Everett Wiggins

TL;DR contains four long poems or poem cycles. Each was written to win a girl. The last one worked.

When the world ended in 2020, we wondered if we would recover. Yet the words still pile up, day after day, and eventually the natural processes of a poet produce poetry. The three little books collected here saw the author move twice and lose both parents -- the next set can't help but be more joyful. These poems, however, document a dark time.

Brisket Bones is a zombie hunter, but she's taking off this weekend to celebrate her college roommate's latest sportsball championship. If she can make it to their dinner reservation, two states away in Detroit.

Everett Wiggins founded BlacKat Publishing in 1999 so he could make children's books, by hand. This compilation brings together all of the stories produced from 1999 - 2023, because that's much easier than continuing to make them, individually by hand, forever. It includes eight different collections and two stand-alone stories, ranging from children's fables to science fiction and tax law.

Dirk Turby, an Americana Shakespearean drama of family and death and inheritance and deception, is about a small-time mid-Michigan drug dealer trying to save the family farm.

This slender book brings together the best poems from the author's privately circulated chapbooks and otherwise uncollected work, securing his place among the most minor poets of his time.