Etched Press

Before OnStar by Sarah Carson

Before OnStar by Sarah Carson is a short collection of prose poems.

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ISBN: 978-1-935847-00-7

"Every single poem in Before OnStar rattles around the corner like a firetruck on three wheels, siren blaring."

-Michael Dennis at Today's Book of Poetry

"Sarah Carson has an imaginative gift for transporting us within the nuances & netherworld of her hometown. I can’t imagine a more dead-eye illumination of the region—told with incredible wit & a rough-minded passion. Many might steer you from the town itself, but missing out on Buick City would be a decidedly wrong turn. I will gladly enjoy returning to these pages—and often."

-Ben Hamper, author of Rivethead, on Sarah Carson's work

Sarah Carson was born and raised in Michigan but now lives in Chicago where she works at a church. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in Cream City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Guernica, and the Nashville Review, among others. She is also the author of three chapbooks and the full-length collections: Buick City (Mayapple Press) and Poems in which You Die (Bat Cat Press). She blogs at sarahamycarson.com.

Bright Burning Fuse by Melanie Faith

Bright, Burning Fuse by Melanie Faith is the first chapbook in the Etched Press Poetry Series published in December 2008.

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ISBN: 978-1-935847-01-4

"Melanie's poems describe a variety of awakenings...find beginnings, even in the sparest of places."

-Jessie Carty, author of Practicing Disaster & Paper House, on the work of Melanie Faith

Melanie Faith holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte, NC. Her poetry and photography has appeared in The Binnacle (University of Maine), Emprise Review, Heavyglow, Six Little Things, Mo: Writings From The River (Montana State University), and more. Her instructional article about creative writing critique groups was published in The Writer magazine (November 2009). The opening poem from the collection (along with landscape photos taken by the author) is featured in the online literary magazine, Shape of a Box by Folded Word Press. She lives and writes in rural Pennsylvania, where she educates young minds as an English, History, and SAT tutor at a college preparatory high school. You can read more about Melanie on her website: www.melaniedfaith.com.