
| Karen Skolfield | Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force |
| Kathryn Rickel | Jekyll’s Apology |
| Keith Stevenson | Physics Haiku |
| Kelly Cherry | An Idle Moment Some Days before the Trinity Test |
| Kelly Cherry | Nights in Secret City |
| Kim Roberts | IUDs |
| Kirsten Imani Kasai | reanimator |
| Kristine Ong Muslim | After the flood |
| Laura Shovan | Eyes in the Back of My Head |
| Magus Magnus | La Folie |
| Malka Older | Reverse Engineering |
| Marcela Sulak | Catherine de Medici and the High Hell |
| Marjorie Maddox | Sixteen-Inch Black-and-White |
| Marjorie Maddox | H. G. Who? |
| Marjorie Maddox | Invention |
| Mia Leonin | Before Eve was a Palindrome |
| Nolan Liebert | I Am A Geothermal Heat-Pump |
| Norbert Gora | He lit up the World |
| Rie Sheridan Rose | Clockwork Galatea |
| Rikki Santer | Codifier |
| Robert Kenny | The Uninventor |
| Sarah Key | Phrenology Reader for a French Chef in Barcelona |
| Scott Beal | Caveat Hat |
| Shelley Puhak | Two Sonnets for Torricelli, Inventor of the Barometer |
| Steven Wingate | Octet for My Unnamed Killer Apps |
| Susan Bucci Mockler | Aunt Pearl’s Confessione |
| Tanis MacDonald | Edison’s Elephant, 1903 |
| Tanya Bryan | 3D-Printed Skin |
| Tricia Asklar | Ball Color Changer |
| W. Luther Jett | Archimedes’ Lever |
| William Minor | Cras! Cras! |
| William Winfield Wright | That Day We Both Invented Calculus |
