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The Economy Magazine + Press The Economy Press publishes short booklets of poetry, prose, and hybrid work.

For a limited time - 20% off the complete Haiku Pamphlet Series - theeconomypress.com/HAIKU-PAMPHLET-SERIES(“A cricket" ...
08/15/2026

For a limited time - 20% off the complete Haiku Pamphlet Series - theeconomypress.com/HAIKU-PAMPHLET-SERIES

(“A cricket" is from volume 11 of the series, POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU.)

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08/14/2026

For a limited time - 20% off the complete series:

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Volume 11 of the Haiku Pamphlet Series - POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU – is now available:theeconomypress.com/POEMS-OF-KAWAI-C...
08/11/2026

Volume 11 of the Haiku Pamphlet Series - POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU – is now available:

theeconomypress.com/POEMS-OF-KAWAI-CHIGETSU

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獨寝や夜わたる男蚊の聲侘し
Hitorine ya yo wataru oka no koe wabishi

Sleeping alone
all through the night
a male mosquito’s lonely hum

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麦藁の家してやらん雨蛙
Mugiwara no ie sh*te yaran amagaeru

For you I’ll make
a funeral home
for your rain frog

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Kawai Chigetsu was born in Yamashiro (Kyoto) and served in the Imperial Court. In 1686, after the death of her husband, Chigetsu adopted his younger brother, Otokuni, and became a nun. They both joined the Basho School.

Her work is singular in its expressions of intimacy and self-awareness.

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POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU is a short and varied collection of Chigetsu’s haiku. Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration.

Author: Kawai Chigetsu
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9955954-3-4
Release Date: August 10, 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

For a limited time, all 11 volumes of the Haiku Pamphlet Series are available for $90:

theeconomypress.com/HAIKU-PAMPHLET-SERIES

At long last, a new addition to the Haiku Pamphlet Series – Volume 11, POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU – is now available:theeco...
08/11/2026

At long last, a new addition to the Haiku Pamphlet Series – Volume 11, POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU – is now available:

theeconomypress.com/POEMS-OF-KAWAI-CHIGETSU

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Kawai Chigetsu was born in Yamashiro (Kyoto) and served in the Imperial Court. In 1686, after the death of her husband, Chigetsu adopted his younger brother, Otokuni, and became a nun. They both joined the Basho School.

Her work is singular in its expressions of intimacy and self-awareness.

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鶯に手もと休めむながしもと
Uguisu ni temoto yasumen nagashi moto

Yellow bird
I rest my hands
in the kitchen sink

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我も子の心や飛ぶ蛍
Ware mo ko no kokoro ya tobu hotaru

Same as I am
so childish
flying fireflies

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POEMS OF KAWAI CHIGETSU is a short and varied collection of Chigetsu’s haiku. Each translation is accompanied by the original Japanese text and English transliteration.

Author: Kawai Chigetsu
Translator: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: Japanese / English
ISBN: 979-8-9955954-3-4
Release Date: August 10, 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

For a limited time, all 11 volumes of the Haiku Pamphlet Series are available for $90:

theeconomypress.com/HAIKU-PAMPHLET-SERIES

08/07/2026

So many congrats to Caitlin Lorraine Johnson on being named a Fall 2026 resident at The DiTrapano Giancarlo Foundation for Literature & the Arts.

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Her chapbooks, TALIESIN and IO, are both available from The Economy Press at theeconomypress.com.

I WAS PAPERBOYS by Anthony Madrid – now available: theeconomypress.com/I-WAS-PAPERBOYS*Booklet, 32 pp, 7 x 5.25 inLangua...
08/05/2026

I WAS PAPERBOYS by Anthony Madrid – now available: theeconomypress.com/I-WAS-PAPERBOYS

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Booklet, 32 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9955954-2-7
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

I WAS PAPERBOYS, a new collection of poems by Anthony Madrid, is now available from The Economy Press:theeconomypress.co...
08/05/2026

I WAS PAPERBOYS, a new collection of poems by Anthony Madrid, is now available from The Economy Press:

theeconomypress.com/I-WAS-PAPERBOYS

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Don’t tell me there’ll be no difficulty, MADRID. It is difficult wherever I look. / For the anteater is driven by a bullwhip. And its tongue is the end of that bullwhip.

(From “Stir the Snow with a Stick Then Break”)

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Anthony Madrid’s writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Fence, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, Lana Turner, LIT, and Poetry. He is the author of three books, all from Canarium: I Am Your Slave Now Do What I Say (2012), Try Never (2017), and Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise (2023). He lives in Victoria, Texas, with Nadya Pittendrigh.

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Booklet, 32 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9955954-2-7
Release Date: August 4, 2026
Publisher: The Economy Press

From THE SILVER AGE by F***y Howe: theeconomypress.com/THE-SILVER-AGE*“A diamond in the snow of Chernobyl.”*F***y Howe s...
07/26/2026

From THE SILVER AGE by F***y Howe: theeconomypress.com/THE-SILVER-AGE

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“A diamond in the snow of Chernobyl.”

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F***y Howe sent me THE SILVER AGE in 2013 for an issue of The Economy Magazine, an online literary and art journal that ran from 2012 to 2015.

A few days before the issue was set to go live, I emailed F***y to ask about the status of her piece. Her response: “Thing is, I’ve fallen down a hole.” A few hours later: “Ok. I got out. This is the heart of what I’m working on.”

I had been expecting one, maybe two poems. Instead, I received over a dozen pages that were equal parts poetry, fiction, theology, and translation - i.e., completely F***y Howe, both in content and generosity.

With F***y’s passing on July 8, 2025, I wanted to make THE SILVER AGE available as a thing to be held—and remembered—in remembrance.

Anthony Opal
Chicago, 2025

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Author: F***y Howe
Booklet, 32 pp, 7 x 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9991646-2-9
Released: July 11, 2025
Publisher: The Economy Press

07/20/2026

As if choice were like love / as if light were

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ANOTHER ANIMAL is available from The Economy Press: theeconomypress.com/ANOTHER-ANIMAL

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Author: Anthony Opal
Booklet, 12 pp, 7 × 5.25 in
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-7375909-8-9
Released: April 3, 2023
Publisher: The Economy Press

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07/17/2026

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