Parnilis Media

05/31/2025

CORONATION CHICKEN DAY IS TOMORROW! In 1953, as the world prepared for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, chefs were busy preparing recipes for a chicken dish fit for royalty. Seventy years later, poet Maria Masington was herself crowned with regional and national laurels for her first book Mouth Like a Sailor. Her true regrets (in verse form) take on deeper meaning in this, her second book of poetry.

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In 1953, as the world prepared for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, chefs were busy preparing recipes for a chicken dish fit for royalty. Seventy years later, poet Maria Masington was herself crowned with regional and national laurels for her first book Mouth Like a Sailor. Her true regrets (in...

11/14/2023

Don't worry, Parnilis poets. We will never undermine your artistic integrity.

CHICAGO—Blasting the writer for clearly abandoning his artistic ideals in pursuit of commercial success, sources confirmed Monday that sellout poet Cullen Quinn Roberts had earned over $150 in 2023 alone. “God, this hack is practically rolling in it after having his chapbook Anagram Arpeggio pub...

09/17/2023

Parnilis author Dave Worrell will be debuting his latest book at Fergie's pub on Sansom in Philadelphia. Here are the details: Be there!

Wednesday September 27, 2023 - 7pm
Live at Fergie's Pub - 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom
Dave Worrell’s verse memoir “Runnemede Boy” was published by Parnilis Media in 2023. His chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His limited-edition ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” appeared in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows

09/09/2023

…and again!

She trusts no one, not even this man who went around and around proving himself again and again. She is cautious, no arms to break her fall. Worry takes her millions of miles away. Terrified that her wedding band, like Saturn’s gold ring, is not what it seems, just a tangle of rock, dust, and […...

09/09/2023

Maria Masington strikes again—and strikes hard!

I am not Monet’s lily. Not floating among shiny lily pads or flowering pastels. I am the rusty underside. Claude Monet, I dare you. Dive in, submerge yourself, see a mother who has not bloomed, glistened, slept for ten months. Color me in murk, paint me black. I am not Ophelia. Not young or noble ...

07/03/2023

Fereshteh Sholevar rejoins the ranks of Parnilis Media authors with a new short story collection. This truly international voice guides you on an intriguing journey towards unexpected, sweet, and poignant moments of life. She takes you through passages of sorrow, oppression, deception, perversion, love, hate, ignorance, and giddy instances. You will not put the book down before you’ve read it to the end!

11/11/2021

We are rather proud of this book, and pleased as punch with this review of it.

Review of Maria Masington’s Mouth Like a Sailor

07/08/2021

We are knee-deep in work on several projects, but this one is the most visual: A poetry book about roadside oddities. It's the perfect storm...and it's coming soon.

11/25/2020

Mad Poet Chris Kaiser reviewed the latest book from one of our authors, even madder poet James Feichthaler, and we have to say that he nailed it. We're very proud to have this in our file of review clippings:

https://www.madpoetssociety.com/2020/11/Review of James Feichthaler's The Rise of the COVFEFE

10/28/2020

RISE OF THE COVFEFE by JAMES FEICHTHALER

More than three years ago, a rogue Tweet from the White House launched the word “covfefe” into the world. It enjoyed brief notoriety in the Twitterverse in 2017, before being buried under the sheer weight of other rogue Tweets.

But it is not destined to fade away. Not while James Feichthaler walks the earth. James is a street poet and the pied piper of the Dead Bard’s Society in Manayunk who took covfefe and made it his own, rendering it all in capital letters in the process.

When COVFEFE lodged in James’s fertile mind, it grew and took on epic proportions, spawning a series of powerful lyrical poems that he has been delivering in live performances for years. Now, this cycle of poems has come together in a single book-length work, The Rise of the COVFEFE (2020, Parnilis Media), available in paperback and Kindle formats. And it couldn’t be more timely.

The Rise of the COVFEFE holds a satirical mirror up to these times, right down to the tiniest freckle on society's backside. It's not for the faint of heart. But neither are these times, and James Feichthaler has a way of striking at the heart of things with language that is brutally honest, sometimes infused with wry humor, sometimes with laugh-out-loud humor, and always delivered with zero damns given. It may or may not change the mind or heart of its audience, but it will take them on a hell of a ride.

The Rise of the COVFEFE

10/27/2020

Here's a turn up for the books: The Miami Herald correspondent Olga Connor gave a shout-out to Parnilis Media author Agnes Moncy and her latest work, Chronicle of a Presidency.

In a Spanish-language opinion piece titled "El burlador de la Casa Blanca sale burlado" (The White House mocker gets mocked), Connor says that Agnes Moncy "makes us recognize the buffoonery situation in the presidential palace and other domains in which she intervenes...It is an incisive, penetrating, and at the same time sardonic way of capturing the "mocker" of the White House."

That sounds like high praise to us.

Chronicle of a Presidency