Meekling Press
@meeklingpress.bsky.social
a small, “boundary defying” publishing collective based in Chicago
THURSDAY ! Sylvia Jones is coming through Chicago to read at the PO Box Poetry Series — w/ Lemmy Ya’Akova and Nisha Atalie
April 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
THURSDAY ! Sylvia Jones is coming through Chicago to read at the PO Box Poetry Series — w/ Lemmy Ya’Akova and Nisha Atalie
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
March 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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
! MEEK FUTURE SWITCH !
Tonight Tonight Tonight
Los Angeles, 8-10p Monk Space
featuring / Meekling authors
MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Heather McShane & Willa Smart
🌴 📚 🥃
Tonight Tonight Tonight
Los Angeles, 8-10p Monk Space
featuring / Meekling authors
MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Heather McShane & Willa Smart
🌴 📚 🥃
March 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
! MEEK FUTURE SWITCH !
Tonight Tonight Tonight
Los Angeles, 8-10p Monk Space
featuring / Meekling authors
MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Heather McShane & Willa Smart
🌴 📚 🥃
Tonight Tonight Tonight
Los Angeles, 8-10p Monk Space
featuring / Meekling authors
MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Heather McShane & Willa Smart
🌴 📚 🥃
join us Friday at Esquina for the launch cabaret of Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY
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December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
join us Friday at Esquina for the launch cabaret of Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY
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the us the Friday after next for a cabaret launch for Olivia Cronk’s exquisite poetry novel GWENDA, RODNEY ~
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November 24, 2024 at 6:10 AM
the us the Friday after next for a cabaret launch for Olivia Cronk’s exquisite poetry novel GWENDA, RODNEY ~
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& check out our conversation with Sylvia about influences, writing, & more at the newly resurrected Meekling Blog meeklingpress.com/2024/11/13/i...
November 14, 2024 at 4:04 PM
& check out our conversation with Sylvia about influences, writing, & more at the newly resurrected Meekling Blog meeklingpress.com/2024/11/13/i...
Tonight, Baltimore ! go fete the launch of Stlvia Jones’ Television Fathers with Alina Peskova, Karan Madhok, & Jacob Budenz !!
November 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Tonight, Baltimore ! go fete the launch of Stlvia Jones’ Television Fathers with Alina Peskova, Karan Madhok, & Jacob Budenz !!
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…
October 1, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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…
ready yr ear for the phenomenon known as poetry novel, GWENDA, RODNEY —
Olivia Cronk reads (with this stellar lineup) WEDNESDAY NIGHT >>>
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Olivia Cronk reads (with this stellar lineup) WEDNESDAY NIGHT >>>
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September 23, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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...
Olivia Cronk reads (with this stellar lineup) WEDNESDAY NIGHT >>>
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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.’
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September 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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/
meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
word on the street / word on the cover:
Selah Saterstrom on Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
Selah Saterstrom on Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
September 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
word on the street / word on the cover:
Selah Saterstrom on Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
Selah Saterstrom on Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/gwenda-rodney/
word on the street / word on the cover:
@josephgrantham.bsky.social on Sylvia Jones’s TELEVISION FATHERS, out Oct 1
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@josephgrantham.bsky.social on Sylvia Jones’s TELEVISION FATHERS, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/television-f...
September 13, 2024 at 8:27 PM
word on the street / word on the cover:
@josephgrantham.bsky.social on Sylvia Jones’s TELEVISION FATHERS, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/television-f...
@josephgrantham.bsky.social on Sylvia Jones’s TELEVISION FATHERS, out Oct 1
meeklingpress.com/television-f...
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
September 7, 2024 at 10:55 PM
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
A heavily saturated debut collection of unsuspecting interiority, TELEVISION FATHERS is the future of modern poetry.
Preorder today, or come see us in person at Printer’a Row (Chicago) & the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, to pick up a copy ahead of its release
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Preorder today, or come see us in person at Printer’a Row (Chicago) & the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, to pick up a copy ahead of its release
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September 6, 2024 at 5:50 PM
A heavily saturated debut collection of unsuspecting interiority, TELEVISION FATHERS is the future of modern poetry.
