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Friends!
I am absolutely THRILLED to announce we will be launching Stephanie Garon’s ACREAGE at the Baltimore Busboys and Poets on Friday, December 10th!!! The event starts at 7 and will feature Andrew Klein and Anthony Moll as guest readers.
Please come out to support these wonderful poets, and to snag your copy of ACREAGE hot off the presses!
Friends!
Jack Slocomb’s Native Tongue, vol. 2: spring/summer is officially out and about in the world!
It brings me a lot of joy to have Native Tongue existing as a complete set. When Jack originally sent me the manuscript, i planned to release it all as one collection, but as i worked through it, spending time in Jack’s Alleghenies and really letting the world of the poems seep into me, the idea that the manuscript should be broken into a pair bubbled up from somewhere. Part of it, i’m sure, was the desire to hand-bind whatever book the manuscript turned into (how could these poems exist in anything but a hand-bound book?), but i think the driving force was the poems themselves. Something in their ordering wanted to be grouped into two piles, almost like they were being attracted to different magnetic poles: the quieter, earthtone poems of the fall and winter congealed on one side, and the lively, verdant poems of the spring and summer grouped up on the other. And, i honestly just ran with it (you don’t argue when poems tell you what they want to do and where they want to go).
In vol. 1, we got a taste of the Alleghenies as the world closed up shop for the season, as the openness of yellow and red flecked woods drowsed into silence and pristine white. We were invited into solitude and introspection. In vol. 2, Jack welcomes us to the siblinghood of spring, to the sheer communal joy of summer. We are asked to be a part of the world, to stitch ourselves to daily expressions and experiences. He gives us cupfuls of life being lived and shared. And, while it may not completely slake of thirst for what we’ve been missing for the past 8 months, it definitely eased my parchedness quite a bit.
It is also deeply, deeply comforting to me to know that Jack is still out there in the Alleghenies, diligently walking both old and new paths, enjoying every inch of the land, taking keen note of what needs paying attention to, and offering his hand as invitation into the clear, bracing waters of life.
A virtual launch for vol. 2 is in the works, but for now please visit akinogapress.com/books/nativetongue2 to order a copy.
–mz
Friends!
I am so incredibly excited to announce the imminent launch of akinoga press' next book/first full-length collection of poetry: STRUCTURES FROM THE STILL by Stanford Cheung.
I have been working with Stanford off and on for years and i am so thrilled to finally be publishing his poetry. I've never read anything quite like it, and yet, on some deep dream-level, i have encountered his poetry everywhere.
Head on over to the spotlight page to read some advance praise of and an excerpt from the collection, and then head over to the akinoga press store and preorder yourself a copy!
STRUCTURES FROM THE STILL will be launching on August 10 at Knife Fork Book in Kensington Market in Toronto, so you're around/out that way, please join us for a night of poetry and book releasing!
More details/a facebook event link will follow!
–mz
FRIENDS!
I am beyond excited to announce that Tracy Dimond's TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE will be launching here in Baltimore on Thursday, July 12th, at Greedy Reads at 7 pm!
Won't you join us?!
The event will be a panel discussion titled What I Talk About When I Talk About My Body and will feature poets/writers Jane Lewty, Mandy May, Mary Adelle (Walters), Sharea Harris, and of course, Tracy Dimond.
TO TRACY LIKE / TO LIKE / LIKE, along with the other poets' books, will be available for purchase at the event, but if you'd like to get a copy of Tracy's early, head over to the akinoga press store and snag one today!
This is going to be an amazing evening at an amazing book store featuring amazing people.
DON'T SLEEP ON THIS!
–mz
FRIENDS!
season two of so...poetry? launched this afternoon with a wonderful episode featuring the incomparable Mary Adelle. do yourself a favor AND CHECK IT OUT!
it's been great fun hosting a podcast for over a year, and i am excitedly looking forward to the next (and next and next and next)...
-mz
hello, friends!
i am thrilled to announce that, in a little over a month, akinoga press will be publishing Go to the Ant, O Sluggard, anthony molls's debut poetry chapbook. anthony and i have been working on the book for about a year, if not longer, and i am so incredibly impatient to share this wonderful collection with everyone.
if you are in baltimore on may 23rd, please consider coming to the book release! as soon as we figure out a venue and a time, i will disseminate that information like nobody's business.
for now, though, please check back in for in-process pictures of the Great Chapbook Binding of 2016, aka mychael gets to stitch and glue together sixty books.
–mz