Experiment-O 16 isn ow online
AngelHousePress presents Experiment-O Issue 16, dedicated to those who dwell in the blur. Contributions by Bandukwala, Crowson, Hadzic, McLaren, Racovitza, Rodriguez, Sandhu, Scala, Sung & Tabios. https://experiment-o.com/
POEMS: No more than 45 lines & 250 words per poem.
FORMAT: docx, rtf, body of e-mail.
VISUAL POEMS: single image per screen rather than series of images on screen
FORMAT: JPG, PNG and video/audio files, such as .mov, mp4, .WAV.
BIOGRAPHIES: 1ST or 3rd person.
CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO: separately as a png/jpg (optional).
NO PDFS: (except to show formatting complexities)
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2O23
PAYMENT: I will be crowdfunding to pay contributors this year.
E-mail me to sign up for 1st access to the campaign.
PAYMENT METHOD: EFT, PayPal, cheque in CAD.
PUBLICATION DATE: April 1 – 30, 2023
WHO CAN SUBMIT: earthlings everywhere, but only on your own behalf, not someone else's.
HOW MANY POEMS/VISUAL POEMS CAN I SUBMIT: as many as you like, but it's helpful if you submit one e-mail with a package of poems in the file formats listed above, rather than a bunch of e-mails over time.
CAN THE WORK BE PREVIOUSLY/CURRENTLY PUBLISHED: Yes, if you hold the copyright.
CAN THE WORK BE A TRANSLATION: yes, if you can provide written permission from the author or the estate of the author.
QUERIES & SUBMISSIONS TO amanda@angelhousepress.com
PREFERRED LARGE FILE TRANSFER: WETRANSFER.COM
DETAILS
The work will be published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca each day in April 2023 with links shared to our FB page https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/ and to my personal Twitter page: @KikiFolle. The work will be online until February 28, 2024.
Poems and visual poems include stanza based, prose, digital, typewriter, Letraset/rub on letters, stamps, asemic, glitch, collage, altered books, calligraphy, photos of art installations, erasure/black out poetry, textiles, nature, ceramics, performance scores, poem objects, sculptures, handwritten, comics, mixed media, word toys, or anything else you can think of that transcends the boundaries of poetry/visual poetry. Surprise me.
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 in the requested format shortly after I receive the work and will send out acceptances and rejections in March, 2023.
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. I use the opportunity to discover potential contributors to Experiment-O.com and to our essay series.
We will give preference to submissions by women, queer, trans, BIPOC, mad, crip and neurodiverse writers and artists., especially those we haven’t heard from before, and emerging writers. You are welcome to include this information in your biography if you care to.
CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN
For the second time, we are offering payment to our contributors. In February 2023, we will launch our crowdfunding campaign through IndieGoGo to pay our contributors. If you’d like to receive 1st access to perks: books, chapbooks, merch from small presses and journals in Canada, Denmark, India, UK and USA, please e-mail me.
THE CARING IMAGINATION
The crowd funding campaign is part of a larger initiative called the Caring Imagination which launched in December, 2022 at CaringImagination.com. With the help of advisors from Australia, Canada, UK and USA, I am creating a hub for resources and discussions towards compassionate and equitable practices that intersect with race, culture, class, disability, gender, and sexual orientation. It will address issues for everyone involved in the creation, production, and dissemination of literature.
ANGELHOUSESPRESS BACKGROUND
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.)
I want to try to reach writers and artists who are rarely or infrequently published, or who haven’t been published at all. I will treat them with respect and will be grateful to get a chance to see their work. My philosophy is that publishers should be honoured to be given the opportunity to publish writers and artists, rather than the other way around. I treat potential contributors accordingly.
AngelHousePress will not publish expressions of hate of any kind.
Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work and shared our shenanigans in 2022.
Wishing you all love, moments of joy and whimsy, and coping mechanisms to get through whatever 2023 sends your way.
PLEASE SHARE THIS CALL!
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
In December 2022, we launched the Caring Imagination, a site that offers links to resources for artists and cultural workers who wish to act with compassion in their work.
Experiment-O 15 is now online
AngelHousePress presents the latest issue of Experiment-O, our annual pdf magazine that celebrates the art of risk. Click here to read issue 15 and all the earlier issues.
Thank you to this year’s contributors:
Clare S. Dygert (UK), Alexis Fedorjaczenko (USA), Hiram Larew (USA), Lin Lune (CANADA), M.P. Pratheesh (INDIA), stephanie roberts (CANADA), JP Seabright (UK), Shloka Shankar (INDIA), Katy Wimhurst (UK), and Jill Zheng (China).
Thank you to those who contributed to the AngelHousePress Caring Imagination 2022 crowd funding campaign. Thanks to you we were able to pay our contributors to NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O. Stay tuned for information about our 2023 crowd funding campaign!
Calls for both NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2023 and Experiment-O Issue 16 will be going out in January and June respectively. We prioritize work by women and non-binary creators who are BIPOC, queer, trans, D/deaf and disabled.
