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THE WHAT

WHAT DO YOU PUBLISH?
maple spitS: "Books of poetry and a little prose (ranges from visual poetry to email correspondences to more traditional verse)."
Wood & Coal: "Almost entirely verse or small books of drawings."
housepress: "generally concrete and visual poetry, with equal emphasis on language and radical poetics -- very little interest in prose, altho i have been known to publish poetic statemnts, essays, etc..."
Kitsch In Ink: "Concrete poetry, collage, minimalist work. Quarto chapbooks."
above/ground press: "I'm exclusively poetry, although I've put out a small chapbook of interviews with four Canadian poets by Vancouver writer donato mancini."
iloveyougalleries.com: "Work about peace and love and I Love You."
semi-precious press: "Experimental poetry."
cold tea press: "Poetry chapbooks."
yardpress: "Poetry mainly."
Misprints Press: "Writers' half-baked, 'why-did-I-write-this-but-it-seems-interesting' pieces."
The Expert Press: "I like letters, especially other people's letters, and enjoy putting them in exact situations."
BookThug: "I publish anything I like."

LENGTH OF OPERATION
yardpress, Misprints Press, iloveyougalleries.com, cold tea press have been publishing for three years or less.
semi-precious press: "semi-precious: from 1998-2000; dANdelion chapbooks: 2004."
maple spitS published "from 2000-2003 for palimpsest, at which time i was informed by someone in Kingsville, Ontario that i was using their press name, and to cease and desist cuz they had actually paid for the privilege. (although i registered for ISBN numbers, which are free, i never paid to have the bizness registered cuz i was too small time.) what are the chances of two presses with the same name in southwestern Ontario publishing poetry? getting better all the time i suppose with the number of micropresses period. maple spitS just began late last year, and it's pretty precarious as to how long it will continue."
The Expert Press, housepress, Wood & Coal have published for six to seven years.
Kitsch In Ink published off and on for about ten years.
rob maclennan, of above/ground press, made his "first self-published chapbook in December of 1992 (after publishing a series of "poetry posters" I had been distributing all over town throughout 1992), and a couple of things after that, but the first official above/ground press publications (including the first issue of my long poem magazine, STANZAS) appeared in August, 1993."
"What is presently known as BookThug began in Lucan, Ontario in 1992 under the name boondoggle books. Boondoggle moved to Toronto and lasted until about 1995 when I switched the name to BookThug Angel for I think two publications and then simply to BookThug after that." -- Jay MillAr

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