Another piece of the Veracity Media puzzle is here at last! We?ve been working hard these last six months on adding a creative writing division to our publishing house, Veracity Press, with the idea of supporting poets and writers looking to break out and do something new, to Do Another Thing as it were.?What has come of this dream is a whole new press?one dedicated to poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction?a press outside of the direct realm of political writing, and yet intimately related to it: for what are artists and creators and visionaries, if not commentators and teachers and masters of perspective, who give their audience a fresh new look at the world around them, at our fellow humans and our society, and are thus necessarily and inevitably political.
Like our parent company, our press was conceived in New Orleans, Louisiana, and we are proud of our adopted home. Hoping to combine a taste of our city with our foundational idea of supporting new, refreshing works of art, we gave birth to Do Another Thing Press, or DAT Press as we like to call it.
We recognize the multitude of blank pages?the dilapidated wall, the scholarly journal, the street corner cipher, the self-bounded chapbook, the slam poet?s spit-stained stage. We do not believe any of these forums are better or worse than another, and we aspire to contain all of them at once, and many, many more.
We do not believe poetry is an esoteric art form?not in the least. For Bob Marley, Richard Pryor, Eminem, and Muhammad Ali were, and are, and continue to be, poets that stream through the consciousness of fans throughout the world. Poetry is by no means exclusive, nor is it dead?its range, simply and often, just goes unrecognized.
We envision our press as not just the disseminator of words, but as an active member in a community of artists?a community that realizes the limitations that have been placed on artwork and poetry and wishes to break out of old paradigms. We know that artists require moral support, affection and admiration, criticism and dialogue and revision. They require a forum for expression, on the page and on the stage. And they require, as all things in our modern world, money to reach their audience and share their artwork with others.
Along these lines, we have pledged a portion of all proceeds from the sale of DAT Press titles and merchandise to an Artist?s Fund. This account will be used to support our writers, whether its posters and ads to promote their local reading event or help on a plane ticket to attend conferences or retreats. With your continued support, we hope to hold events in writer?s hometowns, offering a stage for not just our artists but for others in the community to get together and share, respond, and network.
Our first series of titles are set to roll off the presses in the coming weeks and months. We will publish ten original chapbooks from poets around the country, reflecting a broad range of talent from outstanding writers. And look for more experiments with words, visuals, and sounds in the coming months. Thank you for your love and support, and for helping us to Do Another Thing.
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