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O:JA&L’s FREE PRESSES

Firefight Press: Trench Arts & Letters presents compact military writing shaped by lived experience, memory, and witness. From naval flash nonfiction and Vietnam-era recollection to poems of shipboard service, the imprint gathers urgent field notes into free pamphlets that honor service, danger, camaraderie, and the literary force of testimony.

BROADSIDE SERIES

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These projects are made possible, in part, through support from
Grayling and Wraith, a growth marketing company.

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Broadside Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||Mansa Bey|”August 2003: Baghdad Iraq”

PAMPHLET SERIES

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Thess projects are made possible, in part, through support from
Richard Stimac and his new book BLOOD, WATER, AND STONE
available now from Spartan Press.

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Flash Nonfiction||Robert Holeton|”AMBUSH”

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Flash Nonfiction||LT. Clement Valot|”Liberty: Part 1″ (WIP)|”The Arabian Sea”

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Pamphlet Series|Poetry: All forms & styles||LT. Kalireyna Streeby, USN|”Ode to a Gunner’s Mate” (2015)

CHAPBOOK SERIES

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These projects are made possible, in part, through support from
Grayling and Wraith, a growth marketing company.

O:JA&L’s FIREFIGHT PRESS: Trench Arts & Letters|Chapbook Series|CNF/Vignette||J.G.P. MacAdam|”Who Are You Who Doubt My Wonders?”

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.

O:JA&L’S 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

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