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Newsletter · By G. K. Allum · English · Paid tier available · Official site

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  1. Issue · Oct 1, 2026

    My Name Is Swan is here (opens the original)

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    Dear friends,Today, My Name Is Swan by Jan Noble is officially published, and it’s available to order now.When we first shared a glimpse of this book in the spring, we said it wasn’t a conventional poetry collection. It still isn’t. My Name Is Swan has spent a decade living off the page. It has been a film, a twenty-minute piece of stand-up theatre, a recording, and a pub crawl along the Thames from Oxford to Wapping, read aloud in every pub with a swan in its name. Today

  2. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    PoetsHouse, One Call For All, and A Swan (opens the original)

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    Three Ink & Ribbon books are going to Poets HouseSesquipedalian Rain Chant, My Name Is Swan, and The Lost Stations have arrived safely at Poets House in New York and are now being processed for its annual Showcase.For those unfamiliar with it, Poets House is one of the great homes of poetry in America. Its library holds more than 80,000 volumes, bringing together books from established publishers, small independent presses, limited editions, translations, chapbooks, and work that might otherwise

  3. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    Editors, volunteers, and our open reading period (opens the original)

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    Three Ways to Get Closer to the WorkA few things happening at Ink & Ribbon Press this month, and we wanted you to hear them straight from us.We’re looking for editorial contributorsWe’re building out our editorial bench, people who want to write essays on craft or review poems for the Learn section of the site. If you’ve got a strong point of view on how a poem works, or you love sitting with a new collection long enough to say something useful about it, we want to hear from you.To be clear, thi

  4. Issue · Sep 6, 2026

    A Field Day for Ink & Ribbon Press (opens the original)

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    We have two pieces of news this week, and it turns out they share a word.New rights: A Field Guide to Disappeared ThingsWe have acquired the rights to A Field Guide to Disappeared Things, a collection of prose poems by Sean Mclain Brown, forthcoming from Ink & Ribbon Press in a limited edition in Spring 2027.The book borrows the form of the naturalist’s field guide, its taxonomies, its notes on weather and habitat and range, and turns that discipline of observation toward what a war, and the bod

  5. Issue · Aug 23, 2026

    Live with G. K. Allum & Jan Noble - My Name Is Swan (opens the original)

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