Personalized copies of Shared Universe available at Another Story Bookshop until Sept. 18

If you'd like to order a personalized copy of Shared Universe, Another Story Bookshop will be facilitating special personalized orders until Sept 18. Click on the link below and let us know who to sign the book to in the "instructions" field during the checkout process. 

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SAVE THE DATE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 — Shared Universe launch!

SAVE THE DATE!

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 

Join me in celebrating the launch of Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020. We'll be doing this event online, so I hope you can channel your inner Tron and join me in cyberspace. Details to follow. We will be announcing special guests and super fun activities soon. Stay tuned.

You can RSVP on the Facebook event page here. 

Looking forward to seeing you on September 15th! 

The final dust jacket

The final piece of a very long puzzle: the full dust jacket is all approved, and I am told the book will be heading off to the printer this week in time for its September release. I'm looking forward to you all being able to read it.

For more information, or to pre-oder Shared Universe, click here.

The Quarantine Review is out now!

I was happy to contribute my poem "Liturgy for the Formal Exoneration of the Serpent in Genesis" (which will also be in my forthcoming book Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020) to the debut issue of The Quarantine Review. This is a new literary journal edited by novelist J. J. Dupuis and ROM editor Sheeza Sarfraz. Proceeds from each issue will go to a different charity. For more information, or to download the first issue, click on the link or image below:

Click here to get The Quarantine Review Issue #1

New music from LASERGNU: The Isolation E.P.

Today LASERGNU releases The Isolation E.P. Because of COVID-19, we haven't been able to finish the album we've been working on, so we're releasing a few songs as an E.P. to keep us going. The new release, and our 2019 album Happy Mutations, are both PWYC (free, even!) for a limited time. We hope you enjoy it!

Click the image to get the E.P. 

Here are some samples from The Isolation E.P.

Shared Universe coming September 1, 2020

My new book Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020 will be published on September 1, 2020, but you can already pre-order it from my publisher's website! If you're interested in the book,  pre-ordering can really help my publisher and me.

Here's the cover!

Published: September 2020
ISBN: 978177041224
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in.
Pages: 240
Cover art: KRK Ryden
Cover design: Michel Vrana

And you can watch the book trailer here:

Stay tuned for details about the launch and other events. 

It's going to be a fun fall!

For more information, click here. 

Hold on. I'm trying something here. I think it's gonna work.

Presenting my first self-published chapbook in 20 years!

I taught a class on the history of self-publishing, DIY culture and the literary micropress this past semester, and as part of their final project my students made short print runs of their own chapbooks and zines. Inspired by their fabulous work, I decided to make my first self-published chapbook in twenty years!

Further Communiqués from the Imaginary World

A poetry chapbook by Paul Vermeersch

Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.5" 

24 pages 

Cardstock covers with printed endpapers. 

Numbered in an edition of 50, this chapbook contains new, previously uncollected poems: a sneak peek of some of the new material scheduled to appear in Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995-2020 (ECW Press, Fall 2020). To order a copy (ten bucks plus shipping), click here.