Buttonhook Press 2024 Chapbook Series

An O:JA&L Writer’s Portfolio
Poetry

Bruce McRae

WOLF

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The Fratricide by O:JA&L staff creative

Copyright © 2024 by BUTTONHOOK PRESS
An imprint of OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L)

All rights reserved on behalf of OJAL Art Incorporated, O:JA&L/BHP/HBP, and Bruce McCrae.

Publishing since 2017 as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its imprints
Buttonhook Press, HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Issues, and HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art,
OAI supports writers and artists worldwide.

Set in Garamond and GARAMOND ALLCAPS and formatted in CreateSpace.

Made available online and/or printed by license in the USA and elsewhere as a novelty and commemorative document celebrating the publication of Bruce McCrae‘s chapbook.

 

 

About the writer:
BRUCE MCRAE, a Canadian musician, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with poems published in hundreds of magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and North American Review. The winner of the 2020 Libretto prize and author of four poetry collections and seven chapbooks, his poems have been broadcast and performed globally. His end is certain.

Cover Image: The Fratricide (AI-assisted digital image) by O:JA&L staff creative. 2026. Public domain via Midjourney AI.

Closing image: Birth of the Wolves by Franz Marc (1880-1916). Woodcut on Japanese paper. 10 x 7.25 inches. 1913. Public domain.

OJAL Art Incorporated, publishing since 2017 as OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters (O:JA&L) and its imprints Buttonhook Press, HOT BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Issues, and HIGH BUTTON PRESS Contemporary Art, supports writers and artists worldwide.

BUTTONHOOK PRESS MASTERS SERIES

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The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Brian Clements on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Mark Budman on Flash Discourse
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Ray Gonzalez on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Michael Martone on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Roberta Allen on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Peter Conners on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Maxine Chernoff on Prose Poetry

With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Pedro Ponce on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Tom Hazuka on Flash Fiction

With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Kent Dixon on Flash Fiction & Nonfiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Jim Meirose on Experimental Discourse
With an interview by Associate Editor Warwick Newnham

 

O:JA&L’S HIGH BUTTON PRESS ART CHAPBOOKS

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RITES OF CALIBRATION: Images & Excerpts

Fine Art Photography by Rex Wilder

NEW MEXICO Deconstructed

Fine Art Photography by Natalie Christensen

IMPERFECT VESSEL

Painting and drawing by Anne-Marie Brown

BY LAND AND BY SEA: Awakening the Sensual

Sculpture and Installation by Mark Yale Harris

LAYERED LIGHT

Painting  and drawing by Bette Ridgeway

ESSENCE & ATMOSPHERE

Painting and drawing by Kathleen Frank

TANGENT & INTERPLAY

Painting and drawing by Catherine Eaton Skinner

Implications of Energy
Artist portfolio of Dr. Ernest Williams III