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Put One Hand Up, Lean Back by Joshua Roark
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About the Book
Joshua Roark's poetry is crisp and refreshing -- a book of freshly squeezed lemons -- poems that reach out and grab you. Make you laugh. Fill you up. "Buy Your Own Classroom Supplies"Your classroom binder should be big, beefy,yellow maybe, or red, easy for spotting,smudged with something like chocolate, coffeesplashed across the pages and set in the rings.Your pens should be sunset colored, show thatyou mean business, even from your pocketor dry, chapped hands—oh, and don’t forgetthe bottle of sanitizer. It’ll sit fatlike a trophy at the edge of your desk.Your closet should hold four white button-upshirts, two pairs of heavy polyesterpants, black, creased, and a single ink-black clip-on-tie, bought at an army surplus store.Trust me, full length ties are not worth the risk.
About the Author
Joshua Roark serves as faculty for Antioch’s Post-MFA Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing. He is the founder and director of PocketMFA, a 12-week mentoring and workshopping program for creative writers. He was formerly the editorial director of the publishing collective for emerging authors, Discover New Art, where he founded and edited publications across multiple genres of writing. His chapbook of sonnets, Put One Hand Up, Lean Back, was published with Unsolicited Press. He and his wife live happily in Los Angeles, where they write and make films together.