Thank you to all who submitted work for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 and to our contributors: Lachlan R. (Australia), Robin Sinclair (USA), Mado Reznik (Argentina),
Alice Burdick (Canada), Shloka Shankar (India), Melissa Carey (Canada), Maija Haavisto (Finland), Emily Hockaday (USA), Kate Siklosi (Canada), Angeline Schellenberg (Canada), Clare Dygert (UK), Angela Hibbs (Canada), Sylee Gore (UK),
stephanie roberts (Canada), hiromi suzuki (Japan), Sreekanth Kopuri (India), Jill Zheng (China), Ellen Chang-Richardson (Canada), Susanne Eules (Germany/USA), Sneha Subramanian Kanta (Canada), Alexis Fedorjaczenko (USA) Marvyne Jenoff (Canada),
Dona Mayoora (USA), M.P. Pratheesh (India), Rose Knapp (UK), Archana Sridhar (Canada), Rasiqra Revulva (Canada), Tanis MacDonald (Canada), JP Seabright (UK),
Gary Barwin (Canada).
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 will remain online until February 28, 2023. In November, 2022, a new issue of Experiment-O will be published. All contributors to both NPM22 and XO15 will be paid thanks to those who backed our crowd funding campaign this year. Thanks also to the following presses and journals in Amsterdam, Canada, Denmark, India, Sweden, UK and USA who donated books, magazines, subscriptions, chapbooks, t-shirts and tote bags in support of the campaign:
above/ground press, Anstruther Press, apt 9 press, Arc Poetry Magazine, baseline press,
Book*Hug, Broken Sleep Books, Canthius, CAROUSEL, Coach House Books, Collusion Books, Ethel Zine, Gap Riot Press, Gordon Hill, Hesterglock Press, Knife Fork Book, Ma Bibliotheque, Metatron Press, Non Plus Ultra, Osmosis Press, pagefiftyone press, Palimpsest Press, phafours, Poem Atlas, Room Magazine, Steel Incisors, The Blasted Tree, Timglaset Editions, Vallum, Versal, Wolsak and Wynn, Yavanika Press and
Zimzalla.
Thank you for reading and sharing NationalPoetryMonth.ca. If you’d like to find out about AngelHousePress calls, the Small Machine Talks podcast, upcoming announcements about the Caring Imagination site, plus our online publications, please sign up to our mailing list at AngelHousePress.com.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 reflects the epoch’s visceral nature, in your face and guttural, the ouroboros devouring its own tail, an endless loop, a glint of silver on a knife with an edge of scarlet. It is a poetics of contrasts: haunting in its ephemerality or tactile and solid, but nothing permanent about what lies ahead, ghosts lurk inside a bowl of marigolds, lush red strawberries lie in a puddle on the road, stones echo as they roll.
Each day in April, we celebrate the variety of possibilities that is poetry: stanzas, prose, collages, erasure, video and photographs from contributors from Australia, Argentina, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, UK and USA. Poetry transcends and blurs boundaries and borders. Visit https://nationalpoetrymonth.ca/ daily. I will also share links on social media daily via https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress and Twitter: @KikiFolle.
Thank you to the contributors and all who submitted work this year, and gratitude to those who backed the AngelHousePress Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign. Thanks to you, contributors to NationalPoetryMonth.ca and Experiment-O Issue 15 will receive payment for their work. Finally, thank you to the small presses and journals that donated publications and swag for the campaign. I am grateful for all the support of the community of writers, editors, publishers, and readers now and always. Without you, AngelHousePress wouldn’t exist, nor would I want it to. There is strength in solidarity. In these times of bullying and extremism, we need art more than ever. It articulates what is often impossible to articulate and it challenges programmed thinking, resisting power’s attempts at oppression.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Sign Up for the AngelHousePress Crowd Funding Campaign
Sign up at the link below to for first access to limited small press swag, books and art from small presses around the world. Those who sign up will also receive access to exclusive perks.
https://igg.me/at/caringimagination
AngelHousePress celebrates the work of writers and artists, especially those who are systematically excluded from the literary canon. We strive to provide welcoming spaces for these voices, and to ensure that they are amplified and heard.
Since 2007 I’ve been publishing visual poetry, poetry, prose, art and hybrid works from writers and artists worldwide.
When we used to publish chapbooks, we gave contributors complementary copies and half price discounts by way of compensation, but we’ve also been publishing Experiment-O and NationalPoetryMonth.ca since our early days, featuring the work of contributors who generously donated their work for free.
I’d like to change that going forward by paying our contributors with your support through a grassroots, community-based campaign.
As part of the campaign, I’d also like to highlight independent small presses and journals who are actively involved in community-building and inclusion.
For your support for this campaign, you will be able to choose from a wide variety of publications and swag, such as sold out and limited edition handsewn chapbooks, t-shirts, tote bags, art, subscriptions, and of course books galore.
The first step is to sign up here: https://igg.me/at/caringimagination
Once you’ve signed up, I will let you know the minute the campaign goes live. The idea behind the early sign up is to appeal to those who are more likely to be early supporters of the campaign, get some perks purchased once the campaign goes live so that it will build momentum. The campaign is going to be short, only 40 days, and it’s going to be fun. I am so excited by all the presses who’ve agreed to take part and what they’ve donated for the campaign.
