"A fun and quirky adventure - Chris Wong Sick Hong is an author to watch " - Patricia Briggs Dick Richards lives and breathes a world full to bursting with technology and magic, wonder and whimsy. Skyscrapers kiss the edge of space, the magical races are quietly mixing back into thronging humanity, and itinerant superheroes are one step ahead of the law. Dick is at home in the seamy underbelly of this world-if you wrung his coat, it would drip cynicism. But when his latest case endangers his friends... it becomes personal.

November 2012: Amy King (POETRY) Elizabeth Quinn (STORY) Chris Wong (ESSAY) Submissions read year round. We only guarantee a response if accepted. After three weeks, if you have not heard from our staff, you may inquire via one email on the status of a submitted work. Send all submissions (three to nine pages of poetry, one story or one essay) to [email protected]. Include month, genre and author's name in the subject line. Submissions may also be considered for publication @ ManuFacturedArtists.com, a blog of the arts. Do not include contributor notes or bios, for we do not publish them. We only accept email submissions. uspoco.com ManuFacturedArtists.com

USPOCO BOOKS is proud to present, as the second selection in its exciting line of first books, The New American Poetry Series: SONGS FOR MARGARET CRAVENS. Congratulations to Chris Wong on this striking first book. In a formal style uniquely his own, Wong demonstrates rare confidence, and welcome sincerity, in a one of a kind exploration into the psyche of a poet, Ezra Pound, and into the world the poet inhabits briefly with his companion, Margaret Cravens. In his engaging book-length poem, comprised entirely of fresh and artful quatrains, Wong enters the space, time and mind of one of America's most influential poets. Not since Plato, has a student so skillfully depicted his master performing thought and deed in the development of the master's craft. Chris Wong's poem speaks for itself with quiet confidence, and for a new generation of poets, in these resounding, insistent songs. You will surely find yourself repeating its tender questions long after the book is closed.