PP/FF: An Anthology (Starcherone Books, edited by Peter Conners) features some of America's most exciting writers currently exploring the margins between prose poetry, flash fiction, and related evolving forms.

From the editor's introduction: 

"I created PP/FF as a symbol rather than a word in the hopes of breaking down the restrictions of genre.  I have no interest in creating new confinements.  Rather, I would argue that strict adherence to given definitions of form and genre (pre-fabricated marketing boxes), are debilitating to a writer’s creativity and do a disservice to readers.  Genre is easier to sell, to teach, to quantify and review, but what does it have to do with creating new art?  The writing in this anthology resists definition and often challenges readers’ assumptions about genre, form, style, and content.  It entertains, but also demands that questions be asked.  Each piece creates its own rules."

There are over 50 contributors to PP/FF: An Anthology including: 

Stuart Dybek, Kenneth Bernard, Joyelle McSweeney, Peter Markus, Diane Williams, George Looney, Jessica Treat, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Ander Monson, Kent Johnson, Jamey Dunham, Anthony Tognazzini, Kazim Ali, Kathleen McGookey, Brian Evenson, Noah Eli Gordon, Gary Lutz, Mark Tursi, Daryl Scroggins, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Lydia Davis, Joanna Howard, Geoffrey Gatza, Elizabeth Robinson, G.C. Waldrep, Martha Ronk, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe, Gerry LaFemina, Peter Conners, Derek White, Brian Johnson, Christine Boyka Kluge, Arielle Greenberg, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Alison Townsend, Ethan Paquin, Sherrie Flick, Kim Addonizio, Ted Pelton, Benjamin Paloff, Christina Milletti, Nickole Brown, Eula Biss, Aimee Parkison, Elizabeth Robinson, Nina Shope, Ed Taylor, Eleni Sikelianos, Thom Ward, Brian Clements, Cris Mazza, Stephen Ratcliff, Daniel Nester, Kirk Nesset, Christopher Kennedy, Jeff Parker, Laird Hunt, Tony Leuzzi, Sally Keith, Aimee Parkison, and, Pedro Ponce.

PP/FF: An Anthology is now available for purchase and for course adoption. Starcherone Books are available nationally through Small Press Distribution and can also be purchased at the Starcherone Books web site [here].

Buy the book through Amazon.com [here].

Praise for PP/FF: An Anthology

"It (PP/FF) is a beautifully complicated anthology of fluxifying work. It shows that as writers we can have our say and play it, too. One of the strongest things a written work of art can do is make its readers want to write in turn. This volume makes me want to write with innovation. Not only that, it makes me want to say, hey: pass that can of spray paint, make it the red one - I know a few walls that could use some fluxifyin'."

-Chris Muray, Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics 

"An essential read for anyone interesting in cutting-edge writing."

-Carolyn Wilkinson 

"In our age of test marketing and referential storylines, it's sometimes hard to remember that writing is a creative act that can produce material as original and multifaceted as any other art form. PP/FF, an anthology edited by Peter Conners, serves up an exciting collection of unusual writing, not to be classified by structure or content, except that most pieces are short (one or two pages) and achieve the immediacy of storytelling....  Nearly every selection in this anthology seeks to respond to a timely question, reveal a painful truth, or depict a collective memory."

- Rain Taxi Review of Books, Summer 2006

"Once again feisty little Starcherone Books runs in and scoops the field, ensuring PP/FF a long life in bookstores, in classroom use and for course adoption at programs sympathetic to the daring and experimental. Peter Conners, one of the most noted US prose poets, here takes on a gigantic challenge, as he struggles to produce a solid critical mass of what he considers the exciting "flash fictions" and "prose poems" of today. Wearing the heroic flippers of the editor, Conners has waded through the dregs of this material and pulled out a whole variety of plums of different sorts."

- Kevin Killian review for Amazon.com 

"...PP/FF is a kind of earthly paradise where the Language poet lies down with the self-absorbed memoirist, the bourgeois Fabulist picks fleas off the back of the avant-garde Maoist and everyone wears lovely party clothes - or a nice new boiler suit."

- Stride Magazine

"PP/FF shows how blurry the line between flash fiction and prose poetry can be. As editor, Conners brings the writers of both together to create an interesting and provocative anthology. The stories range from a brief quarter of a page to three or four pages long. (Scroggins' novel is sixteen pages long.) The pieces run the gamut from more straightforward stories to highly experimental styles. It's a compendium of fascinating and provocative prose poetry and flash fiction. May the blurry "teeter-totter"continue its fascinating movement."

- Flash Fiction Newsletter