Call for Executive Director Who We Are: JackPine Press publishes limited edition chapbooks. Some of our publications have encouraged readers to re-imagine what a book is and can be. What sort of object facilitates creative writing? Some of our publications are more traditional, involving hand-sewn book-binding techniques using high quality materials. Past publications have …
JackPine Press is looking for chapbook proposals that feature visual content, excellent writing, and great book design.
JackPine Press is looking for poets, makers, artists, and designers to serve on our board of directors. This board works together to oversee the management of the press and its operations. All of our board members are volunteers.
Lines of Demarcation Launch with Lina Ramona Vitkauskas Join us November 3rd at 7:30pm EST (5:30pm Saskatchewan)
Join us in person or online for the Launch of Intimacies By Michelle Poirier Brown on October 7th, 7pm CST !
Join us June 30th at 7pm (ET) 4pm (PDT) 5pm (Sk) Click Here to Register Blue Moon: The Ono no Komachi Poems is a collection of tanka written in the voice of Japan’s famous waka (tanka) poet, Ono no Komachi, who lived and wrote in the Heian Court, Japan’s golden era of literature. The challenge …
Spring Launch with Terry Ann Carter & Heather MacDonald Read More »
Join us for the launch of Your Very Own by John Nyman on Tuesday March 1st, 7pm (Sk)
Join us February 10th at 7pm CST for the launch of I Followed the Coasts by Tazi Rodrigues
Call for Volunteers in Saskatchewan: JackPine Press is looking for poets, makers, artists, and designers to serve on our newly established editorial board.
Join us December 2nd at 7pm CST for the launch of Fluttertongue 7 by Steven Ross Smith!
Join us Nov 16th at 7pm EST for the launch of kireji: partial portraits and biofictions by christian favreau
Many thanks to Poetry London
for this interview with Aimee Martens, our Executive Director. They talk about some of our most innovative book objects and the beauty of rethinking poetry chapbooks.
Here’s a little video interview from SaskBooks about what sets JackPine apart as a chapbook press. We love showing off our beautiful books!
Don’t forget! We’ll be at WOTSyxe
this Sunday with our beautiful books! https://thewordonthestreet.ca/saskatoon/
The last time we hit up Ottawa it was in 2013, for the Canadian Bookbinders and Bookartist’s Guild (CBBAG) show and sale, and we came home with a box of lead type (that heavy little parcel sparked a lot of interest in the airport security line, leading to my very first airport body …
Making paper from paper – revolutionary, I know – is a delightful way to learn how to make paper of any type, and once you’ve pulled sheets of paper from a slurry of pulp with a mould and deckle, you’ll be hooked. (And, if you’re doing it right, speckled with a semi-solid substance slightly resembling barf.) …