The crowd funding campaign is part of a larger initiative called the Caring Imagination, which I will be launching as a site later in 2022. With the help of advisors from Australia, Canada, UK and USA, I will be creating a hub for resources for compassionate and equitable practices that intersect with race, culture, class, disability, gender, and sexual orientation. It will be aimed at everyone involved in the creation, production, and dissemination of literature. I have a lot of questions about the ethical practices associated with what we do and I’d like to provide myself and others who have such questions with resources to empower us--artists and writers, publishers, booksellers, event organizers-- to make decisions about cultural practices.
I believe there is strength in solidarity and community. Your support means a lot. Please sign up now and share the link on your social media accounts as follows:
Sign up to the AngelHousePress crowd funding campaign to pay contributors. #CaringImagination https://igg.me/at/caringimagination
Lastly, please direct mad, crip, neurodiverse, queer, trans, BIPOC women and gender nonconforming writers and artists to the current call for submission for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022 which will feature 30 poems/visual poems in April, transcending borders and boundaries. Details are here: http://angelhousepress.com/
your fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
NATIONALPOETRYMONTH.CA 2022 CALL FOR POEMS AND VISUAL POEMS
NATIONALPOETRYMONTH.CA 2022: CALL FOR POEMS AND VISUAL POEMS
Video here.
POEMS: No more than 45 lines & 250 words per poem.
FORMAT: docx, rtf, body of e-mail.
VISUAL POEMS: single image per screen rather than series of images on screen
FORMAT: JPG, PNG and video/audio files, such as .mov, mp4, .WAV.
BIOGRAPHY: third or first person please; please include pronouns.
CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO: separately as a png/jpg (optional).
NO PDFS: (except to show formatting complexities)
DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 28, 2O22
PAYMENT: I will be crowdfunding to pay contributors this year.
E-mail me to sign up for 1st access to the campaign.
PAYMENT METHOD: EFT, PayPal, cheque in CAD.
PUBLICATION DATE: April 1 – 30, 2022
WHO CAN SUBMIT: earthlings everywhere.
HOW MANY POEMS/VISUAL POEMS CAN I SUBMIT: as many as you like.
CAN THE WORK BE PREVIOUSLY/CURRENTLY PUBLISHED: Yes, as long as you hold the copyright.
CAN THE WORK BE A TRANSLATION: yes, if you can provide written permission from the author or the estate of the author.
QUERIES & SUBMISSIONS TO amanda@angelhousepress.com
PREFERRED LARGE FILE TRANSFER: WETRANSFER.COM
DETAILS
The work will be published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca each day in April 2022 with links shared to our FB page https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/ and to my personal Twitter page: @KikiFolle. The work will be online until February 28, 2023.
Poems and visual poems include stanza based, prose, digital, typewriter, Letraset/rub on letters, stamps, asemic, glitch, collage, altered books, calligraphy, photos of art installations, erasure/black out poetry, textiles, nature, ceramics, performance scores, poem objects, sculptures, handwritten, comics, mixed media, word toys, or anything else you can think of that transcends the boundaries of poetry/visual poetry. Surprise me.
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 in the requested format shortly after I receive the work and will send out acceptances and rejections in March, 2022.
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. I use the opportunity to discover potential contributors to Experiment-O.com and to our essay series.
We will give preference to submissions by women, queer, trans, BIPOC, mad, crip , chronically ill and neurodiverse writers and artists., especially those we haven’t heard from before, and emerging writers. You are welcome to include this information in your biography if you care to.
CROWD FUNDING CAMPAIGN
For the first time, we are offering payment to our contributors. In February 2022, we will launch our first crowdfunding campaign through IndieGoGo to pay our contributors. If you’d like to receive 1st access to perks: books, chapbooks, merch from small presses and journals in Canada, Denmark, India, UK and USA, please e-mail me.
THE CARING IMAGINATION
The crowd funding campaign is part of a larger initiative called the Caring Imagination which will officially launch later in 2022. With the help of advisors from Australia, Canada, Singapore and USA, I will be creating a hub for resources and discussions towards compassionate and equitable practices that intersect with race, culture, class, disability, gender, and sexual orientation. It will address issues for everyone involved in the creation, production, and dissemination of literature.
ANGELHOUSESPRESS BACKGROUND
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.)
PLEASE SHARE THIS CALL!
I want to try to reach writers and artists who are rarely or infrequently published, or who haven’t been published at all. I will treat them with respect and will be grateful to get a chance to see their work. My philosophy is that publishers should be honoured to be given the opportunity to publish writers and artists, rather than the other way around. I treat potential contributors accordingly.
AngelHousePress will not publish expressions of hate of any kind.
Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work and shared our shenanigans in 2021.
