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“Enter these pages with delight and dread! For you risk being swallowed whole, chewed up and digested by the creative juices of five brilliantly different spirits, working together. Five poetic artists – or is it artistic poets? –have woven their unique visions and words to create a sixth entity, a verbal quilt made of ideas, hopes, dreams, desires, sorrows, pain and love.

They are joyous as well as thoughtful and provocative. This is a book to keep by your bedside, to wake up to, to sleep with and perhaps to cry over. A book that offers many shades of fragrance.”

—Manjula Padmanabhan, author of dystopian novels and plays (The Island of Lost Girls, Escape, Harvest) and winner of The Onassis Prize.

“Carnivores & Other Lovers” made me feel full and hungry at the same time. With a distinctly feminine point of view that veers into domineering and nurturing in equal measure, the poets in this collection offer the reader a chance to consume a spectrum of binaries, to imagine a world where everything is the truth, even the ones that oppose each other. 

The language of these five poets is introduced via the pulse of earthly organisms, a blood that eventually pools into our strongest, most beloved organ by the final page. Rich with rhythm and sensation, “Carnivores” is a meal both nourishing and empowering.”

—Jasika Nicole, queer artist, writer and actor (Fringe, The Good Doctor, Scandal, Punky Brewster. 

“In Carnivores and Other Lovers,” Elizabeth Eve (E.E. King) conducts the poetic voices of Linda D. Addison, Andrea Goyan, Consuelo G. Flores, and Elizabeth Wong into an sonic orchestra of feminine resistance, desire, and consumption with the passion of a ferocious devouring love. The sonic coherence and primordial truth entwined in each of these poems is unrelenting and unforgettably transcendent.”

—Jamal Hodge, 2x Bram Stoker Award and Nebula Award Nominee, Everything Endless, The Dark Between The Twilight.) 

“Carnivores & Other Lovers” by Addison, Flores, Goyan, King & Wong. 

The lawyers for the criminally poetic have been at it again. And what a carnivorously delectable feast they have created. As before, King provides the prompt, and the ensemble of talent does what they do best. Enhance. With this group of writers and their magnitude of sheer talent, there’s no mystery to me how their combined thoughts result in such a profound connection.”

—Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award® winning author.

“This collection of five poets, who may not have started out as poets, proves that poetry is in everyone and should be extracted like gold from our depths. A prompt, a story, a feeling… all this can produce such gems as what’s on these pages. I’m for poetry no matter how it happens. If anything, we need poetry more than ever.

 Politics, belief systems, the mass media–they’ve all failed us. But poetry stays true. I love these voices. Keep speaking out in the real ‘tongues’ of spirit. Silence today is criminal.”

—Luis J. Rodriguez, author of “Borrowed Bones” and “My Nature is Hunger,” former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles.