~getting away with everything

"The bad boys of poetry are back! In this second collaboration we see Vincent Cellucci and Christopher Shipman still enjoying their high jinx, surprising

metaphors, attention to sound and deep investment in place. But they also have grown and deepened; the "former reprobates" now take on fatherhood,

jobs, moving, and aging. getting away with everything is an immensely lively book."

-Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

Vincent A. Cellucci wrote Absence Like Sun (Lavender Ink, 2019) and An Easy Place / To Die (CityLit Press, 2011). He edited Fuck Poems an exceptional anthology (Lavender Ink, 2012). He also has two collaborative titles: come back river (Finishing Line Press, 2014), Bengali-Englishtranslation collaborations with artist and poet Debangana Banerjee, and _a ship on the line (Unlikely Books, 2014), which was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Vincent performed "Diamonds in Dystopia," an interactive poetry web app at SXSW in 2017, and the poem was anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing 2018. After writing and living it up in Louisiana for 18 carnivals, he moved to the Netherlands to experience sinking some place new. He haunts the TU Delft Library.

Christopher Shipman is the author of The Movie My Murderer Makes: Season II (The Cupboard), coauthor of Super Poems II (Kattywompus Press), and coauthor of Keats is Not the Problem (Lavender Ink). His work appears in journals such as Cimarron Review, PANK, Pedestal, Plume, Salt Hill, Spork Press, and TENDERLOIN, among many others. He is the author or coauthor of five books and four chapbooks. His poem, "The Three-Year Crossing," was a winner of the 2015 Big Bridges Prize, judged by Alice Quinn. _a ship on the line (2015), coauthored with Vincent A. Cellucci, was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Shipman lives in Greensboro, NC with his partner Sarah K. Jackson and his daughter Finn, where he teaches literature and creative writing at New Garden Friends School and plays drums in the band The Goodbye Horses. Learn more at CShipmanWriting.com.