Wishing you all love, moments of joy and whimsy, and coping mechanisms to get through whatever 2022 sends your way.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Experiment-O 14
Experiment-O Issue 14, published in November 2021 includes work by Sascha Akhtar, Inma Bernils, Richard Capener, dis/content, a collective made up of Joanna Chak, Joy Chee, Cat Chong, Drew Davis, Reginald James Kent, Sarah Supaat, and Marylyn Tan; natalie hanna, Elmedin Kadric, Francesco Levato, Ghazal Mosadeq, Laura Ortiz, V. Rivers, Kinga Tóth, Margaret Viboolsittiseri and Rezia Wahid. Thank you to all the contributors and all those who read and share the issue.
Experiment-O is an annual pdf magazine established in 2008 by AngelHousePress that celebrates the art of risk.
Thank you to the contributors to NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2021:
Roger Alsop, Rosaire Appel, Sacha Archer, Gary Barwin, Inma Bernils, Richard Biddle,
ReVerse Butcher, Susan Connolly, Judith Copithorne, Paula Damm, Nina Jane Drystek, Khaled Nurul Hakim, Exsanguine Hart, Charlotte Jung, Satu Kaikkonen, Adriana Kobor, Laura Ortiz, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Astra Papachristodoulou, Namitha Rathinappillai, V. Rivers, Shloka Shankar, Kate Siklosi, Rachel Smith, Martina Stella, Kylie Supski, Kate Sutherland, Kinga Toth, Tese Uhomoibhi, Ankie Van Dijk, Chris Wenn, Katy Wimhurst.
And thank you to all who visited the site and shared the link with others. The work will remain online until February 28, 2022.
To receive notice of future calls for submission, including NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2022, please visit AngelHousePress.com and sign up to the mailing list or join the Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress
Yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
AngelHousePress Presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2021
Dear Friends of AngelHousePress,
NationalPoetryMonth.ca is now online. For 30 days in April we will celebrate visual poetry with 30 works from contributors from 15 countries: Australia, Belgium/Netherlands, Canada, England, Finland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, USA.
The work in this year’s collection is kinetic, vibrant, and geometric. Through videos, collages, asemic writing, pictorals, self-portraits, poem-objects, assemblages, erasure, photographs, scans, using paper, ink, old book paper, recycled materials, artist pens, bio-resin, hand-made stamps, graphite, fabric, paint, nailpolish, rocks and shreds of failed poems, our contributors demonstrate the playful and enriching possibilities of visual poetry and poetry itself. Please visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca daily to see what surprises lay in store. I promise you delight, defiance, fuckuppery, noise, stillness, contemplation, trouble, and wonder.
NationalPoetryMonth.ca was created by AngelHousePress in 2009 to celebrate the nation of poetry, a nation which transcends all borders and boundaries. Thanks to this year’s contributors and to all who submitted work.
I wrote this last year, but I’m repeating it again because it is still true: if we are learning anything during this time of crisis, it is that we must rely on each other to survive. While we must continue to physically isolate from one another, we are learning that loneliness can be alleviated by the sharing of art. We are not alone.
Please visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca every day in April for a new work and return to it throughout the year.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels. We publish two online magazines, host a monthly podcast and an essay series. Please visit http://angelhousepress.com/ for more information and to subscribe our mailing list for updates and calls for submission. You can also like us on FaceBook for regular updates: https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/.
thank you to all who submitted work for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2021 visual poetry issue. by now, all those who have submitted work should have received an acceptance or rejection e-mail. if you haven't received the e-mail, here is the e-mail i sent to those whose work i couldn't publish.
Thank you for allowing me the honour of considering your work for NationalPoetryMonth.ca. It’s not something I take lightly. I received 235 submissions and sending out rejections for 205 visual poems is not something I enjoy.
At this time, I won’t be able to offer feedback on your submission, but I wish you every success in placing it elsewhere. To find out about more sites, journals and presses that publish visual poetry, please go to this crowd-sourced, ever-expanding list published by AngelHousePress. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pFMLnPNhvj76cZl6MWW1gtu_77-aigh-v8X0VjE92r4/edit?usp=sharing
I am also always looking for contributions to the AngelHousePress essay series which is published on AngelHousePress.com. The contribution can be a poetic or artistic statement, a rant, manifesto or review or some creative hybrid of any combo thereof. Please query me if you’d like to send me an essay for the series.
You can find out about our calls for submission and publication news by subscribing to the mailing list at AngelHousePress.com and by following our FB page https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/
Warm regards from the 19th floor,
Amanda Earl
DETAILS
DEADLINE: February 28, 2021
FORMAT: I will respond only to jpg/png or video formats, such as .mov, mp4., .wav
# OF VISUAL POEMS TO SUBMIT: as many as you like
PUBLICATION STATUS: can be previously or currently published/exhibited or on social media - as long as you hold copyright
BIOGRAPHY: 1ST or 3rd person
CONTRIBUTOR PHOTO: optional
WHO CAN SUBMIT: Earthlings everywhere
QUERIES & SUBMISSIONS TO amanda@angelhousepress.com
PREFERRED LARGE FILE TRANSFER: WETRANSFER.COM - please use We Transfer instead of Google drive. i can't access Google drive from this account.
