I'm very pleased to announce the second slate for the CHAPS Poetry Series. (The chapbooks are expected to ship out within the next ten days.)
www.squaresandrebels.com/chaps/index....
![[ID: Three book covers are placed in a single row. The first book on the left shows a thick dark blue-gray frame containing a rectangular B&W photograph of a white man looking away from us while showing his left shoulder blade with a lyre tattoo there. The title and author’s name are in white and in the upper right corner of the photograph: ARKANSAS LUGGAGE | Ed Madden. The second book in the middle shows a thick terra-cotta frame containing a color photograph of a desolate rural landscape with a row of shrubby trees far in the distance, and with the colors of wheat and brown closer to us. The title in dark brown is centered at the top of the photograph: THE GREAT OCEAN OF THE PLAINS. The author’s name in white is centered at the bottom of the photograph: David Cummer. The third book on the right shows a thick dull pastel pink frame containing a color photograph of a scruffy-looking barefooted male dancer wearing a loose shirt and jeans as he angles his arms straight up and out while bending his body sideways in an arc against a gray background. The title and author’s name are in white: OTHER DANCES | David Rutiezer. Below the three book covers are the Squares & Rebels logo (a solid red square tilted atop a row of vertical black stripes) on the left with the text CHAPS POETRY SERIES | an imprint of SQUARES & REBELS, and the text on the right in both red and black: THE SECOND SLATE | SPRING 2025.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreigedwgjus7emwt7mwbqigon5r4qjm6ujw537golig7ygjekfvqacu)
Raymond Luczak | deafwoof
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Deaf gay Yooper writer and editor. 40+ books published. 25+ plays performed. 3 full-length DVDs produced. Perpetually inquisitive in Minneapolis, MN. raymondluczak.com
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![[ID: The square graphic is bordered with a yellow-orange and a thin bright orange with a warm brown square centered showing the following text in both white and yellow orange:
Do not speak.
Finger to the lips.
A voice
is noise.
Watch these — my hands — and ask nothing.
Eloquence will come to you soon enough.
RAYMOND LUCZAK
from “Wild Animals Out-There” (English)
in Animals Out-There W-i-l-d
UNBOUND (ed.)
Unbound Edition Press®]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreicgcxq6oant2zn4mdw5wulehacxw5mx2rkpacjvjgqxozu26wi25y)
![[ID: The square graphic is bordered with a warm brown and a thin yellow-orange with a bright green square centered showing the following text in both white and warm brown:
speak finish-finish-finish
{finger-to-the-lips}
voice what
noise-bang-noise-bang
watch-me sign-sign you-confuse worry not
visual mind-pop-up soon will”
RAYMOND LUCZAK
from “Wild Animals Out-There” (ASL Gloss)
in Animals Out-There W-i-l-d
UNBOUND (ed.)
Unbound Edition Press®]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreigckknt4vwz5bfrmnyeiztghrrtvazkrpz3erbw7nshvnu4dq3ua4)
![[Image description: The graphic shows the text POETRY READING BY RAYMOND LUCZAK with a B&W picture of a middle-aged white man with a beard glancing back.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreic5quip75mdk7nf5aoph7stopyanr55f2ochod2aq2xl4hqllxpmi)
![[Image description: A black-and-white photograph heavily tinted in red showing a middle-aged white man with a beard and a Santa hat and a plaid shirt opened to his white undershirt smiling back at us while sitting on a sofa. The picture has a heavy black vignette border.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreic4tjwdcmekbhvjrrz7q5lj22x45oufxp7x5tzz2u363ooefd4dty)
![[ID: The book cover shows a wall sculpture in the shape of a Manhattan-like island with gear wheels painted in mostly gold and copper arranged in a chaotic pattern all connected with aluminum chains around a deep brown gear wheel that is not connected to any wheel. The sculpture’s background print shows many gear wheels clashing and merging with each other in white against a clay color. The cover’s background is solid black with the text in white and rust below the sculpture: I’LL TELL YOU LATER | Deaf Survivors of Dinner Table Syndrome | Raymond Luczak, Editor.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wjkumirdsvonzk7ri5pnbq62/bafkreic3xjp3osdtkjhjaahhji2j6c5vmqqdlsqr5ve3ilszej6ywbmsda)