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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

searching the internet for a rare out-of-print novella in limited-edition box set form willing to pay $$$ @meeklingpress.bsky.social meeklingpress.com/onthestairs/

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

friend & @meeklingpress.bsky.social -mate sent this tiny zine, “how to darn a sock” with their latest packet…& IT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED!

i hold a folded zine (2 inches tall, 1 wide) between thumb & forefinger. the cover features a sock-shape cut from a photo, bracketed above & below by the zine’s title.

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

PIZZA! POETRY! & SYLVIA JONES! 🍕📺😻 tomorrow eve at the PO BOX COLLECTIVE feat Lemmy Ya’Akova, Nisha Atalie, & Sylvia Jones… (& in conjunction w/ Exhibit B) www.instagram.com/p/DIG8zARM9V...

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

THURSDAY ! Sylvia Jones is coming through Chicago to read at the PO Box Poetry Series — w/ Lemmy Ya’Akova and Nisha Atalie

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

while we don’t have a booth at #AWP25 you can find some of our books at the DoubleCross table — >>>including MC Hyland’s soon to be released marvel, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge

Image stating DoubleCross at AWP Booth 1229 (with Futurepoem)

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

! MEEK FUTURE SWITCH ! Tonight Tonight Tonight Los Angeles, 8-10p Monk Space featuring / Meekling authors MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Heather McShane & Willa Smart 🌴 📚 🥃

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

nooooo. we depend on the USPS in so many ways— including shipping our books ! this is truly a disgrace

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A good mail day — with new stuff from @exactingclam.bsky.social & @meeklingpress.bsky.social — and Susan Daitch’s latest from Green City Books.

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

i feel bad for the fifty or so sort-of-similarly-named scientists/academics whose publications are included in the pirate-publication site database linked in that atlantic article. but i’m so off-the-map that even the pirates avoid me😹 hidden benefits of being marginal to the margins!

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Meekling's wondrous Olivia Cronk is part of this crazy good lineup WEDNESDAY eve at The Whistler 🥃💫

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

big long walk: chickens, woodsmoke, blackbird calls, trucks backing into loading bays, trucks exiting the interstate, canal, jail, dark spring mud

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

drink up Olivia Cronk’s writing on writing, pedagogy, & creating “small explosive art situations” in this fave series of Q&A’s with @robmclennan.bsky.social

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

raising a glass to Olivia Cronk’s Gwenda, Rodney, named a most exquisite weirdo x 2 !!

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

join us Friday at Esquina for the launch cabaret of Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY www.eventbrite.com/e/gwenda-rod...

a launch cabaret for Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, Dec 6 at 7pm, at Esquina — at the intersection of Western and Wilson. w/ readings by Olivia Cronk, Amanda Goldblatt. Raquel Gomez Savoy, & Hana Urban.

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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! Olivia Cronk and I talk about her new book Gwenda, Rodney (@meeklingpress.bsky.social), its construction, ekphrasis and more!

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

the us the Friday after next for a cabaret launch for Olivia Cronk’s exquisite poetry novel GWENDA, RODNEY ~ www.eventbrite.com/e/gwenda-rod...

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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in by Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima (Meekling Press, 2023)

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

tomorrow, my beauties, i will be here ⬇️ from 11:00-13:00 tabling for @meeklingpress.bsky.social. i will also have a few non-meekling titles of mine for sale. come say hey if you’re in the area! www.stapleandstitchfair.com/events

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Events — Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair

Book signings, workshops, and demonstrations open to all ages including risograph printing demos during the Staple + Stitch Art Book Fair from November 15 - 17 at 21c Museum Hotel Chicago.

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

& check out our conversation with Sylvia about influences, writing, & more at the newly resurrected Meekling Blog meeklingpress.com/2024/11/13/i...

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Tonight, Baltimore ! go fete the launch of Stlvia Jones’ Television Fathers with Alina Peskova, Karan Madhok, & Jacob Budenz !!

Poet Sylvia Jones launches her debut collection of poetry Television Fathers 11/14 at Greedy Reads Remington 7pm. With Alina Pleskova, Karan Madhok, & Jacob Budenz

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Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Currently reading A roundtable, unanimous dreamers chime in by Brenda Iijima and Janice Lee (Meekling Press, 2023) One of the books I picked up at Powell’s during my Oregon trip. Imagine a Death by Janice Lee is one of my all-time favorite books, so I’m excited for this.

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

It’s fall release day & we’re raising a glass to Olivia Cronk’s exhilarating poetry-novel GWENDA, RODNEY and Sylvia Jones’ stunning debut collection, TELEVISION FATHERS — the kind of books that mess with your head, and send you back to their pages again & again. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

LAST CALL! our open reading period ends tonight but! for now you still have time to submit yr book length manuscripts to be considered for our 2025-26 season of books. wouldn’t that be grand ? meeklingpress.com/submissions/

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OPEN READING PERIOD: September 1 -30, 2024 Meekling Press will be reading for our 2025-26 season of books during the month of September. We are interested in book-length manuscripts that play with …

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

If you are able, consider donating to our fundraiser, which will provide critical support for our Autumn 2024 publishing as we navigate this crisis.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

In July our UK distributor, Marston Book Services, filed for bankruptcy. They owe Verso nearly £1 million for book sales stretching back to January. This is a major blow to Verso.

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sara matson (she/her) @saramatson.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Tuesdays are for power cleaning for out of country houseguests, secret cigarettes, and re-reading Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk from Meekling Press💚 meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/

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Gwenda, Rodney – Olivia Cronk

Gwenda, Rodneyby Olivia Cronk Paperback132 pagesPublication date: 10/1/2024ISBN 978-1-950987-53-5$20 (Preorder Online) Olivia Cronk’s Gwenda, Rodney is an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry …

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

ready yr ear for the phenomenon known as poetry novel, GWENDA, RODNEY — Olivia Cronk reads (with this stellar lineup) WEDNESDAY NIGHT >>> us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

We’re open for submissions of book-length projects until the end of the month (this month! September!) & can’t wait to read what you’re working on! meeklingpress.com/submissions for more info

Text on a photograph of a sidewalk crossed by parallel lines of shadow reads, “meekling press is open for submissions of book-length manuscripts to be published as paperbacks in 2025 meeklingpress.com/submissions”

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Two weeks til Olivia Cronk's GWENDA, RODNEY is officially released! Amina Cain calls this fever dream of a poetry novel ‘literature at its most exhilarating, wild, and imaginative register.’ meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

word on the street / word on the cover: Selah Saterstrom on Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, out Oct 1 meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

word on the street / word on the cover: @josephgrantham.bsky.social on Sylvia Jones’s TELEVISION FATHERS, out Oct 1 meeklingpress.com/television-f...

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

heya Chicago! we’ll be tabling at Printer’s Row ALL DAY Sunday! Drop by the Small Press Tent, say hi, and get a glimpse of our hot-off-the-press fall releases

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

October can’t come soon enough! ‘cause we can’t wait for the release of Sylvia Jones’s audacious debut, TELEVISION FATHERS.

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Next month we publish Olivia Cronk’s extraordinary GWENDA, RODNEY, an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay.

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

if you know my work, if you love my work, you might want to show some of your own to the wonderful @meeklingpress.bsky.social this month. if you work well in collaboration with your editors & appreciate transparency, integrity & professionalism in handling your writing, this is a good home!

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

hey, if anyone's going to be at printer's row book fair this weekend in chicago, i will be signing & tabling with @meeklingpress.bsky.social in the small press tent this sunday from 11-12:30 (& possibly other times). come say "huh?" there may be shenanigans. also, perhaps, poetic balderdash. 🤡

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

We’re open for submissions of book-length projects until the end of the month (this month! September!) & can’t wait to read what you’re working on! meeklingpress.com/submissions for more info

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Meekling Press @meeklingpress.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

GWENDA, RODNEY by Olivia Cronk is now up for pre-orders! An exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay--coming out October 1st. Get your future self a present here: meeklingpress.square.site/product/gwen...

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Gwenda, Rodney - Olivia Cronk | Meekling Press

Preorder! This book will ship in October.Gwenda, Rodneyby Olivia CronkPaperback132 pagesPublication date: 10/01/2024ISBN 978-1-950987-53-5Olivia Cronk’s Gwenda, Rodney is an exquisitely genre-ambiguou...

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Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

with yesterday's adventures in periodontal disease, i forgot to mention that i stopped at the buddy store at the chicago cultural center to sign new copies of MEN & SLEEP--the previous signed copies had all sold! now 4 copies are freshly available alongside my @meeklingpress.bsky.social mates' work!

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