In Canadian vernacular, Upper Rubber Boot is slang for a remote, possibly unhip, probably insignificant place, much like America’s Podunk. Upper Rubber Boot Books was founded in July 2011 to give a voice to writers working from a (metaphorically) remote place, and to that end we publish fine literary and speculative writing, with a special focus on poetry and short story collections, genres which have a particularly difficult time finding a home in the publishing world. Our editions are available as ebooks only.

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• Cute. RT @PoetryGenius: Soulful, sensitive poet meets cold, rational algorithm (or is it the other way around?)...
• Just posted interview with Poet Laureate of Madison, @wendylvardaman: http://t.co/ROOwv9L6X8 (or http://t.co/YsAzY045DZ)
• MT @audible_com: “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” - Robert Frost #quotes http://t.co/huMyRSDVIs
• MT @NC_Quarterly: "Glory be to God for packaged things / For aisles of cubbied-colour and Cat Chow" #bardsonthebus http://t.co/BRdsq8x2G9
• Intermittent Visitors interview with Christine Klocek-Lim (@chrissiemkl) : http://t.co/hPj7oRITR5

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• I’ve found that anything and everything–from book reviewing to doing a prison workshop to editing and interviewing–has a positive effect on my own work, gives me new ideas, and makes me feel less isolated as a writer.
• In the midst of this hyperbolic fun, Apocalypse Now is a startlingly serious contribution. Six sections encompass 98 stories and poems, which are fairly evenly across the breadth of the book in tone and topic. Lured in by the promise of big names like Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Paolo Bacigalupi, I fell in love with the sheer variety in this book. Covering more than traditional apocalypse scenarios, it’s a collection of absolute endings.
• sound is of critical importance in poetry
• “Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate.” – Marvin Bell
• Quick, incomplete list of contributor news!

7x20    a history of art    a history of war    a jarrell hayes    a poem of the museum    a short drop to nothing    adornment on an ancient tomb in tibet    alan summers    alex von vaupel    alexa selph    alexander b joy    alison williams    all the things the moon is not    american poetry    an american prayer for the second coming    an mayou    ana cristina rodrigues    andrew o dugas    andrew taylor    apocalypse    apocalyptic    apocalyptic narrative    arachnida speak    army tales    astroturfing    at winters edge    atom bomb    aurelio rico lopez iii    autumn hayes    beauty    beetles    ben white    bendi barrett    berit ellingsen    beth katte    bill waters    biomass a genealogy    blue sky white    blueshifting    bottle caps    brenda j gannam    brian trent    c e hyun    c martinez    canadian author    canadian poetry    canadian travel    carol raisfeld    caroline halliwell    carolyn agee    casey parry    catskin    ce hyun    celia white    charles 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that soon will pass    grzegorz sionkowski    gwendolyn joyce mintz    haiku    haiku book    haiku collection    haiku poems    haiku poetry    haiku poetry nature    heather kamins    helen buckingham    helen e davis    horrorku    how it ends three cities    i dont sleep i dont sleep i dont sleep till its light    i love you and we are all going to die    icescape    into the damp woods    j a johnson    j finds in his pocket neither change nor small bills    james tanner    jason everett morris    jax    jeremy lewit    jericho trumpets    jessica otto    jim kacian    jimmy the peach    joanne merriam    john sheirer    john stevenson    john stone    jonathan pinnock    journeys dont stop believin finally collapses the radio waves    judy b jacobs    julia patt    julie bloss kelsey    kaolin fire    kath abela wilson    kathy nguyen    ken liu    kevin bishop    kevin wolf stone    kraken    l k below    liam wilkinson    lindsay below    lisa tang liu    lk below    love song for the end of the world    lucas stensland    lullaby for the last night on earth    magnificent    marge simon    marysarias    mass extinction    matt s    maya malhar    mayan 2012    mayan apocalypse    measured extravagance    meredith ralston    metamorphosis    michael donoghue    miriam sagan    moon of hunger moon of coyote howl    nashville flood    nathalie boisardbeudin    neal whitman    neil ellman    nicola scholes    night of the comet    nightshade    nineveh    nora nadjarian    nuclear fallout    on the beach    ooo baby baby    oracle    pandemic    peak oil    peg duthie    peter newton    poetry    poetry about life    poetry about love    poetry about nature    poetry chapbook    poetry short    postamerican    postapocalyptic    r gatwood    radiation    ray scanlon    rebecca j payne    recalculating    redshifting    richard baldasty    richard kriheli    richard stevenson    riddle    rimbauds kraken    rob mcknight    robert borski    robert laughlin    s kay    sabra wineteer    scifaiku    second coming    senryu    sestina    seven by twenty    several days before the end of the world    shawn hansen    sheets    shelley ontis    simon kewin    simon sylvester    snail trails    sonnet    space travel    stella pierides    stephen m wilson    steven saus    steven wolfe    suburbia    sue burke    survival    t d ingram    taken up    target    terrorism    tess almendarez lojacono    thanksgiving    the adjudicator    the beginnings of sorrow    the cartographer wasps and the anarchist bees    the dead moor speaks    the death of neruda    the enormous parachute    the feast    the last songbird    the lawgiver    the people of sand and slag    the quiet earth    the sharecroppers    the siege    the silver astroturfer    this is the pink    timothy collinson    train travel    travel in canada    twitter    vaidehi patil    villanelle    visions for the last night on earth    we are all going to die and i love you    weekday apocalyptic    wendy babiak    westbound little cat feet    wet field    wet weather springs    what we did with the empire    when the dark heads of sleep    when worlds collide    who are our barbarians    wolf centos    wraith    zombies