Interview with Sarah Jaworski and Ben Toner of Wyrdsmyth Press
Over e-mail I interviewed local poets and artists, Sarah Jaworski and Ben Toner, the editors and creators of Wyrdsmyth Press to talk about their press, which makes papercrafts, broadsides and chapbooks paired with linocut prints, billets-doux, fortunes and favours, oracle cards. Their practices are linked to community, magic, nature, and whimsy.
Amitiés
In this fascinating memoir, American writer Dianne Hunter writes of feminism,psychoanalysis, love and friendships that began in Paris in the 1980s.
Writing on the Wall
Sharon Suzuki-Martinez writes about walls as obstacles, sites of introspection and sanctuary from the point of view of a resident of Southern Arizona, the site of traditional O'odham homeland where indigenous communities have been resisting the building of a border wall between Arizona and Mexico.
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020: Call for small poems
AngelHousePress invites submissions for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020, ode to the small. To celebrate Nelson Ball, a great Canadian poet, minimalist, editor, publisher and bookseller, who died in 2019, I invite you to submit small poems, including free verse, homolinguistic translations, irreverent haiku and other form poems, even odes! visual poems, asemic writing, asemic comics, alt books, collage, erasure, hybrids and any other style you can think of. Be creative. Remember that the goal of NationalPoetryMonth.ca is to transcend boundaries and borders. You can interpret small in any imaginative way you choose. There is no limit to the small.
DETAILS
DEADLINE: February 29, 2020
FORMAT: visual poems and any poem with challenging spacing: jpg or png (1200 pixels on the longest
side); poems: .doc, docx, .dot, rtf
# OF POEMS TO SUBMIT: as many as you like
PUBLICATION STATUS: new or previously published
BIOGRAPHY: 1ST or 3rd person
CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO: optional
WHO CAN SUBMIT: Earthlings everywhere
QUERIES & SUBMISSIONS TO amanda@angelhousepress.com
The work will be published online at NationalPoetryMonth.ca in April 2020 with links shared daily to our FB page https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/ and to my personal Twitter page: @KikiFolle. The entire month will feature small poems. The work will be online until February 28, 2021.
Visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca to see site’s parameters and aesthetic considerations. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. I will send acknowledgements to everyone who submits shortly after I receive the work and will send out acceptances and rejections in March.
AngelHousePress published one of Nelson Ball’s poems “I Employ ‘Whatever’ in A Poem” as part of NatinoalPoetryMonth.ca 2016. If you’d like to read Nelson Ball’s poetry, I highly recommend Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball, his second selected collection, published by WLU Press in 2017 and edited by Stuart Ross. https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/C/Certain-Details2. There’s also a Nelson Ball Fan Club on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523169231234070/, and there is now a Nelson Ball Prize: http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2019/11/announcing-nelson-ball-prize.html.
AngelHousePress began NationalPoetryMonth.ca in 2009 as an alternative to institutionalized celebrations of poetry with the goal of expanding preconceived notions of what poetry is or means. My favourite response to the poetry on NationalPoetryMonth.ca is "this isn't poetry!"
We publish one work each day in April for a total of 30 poems/pieces. I use the opportunity to discover potential contributors to Experiment-O.com and to our essay series.
We will give preference to submissions by D/deaf and disabled writers, 2SLGBTQ+, women and BIPOC writers. You are welcome to include this information in your biography, if you care to.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, is a feminist press. We publish and promote raw talent, ragged edges and rebels through NationalPoetryMonth.ca, an annual celebration of poetry in April, Experiment-O.com, an annual online PDF magazine that comes out in the autumn, an online essay series and a podcast, the Small Machine Talks. Please visit AngelHousePress.com for more information, and to sign up to our mailing list to stay informed about calls for submission and activities.
From 2007 to 2019, we published limited edition chapbooks, some of which are still available on AngelHousePress.com (poetry and hybrids); and DevilHousePress.com (prose and hybrids.)
In “A Letter to Amanda Bernstein and A Checklist of Weed / Flower Press” (Apt. 9 Press, 2019), Ball writes about his reasons for starting Weed/Flower, “I avoided mainstream poetry that struck me as too well-written, too flawless, too polished. I now recognize that I felt that some of this poetry had had the heart removed from it by its poetic-ness and artiface.” I agree with this and it is at the heart of my own motivation for starting AngelHousePress.
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Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work, purchased and reviewed chapbooks, and shared our shenanigans in 2019.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
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Peter Ciccariello is a cross-genre poet, artist, and photographer, who is fascinated by words and the invisible spaces between things. His current interests are in experimenting with the melding of text and images in virtual worlds, the erosion of context, and the investigation of obscurantism. His latest book, “Uncommon Vision” is available at http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/. Links to his current online work can be found at http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/.
“Art is not deep twilight experience, it cannot make consciousness it is simply the waiting for and the hardly ever arriving.”
Peter has been published by AngelHousePress in NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 2.
The Power Of Metaphors And Analogies And A Disabled Body
In the latest in the AngelHousePress Essay Series, Oakley Kiss explores the connection between their disabled body and writing as a white, Disabled and Queer unapologetic Pro-intersectional Feminist who loves to do things differently.