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I turned to Chris McCreary, who’d been running Ixnay Press in Philly for some advice on how to make my next move. In an effort to legitimize the whole thing, I filed for an LLC with student loan money and set up a website. I came up with the name and a logo and slapped it on the back of a collection that would become Empty Set’s first release: HEROINes. I was reluctant to self-publish, and to be honest, I was ready to move on from the stuff I was writing during the years I was MIA.
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I’ve had a few pieces published in magazines here and there and online, but several people told me I should have a chapbook out. A few people asked where they could find more of my work. After an extended absence from the poetry community, I started bouncing around, doing readings again. I was basically just following suggestions. His first chapbook, HEROINes, was published in March 2017.ġ – When did Empty Set Press first start? How have your original goals as a publisher shifted since you started, if at all? And what have you learned through the process?
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His work has appeared in Apiary Magazine, The Philadelphia Citizen, Mad House, Rolling Thunder Quarterly, Be About It Zine, Outcast Poetry Journal and elsewhere online and in print. Based in Philadelphia, ESP strives toward a synthesis of local authors, visual artists, print shops, and venues within the city’s thriving literary landscape to broaden the horizons of the greater artistic community as well as the community at large.įounding Editor of Empty Set Press, ANGELO COLAVITA lives and writes in Philadelphia, where he hosts Oxford Coma, a nihilist poetry reading series and serves as Poetry Editor for Limited Editions Quarterly Journal. Empty Set Press publishes chapbooks of conceptual and experimental poetry by writers who challenge the functions of language, form, and imagery, producing work that is innovative, new, and exciting.