Preorder today, or come see us in person at Printer’a Row (Chicago) & the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, to pick up a copy ahead of its release
meeklingpress.square.site/product/tele...
Preorder today, or come see us in person at Printer’a Row (Chicago) & the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, to pick up a copy ahead of its release
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With poems reminiscent of iconoclasts such as James Tate or Jay Wright, Jones’s voice is playful and pithy, simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate.
September 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
With poems reminiscent of iconoclasts such as James Tate or Jay Wright, Jones’s voice is playful and pithy, simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate.
October can’t come soon enough! ‘cause we can’t wait for the release of Sylvia Jones’s audacious debut, TELEVISION FATHERS.
September 6, 2024 at 5:46 PM
October can’t come soon enough! ‘cause we can’t wait for the release of Sylvia Jones’s audacious debut, TELEVISION FATHERS.
Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY is an inspiration, an exhalation, a quivering ruby of obsession on display. Out October 3! Preorder a copy today
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September 5, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Olivia Cronk’s GWENDA, RODNEY is an inspiration, an exhalation, a quivering ruby of obsession on display. Out October 3! Preorder a copy today
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a book about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang. Inspired by Dario Argento’s luscious horror aesthetics, the gaudy-spectacle-art of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films …
September 5, 2024 at 3:26 PM
a book about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang. Inspired by Dario Argento’s luscious horror aesthetics, the gaudy-spectacle-art of Toulouse-Lautrec’s paintings and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films …
Next month we publish Olivia Cronk’s extraordinary GWENDA, RODNEY, an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay.
September 5, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Next month we publish Olivia Cronk’s extraordinary GWENDA, RODNEY, an exquisitely genre-ambiguous “poetry novel” scintillating with art, ardor, and decay.
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
September 1, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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
Announcing! the selections from our recent open reading period, which will be published during Meekling’s 2024/25 season. We ‘re absolutely delighted to share these books with you —
February 8, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Announcing! the selections from our recent open reading period, which will be published during Meekling’s 2024/25 season. We ‘re absolutely delighted to share these books with you —
Open Reading closes at midnight —
you still have time to send us your wildest & weirdest
meeklingpress.com/submissions
you still have time to send us your wildest & weirdest
meeklingpress.com/submissions
November 19, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Open Reading closes at midnight —
you still have time to send us your wildest & weirdest
meeklingpress.com/submissions
you still have time to send us your wildest & weirdest
meeklingpress.com/submissions
HAPPY PUB DAY Fulla Abdul-Jabbar’s Who Loves the Sun !!
"…a highly original… thought experiment about the creation and disassemble of selfhood and desire."
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"…a highly original… thought experiment about the creation and disassemble of selfhood and desire."
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
November 14, 2023 at 3:41 PM
HAPPY PUB DAY Fulla Abdul-Jabbar’s Who Loves the Sun !!
"…a highly original… thought experiment about the creation and disassemble of selfhood and desire."
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
"…a highly original… thought experiment about the creation and disassemble of selfhood and desire."
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
Did you know? — we’re currently reading for our next season of books. Sitting on a manuscript you’d like us to consider ??
November 7, 2023 at 8:20 PM
Did you know? — we’re currently reading for our next season of books. Sitting on a manuscript you’d like us to consider ??
The countdown begins to the release of Fulla Abdul-Jabbar’s WHO LOVES THE SUN next week!
Claire Donato calls the book ‘a rare gift, and should be required reading for anyone grappling with the tenuous task of designing their own life.’
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
Claire Donato calls the book ‘a rare gift, and should be required reading for anyone grappling with the tenuous task of designing their own life.’
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
November 6, 2023 at 7:33 PM
The countdown begins to the release of Fulla Abdul-Jabbar’s WHO LOVES THE SUN next week!
Claire Donato calls the book ‘a rare gift, and should be required reading for anyone grappling with the tenuous task of designing their own life.’
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...
Claire Donato calls the book ‘a rare gift, and should be required reading for anyone grappling with the tenuous task of designing their own life.’
meeklingpress.com/wholovesthes...