A Midsummer Night's Press
A Midsummer Night’s Press publishes poetry under three primary imprints: Fabula Rasa for work inspired by fairy tales or mythology, Funny Bones for light verse and humor, and Body Language for works exploring sexuality and queer subjects.
Action Books
Publishes experimental, innovative poetry and contemporary writers in translation. "We want poetry that goes too far."
Adventures
in Poetry
After a long hiatus, this legendary publisher of pamphlets
by New York-school poets has been resurrected as a
publisher of books by both established and new innovative writers.
The editors are Larry Fagin and Christopher Mattison.
Advocado Press
The Advocado Press has been publishing books and periodicals on disability rights and the disability experience since 1981.
Aerial/Edge
The Aerial/Edge publishes poetry whose focus is on the avant garde and the experimental, following from recent North American experimentation by such groups such as Black Mountain, New York School, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and San Francisco Renaissance.
Ahadada Books
Ahadada Books publishes titles both online and in print. The aim of the press is to present new writers and literature that envelope everything. The publisher presents broadsides, limited-run chapbooks, and bound books of diverse literary forms.
Ahsahta Press
Founded at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, Ahsahta Press is a not-for-profit publisher that publishes new poetry from an eclectic range of aesthetics: poetry that is technically accomplished, distinctive in style and thematically fresh. Ahsahta Press publishes up to three books annually, along with limited-edition artist broadsides and chapbooks.
AK Press
One of the premier publishers of anarchist-influenced books and literature, the goal of AK Press is to make available radical books and other materials that can be used to make a positive change in the world.
Akashic Books
Books, music, news & events from this New York
publisher specializing in edgy, urban fiction about
the outcast and displaced.
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is a non-profit poetry press emphasizing
the work of New England poets.
Anhinga Press
Anhinga Press publishes full-length volumes of fine
literature, principally poetry.
Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study and exhibition of film and video with a particular focus on American independent, and avant-garde cinema and its precursors found in classic European, Soviet and Japanese film.
Apogee Press
Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, their poets share an original use of language.
Arab Image Foundation
The Arab Image Foundation is a non-profit foundation that was established in Lebanon in 1996. The Foundation aims to promote photography in the Middle East and North Africa by locating, collecting, and preserving the region's photographic heritage. It publishes monographs and photography collections.
Archer Books
Quality fiction, non-fiction and poetry from Archer
and other fine independent presses.
Arsenal Pulp Press
Arsenal Pulp Press has been publishing books in
Vancouver, Canada since 1971; its publishing
categories include literary fiction and nonfiction,
multicultural literature, gay and lesbian literature, and
visual arts.
Ashland Poetry Press
The Ashland Poetry Press was founded in 1969 by Richard Snyder and Robert McGovern.
Since then, it has published some 60 volumes of poetry, or books about poetry.
The press began with the publication of the anthology 60 on the 60's. With each
succeeding decade, it has published similar anthologies - 70 on the 70's, 80 on the 80's,
culminating in the end of the millenium volume, And What Rough Beast: Poems At the End
of the Century. It is also the sponsor of the annual Snyder Competition for unpublished
manuscripts.
Asylum Arts
A venerated press, Asylum Arts has made its reputation by publishing both cutting-edge contemporary fiction, poetry and drama (Eric Basso, Robert Peters) and high-quality translations from the french (Baudelaire, de Nerval).
Arte Publico Press
Arte Publico Press is the nation's largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by U.S. Hispanic authors. Arte Público Press provides an extensive showcase for Hispanic literary arts, history, and politics.
Atelos
Atelos was founded in 1995 as a project of Hip's
Road, devoted to publishing, under the sign of poetry,
writing which challenges the conventional definitions
of poetry.
Asian American Writers Workshop
Founded in 1991, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans.
Atlas
Atlas Press specialises in extremist and avant-garde
prose writing from the 1890s to the present day.
We are the largest publisher in English of books
on Surrealism and have an extensive list relating
to Dada, Expressionism, the Oulipo, the College
of Pataphysics, among others.
Aunt Lute Books
Aunt Lute Books is a multicultural women's press
that has been committed to publishing high quality,
culturally diverse literature since 1982.
Ausable Press
Founded in 1999 by poet Chase Twichell, Ausable Press (pronounced aw-SAY-bul) is a not-for-profit independent literary press. Its mission is to publish poetry that investigates and expresses human consciousness in language that goes where prose cannot.
