AN ILLEGAL FEAST, poetry by ADDISON, FLORES, GOYAN, KING & WONG
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Paperback, 78 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-05-5
“We are ambulance chasers of the soul.” So begins the poetic manifesto, An Illegal Feast, collectively penned by Addison, Flores, Goyan, King, and Wong. This powerful, energetic, thrill-ride of words has a musical beat that will keep you moving. “Wildly human” and daring, these poets plead, “I exist. / Paint me.” Classical, astrological, historical, and traditional references weave unique stories united by lyrical flare. Each poem pulses, making it easy to imagine an emotional stage performance, arresting and honest. Rarely does a collection make you nod your head line by line in solidarity. Read if you desire harmony, if you crave clarity, but especially if you find yourself asking, “Do you see me?”
Praise for An Illegal Feast
A multicultural collection of poetic thoughts on love, nature, myth, human rights, and more, inspired by prompts from E. E. King given to four other talented poets, whose words are seamlessly stitched into a large poetic tapestry of light and darkness, empathy and truth. Recommended!
—G. O. Clark, author of Mindscapes
Everywhere I look in this world I see disarray and terror. Very little in me has felt like poetry has the requisite confrontational minerals to act as an effective resistance. But this avant-garde poetry project confronted my meager imagination and revived my hope. In An Illegal Feast four performer-poets responded to a prompt with a poem for a fifth poet to synthesize into one poem. Then wash rinse repeat for each subsequent poem. The spirit of the project—so free of vanity, so full of enthusiastic letting go—is a trust exercise on the page that reminds us that “our world has become dark energy driving us apart” so we must rely on community if we are to survive. Each poem’s reliance on the voice of the other poets is a revelation, the way the ideas and words curiously weave in and out of each other, blurring origins. Reading An Illegal Feast calmed my nervous system by suggesting that we must love all the unsolved “loop of preguntas” that vulnerable intimacy raises in us, rather than focus on seeking answers to the origins of our social ills. This innovative collection of poems was a soup line at the back of an artful church indeed serving a feast to my malnourished soul.
—Joe Loya, award-winning essayist, playwright, TV writer, podcast host & producer
A mélange of masterful talent & sumptuous creativity, An Illegal Feast will have you salivating over every piece in this collection, satisfied yet always craving more. I gorged myself in one sitting but returned for seconds & thirds, & I’m still licking sticky sweet poetry off my fingers.
—Jessica McHugh, 3x Bram Stoker Award nominated author of The Quiet Ways I Destroy You
A collection starting with an amazing introduction, which gives the backstory of the project. This, in and of itself, is extraordinary.
The collection is divided into three parts:
Part 1 Shows love in all its many forms. The wondrous joy, and hardships it creates.
Part 2 Feminine power, impatience, hope, ancestors, and the never-ending.
Part 3 Portrait of existence, self, mystery, and mantras for an unsettling peace.
This collaboration, among five extremely talented writers, has created a collection of words, laced with the purest type of magic. And that is connection.
—Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award-winning writer & Elgin, Rhysling, & Dwarf Star-nominated poet
About the Authors
E.E. King is proud to be the editor of @Addison, Flores, Goyan, King & Wong. Turning their brilliance into our poetry. She’s an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist who’s in over 100 publications. Her novels include Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife and Gods & Monsters. She’s shown paintings at LACMA and painted murals worldwide. Check out paintings and books at: www.elizabetheveking.com
Linda D. Addison, the author of five award-winning collections including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Her site: www.LindaAddisonWriter.com
Consuelo G. Flores is a leading Los Angeles Culture Bearer, specializing in the Day of the Dead celebration, curating exhi-bitions, presenting academic workshops nationwide, and building altars. She’s written short and full-length plays and has produced cultural events throughout Los Angeles. FB: https://www.facebook.com/consuelo.flores.9406
Andrea Goyan (she/her) is an award-winning author and co-host of Metastellar's Long Lost Friends. Recent stories can be found in Flash Fiction Magazine, Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, All Worlds Wayfarer, and The Molotov Cocktail. You can find more of her words at www.andreagoyan.com
Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning playwright (China Doll, Kimchee & Chitlins, Space Nuns of the Rescue Mainframe, @Lys), a sitcom writer, Los Angeles Times essayist, and theatre professor at Boston Conservatory@Berklee. www.elizabethwong.net
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Paperback, 78 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-05-5
“We are ambulance chasers of the soul.” So begins the poetic manifesto, An Illegal Feast, collectively penned by Addison, Flores, Goyan, King, and Wong. This powerful, energetic, thrill-ride of words has a musical beat that will keep you moving. “Wildly human” and daring, these poets plead, “I exist. / Paint me.” Classical, astrological, historical, and traditional references weave unique stories united by lyrical flare. Each poem pulses, making it easy to imagine an emotional stage performance, arresting and honest. Rarely does a collection make you nod your head line by line in solidarity. Read if you desire harmony, if you crave clarity, but especially if you find yourself asking, “Do you see me?”