The visual poems will be published on NationalPoetryMonth.ca each day in April, 2021 with links shared daily to our FB page https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/ and to my personal Twitter page: @KikiFolle. The work will be online until February 28, 2022.
Visual poems include digital, typewriter, Letraset/rub on letters, stamps, asemic, glitch, collage, altered books, calligraphy, photos of art installations, erasure/black out poetry, textiles, nature, ceramics, performance scores, poem objects, sculptures, handwritten, comics, mixed media, word toys, or anything else you can think of that combines text/elements of language/concepts of language with other media. Surprise me.
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 in the requested format shortly after I receive the work and will send out acceptances and rejections in March.
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 visual poems. 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.)
Please share this call!
Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work, purchased, and reviewed chapbooks, and shared our shenanigans in 2020.
Wishing you all love, moments of joy and whimsy, and the strength to get through whatever 2021 sends your way.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Experiment-O 13
Dear Friends of AngelHousePress,
I am happy to present the latest issue of Experiment-O, our annual pdf magazine celebrating the art of risk. This issue is dedicated to the fragile and the flawed, after this quote: “What if language were to remember how fragile it is, and how flawed?” from
Where Things Touch, A Meditation on Beauty, Bahar Orang’s important, delightful and indispensable book, published by Book*Hug in this pandemic year as part of its essai series.
Working on Experiment-O is a year-long process which affords me with the opportunity to learn about the creative work currently being done all over the world , and to engage actively and in depth with the work of artists, poets, visual poets and prose writers both new and familiar to me, to explore beyond my own perceived aesthetic and experiences.
Based on this engagement, every year I invite a dozen or so artists and writers to contribute to the issue. I appreciate the generosity of contributors who have kindly agreed to publish their work in Experiment-O for thirteen years and counting. I am always taken by surprise and heartened by the generous responses of readers, many of whom are discovering the work of these contributors for the first time. This year when it is especially difficult to focus and be attentive to anything at all, I am grateful to contributors and readers for devoting your time and attention to this publication and all the other AngelHousePress activities.
Experiment-O Issue 13 gathers the work of contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, UK and USA: ReVerse Butcher, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Susan Connolly, Evelyn Eller, Frank Lepold, Jenny McMaster, Khashayar Mohammadi, Neda Omidvar, Imogen Reid, Rachel Small, Rob Thomas, Sylvia Van Nooten and C.R.E. Wells.
I urge you to read their biographies on the back pages of the issue, which will give you links to where you can find out more about them and their work. It is always my hope that reading Experiment-O inspires you to support and promote the work of our contributors, to learn of other creators, and to create art and literature yourself. Experiment-O is part of a larger, ongoing conversation about art and literature, creation, and connection.
The site also contains all twelve previous issues for your reading pleasure.
In these unsettling times, where it is barely possible to have a reason for optimism and when we long for closeness with loved ones again, I hope you will find solace and inspiration in this offering of love, generosity and light. I wish you safety, good health, kindness, and joy.
your fallen angel,
Amanda Earl, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, December 4, 2020
The Small Machine Talks
The Small Machine Talks is a monthly-ish podcast co-hosted by Amanda Earl and a.m. kozak. The podcast focuses on the poetry scene of Central Canada and beyond through conversations, interviews and discussions of craft and community, book and chapbook talks. It began in 2016.
AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2020, Ode to the Small: thirty days of poetry from nine countries.
http://nationalpoetrymonth.ca/
Contributors from Australia, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, USA were kind enough to share their visual art, haiku, visual poetry, couplets, stanzas, prose poems, stamp art, buttons, ceramics, one-word poems, untitled poems, letraset, yarn, typewriter poems, clay fragments, photographs, installation art, scrolls, collages, bees, ladybugs, maps, and puns to create this celebration. Over thirty days, these poets offer their poems of grief, joy, trauma, humour, pain and delight. It’s an honour to publish their work.
Ode to the Small celebrates the life and work of Nelson Ball, a beloved Canadian poet, minimalist, editor, publisher and bookseller, who died in 2019, and who is still greatly missed.
NationalPoetryMonth.ca was created by AngelHousePress in 2009 to celebrate the nation of poetry, a nation which transcends all borders and boundaries. Thanks to this year’s contributors and to all who submitted work.
If we are learning anything during this time of crisis, it is that we must rely on each other to survive. While we must now physically isolate from one another, we are learning that loneliness can be alleviated by the sharing of art. We are not alone.
Please visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca every day in April for a new work and return to it throughout the year.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels. We publish two online magazines, host a monthly podcast and an essay series. Please visit http://angelhousepress.com/ for more information and to subscribe our mailing list for updates and calls for submission. You can also like us on FaceBook for regular updates: https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
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.
Please share this call!
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
Dear Friends,
AngelHousePress is creating a collaborative map for women and gender non conforming visual and concrete poets. We recognize that not all are able to participate in the project. In some areas, artists are persecuted for their art and cannot be visible. Some fear and have had to deal with online stalking and harassment. We understand that visibility is a privilege that is not available to all. We respect those who choose not to take part in the project. We are outraged by those who would take advantage of artists, and we see it as a form of repression of art. We are saddened for those who are repressed, bullied and harassed and also for those who appreciate such art and are not able to find out about the artists who are repressed and hurt by cretins who take advantage of artists' attempts to connect with each other and the world. We recommend reading the Freemuse State of Artistic Freedom, 2019 report and the Privatising Censorship, Digitising Violence: Shrinking Space of Women’s Rights to Create in the Digital Age report.