Ausubo Press
Ausubo Press strives to emulate the nobility manifest in the hearty perseverance of its namesake by publishing the works of insightful authors from different cultures who have stood fast, survived, grown and even prospered in the most foreign or hostile land. These stories emerge from peoples in occupied countries ranging from Ireland to Puerto Rico, or from immigrants in the United States. Our list includes biographies, memoirs, culture, fiction, history and politics. We also publish literature in translation and pride ourselves in working with the best translators from Central America, South America (including Brazil), and the Caribbean.
Autonomedia
Autonomedia is one of the main North American publishers of radical theoretical works. Well-known authors include Antonio Negri, Peter Lamborn Wilson (also known as Hakim Bey), Silvia Federici, PM, John Moore.
Avec Books
Avec's focus is on innovative contemporary writing,
especially poetry. They have recently published
books by Lisa Lubasch, Michael Palmer and Trane Devore,
and SPD's very own Laura Moriarty.
Azul Editions
Azul Editions publishes poetry, prose, essays, literary and art criticism, speeches, broadsides, manifestos, etc. "Our goal is to build a small working library which serves to heighten the consciousness of our readers and accompany them in their struggles for economic, political and social justice."
Bamboo Ridge Press
Bamboo Ridge Press was founded in 1978 to publish literature by and about Hawaii's people. It currently publishes two volumes a year: a literary journal of poetry and fiction featuring work by both emerging and established writers and a book by a single author or an anthology focused on a special theme
Barque
This British press has put out both books and chapbooks
by contemporary poets, including J.H. Prynne, Jordan
Davis and Andrea Davis.
Barrow Street
Barrow Street, Inc. is a non-profit organization which publishes a poetry journal and hosts a poetry reading series in New York City's West Village. Barrow Street Press sponsors an annual poetry book contest.
Barrytown, Ltd.
Barrytown is an independent book publisher of "innovative works offering human alternatives in the following areas: Literature, Spiritual Possibilities, Alternative Health and Healing". Their mission is "to challenge and expand conceptions of human possibility".
Bayeux Arts, Inc.
Bayeux Arts Inc. is an independent publishing house
committed to producing books of beauty that build
bridges across cultures. As its name was intended to
suggest, the artistic nature of its books represents the
cornerstone of its publishing program.
Bear Star Press
Founded in 1996, Bear Star "is committed to publishing the best poetry it can attract from the Mountain and Pacific time zones, as well as Alaska and Hawaii." They sponsor the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize to a writer from the region.
Beatitude Press
Beatitude Press is a Bay Area publisher of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. "Beatitude Press, where helping authors is our passion."
Belladonna Books
Belladonna is both a publisher and a reading
series that promotes the work of women writers who
are adventurous, experimental, politically involved,
multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible
to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and
dangerous with language.
Bench Press Books
Bench Press Books is an independent publisher located in British Columbia, Canada.
They publish books "dedicated to the individual’s struggle to prevail against obstacles in life".
Bend Press
Publishers of Mike Daily's first novel Valley, Bend
Press is small but fiesty, with strong connections
to the Southern California skating and BMX biking
crowd.
Beyond Baroque
Beyond Baroque books, founded in 1998, is dedicated to emerging, over-looked and out-of-print poetry, especially from Los Angeles-based writers. The press continues to unearth cult rarities as well as collections by noted performance poets, educators and cultural leaders.
Big Bridge Press
Michael Rothenberg is the publisher and editor of Big Bridge Press and Big Bridge online. Featuring poetry, fiction, art and reviews, the visitor will find the only online chapbook by Philip Whalen (Mark Other Place), as well as chapbooks by Joanne Kyger, Bill Berkson, Jack Collom, David Meltzer, Renee Gregorio, Anselm Hollo, John Weiners, Ira Cohen, Michael McClure, and Robert Creeley.
Big Rooster Press
Big Rooster Press recently published Jeremy Larner's new collection of poems.
Bilingual Review Press
Bilingual Review/Press has been publishing the works
of Hispanic writers since 1974. They have more than
100 titles in their backlist and publish eight to
ten titles a year.
BlackAmber Press
BlackAmber Books, is the home for fresh talent, and in particular, unpublished second and third generation British and European
writers. What distinguishes BlackAmber Books from other houses is that it is the collection point for a body of British and European Black
and Asian literature.
Black Arrow Studio & Press
Black Arrow Studio & Press makes books for curious
readers: the mission is to push boundaries and cross
artistic and political borders, giving opportunities for
expression and collaboration to artists and writers with
distinct, original voices from around the world.
