Tony Gloeggler

From his chapbook, Spiked Libido, to his unpublished manuscript, Unholy Melodies collects the entire body of work of Ted Jonathan. Images of the original chapbook, Spiked Libido, are followed by complete, unchanged presentations of both Bones & Jokes and Run. The entire collection is capped off with a faithful presentation of Ted's unpublished manuscript, Unholy Melodies, exactly as it was sent to the editor prior to his death.

Poetry. Tony Gloeggler writes narrative poetry with the lyrical nonchalance of everyday NYC language infused with splashes of Monk's jazzy stop and start, quirky intonations that interweave the past and present. WHAT KIND OF MAN is filled with stories to tell on late night Brooklyn stoops, secrets and confessions whispered to your closest friends or maybe only yourself that seek a heightened form of unguarded communication. The poems in WHAT KIND OF MAN emanate from the narrator dealing with kidney disease to engage everything from family, sexuality, race, work, aging, love, loss, and loneliness to finding blessings in the most unexpected places. The book explores how his world changes, the way he views it, and the people who fill it, especially himself. Tony Gloeggler's WHAT KIND OF MAN finds and defines the kind of (hu)man the narrator was, is, and hopes to become.

The Asylum Floor is a yearly anthology dedicated to honest, inspired writing in all its forms. This issue has 100 pages of poetry, fiction, and comics from Wendy Rainey, Catfish McDaris, Dave Roskos, Tony Gloeggler, Rob Plath, K.W. Peery, George Anderson, Todd Cirillo, Mather Schneider, Janne Karlsson, Alan Catlin, Matt Borczon, Mike Mahoney, Wolfgang Carstens and its editor Brenton Booth.