1. name
2. country
3. primary type of visual poetry: (eg digital, concrete, collage, asemic, alt book)
4. site, if applicable
e-mail amanda@angelhousepress.com and i'll add the markers.
if i can figure out how to ensure stability, i'll add the collaboration back.
You can view the map here: https://tinyurl.com/y3kl4ro6
I’d really love to see a dense map of women and gender non conforming visual poets.
AngelHousePress is undertaking this initiative because just like with other forms of publishing, men make up the vast majority of publications, even though they are not the only option. there is strength in numbers.
Furthermore, we will ensure that all publishers of visual and concrete poetry can see the map so that they will have no more excuses when they claim the lack of women and gender non conforming visual and concrete poets.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
ps: For every woman and gender non conforming visual and concrete poet who is on the map by December 31, 2019, on behalf of AngelHousePress, I will donate $1 for a maximum total of up to $250 to Freemuse, an independent international organisation advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression.
Call for Asemic Writing for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2019
Please send jpgs, a bio and photo to amanda@angelhousepress.com with NPM 2019 in the subject line. Do not send links to sites or a Dropbox or Google drive and ask me to pick. Send as many jpgs as you like until the deadline.
Deadline: February 28, 2019
E-mail address: amanda@angelhousepress.com
Publication status: work can be previously or currently published or unpublished as long as you hold copyright.
The work will be published on line at NationalPoetryMonth.ca in April 2019. The entire month will feature asemic writing. The work will be on line until February 29, 2020.
Visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca to see site’s parameters and aesthetic considerations. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
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. This year I want to focus on asemic writing to feature a type of visual poetry that is less well known.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels through its limited edition chapbook series (final chapbooks spring 2019), 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.
Please share this call with fellow asemic writers.
Happy New Year and thank you to all who contributed and submitted work, bought and reviewed chapbooks, and shared our shenanigans in 2018.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Experiment-O Issue 11Experiment-O Issue 11
To the solitary and the friendless.
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
CONTRIBUTORS
Tchello d'Barros
Anita Dolman
Dona Mayoora
Loss Pequeño Glazier
Bola Opaleke
Willy Palomo
psw
fátima queiroz
James Sanders
Ines Seidel
Kate Siklosi
NATIONALPOETRYMONTH.CA 2018
AngelHousePress thanks the following poets and artists for their contributions to NationalPoetryMonth.ca this year and thanks to all who sent us submissions, who shared and promoted the site this month.
The work will be on line at http://nationalpoetrymonth.ca until February 28, 2019. A new call for submissions will go out via our AngelHousePress mailing list (sign up at AngelHousePress.com), our FB page and my personal Twitter account: @KikiFolle.
1. Bilingual Poet’s Dilemma - Poet (English and British Sign Language versions): Donna Williams; Film Co-directors: Sandra Alland & Ania Urbanowska; British Sign Language interpreting and translation consultation by K. Yvonne Strain, Scotland
2. Man-flavoured Condoms – Jeff Kirby, Canada
3. fátima queiroz [untitled typewriter poem] Brazil
4. Where To Find Me – Robin Sinclair USA
5. Gary Barwin @garybarwin [untitled visual poem] Canada
6. Melissa Beek – My Stolen Sisters, Metepenagiag First Nation
7. Márton Koppány – Forecast (Hungarian Vispo No. 18), Hungary
8. the nth digri – Sugar Cane (video) Canada
9. michele provost and zachary robert – A Good Thing, Canada
10. Jenna Jarvis - pokémon battle simulator, Canada
11. Donmay – Feeling and Understanding, USA
12. Ariel Dawn – Morning, Canada
13. Sacha Archer – falls into line, Canada
14. Bola Opaleke – A Stone Goes Into the Water Not Drown In It, Canada
15. Daniel f. Bradley lowrent boogie woogie, Canada
16. Willy Palomo – Mark 6:41-42, USA
17. andrew topel – triptych, USA
18. Diana Manole - Trump’s Abecedary (Selections), Canada
19. Tchello d’Barros – INFINITALL, Brazil
20. Jane Eaton Hamilton – The Hole in Her Cheek, Canada
21. Kate Siklosi – the shade of it all, Canada
22. Mimi Ramos Lebuffe - I knew or was (la vocal eterna), Canada
23. Marilyn R. Rosenberg (MRR) – STOP OVER, USA
24. Melissa Carey – Roadwork, Canada
25. psw – signs [Korean typewriter series] Germany
26. Manahil Bandukwala In Bloom, Canada
27. Carol White – Matron of Doll Hospital – Collage on Water Color Paper, Ireland
28. Catherine Graham – Fire Glass, Canada
29. Carol Barbour – Spider War, Canada
30. Ally Fleming – For This Poem To Exist I Have No Choice But To Suffer This Grief, Canada
Stay tuned for announcements of new chapbooks to be published with AngelHousePress and DevilHouse in the spring and autumn, and the 11th issue of Experiment-O.com in the autumn as well. Also a.m. kozak and I will continue to host the Small Machine Talks, exploring the poetry scene in Central Canada and beyond. Stay tuned for interviews, event recaps and wish lists, calls for submission and reviews of books and chapbooks to come!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the celebration.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018. This year’s contributors come from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Scotland and USA to provide us with a range of styles, some of which make us ponder the nature of poetry and stretch ourselves beyond the standard definition of genre. Sometimes in the work that we receive for NationalPoetryMonth.ca, perhaps because of some kind of zeitgeist or current concern, we end up with a theme. This year I would say the theme is that of finding strength in vulnerability.
