Letter from Brooklyn (5 page)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council for their generous financial support in the writing of this book.

Thank you to Michael Holmes for his careful and caring eye in editing these poems. Thank you to Jack David and David Caron for believing this work is worthy of their wonderful press. Thank you to Rob Winger for his careful copyedit and helpful suggestions. Thank you to Natalie Olsen for her beautiful cover art. Thank you to everyone at ECW Press who put their time, energy, and care into this book: Crissy Boylan, Erin Creasey, Troy Cunningham, Jenna Illies, and Rachel Ironstone.

Thank you to the editors of
Arc
,
Big City Lit
(U.S.),
Prism International
,
Rampike
,
Rattle
(U.S.), and Guernica's Editions
Poet to Poet
anthology.

Thank you to those who read earlier drafts of some of these poems and offered generous and helpful feedback: Di Brandt, Nashira Dernesch, Daniel Marrone, Sarah Pinder, and Phoebe Tsang.

Thank you to Sage Hill Writing Experience where some of these poems were completed. The feedback from Ken Babstock and my fellow workshop participants there was invaluable.

To Rachel Bonner, Rocco de Giacomo, Chris Matthews, and Rowan McNamara, who, in one way or another, helped these poems make it through (or helped me get through). Thank you.

Jacob Scheier is a poet and journalist from Toronto.
He has also lived in Istanbul, New York City, and
Brandon, Manitoba. His debut collection,
More to
Keep Us Warm
, won the Governor General's Award
for Poetry in 2008. His poems have been published
in literary journals and magazines across North America,
including
Descant
,
Geist
, and
Rattle
, and have been aired
on CBC Radio. He is the co-winner of a 2009 New York
Community Media Alliance Award for Best Feature and
is a regular contributor to Toronto's
NOW Magazine
.

Copyright © Jacob Scheier, 2013

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Letter from Brooklyn / Jacob Scheier.

Poems.
ISBN 978-1-77041-134-0
Also issued as: 978-1-77090-387-6 (PDF); 978-1-77090-388-3 (EPUB)

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Editor for the press: Michael Holmes
Cover and text design: Natalie Olsen, Kisscut Design
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Author photo: Chris Matthews

The publication of
Letter from Brooklyn
has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, and by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit. The marketing of this book was made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation.