IT’S a FAMILY AFFAIR: Get to Know Exit Strata’s Poetry Festival Team

1 and sometimes, when no one is watching I pick up sticks and place them in my pocket so they can feel like they belong to something again. 2 But let’s stay grounded … At plains and prairies’ end, sharp mountains loom, obscured by residueof fire. Many dim gray columns of smoke rise, slanted like sunbeams, reversing, it seems, the old image of radiant grace, a sign to score the acrid skies. 3 as I cut, the pane of glass was... Read More

Taking Stock/In Stock :: Editorial Updates AND at a Bookstore Near You

clockwise from top left: Exit Strata PRINT! vol. 1 “brownie”, PRINT! vol. 1 limited edition, blood atlas (DeSilva-Johnson), obsolete objects in the literary imagination (Pinder), limited edition vol.1 broadside You know how, just when you think that everything is about to slow down, and you’re going to have time for all the things on your To-Do-list, which is looking more and more like an epic poem? And then, you know, it doesn’t... Read More

AWESOME CREATORS :: SPRING PREVIEW

illustration by tom joyce http://tomjoyceillustration.blogspot.com/ With Poetry Month recently ended, I find myself having separation anxiety from the influx of lovestuff our 30/30/30 series was made of.  I’ve been excited to note that our poetry community’s efforts have been making the rounds — that connections are being established, gratitude circulated, and love received amongst circles of readers, friends, our terrific contributors,... Read More