Cajun Mutt Press

10/12/2025

EVERYTHING MUST GO by Dan Flore III:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVRM6GGN

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVRM6GGN

10/12/2025

INTO THE SWAMP OF THE DANGEROUS MIND by Efe Tuşder:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKBD3ZY3

10/12/2025

Introduction by Steve Chisnell of Waywords Studio:

When I imagine a metaphor for what William T***s does to his poetic subjects, I imagine a dishrag wrung to extremis, the gray water splashed across the drain at 2 am, its flotsam left for close examination. Sure, the bar or countertop or back seat of the Thunderbird now looks clean–and, oh, that magnificent bespangled “looks!”—but the detritus of human experience lay there just a moment before, didn’t it? Go ahead, smell it. No volume of bleach, however sacrosanct, can quite hide it. No, we’re back in the broom closet squeezing out the truth of it beneath the crusty 60-watt bulb. Some of what we find is a rescue, a salvageable enlightenment or fragment of innocence we’ll hang onto a bit longer, and some is . . . the rest of us, naked and in pale skin, socially aborted, adrift in the effluence.

We’ve been welcomed here before. Not that the invitation was formal or its offer enticing–we had illusions to build. But in Babylon Redux, William T***s’ poetry is a standing summons to meet, anyway. To shed our skin. To dance, weep, and gnash teeth. To know that when, at the end of our work and nostalgia, some ritual drum or alleyway shadow will signal requital.

T***s’ verse and prose tear words across the fabric of the page, a tactile tone of disavowals and loss, rage and jazz and blues. Reading Babylon Redux is not an homage to Beat poets but a reinvigoration of rejection and resistance, of lives straggling forth through our modern and postmodern dissonance, raising the scraps of culture as shields against charlatans.

BABYLON REDUX by William T***s:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP962V5G

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝗮𝗯𝘆𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝘅" 𝗯𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 -

A new book of poetry by T***s, one I was honored to write an introduction to, and now I get to meet the final product! If you haven't found the transformative beat cynicism of his work, you can now.

10/08/2025

This week, the CMP Featured Writer is Linda M. Crate! Follow the link to read her poem "you can’t curb stomp my magic" on our main site. Some of Linda's work will also be in the upcoming issue of Night Owl Narrative. Keep an eye out for the full list of contributors.

Linda M. Crate (she/her) is a Pennsylvanian writer whose poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. She has fifteen published chapbooks, the latest being: not your piñata (Alien Buddha Publishing, June 2025).

you can’t curb stomp my magic even with your coldest, most impersonalletter;and i don’t know what the point of itwas other than to hurt me— now every fond memory seemsto haunt me, taunt…

10/04/2025

Had some custom Hunter S.keletor Thompson stickers made before adding the background. Received them in the mail yesterday, and they look fantastic! Been adding stickers to my art/book tote for years, and this is by far my favorite one. Maybe I'm being biased because it's my design, but they do look great.

If y'all want one, grab a book and take a screenshot of the receipt. Or send $5 to paypal.me/JDCIV if you just want a cool sticker of some original artwork. Message my JDCIV profile if you're interested, and please include your address.

Also, I'll post the complete Night Owl Narrative no.6 contributors list for soon, plus the finished HST artwork. Putting some finishing touches on everything.

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10/01/2025

This week's Featured Writer and October opener is Lauren Scharhag! Follow the link to read her poem "Gargoyle Lover." You can also find one of her books, Requiem for a Robot Dog (Cajun Mutt Press 2019), listed in the BOOK section of our website's menu bar.

Lauren Scharhag (she/her) is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry, and a senior editor at Gleam. Her latest releases include Screaming Intensifies (Whiskey City Press), the In the King’s Power series (self-published), and Ain’t These Sorrows Sweet (Roadside Press). She lives in Kansas City, MO. https://linktr.ee/laurenscharhag

Gargoyle Lover by day he looks ordinary unassumingbut I must have recognized something in himI’ve always had a soft spot for the monstrousfor Quasimodo compatriots just as he probably recognizedsom…