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erry Arena, whose large-scale installation received the Board of Director’s Award at this year’s Baja Biennial, lives in the rich agricultural region of Ventura, California, where she teaches the fundamentals…

Slowly and intently, I remove each outside layer, leaf by leaf. It becomes more tender and meaty towards the center. I feel the flesh slide off when just lightly pressed…

I disagree with the concept of profit over creation all the time. I would like to see more small presses create an occasional space for writers whose work they think is good, but not necessarily marketable, to have the support of their staff and artists to create the equivalent of locally produced zines that just happen to look like modern poetry books. The collections that could come out of that “unpopular” literature movement would likely create the conversations we’ll be having ten or twenty years from now.

I don’t remember their canopies or the shape of their leaves, only their trunks. They were whorled and bulbous—disfigured like the trees painted into a fairytale’s haunted forest. But they…

It’s only appropriate that Marc Anthony Richardson’s voluble and fearless Year of the Rat should reach readers courtesy of FC2. Like the novels of Raymond Federman—one of the founders of…

Back in 2011, Jordan Rennert and Patrick Meaney pitched the idea of making a documentary on the writer Neil Gaiman. Their production company Respect Films had done documentaries on cult…

* * * Ciriza is a multi disciplinary artist who cares a great deal about unearthing dark matter for transformation. She works in a variety of mediums- music, performance, drawing,…

Our mission is to reduce racism, sexism, phobia, inequality, and ignorance by publishing impressive work from a diverse group of people, hopefully in an entertaining way but without shying away from topics that may be uncomfortable. We also want to improve the business of publishing. This mission seems even more important today.

That may not be “smart” in the normal sense of the word, but I don’t really care. Kiddiepunk is almost like a big art project to me, and I’ve never used my art as a money-making source. It keeps things pure that way because I just do what I want and I only publish things that I love. There’s no pressure on any particular release to “succeed” on a financial level. It’s a punk mentality that is just kind of ingrained in my head. But it’s great these days because you can do these things relatively affordably and sell them directly to the people who are interested. You don’t need distribution, ISBNs, any of that stuff. You just need to put your energy into making something great. In the not-so-distant past, before the internet, before high quality digital printing, you really couldn’t do what I do now, so it’s cool.

Birdwolf is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online epic poem written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis. A different…

We decided to purposefully “blur lines” because that is what we were doing naturally. We are influenced most by the people and materials we work with. Materials come in many different forms—writing, color, personality, paper. Materials come in ink and we are inspired by the tracks. Right now, we enjoy our openness—not knowing what next five years will bring. We love the fact that our aesthetic and mission will evolve over time—as we grow and invite more people into the collaborative process.

My Ogre Book, Shadow Theater, Midnight by Marcel Broodthaers Siglio Press, 2015 160 pages – Silgio / Amazon   Marcel Broodthaers first published My Ogre Book, an assemblage of poetic text fragments,…

“In literature, the most essential thing is freedom.” d          –Enrique Vila-Matas. Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas (born in Barcelona, 1948) seems his own creation—someone carefree but self-absorbed…

I can answer that with a single acronym: POD (print on demand). It’s the most important force in publishing in my lifetime. It has inadvertently disrupted the corporate monopoly, leveled the playing field and democratized what was essentially a closed (and rigged) system. POD makes it possible for anyone to be a small press publisher and produce quality editions that can potentially reach a worldwide audience. It’s also environmentally friendly.

Those who oppose POD are sociopathic snobs and crypto-fascists. Around here, POD stands for Power of Democracy.