Reading/Release Party – The Firecracker Press – Friday, March 9th at 7:00pm – FREE!

For the last year or so we’ve been talking about designing and printing a book of poems for Matt Hart. He had a reading at Firecracker last year, along with Nate Pritts, and delivered a hell of a show… frighteningly good. Outside of that reading we’d been talking with Typecast Publishing about how a book for Matt might take shape. Last Fall we finally started putting our money where our mouths were. Matt and Typecast decided they wanted a

Read more... | Published: 02/22/12

As 2010 draws to a close the crew at The Firecracker Press ain’t slackin’! We’ve finally finished the long awaited book, Oil + Water, containing poetry and essay in response to the Gulf oil crisis of this past Summer. What’s that? A “downer” you say! Uh uh folks. We’re not here to beat up on big oil and we’ve got no interest in making you feel bad about yourself. This book calls on some of this country’s best writers to teach us something new about an event the media covered 24/7 but probably failed to

Read more... | Published: 12/15/10

Don’t miss our last poetry reading of the year!

Join us this Saturday as Buzz Spector, Dean of the School of Art at Washington University, and Brett Underwood, Bartender/Minister of Culture at Schlafly Beer tickle your eardrums with their words. We’ll be on hand to delight your eyeballs with freshly letterpressed broadsides featuring a poem read by each poet. What’s more, you get one of these hand-printed works of art for the price of admission!

ONLY $5 per person. Space is limited, so reserve your seat today.

You can reserve your seat for this

Read more... | Published: 12/09/10

This Saturday we have a treat for those of you interested in our poetry reading series. All this year we’ve been inviting poets to come and read as we print. This time we are hosting Matt Hart and Nate Pritts from Cincinnati and Syracuse, respectively.

Matt Hart has just released a new book, Wolf Face (which you can see here) and teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinatti. He is also a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety.

Nate Pritts’ latest book is

Read more... | Published: 11/04/10

We’ve been having a great time with our poetry series this year, so we decided to extend it past the summer. In case you haven’t been able to make it, two local poets read an assortment of their poetry above and to the squeaks, groans and clicks of our presses as we print a souvenir broadside of their poem. It is a great deal of fun, and another entertaining thing to do while you’re out and about on Cherokee Street on a lovely Saturday afternoon. It is a fantastic chance to hear from some of our

Read more... | Published: 10/14/10