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Saturday, December 31, 2011
First Update in Three Months / Last Update of the Year
Did you miss us?
I am writing this bound and determined to get an update in by midnight. I think I’ll make it as I’m only on my first beer and the saddle-stapler isn’t here to distract me.
We took a little more time off than we’d planned, but we’re well on our way to start 2012 out strong. In fact, Maurice Burford’s book is mostly done, and I’ve got a start on a couple others. The GOAL is to have three chapbooks out by the end of February 2012 (from Maurice, Mike Sikkema, and Matthew Lippman). We’ll be following those up with a book from Nicholas Liu.
I have some other manuscripts under review, including poetry from other finalists from the summer’s “contest,” which could yield books going into the late spring and early summer. I also plan to request work from some poets I’ve met recently. Additionally, I’m going to solicit poems for a fourth issue of Momoware.
It’ll be great if I can stick with my plan (resolution?). This past year has been really awesome for us. I’ve worked with some fantastic, supportive, and fantastically nice poets this year. If 2012 is half as fun (and not, as “predicted” by the Mayans, the end of time), we’ll be doing all right.
See you all on the other side.
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Friday, September 30, 2011
Cinquains, My Dears
Hey, everyone. We’ve been having a little “quiet time” here at the press. A little TOO quiet, as we’d been part-way through producing our latest book, Cinquain, My Dear Cinquain by Evie Ivy. As the title suggests, it’s all cinquains, all the time. If you’re not familiar with this poetic form, you should check it out (and you should anyway). The book is a limited edition and it’s great!
Our schedule for the rest of 2011 and early 2012 coming soon.
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