Thanks to the contributors and all of those who bravely sent their poems and work they weren’t even certain was poems to AngelHousePress for NationalPoetryMonth.ca. AngelHousePress continues its goal to publish raw talent, ragged edges and rebels and to be a home for misfit artists and audiences to find one another.
I hope you enjoy this month-long celebration, which includes video poems, visual art and poetry, typewriter poems, collages and asemic writing. If you find yourself thinking, “that’s not a poem!” we’ve done our job.
I’ll be sharing a link to each day’s poem via social media on our FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/AngelHousePress/ and on Twitter through my personal account: @KikiFolle. Follow along or simply remember to go to NationalPoetryMonth.ca daily through the month of April.
I would also encourage you to visit http://angelhousepress.com/ to check out our chapbooks, read the essays and sign up for our mailing list, and to go to http://experiment-o.com/ our annual pdf magazine that celebrates the art of risk where you will find ten years of art, poetry, prose, and visual poetry.
Thanks for joining us in our celebration of National Poetry Month. Please share the poetry each day with fellow enthusiasts of poetry that doesn’t fit within boundaries.
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018: Call for Submissions
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018 – FREE FOR ALL
Please send poetry, collages, book art, altered books, graphic comics, asemic writing, visual art, visual poems, imaginary letters and anything else you can think of that makes readers question their ideas of what poetry is for consideration for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2018. Especially welcomed is work by the following groups: women, people of colour, disabled, indigenous and genderqueer writers. We will consider work by writers and artists from all over the world, including translations into English, provided there aren’t copyright issues.
Details:
Send to amanda@angelhousepress.com
Text: .doc, .docx, rtf files
Length: no more than 45 lines or 250 words.
Art and visual poetry: jpg files
Number of pieces/poems: unlimited; as many as you like
Video/Audio: I’m not sure. Send it and we’ll see if we can publish.
Deadline: February 28, 2018 March, 5, 2018
Publication status: work can be previously published or unpublished as long as you hold copyright.
Required: short bio in first or third person; contributor photograph.
Response: I will send you an acknowledgement of receipt within a day or so, probably sooner. I will send out acceptances and rejections in March, 2017.
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 poem/piece of art 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 the AngelHousePress limited edition chapbook series, as well as our essay series.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels through its limited edition chapbook series, NationalPoetryMonth.ca, an annual celebration of poetry in April, Experiment-O.com, an annual online PDF magazine that comes out in November, 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.
I welcome any queries, comments or suggestions you have.
Please kindly share this call with every artist and poet you know.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Ottawa, January 1, 2018
PS: if there was ever a time for your essays on art, creativity, poetry, solidarity, now is it. Visit AngelHousePress.com to see our call for essays, rants, manifestos, interviews, reviews.
PPS: Women and genderqueer poets are welcome to send me up to five pages of poetry if you haven’t yet published a book or chapbook as part of the AngelHousePress free close reading service for new women/genderqueer poets. Include a few of the poets that influence your writing. Send to amanda@angelhousepress.com as an attachment.
Experiment-O Issue 10
AngelHousePress presents the tenth anniversary issue of Experiment-O. Thanks to the contributors and happy tenth anniversary!
Happy 2017, friends of AngelHousePress
I invite you to submit poetry for NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017. The theme this year is "A Celebration of Women."
ANGELHOUSEPRESS PRESENTS
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017 – A Celebration of Women
NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017 will be a celebration & acknowledgement of women: women of colour, indigenous women, trans women, the famous, the notorious, the unknown, the forgotten, the murdered, the abused, the healing, the powerful, the powerless, family members, friends, women from all sexual orientations, all walks & stations of life, all ages, all sizes, all religions, no religion, all cultures.
Established & emerging poets & artists of all genders worldwide are welcome & encouraged to send poetry, collages, graphic comics, asemic writing, visual art, visual poems, book art, imaginary letters and anything else you can think to celebrate women.
Details:
Send to amanda@angelhousepress.com
Text: .doc, .docx, rtf files
Length: no more than 45 lines or 250 words.
Art and visual poetry: jpg files
Number of pieces/poems: unlimited.
Video/Audio: I’m not sure. Send it & we’ll see if we can publish.
