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Meekling Press is a small press based in Chicago, Illinois. We specialize in hand-made editions of

04/18/2025

ICYMI! last night at the poetry series, in reverse order

* reads ‘An Incomplete List of Knowledges via Western Man’s Reason’

* ’s own talks of Lorraine Hansbury as a formative voice, and how “everyone does A Raisin in the Sun but no one talks about how she’s a d**e. That’s what this book is about — then dives into Television Fathers First Black Cop Bop

* reads a number of ‘e’ less poems including ‘there is no e in trust’ & ‘bankrupt lands of bust’

*** ty all who came & especially to for organizing & hosting ⚡️⚡️⚡️

04/16/2025

CHICAGO! tomorrow night at ’s poetry series! reads from TELEVISION FATHERS ~ called “ a transmission for our end-of-times, a prophecy priced out of the zeitgeist–and only Sylvia Jones can/will say it,” by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips. w/ Lemmy Ya’Akova and , in conjunction w/
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04/01/2025

a tremendously happy pub day to .hyland’s brilliant & lucid THE DEAD & THE LIVING & THE BRIDGE— a collection of poem-essays that weave together the conceptual and material, leaving a trace of thought-in-flight.

The Dead and the Living and The Bridge is not only of these times but for these times, with Hyland asking the reader to consider the joys, pains, materials, and costs associated with labor, all while prioritizing thinking together. As Danika Stegeman observes: “In the space of disclosure we find life and thought, image and grief existing side-by-side.”

Rob McLennan compares the poem-essays within to prose works by Lydia Davis, Lisa Robertson, and Anne Carson. And S. Brook Corfman states: “In flexible but rigorous prose objects, Hyland tracks how language runs up against its limits in the book and the body, in the institution and its ideology.”

read more via the link in bio / purchase a copy!

(with gratitude to & for 📷 of MC & book!)

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03/27/2025

hey all of you beautiful writers roaming the halls / taking in the warmth & sun outside at AWP LA —

there are two ways to find us!
Come out to the MEEK FUTURE SWITCH reading at LA ! featuring authors MC Hyland, Fulla Abdul-Jabbar, Willa Smart, and Heather McShane

or find books by Meekling authors at the / table (booth 1229) — including .hyland’s soon to be released marvel, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge.

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03/03/2025

we’re celebrating spring’s arrival a bit early welcoming copies of .hyland’s marvelous THE LIVING & THE DEAD & THE BRIDGE — now at Meekling HQ !! this weekend we sent off the first round of pre-orders, and handed off some of these glorious books to MC herself. also, did we mention the book contains some lovely illustrations by Jeff Peterson?

This book is your jam if you’re craving something akin to the contemporary brainchild of Montaigne crossed with Anne Carson, & want to think alongside the author about, grief, labor, gender, capitalism, and close reading.

If you want in on the next round of preorders before the official April release, the link is in our bio~~~

02/23/2025

happy birthday to ! who celebrated, in part, with a terrific talk & reading at yesterday, queering the gallery— including talking about Edmondia Lewis — the first professional Black / Native American sculptor in the US who moved to Rome to escape preoccupation with race / skin color; touching on the multitude of unnamed laborers who contributed to this artisan peacock (the gloss is lead based) and how this carries through to today; finishing with a reading from TELEVISION FATHERS (here, “Tenderheaded”); what a pleasure of B’more interconnectedness too to be joined by !

02/06/2025

what what ?! our spring book— MC Hyland’s mesmerizing book of poem-essays, The Living the Dead and the Bridge— is off to print!

preorders are open (🔗in bio ) — it’s officially available April 1.

In the tradition of Montaigne and Anne Carson, MC Hyland’s collection of poem-essays integrate the conceptual and the material, leaving a trace of thought-in-flight like the ripple of a stream’s surface over a submerged rock. Originating from a moment (both pre- and mid- pandemic) when Hyland taught canonical British literature as a contingent university worker, the essays in The Dead and the Living and the Bridge take up the topics of grief, art materials, capitalism, and close reading. Within, Hyland’s voice casts spells to summon clarity against institutional failures and personal and global losses, while placing thinking in its proper context: conversation, shared worldbuilding, and a love that touches both the living and the dead.

12/26/2024

the consensus is GWENDA, RODNEY’s a favorite! here’s a second year-end list featuring Olivia Cronk’s poetry novel as a staff pick x2 ! —via

12/07/2024

thanks to everyone who came last night to launch GWENDA, RODNEY with such warmth and revelry!

there was music! there were wonderful readings from Hana Urban, Amanda Goldblatt — & of course Olivia too! also we learned that Olivia is a songwriter as she sang a few from her back catalog of Bush-era resistance songs 🔥💚🍊📗

11/24/2024

Come out in your best haute louche for the cabaret-style launch celebration of Olivia Cronk’s exquistely genre-ambiguous poetry novel, Gwenda, Rodney.

with readings by Olivia Cronk, Amanda Goldblatt, Hana Urban, & Raquel Gómez Savoy.

light refreshments & libations will be provided, so please rsvp !

Olivia Cronk is the author of WOMONSTER (Tarpaulin Sky, 2020), Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press, 2016), and Skin Horse (Action Books, 2012).

Amanda Goldblatt is the author of the novel Hard Mouth and teaches at Northeastern Illinois University with her good friend and co-conspirator Olivia Cronk. More information is available at amandagoldblatt.com.

Hana Urban is a trans and disabled poet based in Chicago. Their work has appeared in Sobotka Literary Review, La Mosca, and others. Hana is set to graduate from Randolph College’s low-res MFA program next year.

Raquel Gómez Savoy is a writer/poet from Chicago. She is working on a poetry collection focusing on trauma and its various, complicated forms. Raquel is obsessed with her rescue dogs and children, in that order.

11/16/2024

going strong at — we’re here to six today and 11-6 on Sunday!

come out & meet Meekling authors Jay Besemer & Olivia Cronk will be at the table tomorrow ! Jay will have add’l books (11-1) & catch Olivia from 1-2:30

11/15/2024

chicago! find us at the first this weekend at — can’t wait for the art book / makers fair energy !

the Preview Party is tonight w/ bar & DJ from 6-9 (and free!)

Find us in gallery 5 —

FRIDAY 3-9p
SAT. 11-6p
SUN 11-6p

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