Summer got the best of us here at County Line Press, and, unfortunately, garden-tending seems to have taken precedence over blog-tending. But, with fall on the horizon, we’re ready to get down and dirty in the virtual ground.
Pittsburgh’s first Small Press Festival was also our first Small Press Festival, and it was a success on [...]
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Summer Summary
SPF Pittsburgh
Visit County Line Press July 18th and 19th at SPF Pittsburgh, which is being held at the Regina Miller Gallery on the Carnegie Mellon Campus! We’ll have plenty of rural goodies and, of course, mint poetry!
May Flowers
So far, May has been an exciting month for County Line Press. mint has arrived and debuted on May 1st at Carnegie Mellon University’s Adamson Awards. If you would like your own copy of our neighborhoods volume, please e-mail us at: editors@countylinepress.com
Also, Patrick and I traveled out to Braddock to interview filmmaker Bill Daniel. [...]
A County Line or a Scar
It seems that America has a preoccupation with putting things in place. We connect people, animals, structures, occurrences, and ideas with spaces. We imagine that they have somewhere to belong, that that space is their home or destination. Silos in the country, skyscrapers in the city. But some things roam where they please. Living in [...]
Alligator Arson
For me, one of the most dynamic aspects of rural life is the amount of agency retained by non-human forces. As opposed to the urban environment, which is subject to primarily human action, rural spaces see a more democratic distribution of agency between humans and their surroundings. Take this fire, for instance. [...]