Deadline: February 28, 2017
Publication status: work can be previously published or unpublished as long as you hold copyright.
Required: short bio in first or third person; contributor photograph.
Response: acceptances and rejections in March, 2017.
Publication will be in April, 2017.
Please pass this call on to any & all poets, artists, pals.
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
― Adrienne Rich
“The more we exist outside the system, the more creative we are.”
--Beatrice Wood
I started 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 poem/piece of art 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 the AngelHousePress limited edition chapbook series, as well as our essay series.
AngelHousePress, established in 2007 by Amanda Earl, publishes raw talent, ragged edges and rebels through its limited edition chapbook series, NationalPoetryMonth.ca, an annual celebration of poetry in April, Experiment-O.com, an annual online PDF magazine that comes out in November, and its online essay series. Please visit AngelHousePress.com for more information, and to sign up to our mailing list to stay informed about calls for submission and activities.
I welcome any queries, comments or suggestions you have.
Please kindly share this call with every artist and poet you know.
We need to find ways to uplift each other. There is solidarity in strength and creativity.
yr fallen angel,
Amanda Earl
Experiment-O, Issue 9.0
Experiment-O, Issue 9 features poetry, art, asemic writing and visual poetry from Argentina, Canada, Tunisia and USA: http://experiment-o.com/
You can also access the site & download the issue on your smart phones.
Thanks to the contributors: Sacha Archer, Dominic Bercier, J.C Bouchard, Joel Chace, Nathan Dueck, Carrie Hunter, Jenny MacBain-Stephens, J.F. Martel, Mado Reznik, Sarah Sarai, Louise P. Sloane, and Ali Znaidi.
Experiment-O is an annual PDF magazine established in 2008. Its aim is to bring attention to works that do what art is supposed to do and that is to risk.
AngelHousePress thanks the contributors & in advance, the readers & dedicates this ninth issue to those who “risk the self in order to give the self.” Quote is from Claudia Rankine in her introduction to Adrienne Rich’s Collected Poems: 1950 - 2012 (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, 2016).
Experiment-O will consider interviews, reviews, visual art, visual poetry, concrete poetry, poetry, prose, manifestos, maps, rants, blog entries, translations and other digital miscellany.
Please send creative works of merit to amanda@experiment-o.com for consideration for future issues. only contributions that are possible in PDF form will be considered; responses will likely only occur if the work is accepted for publication. previously published work is considered. simultaneous submissions are fine too.
Experiment-O advocates a cormorant and lichen free environment.
For further information about AngelHousePress, please go to www.angelhousepress.com.
Jason Camlot, Jason Christie, Helen Hajnoczky, Sheena Kalmakova, Karen Massey, Koji Nagai, bruno neiva, Philip Quinn, hiromi suzuki, Carol White and Ellen Wiener
AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015, 30 days of visual poetry, asemic writing, concrete poetry, collage, and hybrid visual pieces from Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, India, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, USA. Visit the site each day in April to see work that blurs genres and transcends boundaries. Welcome to the nation of poetry.
http://nationalpoetrymonth.ca/
Elizabeth Bertoldi, Volodymyr Bilyk, Selina Boan, Craig Calhoun, Ariel Gonzalez Losada, MARGENTO, a rawlings & Sachiko Murakami, sven staelens, Carol Stetser, Tom Walmsley and Liz Worth.
I'm happy to announce that Experiment-O Issue 6 is now on line. It features the book art, poetry, visual poetry and visual art of Carlyle Baker, Stephen Collis, Amy Dennis, Molly Gaudry, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Stuart Ross, Marino Rossetti, Spencer Selby, Andrew Topel, Brad Vogler and Ewan Whyte.
Featuring Rosaire Appel, Kemeny Babineau, bill dimichele, Judy Dougherty, j/j hastain, Shawna Lemay, Gustave Morin, Michèle Provost, Janice Tokar and Nico Vassilakis.
Published by the 5-year-old upstart Canadian micropress AngelHousePress, NationalPoetryMonth.ca is now in its third year & celebrates the diversity of poetic voices & styles from around the world with 30 contributors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, Finland, Hungary, and the USA.
Every day in April, starting at midnight EST, readers will be able to experience a new poem.
April 1 begins the experience with "A Melancholy Ode to the Degraded Neo-Dadaist 12 linear feet of poetry, Net weight: 114 gr," a collaborative work from
Quebec & Ontario, Canada by Michèle Provost and Grant Wilkins.
Happy National Poetry Month from AngelHousePress.
Amanda Earl
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http://angelhousepress.com/content.php
the angel is in the house
ditch's mandate to celebrate "the innovative, the non-conforming, the radical, the alternative, the surreal, the avant-garde, the non-linear, the abstract, the experimental" fits well with the mandate of AngelHousePress to publish the renegade works of both emerging and established artists and writers. I believe in responding to the creative output of others and continuing the ongoing conversation of creativity, so I try to encourage such when I can, especially when the source is as rich and compelling as ditch,. I invited those published by AngelHousePress to respond to the poetry published on ditch,. ditch, is an underrated and rich source of contemporary poetry and I wanted to draw more attention to it.