Sarah’s been awarded the Kentucky Arts Council Emerging Artist Award (2015). It is awarded “to early-career, professional Kentucky artists who demonstrate excellence and creativity in their work.”
As you may recall, Sarah’s chapbook (Vein of Stone) was released by Porkbelly Press earlier month.
Pulled by hand (screen prints), these covers are printed in 2 colors on 65# stock (the kraft brown is 100% recycled, 20% PCW). The special edition release is limited to 75 hand-numbered, handsewn copies. Only two color covers remain: black and brown. The covers feature a hand drawn magnolia blossom & seed pod. The decorative end papers are marbled, each unique.
These are lovely Appalachian poems about coal mining life and the ways in which it affects a specific family. The language will draw you in and keep you.
If you’d like to spend some time reading these poems this summer, you can snag a copy of the special edition for $10.
See this and this post for excerpts, and please let us know what you think!
Porkbelly Press seeks samplings of poems and micro fictions from poets & writers around the world. We’re reading poetical offerings of 8 to 10 pages (multiple pieces or a one or two long poems), or 8 to 10 pages of micro-prose (no more than 75 words each). Pieces should be linked in some way (theme, voice, image, place, etc).
Submission period: now through September 1.
We look for evocative work loaded with vivid image or sound, voices full of fierce attitude or lyric quality. We prefer free verse poems, love prose poems, and will consider both lyric and narrative. We’d be delighted to see some modern American haiku as well.
We’ll produce each chapbook in a handbound open edition. We may also release a special edition with hand altered covers, but the exact format will be determined at press time. (We’re also toying with the idea of sculptural covers.) For samples of our work, please see the current catalog: Porkbelly Press at Wicked Little Heart.
In addition to our regular size chaps, we’d like to offer these small works to introduce readers to a variety of poets and writers—a little something to give folks a taste of your voice.
We prefer that a piece or two be unpublished, but do not require it.
We read via Submittable and you can find us at Duotrope, should you wish to report your submission.
10 copies of your micro chapbook (paper covers) or 3 if we do a sculptural cover. (We’ve got bookbinders & artists on staff, and we like to leave ourselves open to inspiration.) 30% discount on additional author copies.
Give me the rope
that you tied around my finger, wild grapevine warped into a loop. Give
me your face, your hands cupping my breasts, your shoes filled with your mud
and feet. Give us your crooked back aching, your owl-lidded eyes, your breath
in our ears, our handplanes, our spindles, our hums, our ladles, and we will give you back
your money, your ring, your footprints in the corn, your tart apples picked
from your tree that make your mouth and tongue water.
your Ora
A sample of Sarah McCartt-Jackson‘s poetry from Vein of Stone (forthcoming this month). | pre-order
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