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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.
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.
Fall Launch with Eccentric Crops!
Save the date: November 5th, 2020 7pm (CST) Register here to join the fun! https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpdumrpjwqHtH2ddatXbkliSqBeJLGCih-
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/
Fall Launch with Charmaine Cadeau, Taidgh Lynch, and Angeline Schellenberg!
Join JackPine Press in celebrating the launch of our three Fall 2019 titles, featuring readings from poets Charmaine Cadeau, Taidgh Lynch, and Angeline Schellenberg! Hosted by Saskatoon’s newest used bookstore, Peryton Books, each handmade chapbook will be available for purchase at the launch.
Winter Launch with John McDonald, William Klebeck & Gary Young
Tis the season for poetry and hand-crafted chapbooks! Join us at The Woods Ale House on December 9th as we celebrate the launch of two beautiful new works. Brave the cold for drinks, merriment, and readings from the authors! Farm Works is the latest collection of poems by William Klebeck. Interspersed with evocative, prairie-inspired paintings …
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Fall Launch with Donna Kane and Kevin Spenst
JackPine Press is proud to launch two new chapbooks November 26th, 8pm, at Cafe Deux Soleils in Vancouver. Featuring original, handmade chapbooks by British Columbia poets and book artists, our fall launch will be a poetry reading to remember. Pioneer 10, I Hear You by Donna Kane, kit fast, and mary mottishaw is inspired by …
’16 summer launch
Join us to celebrate three new beautiful limited editions at the Woods Alehouse on Saturday, June 25th, 2016 at 8pm. Read on for more about the books, and the people who made them: The Gorge: A Cartography of Sorrows, by Wendy Donawa and Terry Ann Carter (with Leah Fowler) is a suite of poems about …
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.) …
Linocut Jamming
Linocut illustrations are perfect for chapbooks. They are easy to replicate, cover to cover or page to page; they don’t require a printer, and therefore printer-friendly paper; and they look badass, even when stamped by amateurs. They’re also a throwback to the medieval woodcut-style, which will tickle your antiquarian book fetish. There is a …
So You Wanna Publish a Chapbook…
How do you get your chapbook funded or published? Assuming you’ve perfected your manuscript, secured illustrations and settled on a design, you’re ready to start shopping for a publisher to fund, print, and promote your baby. Start here: Kitty Lewis at Brick Books has assembled an alphabetical list of active micropresses in Canada, with descriptions. There are plenty …
Bookbinding Epiphanies
Want to get started on a book project, but you’re not sure what kind of structure or form it will take? Nothing beats browsing through your local (often University) library’s special collection or artist’s book collection for inspiration, but here are some links that will get your mental pages turning: Start by thinking about what …
Cloud Art
Frances Hunter is a book designing force. She’s tireless when it comes to traditional bookmaking methods, and her latest JackPine project demonstrates her willingness to take on old school art forms perfectly. Stitching a flat-backed hardcover chapbook with a cloth spine would be a mammoth project to take on solo, but Frances upped the ante by marbling …
fall launch
We are getting set to celebrate three new limited edition chapbooks by artists from Vancouver, Fort McMurray and Saskatoon with a launch party Saturday, November 29th at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. From a book of hockey poems by a poet who doesn’t like hockey poetry, to a magnetized dialogue between self-effacing lovers, to a narrative …
This weekend: JackPine hits up the Vancouver Art/Book Fair
This weekend’s VA/BF will see a flurry of artists and book lovers in downtown Vancouver, and JackPine will be there. Free and open to the public, the Vancouver Art/Book Fair is the only international art book fair in Canada and one of only two on the West Coast. In 2014 the event launches with a Members Preview on October 3 from 6–8pm and takes place …
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