NEW FOR MAY 2022

Robert Masterson’s brilliant collection recounts the gestation and delivery of beasts, displaying their magnificent amber afterbirths with vessels pulsating, his incubi released, immortalized, in his anti-constellations pulsating a night sky. Then newspaper accounts of impossible battles, and soft caresses by sharp blades, thrust expertly inward so as not to severe major vessels, preserving his singular narrative, the lyrical agony of pain and beauty, up through the fuse driving his dark rose. Hekate and Orphan Paper is honored to present a brilliant underworld, lantern lit, strewn across muddy battlefields, accessed through worm holes, conduits, disbelief and suspension as well as loving touches, his meat, sliced, angled, the nerves dissected and exposed at the surface of his prose. Available through AMAZON.

DECEMBER, 2021

Jefferson Dylan Iwanski and Kenneth James Crist, artist, writer, forming whatever that is when two creative spirits merge, what Lorca described as Duende, or Lennon and McCartney, or fire meets gasoline. Whatever that is, they’ve done it again: Jeff sent Ken a series of spontaneous drawings. Ken wrote a poem for each drawing. Straightforward as that. Not straightforward in the least. Hekate is excited to present another supernova by these two, whatever they are, geniuses being one way of putting it.

New for September, October 2021

ONE HANDED PIANIST BY KJ HANNAH GREENBERG

When the world's most original thinkers get stymied, humanity suffers. Our poverty of inspired and enterprising insights ultimately frustrates civilization. Specifically, such a dearth thwarts society’s hope for reparation and growth, and, more generally, impedes its ability to move past any inherent dysfunction. Sadly, because most of our assemblages of words and most of our collections of images succumb to false beliefs about limits on the nature and kind of individuals’ pathways for communication, we artists are not necessarily helping matters.

Since it’s not through fissuring, but through association that we can improve the social order, it’s important for us producers to find ways to use our faculties in interchange. Sure, it’s useful, even essential, to have primary strengths, yet, simultaneously, it’s useful, even essential, to manifest support for our less utilized forms of expression. Namely, creative folks need to actualize their potential beyond their specialties.

Accordingly, One-Handed Pianist means to serve as a catalyst for additional imaginative efforts. People become willing to seek favorable outcomes in uncertain domains after they've evidenced others doing so. “See one, do one, teach one.” By exemplifying the value of crossing over into new types of dialogue, One-Handed Pianist can help artists move beyond their inventive comfort zones.

KJ Hannah Greenberg

April 2021

Earlier 2021 Releases

Poets Corner

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T.S. Eliot