WELCOME TO LONESOME
A CHRONICLE OF ART POETRY MUSIC AND CULTURE
Welcome. Breathe. We will get through this. Thank you for joining us. Community is everything. LONESOME substack starts here:
To ease Election Night stress, listen to our playlist by Judd Crane, and this exclusive song from Melora Creager.1 Visit LONESOME PRESS for Chapter 1 of our digital issue, including poetry by Lisette Austin, Rebecca Rose Cuomo’s essay ON LONESOME PRESS, and this poem by Ilka Scobie, who will read with us Wednesday.
A LONESOME EVENING
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024, the day after Election Day from 6-8pm, we will present A LONESOME EVENING2 at the historic Jefferson Market branch of the NYPL, featuring Jennifer Muir, a sound healer and death care worker, memoirist Lizzie Simon, poets Ilka Scobie, Hunter Hodkinson and Mo David, hosted by Monique Erickson.
LONESOME came to me in January: an impulse, a necessity, a need a birthday gift from the other side the underside, the underneath. We are a gathering point a fulcrum, a hand that feeds what a poet will tell you, what the old friend sees. We are wildflowers on the highway getting lost among the weeds. What magic have we mustered from what brought us to our knees?
There will be more. Today this is all that I can muster. Tomorrow, let’s imagine a future together. See you there.
ABOUT LONESOME PRESS
LONESOME PRESS is an independent, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary imprint focused on poetry, art and international culture founded by Monique Erickson. LONESOME N° 1: YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, our inaugural volume, has been produced in limited hardcover signed edition. Order now and, if local, pick-up Wednesday at the book signing immediately following the performance.
LONESOME PRESS is a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Melora Creager is the founder of goth cello band Rasputina, cellist for Nirvana, painter, singer, songwriter, musician, and mother. She performed this song at LONESOME CREEKSIDE, May 2023.
LONESOME EVENINGS have been held at Tibet House, Neue House, Jefferson Market NYPL, Copacabana, NY Poetry Festival, creekside on the Wappinger Creek in Dutchess Country, in Berkeley, CA, and in David Horvitz Garden concurrent with Frieze LA.