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#NPM18: A LIST OF TWENTY CURRENT CHAPBOOK PRESSES | GUEST POST BY ROB MCLENNAN
1. above/ground press, Ottawa ON: edited/published by rob mclennan It does feel strange to talk about my own press here, and, thanks to the alphabet, this does appear first, but there you go. Having produced nearly nine hundred items since July 9, 1993, above/ground press focuses on single-author chapbooks in runs in the 250-300 range,…
#NPM18: 16 INDIGENOUS WRITERS AND ARTISTS TO LEARN FROM | GUEST POST BY CHELENE KNIGHT
Recently, someone tried to tear me down on social media because of the work I am trying to do around inclusion and self-care for underrepresented writers. As a Black, female writer, on social media, self-care is important. That very same day almost as if a timely gift dropped down from depths of Twitter, I saw…
#NPM18: 12 CANADIAN NATURE POETRY BOOKS | GUEST POST BY TERRENCE ABRAHAMS
Canada’s relationship with nature poetry has, historically, been an uncomfortable one. Early settler poets took their settler-colonial romanticism to the extreme, writing of this land as if it were wild and unknown, rather than familiar and home to long-standing indigenous communities. Though the damage done by these early poets cannot be undone, nature poetry in…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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