Ashley Obscura
poetry and essays on publishing, poetic futurisms, and making books (and worlds) in the digital age
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only paid issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 45 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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We Have an Imagination Problem
On CanLit, dissent, scarcity, and why I’m teaching what I know about building a press
Lately I have been looking around the independent literary scene in Canada and feeling lonely and bored.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new...
After the Famous People Got Famous
A Reflection on Mile End Kicks and the Art of Being Brave and Delusional
Before anything else, it helps to say what Mile End Kicks is. Written and directed by Chandler Levack after nearly a decade of development, the film is a scrappy, fun...
A Different Kind of Answer
On dissolution, community, and the life that held me when I could not hold myself
I have been meaning to write this for some time, though I hesitated. The space I have built here gathers around publishing, around language as a form of work...
Agave Girl
Part III of Ambient Technology
On Writing a Book That Resists Completion
How BOCA became a book about language loss, belonging, and the difficulty of calling something finished
In 2021, when I received funding to work on BOCA, my third book of poetry and the only to receive financial support, I gave the project...
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intermedia poet + writer & founder of Metatron Press + The Obscura Agency.
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