Meekling Press

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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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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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.

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