I think that the kind of work you can encounter in micro-press publishing is where it’s at. Sure, it may not fit perfectly on your bookshelf, that accounting of one’s intelligence… but it is where poetry is most free, and so obviously, best.
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Penteract Press is a publisher and promoter of structure-based poems — or ‘experimental formalism’. This covers three principal areas: Constrained poetry; concrete/visual poetry; and traditional verse forms.
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in my opinion, the small press gift economy is one that fosters good will within the community. we look to each other as our first readers, our first editors—with a sense of trust and generosity.