Praise for An Illegal Feast
A multicultural collection of poetic thoughts on love, nature, myth, human rights, and more, inspired by prompts from E. E. King given to four other talented poets, whose words are seamlessly stitched into a large poetic tapestry of light and darkness, empathy and truth. Recommended!
—G. O. Clark, author of Mindscapes
Everywhere I look in this world I see disarray and terror. Very little in me has felt like poetry has the requisite confrontational minerals to act as an effective resistance. But this avant-garde poetry project confronted my meager imagination and revived my hope. In An Illegal Feast four performer-poets responded to a prompt with a poem for a fifth poet to synthesize into one poem. Then wash rinse repeat for each subsequent poem. The spirit of the project—so free of vanity, so full of enthusiastic letting go—is a trust exercise on the page that reminds us that “our world has become dark energy driving us apart” so we must rely on community if we are to survive. Each poem’s reliance on the voice of the other poets is a revelation, the way the ideas and words curiously weave in and out of each other, blurring origins. Reading An Illegal Feast calmed my nervous system by suggesting that we must love all the unsolved “loop of preguntas” that vulnerable intimacy raises in us, rather than focus on seeking answers to the origins of our social ills. This innovative collection of poems was a soup line at the back of an artful church indeed serving a feast to my malnourished soul.
—Joe Loya, award-winning essayist, playwright, TV writer, podcast host & producer
A mélange of masterful talent & sumptuous creativity, An Illegal Feast will have you salivating over every piece in this collection, satisfied yet always craving more. I gorged myself in one sitting but returned for seconds & thirds, & I’m still licking sticky sweet poetry off my fingers.
—Jessica McHugh, 3x Bram Stoker Award nominated author of The Quiet Ways I Destroy You
A collection starting with an amazing introduction, which gives the backstory of the project. This, in and of itself, is extraordinary.
The collection is divided into three parts:
Part 1 Shows love in all its many forms. The wondrous joy, and hardships it creates.
Part 2 Feminine power, impatience, hope, ancestors, and the never-ending.
Part 3 Portrait of existence, self, mystery, and mantras for an unsettling peace.
This collaboration, among five extremely talented writers, has created a collection of words, laced with the purest type of magic. And that is connection.
—Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award-winning writer & Elgin, Rhysling, & Dwarf Star-nominated poet
About the Authors
E.E. King is proud to be the editor of @Addison, Flores, Goyan, King & Wong. Turning their brilliance into our poetry. She’s an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist who’s in over 100 publications. Her novels include Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife and Gods & Monsters. She’s shown paintings at LACMA and painted murals worldwide. Check out paintings and books at: www.elizabetheveking.com
Linda D. Addison, the author of five award-winning collections including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Her site: www.LindaAddisonWriter.com
Consuelo G. Flores is a leading Los Angeles Culture Bearer, specializing in the Day of the Dead celebration, curating exhi-bitions, presenting academic workshops nationwide, and building altars. She’s written short and full-length plays and has produced cultural events throughout Los Angeles. FB: https://www.facebook.com/consuelo.flores.9406
Andrea Goyan (she/her) is an award-winning author and co-host of Metastellar's Long Lost Friends. Recent stories can be found in Flash Fiction Magazine, Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, All Worlds Wayfarer, and The Molotov Cocktail. You can find more of her words at www.andreagoyan.com
Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning playwright (China Doll, Kimchee & Chitlins, Space Nuns of the Rescue Mainframe, @Lys), a sitcom writer, Los Angeles Times essayist, and theatre professor at Boston Conservatory@Berklee. www.elizabethwong.net
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Paperback, 78 pages
ISBN: 978-1-966677-05-5
“We are ambulance chasers of the soul.” So begins the poetic manifesto, An Illegal Feast, collectively penned by Addison, Flores, Goyan, King, and Wong. This powerful, energetic, thrill-ride of words has a musical beat that will keep you moving. “Wildly human” and daring, these poets plead, “I exist. / Paint me.” Classical, astrological, historical, and traditional references weave unique stories united by lyrical flare. Each poem pulses, making it easy to imagine an emotional stage performance, arresting and honest. Rarely does a collection make you nod your head line by line in solidarity. Read if you desire harmony, if you crave clarity, but especially if you find yourself asking, “Do you see me?”
