publishing

  • Darkest of Seasons: What Light May Come

    This is lailuwàn, mid-winter in Unami Lenape, a season of stories, a season in which we tend to talk about anything but the weather and anything but what is actually going on around us. A season where, post-holiday, post-family, community and connection falters. This is a season that is much more than simply speaking or…

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  • On Epic Poetry and the Importance of New Indigenous Myths

    This weekend marks the end of the first leg of my touring for the newest collection, North of Middle Island, and I am left with some important thoughts about Indigenous lit and culture moving forward. Thoughts that have arisen from the most recent high profile pretendian revelation as well as the path of Canadian literature

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  • The Small Books at the Heart of Literature Today.

    Let me start by saying that summer is well upon us in the border region. It also goes without saying that the summer brings with it baseball both grand and small and all those memories that go with such a storied game. Sure, I grew up on Major League baseball with the Detroit Tigers just

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  • Weight of Just One Small Book

    Let’s start with this: I received the first physical copy of my first book of poetry, Big Medicine Comes to Erie, just a day or so ago. And I’m still not entirely sure that the entire whiplash of actually having a published book available to the world has fully sunk in. Mainly, this should be

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  • Update from the Desk of D.A. Lockhart: Exactly What Have I Been Up To?

    The view from the office now is of trees in full-leaf and the steady hungry scavenging of grackles on the lawn. This means that we survived the great darkness of winter and the muck of spring. But as you know, summer isn’t exactly the great rest period for small press publishers and poets. That’s the

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  • Manuscripts Abound and the Waning Darkness of Winter: From the Desk of D.A. Lockhart

    It’s been a busy week at ’round the desk.  The press has picked up a second book this week and we’re putting the final touches on the Nicholson manuscript. The press is also officially situated in Detroit with some serious thought to opening a Windsor/Canadian branch in the near future.  In short,  we are going

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