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When book distributor Small Press Distribution closed suddenly in March, Seattle's Asterism Books stepped in to help.

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is a writer exploring the liminal spaces of the literary arts. She is currently co-curating Good Symptom: A serial anthology of time-based disturbances published by 3rd Thing Press, 2023-2024. She is the author of the chapbooks Adventures in Property Management (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and Thunder Lizard (H_NGM_N, 2016). Her interest in how words are

Chelsea Werner-Jatzke is a writer exploring the liminal spaces of the literary arts. She is currently co-curating Good Symptom: A serial anthology of time-based disturbances published by 3rd Thing Press, 2023-2024. She is the author of the chapbooks Adventures in Property Management (Sibling Rivalry, 2017) and Thunder Lizard (H_NGM_N, 2016). Her interest in how words are

Summer Hart collects her life on fragments of paper, so it made sense to pay tribute to her grandparents with paper made in Millinocket.

Artist and poet Summer J. Hart probes her family history in Maine, combining indigenous traditions with materials and histories from East Millinocket paper mills.

turn around,     softened   —from "Salt for the Stain," Volume 61, Issue 4 (Winter 2020) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. At first, my poems were basically a catalog of thoughts or lists (lists of lists) tapped into the notes app on my phone: 12 vultures, 3 crows, the dog’s impossibly coiled tail. The first piece I wrote for publication was in response to a call from Northern New England Review with the theme of “True North.” The dog’s impossibly coiled tail beca...