Phafours

The next chapbook will release as part of the Tree Press Series in December.

 

 

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Air Out / In Air: 21 Poets for the Guatemala Stove Project

(phafours, 2011) ISBN: 978-0-9878663-0-1
It is an accordion fold with double-cover binding with 21 poets and their minimalist, language, haibun, visual, lyric, and prose poems from around North America.
 
" love that this anthology is all about air & the breath, something i've struggled with & still do, not just in the poetic line, but in my now healthy lungs. the poems in their various styles and voices all seem to flow well together. the sign of a good editor."~ Amanda Earl

"beautiful chapbook design for In Air/Air Out" ~  Michael C. Holmes  

Contributors: Allison Armstrong, Shai Ben-Shalom, Jeremy Colangelo, Dawn Corrigan, Czandra, James DeMers, Amanda Earl, Phil Hall, Rick Kempa, Adrienne Mercer, rob mclennan, Rhonda Melanson, Mike Montreuil, My Name Is Scot, Monty Reid, Nedjo Rogers, Jade Scapillato, Kevin Spenst, Luminita Suse, Danielle Susi, and Robert Swereda. Edited by Pearl Pirie. Cover art by James DeMers. All proceeds go to the Guatemala Stove Project. $10 (in person) [pics]  Add $2.50 postage and envelopes. Email me to set up more than 6 copies.   

 

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a wall's sharp white

(phafours/ Tree Press 2011), 16 p. 8½"x5½", $5 
Poems by: Barry Dempster, Sylvia Adams, Frances Boyle, Terry Ann Carter, Pearl Pirie, Claudia Coutu Radmore, L.M. Rochefort, Guy Simser, Gill Foss, Rona Shaffran, Carol A. Stephen & Margaret Malloch Zielinski.
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Chromatic Beliefs

(phafours/Tree Press, 2011). 24 p., 4 ¼" x5½", $5
Poems by: Sylvia Adams, Frances Boyle, Terry Ann Carter, Glenn Kletke,
Rod Pederson, Pearl Pirie, Claudia Coutu Radmore, L.M. Rochefort, Guy Simser,
Rona Shaffran, Carol A. Stephen & Margaret Malloch Zielinski.
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Barely Their

(phafours, 2010), 24 p., 4 ¼" x5½".
Art of: Lynda Cronin, Jean Jewer, Pearl Pirie & Maureen Sandrock.
Poems of: Terry Ann Carter, Margot Gallant, Laurie Koensgen, Sean Moreland,
Claudia Coutu Radmore, Sandra Ridley, L.M. Rochefort, Rona Shaffran & Gillian Wallace.
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Off the Keyring

(phafours, 2009)
A flutterbook ephemera of vispo and play I made.
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There are Better Ways to Go than by Aspartame

(phafours, 2007), 8½"x5½"
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The phafours in phavours press is a play on favours (as in party favours, as the first few things I gave out as that including some paku paku) and Pha-4, the gene that somehow governs the development of the pharynx, sphincter and longevity.