Aaron Barry

Haiku has changed.eggplants & teardrops: a haiku collection takes haiku into the 2020s, radically updating classic haiku conventions from the days of poetry greats like Matsuo Bashō and touching on contemporary subjects never before seen in the form. With a fresh, comedic style, Barry traces a life of social media, manga, and urban slang, looking at what it means to be broke, search for love in all the wrong places, and exist in a state of constant revision. In their impressive plurality, these poems are an expression of the next generation's most distressing, beautiful, and vulgar experiences, rendered through an ancient poetic tradition. Many of the poems in this collection have been featured across English-language haiku's most respected magazines, and now they've been artfully arranged for the first time and accompanied by thirty bold line art illustrations. * "A wonderfully hilarious collection. Barry has mastered the modern comedic form." -- Jay Friedenberg, President, Haiku Society of America "Witty and playful ... abstract and cerebral ... at other moments, personal, raw, and poignant. eggplants & teardrops offers us a fresh take on the daily experiences and anxieties of a new generation." -- Jacqueline Pearce, Award-winning Haiku Poet and Editor

There's no place like Hollywood.Yet after decades of ignoring abuses of power, sequeling itself silly, and rebooting every godforsaken franchise into oblivion, Hollywood has made one thing clear: it needs a superhero to save it . . . from itself. And that superhero is you: an audacious writer too cool for a regular job, whose visionary screenplays have the blockbusting potential to put Tinseltown back on the pedestal. With these writing prompts, you'll be able to redefine the cinematic experience in a time when streaming services threaten what we all love most: gathering in a dark room with strangers to escape the terrors of the real world by watching those of an imagined one. Ready? Grab some popcorn and let's go to the movies with Hollywood Prompts Gone Wild.

We're living in wild times. It should come as no surprise, then, that a book of writing prompts has gone absolutely wild, too. Usually reserved for lonely authors yearning to learn the craft, writing prompts are handy, bite-sized directionals designed to point writers of all shapes and sizes down the right path, stimulate their hidden creativity, and leave them leaking creative juices from every hole and pore.But Writing Prompts Gone Wild isn't your average writing prompts book-nor is it for your average scribes: it's for the weird, wicked, and wired writers who wish to subvert-and pervert-the norm. So, take this wellspring of sick, uncensored content and get started on your descent to hell, the place most writers end up anyway Featuring over 120 prompts, over 20 illustrations, and unique Solo and Group use options