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This page verifies our Upper Rubber Boot account at Mastodon, and also makes that account discoverable to people visiting our website! If you found us through Mastodon, know that we’re on hiatus due to our owner’s political activism commitments and increasingly busy work life. Here are a few pages at our site that may be of interest: About URB & Books (especially Sunvault).
Mastodon23 July 2022
Hiatus!
Just as an FYI, Upper Rubber Boot Books is on hiatus throughout the end of 2019 and all of 2020. We’re spending our time getting out the vote. Responses to emails will be slower than usual and we are closed to submissions. Thanks for your patience.
The work of administering Small Press Week has been kindly taken over by Santa Fe Writers Project who have moved it to November 30th – December 6th, 2019.
14 November 2019
Stay Thirsty
A new review of Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 5:
What follows Price of Admission is a chapbook that pushes the boundaries between traditional poetic form and everyday minutia. If the speaker’s eyes in Price of Admission look everywhere all at once, monitoring the traditions of strangers and family alike, then the speaker’s eyes in On All Fronts look squarely in the mirror. On All Fronts concerns itself with investigating multiple types of fronts—or appearances—and relays varying definitions and quotes including the word “fronts” throughout. […] On All Fronts addresses prominent cultural issues crippling the black community, like in the poem “Meanwhile, at a black funeral home in Chicago, a mortician explains why he mourns, weeps at his expanding profit margin”, which reads, in full:
Abriana Jetté, “Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum’s Floodgate Poetry Series,” Stay Thirsty Magazine, July 2019
“We running out of coffins.”
[…] Two engines steer the narrative of T.R. Hummer’s Dark Meter: the speaker’s dexterous attention to and control of meter, and the tension that such discipline towards rule and form creates when situated within the current American political climate. […] Dark Meter is a haunting, lyrically agile collection, a fast-paced yet intimate read that veers between subtle political commentary and moments of unapologetic self-reflection.
Thanks, Stay Thirsty Magazine!
10 July 2019
Barnes & Noble Rec!
Lovely to see Broad Knowledge and Sharp & Sugar Tooth recommended in Maria Haskins’ “10 Fantastic Science Fiction & Fantasy Anthologies to Celebrate International Women’s Day” at the B&N Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog!
9 March 2019
Sunvault is official!
It’s publication day for Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation! Edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland, Sunvault is the first English-language anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short fiction, artwork, and poetry. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk is a revolution against despair.
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Contributors include Elgin Award nominee Kristine Ong Muslim, New York Times bestselling author Daniel José Older, James Tiptree, Jr. Award winner Nisi Shawl, World Fantasy Award and Campbell Award winner Lavie Tidhar, Lambda Literary Awards finalist A.C. Wise, and Jess Barber, Santiago Belluco, Lisa M. Bradley, Chloe N. Clark, Brandon Crilly, Yilun Fan and translator S. Qiouyi Lu, Jaymee Goh, José M. Jimenez, Maura Lydon, Camille Meyers, Lev Mirov, joel nathanael, Clara Ng, Sara Norja, Brandon O’Brien, Jack Pevyhouse, Bethany Powell, C. Samuel Rees, Iona Sharma, Karyn L. Stecyk, Bogi Takács, Aleksei Valentín, T.X. Watson, Nick Wood, and Tyler Young. Illustrations by Christine Moleski, Clara Ng, Sireesha Reddy, Carlin Reynolds, Bogi Takács, and Leigh Wallace. Cover artist Likhain is a Filipina artist who received the 2016 Tiptree Fellowship and was nominated for a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist.
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29 August 2017
for anyone who passes
News for 140 And Counting contributors: “River,” a short story by Richard Baldasty, is in the Fall 2012 issue of Ray’s Road Review; Julie Bloss Kelsey tells me her scifaiku poem “the perfect evening” was nominated for the 2012 Dwarf Stars Award and will appear in the upcoming anthology (congratulations!); the September 2012 issue of Heron’s Nest includes work by Andrew O. Dugas and Peter Newton; Chuck Von Nordheim‘s “Kelsy Copes With Her Husband’s Choise” was in Every Day Poets this week; aaaaand, the Science Fiction Poetry Association has posted a Halloween Poetry Reading which includes work by David C. Kopaska-Merkel. (In related news, URB editor Joanne Merriam will be guest-editing the April issue of the SFPA’s Eye to the Telescope; they’ll announce my theme and guidelines in January.)
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors: Margaret Atwood will discuss her life and work on November 28th at The Royal Society of Literature; and Seth Fried will give a reading this Friday (October 5th), 7 p.m. at The Hinge Gallery, 410 N. Newstead Ave., Suite 4W, in St. Louis.
30 September 2012
A barrel of water — you never know.
| Popcorn Press is publishing Halloween Haiku, including work by 140 And Counting contributors Deborah P. Kolodji (who has posted a sample on her blog), David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Robert Borski.
Deborah Walker‘s story “Ovoids” was recently published at Nature‘s Futures and appears in their new podcast. |
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6 November 2011