Call for Submissions
JackPine Press is looking for chapbook proposals that feature visual content, excellent writing, and great book design.
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Call for Executive Board Members
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.
Fall Launch with Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
Lines of Demarcation Launch with Lina Ramona Vitkauskas Join us November 3rd at 7:30pm EST (5:30pm Saskatchewan)
Fall Launch with Michelle Brown
Join us in person or online for the Launch of Intimacies By Michelle Poirier Brown on October 7th, 7pm CST !
Spring Launch with Terry Ann Carter & Heather MacDonald
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 …
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Winter Launch with John Nyman
Join us for the launch of Your Very Own by John Nyman on Tuesday March 1st, 7pm (Sk)
Winter Launch with Tazi Rodrigues
Join us February 10th at 7pm CST for the launch of I Followed the Coasts by Tazi Rodrigues
Call for Editorial Board Members
Call for Volunteers in Saskatchewan: JackPine Press is looking for poets, makers, artists, and designers to serve on our newly established editorial board.
Fluttertongue 7
Join us December 2nd at 7pm CST for the launch of Fluttertongue 7 by Steven Ross Smith!
Fall Launch with christian favreau
Join us Nov 16th at 7pm EST for the launch of kireji: partial portraits and biofictions by christian favreau
Poetry London: Talking with Presses
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.
Explore Chapbooks with JackPine Press
Here’s a little video interview from SaskBooks about what sets JackPine apart as a chapbook press. We love showing off our beautiful books!
Jackpine Press at Word On The Street!
Don’t forget! We’ll be at WOTSyxe
this Sunday with our beautiful books! https://thewordonthestreet.ca/saskatoon/
Little Books, Big Events
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, One Soggy Sheet at a Time
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.) …