Petrichor Machine

Hey, all y’all Machinists! Issue three of the Machine is up for sale!

Petrichor Machine: Issue 3
Cover image and poem: “Flaxton Flowers,” by Jacob Edwards

You should definitely hop on over and buy a copy, because it’s full of fantastic stories and poems by some amazing people, featuring:

Jeffrey Alfier, Dominika Bednarska, Jackson Burgess, Jon Cone, Jacob Edwards, Peter Cole Friedman, Spencer Golub, David Hancock, William Wright Harris, j/j hastain, Zeke Jarvis, Michelle Jia, Damien Knightley, Philip Kobylarz, Bruce McRae, Mark J. Mitchell, Bill Neumire, Sean Neville, Richard King Perkins II, Loni Reynolds, Cory Saul, Bethany Snyder, Adam Tavel, Charles Wilkinson, and Changming Yuan.

Find your copy here: Issue Three

And if you still haven’t read issues one and two, you can find them here, at a 15% off discount:

Issue One

Issue Two

All three issues are blow-you-away sing-me-a-dream astounding. You’ll love ‘em — we sure do.

As always, thank you to all our contributors and our readers for keeping this little journal alive and kicking! See you soon when we open for submissions for issue four!

Cheers!

The Editors

Congratulations to Bill Neumire, who has a new book, Estrus, out with Aldrich Press! His poem, ”Fall Birds Gather on the Phone Line,” will be published in the upcoming issue of the Machine, and is also among the poems in Estrus. Trust us, Mr. Neumire’s work is mind-blowing.

Estrus is available for sale on amazon.com.

Hello, Machinists!

We hope you are all out there with sugar plums dancing in your heads, making merry and getting ready for whatever holiday you celebrate. We’re closed for submissions for the time being, but we’ll be around to post some blogs as we pour over the last of our submissions and begin putting together the next issue. Thanks for all your support, and as always, we hope to see you in May of 2013, when issue three will make its debut!

Now go deck some halls, play with some dreidels, ring a yule bell, or whatever else you do to keep warm this time of year. More importantly, cozy up with a good book.

Peace,

The editors

Hey there, Machinists!

If you’ll recall, back in May, we promised to donate all proceeds from that month’s sales to a charitable organization in honor of the Machine’s Alma Mater, Chester College of New England, which recently closed its doors. Well, Petrichor Machine is happy to announce that we’ve donated our proceeds from that month to Arts In Reach, a local arts education organization that helps young women learn about performance and visual arts (and, in some programs, poetry as well). So thank you, dear readers, for helping us help them.

Now, then! That said, I should note that both issues one and two are still available for sale, and if you haven’t read them yet, you really ought to- they’re fantastic.

Also, you should probably help us make issue three just as fantastic as her little sisters, one and two! Submit your poetry, fiction, and art! We’d love to read your work.

Cheers!

The Editors

Hello there, Machinists!

Petrichor Machine is now officially open for submissions to Issue #3!

Send us your words, your art, your stories, your innards removed from your body and slathered on the page. We can’t wait to dig in and be amazed.

Issue #1 and Issue #2 are still available for sale, too! Pick up a copy today, support the Machine, and get some of the best reads this side of the Milky Way. You won’t regret it.

UPDATE: Sadly, the announcement was made today that Chester College of New England will be shutting its doors. In honor of the school that birthed us, the Machine will be donating any proceeds raised from the month of May to an arts education charity (yet to be decided). We’ll update with more information when we have it. Here’s to you, Chester. We went down swinging, and we left one hell of a mark. Let’s keep pouring love and art and writing out into this big ol’ world of ours. Petrichor Machine looks forward to honoring our Alma Mater with more great issues for years to come.

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When Petrichor Machine was just a bunch of loose nuts, bolts, and precipitation yet to hit the earth, Chester College of New England was our home. All three of us machinists (editors) are alumni from this fantastic, tiny bastion of creative energy and passionate learning. And now, it’s in trouble. Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, including the economic recession which led to a slump in enrollment, and, worse still, a President who is more interested in preserving his political standing, selling the school and getting an easy paycheck than working to fund-raise and do right by the school that so many young artists and writers call home, Chester College is trying to raise $500,000 by the end of May. The students, faculty, and alumni have already raised approximately $100,000 in a matter of about a week, which speaks to the love and dedication and drive this place inspires. The community is more than a school- it’s a family, and we can confidently say that the Machine would never have been born if it weren’t for CCNE.

Petrichor Machine: Issue Two
Cover Image: “Original 159 (Young Lovers at a Bus Stop in Summer)” by Vic Cavalli

Which brings us to the point: For the month of May, Petrichor Machine will be donating all proceeds from the purchase of either issue to CCNE, to support their efforts. So, buy a copy, get some of the most gut-wrenchingly amazing stories and poems and art you can imagine (and some you can’t even imagine), support the Machine, support a great school that deserves and needs your help.

BUY ISSUE ONE

BUY ISSUE TWO

SAVE CHESTER COLLEGE

CCNE WEBSITE

And hey. Thanks. We really mean that.

And we couldn’t be more excited to get it into your hot little hands.

Feast your eyes on this baby!!

Petrichor Machine: Issue Two
Cover Image: “Original 159 (Young Lovers at a Bus Stop in Summer)” by Vic Cavalli

Available for purchase here: BUY ME!

If you’re one of our contributors, keep your eye out for your contributor-copy in the mail within the next few weeks, complete with our undying love and devotion.

(Also, in case you haven’t yet read Issue One, which is just as knock-you-off-your-feet-incredible as Issue Two, it’s still AVAILABLE FOR SALE, and at a shiny 15% off discount, we might add!)