Publications
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recto y verso EDITIONS is proud to announce the release of Identity Crisis by Poet and Writer Ian Macks. Currently based in New York's Capitol Region, Ian Macks originally hails from The Bronx, NY. As a youth, Ian was mostly non-verbal during his first decade on planet Earth. These early childhood experiences shaped Ian's emotional sensitivities and point of view on love, loss, racism, and hardship. Ian's distinct poetic voice and literary light shines bright within the poems of his long-awaited sophomore effort Identity Crisis. Previous work includes Ian's chapbook A Loss and Gain of Comfort, released in 2014 to much acclaim. Ian Macks performs his poetry at various NY poetry venues such as WAMC's The Linda, Caffe Lena, Brass Tacks, Poetic Vibe, Hudson Valley Writers Guild, Rough Draft Bar and Books, 518 Craft and many more. More at: www.ianmacks.com
recto y verso EDITIONS is proud to announce the release of Rants For Social Media by Poet, Publisher and Artist Christian Ortega. Born in New York, NY in 1972, whether chronicling the end of the millennium in his 1st book "Epigrams" (2000) or sharing about his teenage years in his 2nd book "I Know What You Did In The 80's" (2006) or confounding minds with his 3rd book and solo exhibition "CONCEPTS and TITLES" (2009) or making us all see red in his 4th book "RED POEMS" (2014) or deconstructing ten years of his digital self to present a new biographical form in "Rants For Social Media" (2020), Ortega strives to shine light on the walls of his mind's interior to share a unique voice and vision. More at: www.christianortega.com
recto y verso EDITIONS is proud to announce the release of Losing Lorca: a mixtape critique by Olive Esther Kuhn, a Philadelphia-based writer and organizer originally from Middletown, CT. A recent graduate from Bard College where they studied Creative Writing, Poetry and Spanish, their work has appeared in La Voz magazine, yst publications, Sui Generis, Bard Papers, and The Humanist magazine. They have published two chapbooks of poetry: A Bouquet of Roots (2017) by the Bard Student Reading Series, and Pink Telemachus (2019), a poetic and visual collaboration with the artist Olivia Caro. They have read poetry at The College Unions Poetry Slam International (CUPSI) as well as many other poetry venues in NY and PA. Olive writes and performs their music under the name Recluse Spider. More at: www.oliveestherkuhn.com
recto y verso EDITIONS is very proud to announce the upcoming release of TOM KOKEN; a book highlighting recent works by New York based painter Tom Koken. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including: MKG127; Create! Don’t Hate, LBGT Center, NYC; 3,000 Chairs, World Studio Foundation, NY Design Center, NYC; Escapes, Art Latitude Gallery, NYC; Assumption, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL; Selection 42, Drawing Center, NYC; Group Show–Member’s Gallery, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY; Animal Life, One Penn Plaza, NYC; Gold, Art Advisory–Museum of Modern Art, American Express, NYC; He received a studio grant for a year at the Clocktower, NYC and a year at PS1 MoMA, NYC. His work is in the collections of Bank of Montreal, Prudential Life Insurance as well as several private collections. More at: www.tomkoken.com
recto y verso EDITIONS proudly present Erasure, Syria by Poet Susana H. Case. Susana is the author of five books of poetry, most recently; Drugstore Blue (Five Oaks Press) and 4 Rms w Vu (Mayapple Press) in addition to four chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press), focused on intellectual life with war on the horizon. The Scottish Café was also re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press, Poland). Susana has degrees from CUNY and NYU and is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York, NY. Susana H. Case's poems have appeared widely in various magazines and anthologies, including Catamaran Literary Reader, The Cortland Review, Fourteen Hills, Portland Review, Potomac Review, and Rattle. More at: https://susanahcase.com
