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Mix Tapes and Photo Albums is a coming-of-age poetry collection about a small town punk rock scene told by a girl who loved Francie Nolan and Ben Weasel equally. Each poem assumes the title of a song which creates the soundtrack to a group of teenagers who push the boundaries of their small town, test where they fit, and find solace in their local punk rock scene. This poetic mix tape sings to the kids who will hear their first Sex Pistols song, start their own bands, write their own zines, scrawl Xs on their hands, and create their own communities; and those kids who remember. Mix Tapes and Photo Albums speaks to those to know that punk is thriving in the streets of small towns everywhere, just waiting for the next generation of kids to tap into its raw power.
This is for anyone who ever played in a band, put out a zine, booked a show, or passed out a flyer This is for Metro in the Sterling Hotel, Metro on South Main Street, and Homebase This is for all those bands who provided the soundtrack to my adolescence This is for all those bands who wrote the songs that shaped my life This is for all the punk kids who were fucking there This is for all those the ex-boyfriends This is for the Wilkes-Barre scene ALso available at
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Unity, Pittsburgh Poetry Houses
Halloween, Uppagus
Waiting, Visitant
Firecracker, Switchback
Smolder, Mayday
Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart, Stray Branch
The Gang’s All Here, Nude Bruce
The Freaks, Nerds, and Romantics and Take ‘em All, SubtleTea
Silly Girl, The Chaffey Review
Friday I’m In Love, Poetic Diversity
I-81, South, I’m the One, and Walk Together, Rock Together, Misfit
Ever Fallen In Love, Surrender, Walk Away, and Last Caress, Quail Bell
I See It In Us, Contraposition
Another Yesterday, The Broken Plate
High School Football Hero, Dirtcakes
Lonesome, Clementine
Moonpies For Misfits and Until I Say So, Word Fountain
Ready Steady Go, Blue Lotus Review
History of a Boring Town, Bastards of Young, Simple Song, and Avenues and Alleyways, My Favorite Bullet
Hey Suburbia, Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart, and Walk Away, Speech Bubble
Story of My Life, Word Fountain
Showdown and Taken, RIPASSO
Single Second, Side B
Salad Days, Blue Lotus Review
Surrender, 322 Review
Can We Start Again, Word Fountain
Taken, Out of Our
Unity, Showdown, and Sweet Avenue, Chiron Review
Dummy Up and Last Caress, Apparatus Magazine
Friday I’m in Love and Less than Nothing, Word Fountain
Halloween, Uppagus
Waiting, Visitant
Firecracker, Switchback
Smolder, Mayday
Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart, Stray Branch
The Gang’s All Here, Nude Bruce
The Freaks, Nerds, and Romantics and Take ‘em All, SubtleTea
Silly Girl, The Chaffey Review
Friday I’m In Love, Poetic Diversity
I-81, South, I’m the One, and Walk Together, Rock Together, Misfit
Ever Fallen In Love, Surrender, Walk Away, and Last Caress, Quail Bell
I See It In Us, Contraposition
Another Yesterday, The Broken Plate
High School Football Hero, Dirtcakes
Lonesome, Clementine
Moonpies For Misfits and Until I Say So, Word Fountain
Ready Steady Go, Blue Lotus Review
History of a Boring Town, Bastards of Young, Simple Song, and Avenues and Alleyways, My Favorite Bullet
Hey Suburbia, Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart, and Walk Away, Speech Bubble
Story of My Life, Word Fountain
Showdown and Taken, RIPASSO
Single Second, Side B
Salad Days, Blue Lotus Review
Surrender, 322 Review
Can We Start Again, Word Fountain
Taken, Out of Our
Unity, Showdown, and Sweet Avenue, Chiron Review
Dummy Up and Last Caress, Apparatus Magazine
Friday I’m in Love and Less than Nothing, Word Fountain
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First pressing: EMP Books, January 2022
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