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Poetry that runs counter to the mainstream. Open for submissions in the fall. website: www.ornithopterpress.com posts by @marksirrah.bsky.social

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The front cover of Signal to Noise by Eve Luckring, featuring the artwork Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, a 19th century Welsh artist who created images using the eidophone - a device of her own invention.
the front cover of Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Winsor wood features a photo by the author or deer in front of a contemporary building in a northern California suburban landscape
Against an orange background, this text: forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2025, poetry collections by Eve Luckring and Emma Winsor Wood
“Snediker’s Jones Very could serve as a proof-text for Lyn Hejinian’s observation that ‘The desire to tell within the conditions of a discontinuous consciousness seems to constitute the original situation of the poem.’ Its sentences accumulate the way David Markson’s sentences accumulate in Wittgenstein’s Mistress. I experience them according to the curious epigraph to the ‘Notes’ section of the book, attributed there to Hopkins: ‘I do not believe school is from schola viz. σχολή, but the Teuton word meaning assemblage, collection, as shoal, a school of whales shell (in a school of form).’ Just so do Snediker’s sentences school; just so do they school me.” —​H.L. Hix, "Urgency," International Times, November 23, 2024
Front cover of Michael D. Snediker's collection of poetry JONES VERY featuring cover art by Henry Chapman of a person from shoulders up delicately painted in washes on canvas, looking back at the viewer.
Front cover of AN INCH THICK by Theo Ellin Ballew has a grid of green dancing flying figures against a reddish brown field.
You disappear into a duration I wrote what I remembered of our meeting then placed my face inside notebook close to the lettering until words touched my cheek and all other sounds dimmed—strawsong, pulling Queries, red-wrapped A lovely cubicle we enter Appetites, compartments, rubbing against interruption, distraction Sorry, lorry and slurry, we come apart Message cures curvature Finally I’m convinced: pinpricks, lines, hooks You persevere into pulsation
against a mauve/pink/red textile, this text: forthcoming from Ornithopter Press in 2024, poetry collections by Theo Ellin Ballew and Michael D Snediker
Erin Malone & Kathleen Flenniken reading at Eagle Harbor Book Co. on 10/24 at 6:30. Author pic of Erin Malone with her poetry collection Site of Disappearance (just out from Ornithopter Press!). Author pic of Kathleen Flenniken, with her poetry collection Post Romantic.
Flyer with pics of author Erin Malone and her book Site of Disappearance accompanied by this text: Join us at Queen Anne Book Co. for a book signing & celebration! Seattle's own award-winning author Erin Malone will read selections from her new poetry collection Site of Disappearance. October 17th, 6pm / address: 1811 Queen Anne Ave N #103
The front cover of Site of Disappearance by Erin Malone, featuring a painting by Ryan Molenkamp’s “The Visitor” that depicts an encounter on a (rural, suburban?) street between a parent and child and a bear.