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07/30/2024

Goodbye to our friend Steve Toth, who has left this life. As he put it so perfectly over fifty years ago, “The coins of beauty are burning holes in the pockets of the universe.”

03/28/2024

Very sad news for the small press literary community.

"Small Press Distribution
1969 – 2024
It is with great sadness and a profound gratitude for the amazing literary community we have served that we must today announce that Small Press Distribution (SPD) is closing its doors effective immediately. We know this news is both sudden and devastating. "

Small Press Distribution (SPD) is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers. SPD's primary mission is to get the books of th...

02/23/2024

I was recently reading some of my father’s poems that were published in a collection called Putty.  And today I found a video on YouTube of Keith reading from this book in 1975. I happen to own the copy that he dedicated to his parents-in-law, Hannah and Lloyd Hansen, in 1971, the year we were li...

02/02/2024

Born on Feb 2, 1944 Keith Abbott (here with Persephone Abbott) California circa 1971-1972. Happy Birthday to Keith on what would have been his 80th birthday!

11/24/2023

Author Keith Abbott (Rhino Ritz, First Thing Coming) and printer Clifford Burke in San Francisco circa 1972.

08/10/2023

Finnish-American poet Anselm Hollo’s writing, once contained in forty modest volumes, finally arrives as an eminently enjoyable volume of unceasing wonders.

01/29/2022

Thinking today of the great poet and translator, Anselm Hollo, our friend who left this life 9 years ago today, January 29, 2013. We published two books by Anselm, SOJOURNER MICROCOSMS in 1977, and FINITE CONTINUED in 1980. This is one of my many favorite poems from SOJOURNER MICROCOSMS, section 2 of "12 Meditations."

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hello!
i am one of your molecules!

i started out from crab nebula,
but i move about.
i've moved about for millions of years.

i entered your body, perhaps as a factor
in some edible vegetable,
or else i passed into your lungs
as part of the air.

now what intrigues me is this:
at what point, as i entered
the mouth, or was absorbed by
the skin, was i part of the body?

& at what exact moment
(later on) do i cease to be
part of the body
i.e., you?

let me know what you think.

yours,

11/01/2021

02/06/2021

Nick Sturm is the NEH Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics at Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His poems and essays are published in Jacket2, PEN, ASAP/J, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere. His scholarly and archival work can be traced at his blog Crystal Set.

09/04/2020

"Goodbye Sonnet" by George Mattingly composed by Dylan Mattingly. Sung by Michele Kennedy, and performed by Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show.

Music by Dylan Mattingly, words by George Mattingly. For singer, guitar, and vibraphone. Performed by The Living Earth Show and Michele Kennedy.