The Small Run

The Small Run is the occasional newsletter of Analog Submission Press.

Each issue extends the life of a publication beyond the book itself. It carries conversations with authors, notes on form and process, reflections from behind the press, and news of forthcoming editions.

There is no fixed schedule. New issues appear when they are ready.

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Issues

006 · Zola Cate Picone

On childhood, dream logic, unstable homes, and the shelter a poem can build.

A conversation about A Lion in the Water, where animals, objects, scars, and half-understood memories surface through lyric fragments, prose poems, and drawings.

July 2026

005 · Kevin Ridgeway

On family grief, prison visits, black humour, and the small details that hold a life together.

Kevin Ridgeway discusses A Growing Pain I Still Can’t Kill, a collection shaped by loss, old cars, collect calls, childhood photographs, addiction, forgiveness, and survival.

June 2026

004 · Ford Dagenham

On memory, hospice journeys, overlooked details, and poems written as field reports from the world.

A conversation about Niche, its estuary edges, garden walls, recurring fragments, abrupt tonal shifts, and the instinct that draws apparently separate moments together.

May 2026

003 · Paul Cordeiro

On class, compression, and the place where private memory enters public history.

Paul Cordeiro discusses Textile City Memories, his blue-collar roots in New Bedford, and the brief forms through which personal and industrial histories meet.

April 2026

002 · Marc Brüseke

On lineation, plainness, and translating the silences of Ozaki Hōsai’s haiku into English.

A conversation about the translation of One Thin Body, the weight of small images, and the choices that allow a poem to pause and stop without explanation.

March 2026

001 · John Dorsey

On memory, labour, influence, and the chapbook as a rare flower.

John Dorsey discusses Sacred Versions of the Profane, the industrial and domestic worlds that shape his poetry, and the value of a book that disappears once its edition is gone.

February 2026