&NOW will be represented at the Pop-Up Book Fair at the Empty Bottle in Chicago on April 14! Should be an excellent time. Come say hello, have a drink, buy some books.

&NOW mission

&NOW mission

There's only five weeks left in the semester for the current editorial team at Lake Forest College. We're working hard to create new things, make our mark, and prepare the way for the next group of editors to take one &NOW press!

Coming soon: Lake Forest College's Literary Festival! Featuring authors like Marcus Boon, Cecilia Corrigan, and Lisa Robertson.

Here’s how it works:

Write a sentence or the start of a sentence.

Reverse it.

Then “write through” the result, and use that to complete the sentence.

For instance:

Start of sentence: I don’t like visiting my dentist because…

Reversed: …esuaceb tsitned ym gnitisiv ekil t’nod I

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6 Species of Monkeys Playing 6 Different Synthesizers

Poemotion

Between Page and Screen

Huth, a tireless artist and critic of concrete and visual poetry since 1985, was also one of the early experimenters with computer-animated poems. Endemic Battle Collage is a catalogue of smaller works which, for a viewer of the 80s, seemed to challenge the limitations of the personal computer, but for a present-day viewer, especially those addicted to retro stylings, seems to revel in what seem like straight-jacketing constraints. Huth demonstrates his incredible knowledge of concrete poetry tactics, making good use of the manifold vocabularies of low-information Concrete poetics within a screen size of less resolution than even the most basic cell-phone.

Brenda Iijima read at the Lake Forest College Literary Festival earlier this year, here is an excerpt from the notes I took, inspired by her discursive poetry: 

I believe them when they say: drawing together, they settle into difference. With subtle contagion of body as structured text, titled ligatures in the midst, thick with emotional materiel, Brenda Iijima’s work rhymes—off or near—sight as sound. Nature for culture, culture as nature, “we/ can play school under a tree” or at war. Breaking and building in twitchy compression. A kind of necessity is created here for saying, rejuvenating myths, turning anger into jouissance, making of thoughts a river of light…Beware: we won't be chagrined anymore; such subversion is the changing of the world. Is that what you meant? 

Lars Berglund et al. have developed a type of paper that is purportedly “tougher than cast iron. The material—made from nanosized whiskers of cellulose—is also lighter than conventional paper.” Perhaps “nanopaper” like this might be utilized in collaboration with MIT’s e-paper development labs and future evolution of the material produced at E-ink which currently supplies the Kindle and Sony’s Reader among 20 other e-reader companies

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