Wolfgang Carstens

The Asylum Floor is a yearly anthology dedicated to honest inspired writing. This issue features 78 pages of poetry, stories and comics by Ted Jonathan, Mather Schneider, Tony Gloeggler, Catfish McDaris, Alan Catlin, Richard Vargas, Janne Karlsson, Dave Roskos, Jack Henry, Jenny Santellano, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Curtis Hayes, Wendy Rainey, Wolfgang Carstens, Brenton Booth, K.W. Peery and Matt Borczon. Cover by Marcel Herms and Robert Hansen.

Prince Charming is about connection and confrontation. Connection of the poet to his children, his wife, his loves, his friends, his art and his worldview. Confrontation with death, aging, bad poetry, shit jobs, and those who don't understand the Warren Zevon philosophy. There are no safe spaces in the poetry of Wolfgang Carstens. He has the guts to put it all on the page; the pain of friends dying, the joy of being paid for poetry readings, a possible mistaken m nage trois with his wife of 27 years, the hilarity and sharp humor of his children, shopping for groceries, living in a "gray and dismal" city, and the purity of friendship. The poems in this collection show Carstens is as accessible as he is fearless, proving he is one of the most talented writers out there today.

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.

The Asylum Floor is a yearly anthology dedicated to honest, inspired writing in all its forms. This issue has 110 pages of poetry, fiction, art, and comics by Jack Micheline, Matt Borczon, Catfish McDaris, Wolfgang Carstens, Janne Karlsson, Dave Roskos, K.W. Peery, Victor Clevenger, Adrian Manning, George Anderson, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Mike Mahoney, and its editor Brenton Booth.

The Asylum Floor is dedicated to honest, inspired writing in all its forms. Writing that isn't afraid to punch, laugh, scream, or weep. Writing that doesn't follow literary trends or compromise itself for quick success. This inaugural issue features 94 pages of work by Wolfgang Carstens, Catfish McDaris, Matt Borczon, James Decay, Janne Karlsson and Brenton Booth. With cover art by James Maj.

The poems in Hell and High Water offer the gritty reality of a poet, husband, provider, father and shady romantic wrestling with life's responsibilities and his own primal urges. From the familiar dinner table to disastrous family vacations and mail order sex toys, Wolfgang Carstens presents us with vulnerability, humor, rawness, regret and the rejoicing in twenty-five years of intimacy with another as no other poet can. Carstens has wickedly disguised Hell and High Water as a twisted yet tender guide for the rest of us in maintaining the wildness among minivans, mortgages and matrimony.