The Wax Paper

03/06/2026

Meet us there? Hot drinks & poetry by Poe’s graveside at

03/05/2026

Come find us at AWP Bookfair

04/09/2025

We’re excited to head out to the Festival this weekend! We’ll have Issue Fifteen on the table at the Small Press Fair Saturday & Sunday 9AM-5PM.

We’ll also be joining for a roundtable discussion titled “Publishing on the Margins: Print Formats Beyond the Book” along with , , & on Sunday the 13th at 1PM in room 204 of the New Orleans Healing Center (2372 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA). The event is FREE and you can snag these good-looking commemorative letterpress postcards (made by ) while supplies last.

Through a combination of print formats historically labeled ephemera, from newsprint to letterpress broadsides, this panel will explore how print formats beyond the book can restore control of the art-making process to writers and publications, thereby enabling them to engage with the page in new and experimental ways that traditional nine-by-five book formats might obfuscate or prevent. This panel will explore movements such as Fluxus and mail art, discussing how practices like these can continue to push the boundaries of print media.

04/03/2025

Issue Fifteen is out and ready for delivery.

Order single copies or a supporting subscription through the link above.

This issue, the first of our fifth volume, is framed in the tradition of resistance in craft. The border designs are constructed of elements found in the design work of Belgian lace makers during WWI. In support of those under occupation, including the 500 women who created the work, the buying of Belgian War Lace became another means of resistance. Symbolic motifs of Allied camaraderie flourished at this time and are reflected in the needlework designs along the edge of our pages. Our covers also carry the work of Andil Gosine, an artist and educator whose exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas was inexplicably canceled shortly after the current administration took power. These pages reflect on the collective efforts of those who, through dialogue and design, continue the struggle for equality and freedom.

04/01/2025

After talking, laughing, and sharing stories all week, there's little left to say, but thank you.

03/24/2025

Walk on over from the Convention Center for a full night of storytelling and poetry.

We are honored to share the stage with Fractured Lit, BULL, and Ghost Parachute leading off from 6:00 - 8:00.

Then Stalking Horse Press, Rinky D**k and The Wax Paper will present from 8:00 - 10:00, followed by a short set of play readings from two of our favorite L.A. playwrights.

Live music interludes, a cash bar, street tacos and dancing til midnight, oh my!

Thank you to the Immersive Arts Collective for their generous sponsorship of this event.

Safe travels to everyone, see you Thursday!

02/24/2025

Many thanks to Fine Print Press for sowing the seeds of this presentation and our introduction
to the New Orleans Poetry Festival.

Issue Fifteen of The Wax Paper will be available at our table during The Small Press Fair, April 12 & 13, and we will be participating in a panel discussion that Sunday at 1 PM. We will be joined by the talented folks behind Fine Print, Send Me Press, Tilted House, and Prompt Press.

Publishing on the Margins: Print Formats Beyond the Book

Through a combination of print formats historically labeled ephemera, from newsprint to
letterpress broadsides, this panel will explore how print formats beyond the book can restore
control of the art-making process to writers and publications, thereby enabling them to engage
with the page in new and experimental ways that traditional nine-by-five book formats might
obfuscate or prevent. This panel will explore movements such as Fluxus and mail art,
discussing how practices like these can continue to push the boundaries of print media. The value of this panel is twofold. The first is to celebrate print media traditions and explore how older forms of letterpress and newsprint publications open the field of the page and offer anexpansive poetics to their readers. The second is to offer several strategies for bolstering egalitarianism in a literary landscape too often stratified by access: access to education and academic spaces, access to wealth that makes or breaks the possibility of entry to such spaces, and finally, access to literary journals compelled to gatekeep contemporary literature in order to survive in an increasingly demanding economy. Ultimately, this panel will provide a number of distinct but compatible approaches to resisting the commodification of art, with the aim of
encouraging more publications to engage in more equitable publishing and distribution
practices. The panel will also explore how thinking beyond the book can expand reading
practices and create an experimental zone for a poetics that engages with its own making in
both form and presentation. This panel comprises presenters from Fine Print Press, Prompt Press, Send Me Press, Tilted House, and The Wax Paper

02/24/2025

02/24/2025

We talked a big game last year, knowing that   was slated for L.A., so...

The Wax Paper welcomes you to the City of Angels with a fantastic night of readings and music held  in DTLA. We will be joined by Rinky D**k, Bull, Fractured Lit, Stalking Horse Press, and Ghost Parachute.

The story begins at 6:00 on Thursday, March 27th, with an opening celebration through midnight.

You may find us at T512 in the Bookfair, or, just maybe, at the debut of our mobile bookstore!
Details to follow…

Thanks to our friends, old and new, for crafting these exceptional collaborations.





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01/26/2025

The Immersive Arts Center (IAC), home of the Immersive Art Collective and its event venue, The Count’s Den, has opened the doors to provide support and relief to fire victims, particularly those in the Los Angeles arts community who were able to salvage artwork, musical instruments, or similar belongings and need a temporary place to store them at no cost. The initiative, organized by artist and IAC board member Francesca Bifulco, also offers a safe and caring space open for those needing to figure out what the next steps are or wishing to simply unwind; as well as for community mobilizers looking to find rest after dinner time.
The event venue is also available for benefit shows aimed at raising funds for fire victims.

What’s available:

- Temporary storage for salvaged artwork, musical instruments, studio equipment, keepsakes/ etc. (intact and/or damaged)

- Large space with internet access, air purifiers, seating, tables, books, heating, restroom

-Small kitchen area with tea and coffee pots, snacks, refrigerator, microwave

-Venue for art/music/theatrical/film-oriented fundraising shows for LA fires victims

Phone: (310) 894-3638 
E-mail: [email protected]
(Please be sure to reach out to Francesca or via the registration form https://zfrmz.com/Eju95UBU9Q5j3gpvHZNW before coming out)

ADDRESS: Immersive Art Collective
1035 and 1039 S Olive St. Los Angeles, CA 90015 *Marked by the sign that reads “Immersive Arts Center”

03/29/2024

A familiar and favorite tune of our founders, a poet and a painter; and a belated toast to Frank O'Hara.