+doc.10 (Winter 2026)

            At the very least, please fling me outta this shi(f)t.
            Fling me out of the same menu item questions 400 times a day
            out of responding to the bell like a dog. A very good dog. 

                         — Maggie Chirdo, "Both Bs in Baja Blast Stand for Bisexual"

 

I'm very pleased to announce that +doc.10 (winter 2026) is now available, featuring four longer poems by Maggie Chirdo, Leela Raj-Sankar, and David Harrison Horton. These are poems grounded in particular places: a Taco Bell Kitchen; an Atlanta morning; in Shijiazhuang; and elsewhere.

To purchase a copy, Paypal me or send an Interac e-Transfer to julianclday@gmail.com (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address.

Pushcart Nominations 2025

This year, null pointer press has sent the following poems as its submission to the Pushcart Prize:

• "B is for Brutus", MICHAEL CHANG
• "The Lies Overlap, Alongside the Years", BEE LB
• "The Bugs Have Gone Away", Mahaila Smith
• "Tideline", Elizabeth Wing
• "Or Not", Gregory Crosby

Thank you so much to the poets for sending me their work, and allowing me to publish it in +doc. 

+doc.9

            Some things only surface for a moment and we don’t
    know what to do with them

     - Elizabeth Wing, from "Tideline" 

 

    Or, to say love is the real free will,
    even if it’s not a choice, even when
    the fear is palpable beneath the laugh

    - Gregory Crosby, from "Or Not" 

 

 

+doc.9 (summer 2025) is now available! This issue features longer poems by American poets Elizabeth Wing and Gregory Crosby, and asks where we will go; where our will takes us, in the moment and after.

To purchase a copy, Paypal me or send an Interac e-Transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca (Canada: $4, US and International $6, payable in CAD) and include your name and mailing address.
 

Submissions closed

Submissions for +doc.9 and 10 are now closed - thanks so much to everyone who submitted! If you sent me something, you should have heard back by now. If you haven't, please reach out.

+doc.8

        

    My heart has been detachable

    for years.

    You can find it in a clam

    in a well, in the Danish mountains.

    Purple flowers grow over stones,

    careless and expansive. 

        — Mahaila Smith, from "The Bugs Have Gone Away"

 

 

I've been trying to keep away from the news. The winter's dark and cold, and I don't need the rest of the world pressing against my chest as well. I haven't been wholly successful. Maybe you haven't too. I've found that poetry helps - I'm working my way through the collected Basil Bunting, the latest issue of Some from Rob Manery, and there's a whole stack of books I ordered from Kirby a week or two back.

 

I'm happy to say that the latest +doc is now available, and I'm starting to read for the next couple of issues as well (if you've sent me something - I'm hoping to respond in the next couple of weeks). Long poems by MICHAEL CHANG, BEE LB, and Mahaila Smith to burn bright through the long nights.

 

To purchase a copy, PayPal me or send an Interac e-Transfer to jcd748@mail.usask.ca. Issues are $4 CAD (Canada), $6 US and International. Please include a name and mailing address. Thank you!

Jordan Abel wins the 2024 Governor General Award for Fiction

Huge congratulations to Jordan Abel, whose Empty Spaces (Penguin Random House, 2023) won the 2024 Governor General's Award for Fiction! 

Empty Spaces was excerpted in Odd Poems 2021, the first item published by null pointer press.

Pushcart Nominations 2024

This year I'm delighted to nominate the maximum number of pieces (six) for the Pushcarts: Clifton Gachagua, January, A Sequence; Connor Ferguson, "I Want a Paper Moon"; Monty Reid, Vertebrata (Thoracic); Ros Werner Winslow, we live with blurring eyes, drinking sweet brine of sweat, spit and song—; Charlie McIlwain, CANADIAN RAINS; and Lily Herman, The April Palace.

Congratulations to Clifton, Connor, Monty, Ros, Charlie, and Lily, and thank you to everyone who submitted their work to my little longer journal.