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Hello Friends of Books and Art and everything in between:
Mills College has decided to axe its fantastic Book Arts program, which includes a dual MFA in Creative Writing and Book Arts. In terms of programs like this, it is a model for others--I look to it as what the program at Colorado College could be. And in a larger sense the cutting of the program follows a larger, distressing pattern in higher ed. where small, interesting, rare programs are cut in favor of bland, corporate sameness. If you care about books and art and book arts and education, please take a moment to sign and share this petition.
And here is a website with more info and testimonies from current and former students of the program: http://savemillsbookart.tumblr.com/
ABOUT THE MAGAZINE
REAEDR is a magazine of one word poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, produced by the NewLights Press in Colorado Springs, CO. Each issue is built around a particular theme, and that theme, as well as the pieces inside, will determine the form, shape, color, material, processes, etc. of the issue. 2015 will be the “pilot year,” with two issues planned: WAR in the summer (tentative release of mid-August 2015) and “FUCK EM IF THEY CANT TAKE A JOKE” in the fall/winter (tentative release of December 2015). The goal is to be publishing quarterly or bi-monthly in 2016.
THEMES & DEADLINES
Last update: May 7, 2015.
This page will be updated with the current themes and issues as old ones expire and new ones are added. It will always be accessible through the sidebar, under the heading REAEDR MAGAZINE.
Issue 1: WAR (Summer 2015): June 5, 2015
Issue 2: “FUCK EM IF THEY CANT TAKE A JOKE” (Fall/Winter 2015): September 1, 2015
Submissions for each issue will be accepted up until 5 PM (US Mountain Time) on the date listed. Occasionally the changing form of the magazine will require some extra steps on the part of the author for accepted pieces. These will be communicated as required.
WHAT TO SUBMIT
We are looking for one word, or one-word, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, related in some way to the theme of the issue(s). Submissions can be “straight text,” or visual (but still text-based) in nature. We also welcome submissions that play with, challenge, interrogate, or complicate the “one word” form. Authors/artists may submit up to five pieces for consideration in each issue. Each piece must be submitted in one of the three categories: poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. Translations and submissions in languages other than English, “real” or “not,” are welcome.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions should be made via email, to editor Aaron Cohick at newlightspressATgmailDOTcom. The actual pieces can be typed in the body of the email, attached as PDFs, Microsoft Word docs, or RTFs. Please use PDFs, JPEGs or TIFFs for image submissions, at least 300 dpi at 100% size. Please write first if attachments are too big to send via email. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL:
AUTHOR’S NAME: How it should be printed. No anonymous submissions please. Pseudonymous submissions are fine. Do not include a bio.
MAILING ADDRESS: For contributor copies.
THEME: Please include which theme you are submitting each piece for. See above for current and past themes.
CATEGORY: All submissions must be made in a category: poetry, fiction, or nonfiction. A category is required for each piece submitted.
THE PIECE(S): An individual submission can include up to 5 separate pieces. Clearly indicate title, if there is one. “Untitled” is a title, and will be treated as such. Please put each piece on its own page(s).
PROOFS: We will do our best to send each author digital proofs of their piece(s) before each issue goes into production.
COMPENSATION: Here in these opening stages, compensation for authors/artists will be in the form of two contributor’s copies. We hope to be able to include monetary compensation as well, after things get rolling (the target price point for each issue will be $5 to $8).
DISTRIBUTION: The first two issues will be printed in editions of 100 copies. Most distribution will happen through direct sales and subscriptions via this website. (Subscriptions will be available for purchase in the near future.) We hope to make some copies available for sale in bookstores or art galleries. Please contact us if you are a proprietor or curator for such a place, or if you just know of a good place for that.
In 2003 the NewLights Press (working under the imprint “Tin Woodsman Editions”) published a proto-issue of REAEDR. The digital archive version is below. We don’t really expect REAEDR to look anything like this, but hey, these things go where they want or need to go.
Well, the NewLights Press has been in existence for 15 years. I’m not quite sure what this means, other than that there is still so much more work to do. But a great deal has been done: 41 titles, 10 or so broadsides (some co-published with the Dolphin Press at MICA and not shown on this blog), numerous posters and ephemerations. Readings, workshops, panels, book fairs. Friends and family. Exhaustion and gratitude.
I am, I believe, optimistic about the future. New spaces and new forms are emerging, and perhaps new work can be done.
This year will be a hiatus: there will be no “official” Say Hello to Your Last Poem! readings—but there will probably be some summer readings at Mountain Fold Books.
This year will be a fullness: a summer class at Naropa, and at Colorado College. Some personal events of note. & books: the third iteration of The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press, potentially a supplement or submanifesto to go along with it, a book of poems by Marina Eckler, some new, larger artists’ books, a coloring book, the REAEDR magazine, and some things certainly unplanned.
There is an urgency, and an inarticulation. A dis-speaking, diswriting. Language continues to fail. The alphabet breaks apart, worn away like all things in the world. Can we write or print or make beyond or outside of it? Is there a book or something else, there, outside? Is there an outside there? Or is this a bringing inside? Here?
Imagine an object, or a life, stripped down to its richness.
Attention is the only thing worth paying.
Incomplete & potential.
To move & to dwell.
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To mark the 15 year anniversary this week, some gifts for you:
SALE! All books and broadsides are on sale, 15% off, through next Tuesday, 5/12/15. The listed prices are the same, but when you click the button it should be 15% less.
FREE! We have released three new digital archive books: The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (second iteration), Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half, by Anna Moschovakis and Anselm Berrigan, and Divya’s Half / Mathias’s Half, by Divya Victor and Mathias Svalina. Scroll down for those.
SUBMIT! On Thursday we will release, finally, the call for submissions for REAEDR, the magazine of one word poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
GATHER! There will be a reading/party at Mountain Fold Books in Colorado Springs on Saturday, May 30. Events TBD, but most likely some sort of artist’s talk about NewLights, and some poetry.
As always, thank you for reading. Your presence makes the world.
& here here is the third of three digital archive books being released today, May 5, 2015, for the 15 year anniversary of the NewLights Press. Divya’s Half / Mathias’s Half was the first Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! chapbook published in the 2014 series. This one is also an accordion dos-a-dos, so like the Anna/Anselm book, the digital version is divided into two separate files.
Divya’s Half / Mathias’s Half
Poems by Divya Victor and Mathias Svalina
40 pages, softcover, saddle-stapled, accordion dos-a-dos, 7” x 5.25”
Digitally printed text pages with letterpress (woven collagraph & lead type) cover
Edition of 100
2014
Out of Print
& here is the second of three digital archive books being released today, May 5, 2015, for the 15 year anniversary of the NewLights Press. This is Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half, the first in the Say Hello to Your Last Chapbook! series, published in July of 2013. This book is bound as an accordion dos-a-dos (see image below), so the digital version is divided into two separate “books.”
Anna’s Half / Anselm’s Half
Poems & things by Anna Moschovakis and Anselm Berrigan
36 pages, softcover, saddle-stapled, accordion dos-a-dos, 7” x 5.25”
Digitally printed text pages with letterpress (collagraph & lead type) cover
Edition of 100
2013
Out of Print
Here is the first of three digital archive books being released today, May 5, 2015, for the 15 year anniversary of the NewLights Press. This is the second iteration of The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press:
The New Manifesto of the NewLights Press (second iteration)
20 pages, softcover, saddle-stapled, 6.5” x 5.5”
Letterpress from photopolymer plates and collagraph
Unlimited, iterative edition
2013
Out of Print
PS: Expect the third iteration, as well as supplement/submanifesto by the end of 2015.
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