Praise for An Illegal Feast
A multicultural collection of poetic thoughts on love, nature, myth, human rights, and more, inspired by prompts from E. E. King given to four other talented poets, whose words are seamlessly stitched into a large poetic tapestry of light and darkness, empathy and truth. Recommended!
—G. O. Clark, author of Mindscapes
Everywhere I look in this world I see disarray and terror. Very little in me has felt like poetry has the requisite confrontational minerals to act as an effective resistance. But this avant-garde poetry project confronted my meager imagination and revived my hope. In An Illegal Feast four performer-poets responded to a prompt with a poem for a fifth poet to synthesize into one poem. Then wash rinse repeat for each subsequent poem. The spirit of the project—so free of vanity, so full of enthusiastic letting go—is a trust exercise on the page that reminds us that “our world has become dark energy driving us apart” so we must rely on community if we are to survive. Each poem’s reliance on the voice of the other poets is a revelation, the way the ideas and words curiously weave in and out of each other, blurring origins. Reading An Illegal Feast calmed my nervous system by suggesting that we must love all the unsolved “loop of preguntas” that vulnerable intimacy raises in us, rather than focus on seeking answers to the origins of our social ills. This innovative collection of poems was a soup line at the back of an artful church indeed serving a feast to my malnourished soul.
—Joe Loya, award-winning essayist, playwright, TV writer, podcast host & producer
A mélange of masterful talent & sumptuous creativity, An Illegal Feast will have you salivating over every piece in this collection, satisfied yet always craving more. I gorged myself in one sitting but returned for seconds & thirds, & I’m still licking sticky sweet poetry off my fingers.
—Jessica McHugh, 3x Bram Stoker Award nominated author of The Quiet Ways I Destroy You
A collection starting with an amazing introduction, which gives the backstory of the project. This, in and of itself, is extraordinary.
The collection is divided into three parts:
Part 1 Shows love in all its many forms. The wondrous joy, and hardships it creates.
Part 2 Feminine power, impatience, hope, ancestors, and the never-ending.
Part 3 Portrait of existence, self, mystery, and mantras for an unsettling peace.
This collaboration, among five extremely talented writers, has created a collection of words, laced with the purest type of magic. And that is connection.
—Cindy O’Quinn, Bram Stoker Award-winning writer & Elgin, Rhysling, & Dwarf Star-nominated poet
About the Authors
E.E. King is proud to be the editor of @Addison, Flores, Goyan, King & Wong. Turning their brilliance into our poetry. She’s an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist who’s in over 100 publications. Her novels include Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife and Gods & Monsters. She’s shown paintings at LACMA and painted murals worldwide. Check out paintings and books at: www.elizabetheveking.com
Linda D. Addison, the author of five award-winning collections including How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend, recipient of the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry. Her site: www.LindaAddisonWriter.com
Consuelo G. Flores is a leading Los Angeles Culture Bearer, specializing in the Day of the Dead celebration, curating exhi-bitions, presenting academic workshops nationwide, and building altars. She’s written short and full-length plays and has produced cultural events throughout Los Angeles. FB: https://www.facebook.com/consuelo.flores.9406
Andrea Goyan (she/her) is an award-winning author and co-host of Metastellar's Long Lost Friends. Recent stories can be found in Flash Fiction Magazine, Dark Matter Presents: Monstrous Futures, All Worlds Wayfarer, and The Molotov Cocktail. You can find more of her words at www.andreagoyan.com
Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning playwright (China Doll, Kimchee & Chitlins, Space Nuns of the Rescue Mainframe, @Lys), a sitcom writer, Los Angeles Times essayist, and theatre professor at Boston Conservatory@Berklee. www.elizabethwong.net