The pressmen and the typesetters here at Bedbug Press are working into the wee hours as they labor to prepare our next publications.

Here are the titles soon to roll off the Bedbug presses:

Raking the Hollow Bones
Author: Bryan Tso Jones
Winner of the 2007 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition

Bryan Tso Jones's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Literary Review, Minnesota Review, and The MacGuffin, among others. He has earned an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Literature from California State University, Chico, and attended the Napa Valley Writer's Conference and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers as a fellowship recipient. He was born in Oceanside, California and has traveled widely, having visited or lived in Iran, the Philippines, Taiwan, England, Germany, Greece, and recently Australia. He currently makes his home in Chico, California.

Catching the Limit
Author: Mark Thalman
Finalist in the 2006 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition

Mark Thalman’s poetry has been widely published in small presses, college reviews, anthologies, and e-zines for the last three decades.  His work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Chariton Review, CutBank, Many Mountains Moving, Natural Bridge, Pennsylvania Review, Poetry Midwest, Sou’wester, and Texas Review, among others.  He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Oregon, and he teaches English in the public schools.  Thalman has been a Poet-in-the-Schools for the Oregon Arts Commission, a board member of the Portland Poetry Festival, an Assistant Poetry Editor for the Northwest Review, and is presently on the Poetry Review Board for Trillium Literary Journal.  He has also been an Instructor for Chemeketa Community College.  Thalman was born and raised in Eugene, and now resides in Forest Grove, Oregon, with his wife, Carole, and their two golden retrievers, Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie.

Driving One Hundred
Author: Barbara Drake
Finalist in the 2005 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition

Barbara Drake is the author of the popular textbook, Writing Poetry, as well as several volumes of her own prose and poetry.  She is a Professor  Emeritus of English, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon.

Judith Barrington, award winning poet, memoirist, and creative writing teacher, says this about Driving One Hundred: ”Barbara Drake’s witty humor, appreciated over the years by many readers, seeps joyfully into these pages.  But that’s not all.  There’s the ever-accurate observation of birds and the natural world, brought vividly into the reader’s imagination; and the startling and beautiful images.  I’m left with a real horse standing chest high in a marsh.  Underneath the well-honed poetic voice, stretches a bedrock of wisdom gained from looking squarely at the world around her and at the passing of years in a life well examined.”