But expression (not only in myself outwards but by other people inwards) has always enabled me to find optimism. The name of the press embodies this sort of optimistic cynicism.
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* * * I’m sorry that they thought you were ugly but if it makes you feel any better they thought I was ugly too, and when I first saw…
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Blackberry Vines Quarantine Poem #12 They say that in these times to soothe the fragility of our egos we should “control what we can” so on the days the anxiety…
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We believe a book provides a theater for the words, where the stage starts with the cover and moves inward through the physical narrative established by the pages—a journey through time and space.
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry“Staging the end of a limiting self”: A Conversation with Mike Soto
When Mike Soto and I talk, we rarely talk about poetry. Especially during basketball season. But I always learn a lesson or two from Mike when the conversation does turn…
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LIKE THE DEVIL WALKING INTO HEAVEN Crippling anxiety took the wheel at 6:05 p.m. It was a stormy Friday in December 2019 and I was more than halfway to…
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Our aesthetic focus has always been on creating handmade, unique publications which, in their format, do justice to the writing published in them.
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YOU COULD DO ANYTHING YOU WANTED a found poem using language from the NYT Minus Context Twitter account You could eat a watermelon in the subway— eat the earth and…
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ConversationFeaturedInterviewPoetry“Brief worlds are my favorites”: A Conversation with Parker Tettleton
Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…
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Delilah Reincarnated as Melania Trump Confides You don’t know that after the barber cuts, I soft blow the loose hairs from the furrow in his collar. Listen closely, trying to…
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Our aesthetic builds on the idea of resonance, and poems that can offer moments of discovery with every new reading. Our mission is to be “committed to upholding the values that make poems timeless.”
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Backbone is a niche press that focuses on writers of color and culture writing. We believe, in art, but certainly the literary arts, every voice is essential.
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Image Credit: Eliza Moore 1 I imagine Walt Whitman’s body Walt Whitman, an. American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual, eating and drinking…
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We believe in the fissures art can create in consciousness when, even if just for a moment, we experience a more vital way of operating in the world—and through that moment then seek out more extreme and enlightened modes of existence.
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