Action Plan: A Memo from President Mickey Hedgefunds MEMORANDUM To: Faculty at Freedom College FROM: President Mickey Hedgefunds DATE: October 11, 2019 SUBJECT: Our Business Is Going Down By now…
So we’re not much into categories. Not when it comes to Delete Press. We are open to anything, but that doesn’t mean we like everything. We publish “anti-gravity ephemera,” as Crane puts it. As far as the medium is concerned, electronic or print, we make that call based on the manuscript, as we seek a harmony of form and content.
Aesthetically and mission-wise, which is to say, in relation (as Kamau Brathwaite advises poets, it has to be) to the rest of the poetry field, I’d like to think of Delete as a dexterous flea.
Strange Animals by Chad Kultgen Harper Perennial, 2015 272 pages – Harper Perennial / Amazon The problem with becoming a renowned provocateur is that one must constantly deliver, and Chad…
I’ve never wanted to outwardly define Penny-Ante beyond the obvious: “Penny-Ante is a book publisher and an art-based project company.” It’s fairly simple. The press acts in earnest to develop projects we feel deserve an audience. I don’t think a further directive would do any service to the authors. All our authors are independent thinkers and unique personalities who speak boldly for their oeuvre; one of many reasons the press serves their efforts.
To compare Charlie Hebdo to its US counterpart, say, The Onion, is to wonder if the former’s sense of satire is indeed less ironic, more explicit and crass, if not…
I admire the hell out of how Barney Rosset ran Grove back in the day. He took risks for literature—much bigger risks than I’m taking now. It is that blood-in dedication to brave books that I want Sator to embody, regardless of scale. Since the press is basically a one-man operation, Sator’s aesthetic is my aesthetic, and so is as mutative and day-to-day as my tastes.