Slag Alley by Dan Sicoli
Slag Alley by Dan Sicoli
Pre-Order, will ship by mid-February
2026//60 copies limited edition//6.5×8.5, 46 pages
Dan Sicoli lives between two Great Lakes in New York State where he is a founding editor with Slipstream (www.slipstreampress.org). A three-time Pushcart nominee, his poetry has been included in several “Best of” anthologies, scores of print and online literary magazines and several poetry broadsheets. In 2025, his poem, “bandinetto,” was selected for recognition in the 2025 National Baseball Poetry Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts. A past member of the Nobodaddies, a collaboration project blending music and poetry with musician Joe Malvestuto, resulted in an audio poetics recording entitled, Close That Cellar Door! Two of his poetry collections were released from Pudding House Publications, Pagan Supper (which placed third in the chapbook competition) and the allegories several years ago. Late summers he oven dries homegrown San Marzano tomatoes.
“There are few vain dreams, and no guile. Dan’s words come to him from notes on life, good and bad. He nibbles edges of daily thought, entices, then awaits our need to partake of his czarist diorama. Excellent work.”
—Joyce Metzger (Joyce Metzger Reviews)
“Anchored in urban reality, Dan Sicoli’s poetry explores the emotional, physiological and philosophical terrain of the street. Within the poems there is uninhibited bitterness and frank insight into what constitutes the tender. His unbridled poetry forces words to blossom like mad elephants that run rampant trumpeting poems across his ever widening literary horizon. It is as if his breath is the ink of Poe and Bukowski spirits, resurrected ghosts, in loaves of Italian bread and rock & roll. Ah, to read Sicoli’s work is a roller coaster ride through a forest of thorns and the breasts of angels.”
—Michael Basinski (poet, critic, and former Curator of the Poetry Collection at SUNY at Buffalo)