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Listen, I love a good Instagram reel as much as the next Gen-X’er—didn’t you see me showing off my homemade And Then tote bag to the bouncy groove of “As It Was” by Harry Styles?—but sometimes I want to settle into a video while I’m eating a meal or winding down before bed and watch
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In awaken, Jade Driscoll explores the suffering that often accompanies existing in a human body. Many poems center around experiences of anxiety and depression, exposing how mental illness can impact a person’s life. Driscoll’s poems successfully create a sense of the inescapable. No matter where the speaker goes, suffering seems to follow. Even when asleep,
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In her chapbook Awaken, Michigan poet Jade Driscoll deftly navigates violence, mental health, and girlhood with bravery, openness, and vulnerability. Driscoll’s stark voice and powerful imagery is seen best in lines like “Never again will I let metal / split my skin or let another boy think / he is the vital thrum of my
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I’m so pleased to share that Awaken by Jade Driscoll is And Then Publishing’s first-ever book project! This poetry chapbook is dreamlike and playful, yet harrowing and devastatingly sincere. Grief, anxiety, and depression appear as various characters that haunt the speaker even in dreams. Though the speaker is often disembodied by trauma, wonderment and imagination
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This micro press was dreamt up in the MFA workshop I had my first year with fantastic poet, performer, and professor cris cheek. They asked our workshop to make little books for our end-of-semester assessment. I remember thinking at first why I would want to make a book of my own work, how it was
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Welcome to And Then Publishing! We are a micro press based in Leelanau County, Michigan. We release handmade books and are primarily interested in publishing first chapbooks & books of new and emerging poets and writers, especially those from the Great Lakes region. Please stay tuned for updates about our first publication to be released
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