Free Poetry For is one of many projects coordinated by Baltimore-based Poetry in Community. Join PiC on Facebook.
Poetry in Community also sponsors a month-long celebration of poetry in April for National Poetry Month called the Cruellest Month Poetry and Performance Festival.
Poetry in Community will create a more expansive tradition in which the whole of the community is invited to be present and represented. Poetry in Community will foster poetic practices as a collaborative effort to foster creative literacy and personal growth.
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Number Three: rob mclennan
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira, 2011) and 52 flowers (or, a perth edge) (Obvious Epiphanies, 2010), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics, and the Ottawa poetry PDF annual, ottawater. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Free Poetry For Number Three
Free Poetry For Number Three
Number Two: Adam Strauss
Instructions for printing:
1. Print page one (cover) first.
2. Print remaining pages double-sided.
3. Fold text pages vertically.
4. Use a paper cutter and cut in half (at 5.5 inches).
5. Keep one for yourself, and give the rest away.
Free Poetry For Number Two
1. Print page one (cover) first.
2. Print remaining pages double-sided.
3. Fold text pages vertically.
4. Use a paper cutter and cut in half (at 5.5 inches).
5. Keep one for yourself, and give the rest away.
Free Poetry For Number Two
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Number One: Raymond Cummings
Instructions for printing:
1. Print page one (cover) first.
2. Print remaining pages double-sided.
3. Fold text pages vertically.
4. Use a paper cutter and cut in half (at 5.5 inches).
5. Keep one for yourself, and give the rest away.
Free Poetry For Number One
1. Print page one (cover) first.
2. Print remaining pages double-sided.
3. Fold text pages vertically.
4. Use a paper cutter and cut in half (at 5.5 inches).
5. Keep one for yourself, and give the rest away.
Free Poetry For Number One
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
About
Free Poetry For, formerly, PO25¢EM is an ongoing series of tiny chapbooks (4.25″ by 5.5″) that are printed in a limited edition of 100 copies.
We started publishing these chapbooks in 2004, and they can be found up and down the east coast of the USA, primarily, but have been spotted as far away as Helsinki, London and Amsterdam.
Each chapbook features between 8 and 16 pages of poetry by one author.
When the chapbooks are printed, they are disseminated throughout public space (cafes, airports, buses and bus shelters, trains, waiting rooms, etc. etc. etc.)
The purpose of the series is to heighten the awareness of poetry by putting it (poetry) in odd and unusual places and spaces, where poetry isn’t traditionally understood to belong.
By reclaiming poetry as a non-permanent, non-referential, non-propriety action (rather than an object to be relegated to the classrooms and academia), we give back poetry to the people, regardless of class, race, gender.
If you would like to be part of this ongoing series, please send 8-16 pages of poems (and by pages we mean size 4.25″ by 5.5″) to freepoetryfor@gmail.com. Please use this format for the subject line: Submission/(name)/(title)/freepoetryfor.
We started publishing these chapbooks in 2004, and they can be found up and down the east coast of the USA, primarily, but have been spotted as far away as Helsinki, London and Amsterdam.
Each chapbook features between 8 and 16 pages of poetry by one author.
When the chapbooks are printed, they are disseminated throughout public space (cafes, airports, buses and bus shelters, trains, waiting rooms, etc. etc. etc.)
The purpose of the series is to heighten the awareness of poetry by putting it (poetry) in odd and unusual places and spaces, where poetry isn’t traditionally understood to belong.
By reclaiming poetry as a non-permanent, non-referential, non-propriety action (rather than an object to be relegated to the classrooms and academia), we give back poetry to the people, regardless of class, race, gender.
If you would like to be part of this ongoing series, please send 8-16 pages of poems (and by pages we mean size 4.25″ by 5.5″) to freepoetryfor@gmail.com. Please use this format for the subject line: Submission/(name)/(title)/freepoetryfor.
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