Cajun Mutt Press

06/25/2026

F**k the haters. Ex Old Ladys Suck. The Cajun Mutt is back to his Mountain Roots. Flying with Eagles. Talking to Owls. Doing real s**t. I want to LIVE.
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06/24/2026

Alice Blackwell is our CMP Featured Writer this week. Follow the link to read her poems "This is My Cry for Help" & "I AM THE AMERICAN DREAM" on the main site.

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Alice Blackwell resides in hell, more formally known as Southern Indiana. She has poems published in Alien Buddha Press, Pure Sleaze Press, and Horror Sleaze Trash. She enjoys expressing herself through poetry and never shies away from a new ink pen, planner, or organization tool.

This is My Cry for Help I find myself slipping into an unrecognizable realityAnd I think I’ve been here beforeSitting on the bathroom floorDetermining if my will to live is stronger than my will to…

06/17/2026

This week's CMP Featured Writer is Salvatore Difalco. Follow the link to read his poems "A Dude With Questions" & "The Deep Life" on our main site.

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Salvatore Difalco writes from Toronto, Canada.

A Dude With Questions Everything is giving me pausethese days, like nobody’s business.What a complication all thisunrequested bonus material.Early snow has freighted the chipper trees.Before we beg…

06/11/2026

Apologies for being a day late, but the move has been hectic. I'm trying to balance working, unpacking, my writing, and CMP. Be patient with me until I can get back on track. I've got some wicked plans; stay tuned.

Our Featured Writer this week is Jason Ryberg. Follow the link to read his poems "Piranha Juice and Panther P**s (Bussokusekika)," "Until Further Notice," & "Intimations of Mortality Through a Mad Dog’s Eyes (or, Lamar Pye Contemplates, What Could Be, His Last Supper)" on the main site.

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Jason Ryberg is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel, and countless love letters (never sent). He is currently an artist-in- residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community, and is an editor and designer at Spartan Books. His work has appeared in As it Ought to Be, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Thimble Literary Magazine, I-70 Review, Main Street Rag, The Arkansas Review and various other journals and anthologies. His latest collection of poems is And When There Was No Crawfish, We Ate Sand (co-authored with Abraham Smith, Justin Hamm and John Dorsey (OAC Press, 2025)). He lives part-time in Kansas City, MO, with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.

Piranha Juice and Panther P**s (Bussokusekika) It was anothernight of throwing back doubleshots of piranhajuice and chasing them with tallglasses of luke-warm pantherpiss, and that’s when she walke…

06/03/2026

Our CMP Featured Writer this week is Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal. Follow the link to read his poems "Difficult Words, "The Stone That Wants to Be Human," & "No End (Addiction)" on our main site.

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Born in Mexico, Luis lives in California and works in the mental health field. His poems have appeared in Blue Collar Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, Mad Swirl, and Unlikely Stories. His last poetry book, Make the Water Laugh, was published by Rogue Wolf Press.

Difficult Words The humble poetshares his mostdifficult wordsof love,oblivion,make-shiftcemeteriesburied in snow,freedomblindedby dark shadows. Twilightcontemplationsof missed opportunitiesfill his…

05/27/2026

Apologies for going missing in action the last couple of weeks. I had an emergency health crisis and had to move from Illinois to Montana. I've rescheduled the two people I missed, and I'll explain everything in due time, but Cajun Mutt Press is back!!

This week's Featured Writer is Jack Phillips Lowe. Follow the link to read his poems "A HEARTBEAT BETWEEN" & "REFUGEE FROM A LOST AGE" on our main site.

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Jack Phillips Lowe is a Chicago area native. His poems have appeared in Cajun Mutt Press, Clutch 2025 and The Literary Underground, among other outlets. Lowe’s selected poems, Flashbulb Danger (Middle Island Press, 2018), is available from Amazon. His newest chapbook, Brautigan’s Blue Moon (Instant Oblivion Press, 2025), is eagerly awaiting you at lulu.com.

A HEARTBEAT BETWEEN They’re sitting on the patio outside.Three people, a woman and two men,perched in black onyx chairsat a matching round table.Summer heat and sunlight retreatto autumnal cool and…

05/06/2026

Our CMP Featured Writer this week is Shane Allison. Follow the link to read his poems "The Cough," "Labor Room One," & "A Chance Meeting" on our main site.

Shane Allison has been writing poetry since the age of fifteen, when he would hide off in the library writing sappy love poems about high school crushes. He has gone on to publish poems in a plethora of lit mags and anthologies. He has penned two novels, You’re the One I Want and Harm Done, both published by Simon & Schuster. He is also the author of Slut Machine (Q***r Mojo Press), I Want to Eat Chinese Food Off Your Ass (Dumpster Fire Press), and I Remember (Future Tense Book). You will usually find him hiding off in a corner at a nearby Barnes & Noble, composing poems about hot, stroller-pushing DILFS.

The Cough Hell if I know where it came from.Maybe I caught it at work,Or hanging out at the bars too much.Something has come over me,Has taken a hold and won’t let up.Now here I am popping predniso…

04/29/2026

This week, Jim Murdoch is our CMP Featured Writer. Follow the link to read his poems "Background Conversation," "Always," & "Essence" on our main site.

Jim Murdoch is a Scottish writer living in Cumbernauld. He's been writing for over fifty years and his list of rejections is voluminous but he keeps at it. He's written most things over the years--novels, stories, songs, even plays--but he thinks of himself primarily as a poet and is currently producing poems at an unprecedented pace. There are worse things to be in your sixties.

Background Conversation I wish I’d learned to speak wave growing up.And tree.Maybe rain and creaky floorboard too. I always felt there was stuff going on I wasn’tprivy to.Something they…