Black Ocean
From early silent films to early punk rock, Black Ocean brings
together a spectrum of influences and combines them with a
radical social perspective on the nature of art and humanity.
Black Thistle Press
Founded in 1990, Black Thistle is a small independent press specializing in non-fiction and poetry.
Bombshelter Press
Los Angeles based press, specializing in Los Angeles
writers. Publishers of magazines like "Onthebus",
as well as books in the Bombshelter Press series.
Book Thug
BookThug is a Canadian Independent publisher of chapbooks and trade books of poetry and poetically minded literature.
Bootstrap Press
This is a non-profit publishing company out of Lowell, MA that promotes the integration of multi-dimensional art forms and experiments into fine press publishing. Its goal is to provide a venue that affords the benefits and aesthetics of a quality small press to committed writers, visual artists, and musicians who may not otherwise have the opportunity and freedom to display their work as they envision it.
Bottom
Dog
Bottom Dog Press, Inc. is a nonprofit literary and
educational organization dedicated to publishing
the best writing and art from the Midwest.
Brick Books
Brick Books is a small literary press founded in 1975
which aims to foster interesting, ambitious, and
compelling work by Canadian poets, both new and
established.
Bureau of Public Secrets
This website features Ken Knabb's Situationist International
Anthology (translations from the notorious group
that helped trigger the May 1968 revolt in France).
Burning Books Press
Burning Books has published books of and about contemporary music, literature, and art since 1979.
Burning Bush Publications
Publishing fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and anthologies,
highlight the writing of authors whose work has
been overlooked by corporate printing comglomerates.
Burning
Deck Press
A long-running press founded by Rosmarie and Keith
Waldrop, Burning Deck is an institution in the small
press poetry world.
Cadmus Editions
Cadmus Editions are carefully elected, expertly
edited, and beautifully, imaginatively produced
books and chapbooks from a range of writers.
Calaca Press
Calaca Press is dedicated to publishing and producing unknown, emerging, and established progressive Chicano and Latino voices. With a commitment to social justice and human rights Calaca Press strives to bring about change through the literary arts. Calaca Press is determined to showcase authors from a community that has been marginalized and pushed to the side in literary circles, and in the real world, for far too long.
Calamari Press
Calamari Press is an independent publisher of literary text & art book objects, including Sleepingfish magazine.
Calyx Press
CALYX is a nonprofit literary publisher that is
committed to publishing works of feminist, literary,
social, and artistic integrity and to keeping books
in print.
CavanKerry Press
One of SPD's newest presses, CavanKerry is a non-profit publisher focusing on poetry and poetry-related titles. They have published some of the better known poets in the country, and recently won Foreword's book of the year for THE BREATH OF PARTED LIPS: Voices from the Robert Frost Place.
Chax
Chax Press books celebrate the changing shape of
American poetry by giving you some of the most exciting
and challenging literary works of our time. Recently-published
writers include Paul Naylor, Linh Dinh, and Tenney Nathanson.
Chiasmus Press
Chiasmus Press is a Northwest, Portland-based literary collective intent on printing the most innovative emerging authors, those who have been excluded or have not yet been co-opted by the mainstream-print-industry or well established, often academically entrenched, forms of Avant-gardisms.
Chicago Network for Justice & Peace
The Chicago Network for Justice and Peace assists individuals and organizations in their efforts to promote literacy and the use of the literary arts for creating effective communication between and among cultures and groups within cultures. Their publications are daring, vital, and bring attention to many unacceptable political situations for writers and non-writers alike.
Chicory Blue Press
Chicory Blue Press is a small, feminist, literary
press, now focusing on the strong voices of women
over sixty. Founded in 1982, Chicory Blue Press
has published six trade paperbacks and twelve chapbooks.
Cinco Puntos Press
Publishing great books (for kids and adults) from
the U.S. / Mexico border, the Southwest, & Mexico
since 1985.
Coach House Books
Coach House Books publishes Canadian poetry, experimental
fiction, artist books and drama & they also publish
all their books online!
Coffeehouse Press
Coffee House Press is an award-winning, nonprofit
literary publisher. They produce books by people
who have been underrepresented in published literature,
books that shape the national consciousness while
strengthening a larger sense of community.
Common Courage Press
Since 1991 Common Courage has published books for social justice, helping progressive ideas find a place in our culture. It has sold a total of over one million copies since it’s founding, including books by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Phyllis Chesler and Howard Zinn.
