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letters from a strange land
Poetry/Hybrid, 40 pages
Publication Date: April 17, 2026
Book Size: 5 × 7
Format: Handbound chapbook
“dear memory,
you world eater
you fence eater
you shade eater
memorymob coming with pitchforks
to our wedding”
Ryan Bollenbach is a writer and musician living in Houston, Texas. He is the former managing editor of Gulf Coast, and formerly served as the poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Quarterly West, Snail Trail Press, and elsewhere.
Sections from this volume first appeared in Ampersand Review, Bennington Review, Bayou Magazine, Birds Piled Loosely, Cloud Rodeo, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Dream Pop Press, Hardly Doughnuts, Foundry, inter | rupture, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Sonora Review, Quarterly West, and Vector Press.
This edition was printed in New Orleans in 2026. The cover images were letterpressed on Colorplan paper at Baskerville Studios, and the morse code was stabbed and sewn into the cover by the editors using hand-dyed thread.
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letters from a strange land
Poetry/Hybrid, 40 pages
Publication Date: April 17, 2026
Book Size: 5 × 7
Format: Handbound chapbook
“dear memory,
you world eater
you fence eater
you shade eater
memorymob coming with pitchforks
to our wedding”
Ryan Bollenbach is a writer and musician living in Houston, Texas. He is the former managing editor of Gulf Coast, and formerly served as the poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Bennington Review, Quarterly West, Snail Trail Press, and elsewhere.
Sections from this volume first appeared in Ampersand Review, Bennington Review, Bayou Magazine, Birds Piled Loosely, Cloud Rodeo, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Dream Pop Press, Hardly Doughnuts, Foundry, inter | rupture, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, Sonora Review, Quarterly West, and Vector Press.
This edition was printed in New Orleans in 2026. The cover images were letterpressed on Colorplan paper at Baskerville Studios, and the morse code was stabbed and sewn into the cover by the editors using hand-dyed thread.
