Alternately mellifluous and discordant, Parker Tettleton’s This Is A City (Ravenna Press) is as much an act of listening as it is writing. Or, to put it another way, there’s…
Delilah Reincarnated as Melania Trump Confides You don’t know that after the barber cuts, I soft blow the loose hairs from the furrow in his collar. Listen closely, trying to…
Our aesthetic builds on the idea of resonance, and poems that can offer moments of discovery with every new reading. Our mission is to be “committed to upholding the values that make poems timeless.”
Backbone is a niche press that focuses on writers of color and culture writing. We believe, in art, but certainly the literary arts, every voice is essential.
Image Credit: Eliza Moore 1 I imagine Walt Whitman’s body Walt Whitman, an. American, one of the roughs, a kosmos, Disorderly fleshy and sensual, eating and drinking…
We believe in the fissures art can create in consciousness when, even if just for a moment, we experience a more vital way of operating in the world—and through that moment then seek out more extreme and enlightened modes of existence.
New Poetry from Anna Maria Hong, N. node in Aries SNOW GOOSE Some tales are so attenuated that you can’t feel what’s happening: a girl with bad skin convinces…
my taxes are stacked with unrelated papers that need to be gone through and thrown out Aches and pains placed gently under psoriatic arthritis misspelled words under daddy hit me…
For Jasmine and Rosanna Wyatt and I hit Tako Cheena, a pan-asian taco joint, before the wedding in Orlando. We sit on the patio, eat panko-cod, tofu, and Korean barbecue…
when you’re loud i don’t know where i am are there people who don’t dream are there people who never sleep are there people who look like me why isn’t…
It can feel like a labour-intensive process, but I’ve found that there’s huge appreciation, from both the poets and the readers, when effort is made to give the words a beautiful home.
Just one. Counting if we have enough green tea for both of us until Saturday Just kidding two. Blah is a good way to put it Rinsing black beans and…
Website Submission Guidelines Interview with Joan Baranow and David Watts, Editors How did Wolf Ridge Press start? Our press started in 2008 when David had put together a collection of…
In the early months of 2017, we were discussing how often writers of formal or experimental poetry in Canada had to go through a man to publish a chapbook of experimental literature. We wanted to provide a space for writers to publish experimental, formal, political, feminist, or genre-blurring poetry that wasn’t governed by a dude.