Full/Crescent Press

31/08/2021

, 29. De caña de maíz y miel: 12 haikus de Ohio / On Cornstalks and Honey: 12 Ohio Haiku, Juan Armando Rojas Joo. Trans. Jennifer Rathbun. So love this pocket-size, hand-stitched, special-edition chap. Full-disclosure: I’m the publisher! I’ve decided to close out the last day of this challenge by taking a look back at some special books crafted for Full/Crescent Press — and let me tell you, this one is just a joy to hold in your hands: 12 perfect poems, gorgeous in every possible way. I have two precious copies left.
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From , first of three posts today, completing . (We’ll have a bit of news!)

31/07/2021

About the challenge:

From chapbooks to full-length collections, participants in The Sealey Challenge read a book of poetry each day in august.

The goals are simple: read a book each day, engage with diverse voices and be an active member of an online community of poetry lovers.

Not sure where to start?

Check out (or ) on facebook, twitter and instagram for inspiration and recommendations!

https://www.thesealeychallenge.com/

a community challenge to readone book of poetry a dayfor the month of august ↓ join the challengeplan your reading list. for suggestions, start here.dive into reading one book a day.take a "shelfie"! share your experience on social media. “as august approaches, I recognize the excitement vibr....

13/05/2021

Mother/Wound, by Sayuri Ayers. Hand-stitched, special edition chap! 💙❤️

10/05/2021

Posting, a bit late in the day perhaps, this selection of poems from Mother/Wound by Sayuri Ayers. For all mothers and their children, but especially for those who’ve had difficult pregnancies and childbirth, who have experienced perinatal and post partum depression. Parenthood can be both beautiful and difficult, filled sometimes with trauma to the body and to the spirit. But it’s possible, too, to trust that love prevails.

08/03/2021

is a good time to share again this poem by Paula J. Lambert for The Furcula Project. Broadsides still available and 100% of proceeds still benefit The Malala Project.

Anatomy of Birds, Part 1: Furcula

The work of soaring is arduous,
requires more than muscle alone,
requires the delicate architecture
of mostly hollow bone. The fused
and forked clavicle of a bird—
we call it the wishbone—
allows her to bear the rigors of flight,
stretching and then recoiling
with each powerful wingbeat. (Can
you hear it? The fiercely whispered
whoosh slicing air?) Downstroke
and release. Let’s call it resilience,
what pushes the songbird forward,
what propels the hawk! Oh, let’s
remember this living bone can flex!

https://www.fullcrescentpress.com/the-furcula-project.html

In 2013, Paula J. Lambert’s poem “Anatomy of Birds, Part 1: Furcula” was published in Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai , a Future Cycle Press Good Works anthology compiled and published to...

01/03/2021

Poem of the Day in SWIMM by Sayuri Ayers: “In Praise of Honeysuckle.” Another beautiful piece by the author of Mother/Wound. 💙

SWWIM publishes, promotes, & celebrates women-identifying writers.

03/12/2020

The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. Available for holiday gift giving.

Paula J. Lambert ISBN-10: 0-9859966-0-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-9859966-0-4 $14.00 plus shipping & handling Paula J. Lambert writes, “A swift heart can cut you at the knees/take you down, leave you for...

03/12/2020

Structures the Wind Sings Through, by George Looney. Available for holiday gift giving. 💛

George Looney ISBN-10: 0-9859966-1-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-9859966-1-1 ​ $16.00 plus shipping & handling In George Looney’s masterful book-length poem, Structures the Wind Sings Through , a torn-up...

03/12/2020

De caña de maíz y miel: 12 haikus de Ohio / On Cornstalks and Honey: 12 Ohio Haiku. Available for holiday gift giving. (Just two left of this special edition, bilingual chap!)

​Juan Armando Rojas Joo ISBN-13: 978-0-9859966-3-5 $15.00 plus shipping & handling De caña de maíz y miel: 12 haikus de Ohio / On Cornstalks and Honey: 12 Ohio Haiku provides a gorgeous,...

03/12/2020

The Ecstasy of Wanting. Available for holiday gift giving. 💚

​Paula J. Lambert ISBN-13: 978-0-9859966-5-9 ​$14.00 plus shipping & handling Desire is a guiding force. The ecstasy of wanting draws us all to the feast. Using meticulous detail related to...

03/12/2020

A Song Greater than I Am, by Jason Kaufman. Available for holiday gift giving. 🧡

Jason Kaufman ISBN-13: 978-0-615-64810-1 $20.00 plus shipping & handling Jason Kaufman’s exquisite poetry shares the revealing, often-overlooked experience of a father with post-partum...

03/12/2020

Mother/Wound by Sayuri Ayers. Available for holiday gift giving. 💙

Sayuri Ayers ISBN-13: 978-0-9859966-9-7 $20.00 plus shipping & handling Sayuri Ayers’ poignant collection of poems is takes an unblemished look at her experiences with perinatal depression. A...

17/10/2020

Congratulations to the Ohio Poetry Association on this terrific launch reading for the new Sun & Moon Poetry Festival anthology Eclipsing the Dark! So glad to see so many familiar faces here, and to hear such terrific work. So many memories, too. Wonderful. Publishing this anthology and holding this virtual public reading has been a really marvelous "place holder" for getting together again, when it's safe for us all to do so, to celebrate the next festival. Thanks for all you do, OPA!!!

12/10/2020

Full/Crescent Press has been honored to bring these beautiful chapbooks by Sayuri Ayers and Jason Kaufman into publication; their work is truly exquisite, and the poems we’ve selected for Pushcart Prize nomination especially so. We’re honored to announce “Sweet Violet” from Sayuri’s collection Mother/Wound, and “Something that Shines,” from Jason’s A Song Greater than I Am, have both been nominated for this year’s prize.

07/10/2020

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07/10/2020

Hot off the literal book press! Woot!

07/10/2020

Look. How. Pretty. ❤️🧡

(Working in the basement, cheering myself on...! Woot!)

07/10/2020

Back on track for full production!!!
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07/10/2020

Look at ‘er go!!!

Whew, we’ve had every possible weird and frustrating problem printing these new chaps; progress has been slow and tedious—maddening! Disheartening! I should have guessed the printer was getting ready to give up entirely, which it finally did today. Oof, oof, oof! But...voila! Already got the new one set up, and looka here!!! 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 📚📚📚

06/10/2020

Still printing, sewing, packing, shipping. Planning a of tomorrow for ❣️
We’re filling orders now, so buyers should have theirs soon—though yours might not be wrapped *quite* like this!

01/10/2020

Congratulations to George Looney for the publication of The Itinerate Circus, New and Selected Poems: 1995-2020 (Red Mountain Press 2020). The book is beautiful, and we’re very proud that a section from Structures the Wind Sings Through (Full/Crescent 2014) was included with all this gorgeous work! Copies of “Structures” are still available for anyone interested in the full, book-length poem—order link below!

29/09/2020

Continuing with the gorgeous whirls and swirls here today. Do we know each of these handmade decorative art papers is slightly different, with irregularities and variations that make them beautifully unique? (Kind of like people that way!) This is one we’re cutting for A Song Greater than I Am by ! ❤️🧡💛

29/09/2020

Here’s a peek at another gorgeous paper we’re using in chap Mother/Wound. Color and shine and swirl here are truly fine, and makes us think of peacock feathers. You? 🦚

25/09/2020

Mother/Wound by , A Song Greater than I Am by . We’re working on the order links now for these two companion chaps, to be released in conjunction with this weekend’s Fall Literary Festival!