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Boomslang is the name of an arboreal African snake (Dispholidus typus) of the family Colubridae, known for its potent venom and  rear-fanged jaw structure.It was also the label affixed to a widely-ignored poetic form championed by various disenfranchised and largely unpublished writers of the late twentieth century.  The boomslang tongue can be vaguely traced back to its rather obscure roots in mid-1980s Long Beach (California) and even more tentatively to late-1970s Detroit. It was a malleable and difficult-to-define dialect often characterized by contra-diction, half-assonance, lexiflexion, and neologism.  It was decidedly non-prosaic and generally ebbed and flowed in subtle to even elusive rhythms that followed a sort of unsung musicality.  Very few examples have survived - and copies of these titles are now quite difficult to find (see Appendix B).  Most of  the authors have long since died or else descended deep into dementia, leaving Joseph Nicks as one of boomslang''s last remaining practitioners.

Full Moon & Other Minimalist Writings are the second volume of very short stories written with a keen and wry sense of humor and tenderness. This collection encompasses many of life''s familiar moments which are both endearing and poignant. As a young child Armando always had what he needed but nothing more. He felt uncomfortable accumulating things. Smaller was always preferable to bigger and less to more. Illustrated with ink drawings, this collection of minimalist stories chronicles one man''s musings on life.

Verly E. Dolce, American citizen and U.S. Navy veteran of Haitian descent, tells his story of of self-discovery. Growing up in an abusive family and in an economically and politically challenged country, with the help of his maternal grandmother, he persevered many obstacles and changed the course of his life without losing his faith in humanity.

An insightful, laugh-out-loud memoir of a woman who was born to privilege, survived a rape, and overcame an abusive childhood to find self-acceptance and grace. FRONT ROW LADY is a meditation on the meaning of love and family, and a survival guide to living with eyes and heart open.

In three comic novellas, unlikely hero-narrators insist their respective ways into revisionist stories, imagined or real, of rescue, resistance and ironic retribution.

What if a band of women tired of violence as a means of change went underground to dream, vision, paint and recreate the world as every mother and grandmother wishes it to be? A celebration of imagination and creativity, Cronation is a send up of humans, both men and women, trying to do the right thing in what feels like the terminal swoon of civilization. When Eve, a mid-level corporate executive, is swept out of her business life by Cronation operatives, the shift of eras throttles into high gear. Clad in bunny slippers and a crocheted blanket, Eve plays a key role in ushering out the patriarchal era. Meanwhile Yang, the mangy coyote-esque embodiment of all things male, is helped off stage by Harvey, the only regular guy in the underground Cronation movement. Working as agents of the Central Intelligence, Aurelia Astarte Marx and her band of loving but firm Crones know that everyone and every thing contains a spark of the Divine Source. Their mission is to support the birth pangs as expanded consciousness dawns on the planet, while the Crones envision how everything from guns to government can be reimagined for the new era of sacred partnership and creative community. Will the Crones succeed in stabilizing this seminal clash of cultures? Can they neutralize a renegade from within their own ranks who wants to fight violence with violence? Read Cronation and find out! Pat B. Allen is a writer, artist, wife, mother, grandmother and citizen dedicated to learning what it means to be a Crone in the world today. She has authored two previous books, Art is a way of knowing (1995) and Art is a spiritual path (2005), both published by Shambhala Publications. Cronation is a fictional reimagining of how Pat's work to bring the Open Studio Process into being came into the world. Much of Pat's previous work that has led her to this moment is housed at www.patballen.com.