The print edition of irreplaceable is made possible by a partnership with Lisa Bickmore, Utah's Poet Laureate (2022-27), and Moon in the Rye Press, her micro-press/poet laureate project, as well as an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship (2023-24). Learn more about the fellowship, and the press's projects.
The aim of this project, and the press, is to provide a platform for Utah- based poets, writers, and writing groups to share their work and strengthen literary community. The name of the press comes from a poem, “Old Fences,” by Ken Brewer, former Utah Poet Laureate, an esteemed and beloved poet and teacher:
Fences never kept the moon out of the and barbed wire never stopped a bull. What’s a fence to crow or coyote?
Imagine water refusing to cross a line. Imagine snakes looking for the gate.