betweenthehighway 

Before I Spoke to Myself


by Cela Xie





2.25″ x 90’’


Edition of 300





They greet you as a shade,
and leaves you as a mirror.

They eat plums, oh, they eat plums.
No, not those plums—no, the ones

whose color empties into you,
the ones into which you empty yourself.

These are “Letters From Now:”
words before we have spoken to ourselves.
Before? Words spoken before oneself.
Where else?

This is the ascent of a wound
breaking into brighter skin.

Now, assent and, rising,
bury yourself before
this desire.




Cela Xie is a person of twenty-five years who has accomplished nothing in particular, except writing for almost two decades. His favorite color is the blue just after the sun has been wheeled into the morgue. His favorite animal is the cloud leopard. His favorite number is six, the number of books he plans to write. His poetry has been published by The Pierian and he is currently pursuing an MFA at North Carolina State University, near the place where he was born.














































































between you and me 


by alex benedict...?




2.25″ x 30″


Edition of 200




Here, I collage the descriptions
I’ve written about the first three years
of betweenthehighway press releases:

• Nate Hoil: Returning to Earth Without Additional Tools (2021)
• beumuth: apa rtm ent (2021)
• puddlethumb: [cattle] (2021)
• alex benedict: throatfolding (2021)
• Joey Puckett: From the Eye of Noah (2022)
• Alexandre Ferrere: Mechanical Ode to a Snake, (2022)
• Tommy Noell: Return from Falcon Prison (2022)  
• Nick Felaris: SPLICE (2022)
• puddlethumb: yezo garland 2022)
• heatflow: RIVERSIDE (2022)
• alex benedict: ode to a barking rabbit (2023)
• Ruth Jeffers: When Roads Dissolve (2023)
• Praghya Vishnoi: Small Consolations (2023)
• Daniel Flosi: still in this place where there is no sun (2023)
• Madison Krob: This is how it will always start: We leave something behind. (2023)
• Su Zi: flux: a spell of acid (2024)
• emilio Taiveaho Peláez: TO BE “IN THE MOUNTAINS” IS “A FLOWER OPENING WITHIN THE WORLD” (2024)
• Angel Warwick: And there I was, I was just hanging out, doing nothing. Then death appeared and said something dumb. (2024)
• JL Rosser: Taking 500,000 Photographs of a Dogwood Tree (2024)
• Sara Lefsyk: I draw a fake effigy. “Who let us into hell?” It says. (2024)
• Al Brilliant: OIL (2024)
• Cela Xie: Before I Spoke To Myself (2024)

Disregarding republications and a handful of “secret” or one-off publications, betweenthehighway has now released twenty-two titles. Over half are with authors who had not previously published a book or collection.




Can you guess what book provides the backgorund in the photographs? 
















































[FORTHCOMING]


d.a. levy republications


As I continue to delve further into my archival research of Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy, I plan on republishing more of his work that has seen less light. 

For now, I still have free excerpts of his major works available d.a. levy excerpts. 

I’m currently writing the introduction to my biography on d.a. levy and recently has this article published where I discuss his writing in relation to waste and waste workers: “waste is a form of devotion.” 










betweenthehighway

wherever
visible and invisible
streets meet




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