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A Community-based Publishing Company
"Isn’t there beauty being part of a plural—a we, an us?" —Renée LaMie, poet
About Priming the Pump Publishing Collective
This publishing collective developed out of the desire to create community. With the books we publish, the goods we make, and the shows we put on, there will be an interactive element, a search for audience if you will. Other times, it's the interactive element with a community that will generate fodder for a book, a good, or a show. The idea is to prime the pump of creativity. I would love for you to join us in this journey. If we each bring our trickle of rain, then collectively we become rivers powerful enough to change landscapes.
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This is our town.
Let's have fun writing, making art, and creating experiences!
Together let's laugh, grieve, and everything in between.
Community projects that Priming the Pump Publishing Collective is presenting right now:
The Levity/Tragedy Show - October 2nd, 2022 11:00 AM
$15 ticket show
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This is the brunch and show! After 4 comedians and 1 magician entertains you, Renee LaMie will be reading from her forthcoming book Unhooked; Bare (one's) Breast: prose & other poems. Come join the fun!
Renee LaMie's Longer Reading & Art Show - TBA
Free
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Come hang out and BYOB to listen to Renee read from her new book Unhooked: Bare (one's) Breast, prose & other poems. Art and book will be available to purchase.
Halloween / Revolution Chapbook
Now Available! Poet Renée LaMie flipped the tragedy/levity coin to see how this collection would develop, but the coin landed in the river. The poems seem to be checking if old childhood wounds have healed by scratching away at the surface. A reader could get swept away in this collection's three-act structure narrative. The second act, the confrontation, is an interesting bit of foot work where we take pause in three other poets’ work: Jaya Avendel, Ingrid Wilson, and Constance Bourg. Renée collaborates with each poet, and wonderfully allows us to see the contrasts of each poets’ styles by placing two edited versions of each collaborative poem in the book side by side. These poems will make you laugh and leave you wondering about connective tissue. You may also cry.
Her chapbook is now available to purchase!
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