Conundrum Press
Conundrum Press publishes graphic novels and
fiction: "The most innovative aspect of their books are
their refusal to be constrained by outmoded concepts
of genre," (Globe and Mail); "The most challenging
and original list in Canada," (Toronto’s Eye);
"Conundrum Press challenges readers, writers, and
publishers to expand their ideas of what books can be."
(Ottawa Xpress)
Copper Canyon
Press
The Chinese symbol on their spine stands for poetry,
and they have published some of the best: Primus
St. John, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda,
etcetera.
Counter Path
Counterpath Press is an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher that supports communities of readers and artists who are interested in linguistic and visual interventions in contemporary global culture.
Cracked Slab
Cracked Slab books was started to provide an outlet for experimental poetry and mixed media works.
Crown Point Press
Crown Point Press publishes artists' original etchings and also some books relating to printmaking and contemporary art. The press, founded in 1962, has a workshop, gallery, and bookstore at 20 Hawthorne Street, close to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Currently, its book publishing focus is the series Magical Secrets about... which began with Thinking Creatively and continues with Line Etching & Engraving , and (the third title, pub. 2008) Aquatint .
Cuneiform Press
Cuneiform continues to produce fine press editions, artists’ books, trade editions and broadsides by emerging and established poets.
CUZ Editions
CUZ Editions is a line of books in uniform format
published by Will Patton, Mette Madsen, and Richard
Meyers, and edited by Meyers (Richard Hell).
The Dancing Tree
Based in San Francisco, California, The Dancing Tree is an alliance of visual and performing artists seeking to facilitate, develop, perform, document and publish the stories of underrepresented people around the world. It encourages work that's content challenges accepted notions and stereotypes about persons outside of society's mainstream.
DC Books
DC Books is a Canadian literary press specializing in
fiction and poetry. It embodies a tradition of literary
innovation, dissent against convention, and artistic
facilitation that is second to none. These connections
extend beyond title and purpose.
Denver Quarterly
The Denver Quarterly, in its thirtieth year, has been
under Bin Ramke’s editorship for ten years during
which time he has presented the eclectic but renovative
re-envisioning of literary genre arising from the
University of Denver’s creative writing doctoral
program.
Detroit (MOCAD)
Detroit: is a cultural arts journal that includes art,
fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews published by
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD),
edited by Lynn Crawford. Each issue has a different
guest co-editor.
Doorjamb Press
Doorjamb Press is a non-profit small press comitted
to publishing alternative, contemporary poetry and
prose in the Detroit Area. Doorjamb publishes Dispatch
Detroit Journal of Poetry and Art twice a year.
Dos Madres
Founded in 2004 by Robert J. Murphy, Dos Madres Press is dedicated to the belief that the small press is essential to the vitality of contemporary literature as a carrier of the new voice and new works by established poets, as well as the older, sometimes forgotten voices of the past.
Duration Press
Broadening the conception of both "international"
and "national" poetry through their chapbook publications,
the Duration Press site also houses sites for a
multitude of SPD publishers. * Highly Recommended *
Effing Press
Effing Press hand-produces short run poetry books and
other literary print matter.
Eleven Eleven
Eleven Eleven is an annual journal of literature and art based at California College of the Arts. The aim of the publication is to provide a forum for risk and experimentation and to serve as an exchange between writers and artists.
Elixir Press
Elixir Press is a nonprofit publishing company,
specializing in high quality literature. Founded in 2000,
Elixir has twenty-four titles in print.
Essay Press
Essay Press is edited by Eula Biss, Stephen Cope, and Catherine Taylor. They "expect to put out an eclectic catalogue that will include a few well-known writers and many new or emerging authors."
Exact Change
Exact Change publishes books of experimental literature
with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics,
Fluxus, and other nineteenth and twentieth century
avant-garde art movements.
Fiction International
Published yearly by San Diego State University, Fiction International is the only literary journal in the United States with a combined emphasis on formal innovation and progressive politics.
Field Books/Ecopoetics
Ecopoetics is a journal for the twenty-first century,
dedicated to exploring creative-critical edges between
writing (with an emphasis on poetry) and ecology (the
theory and praxis of deliberate earthlings). Field Books
publishes works on paper by makers whose creativity
engages multiple disciplines, within and beyond the
book.
Fifth Planet Press
Fifth Planet Press, relocated from New York City to Atlanta, GA, in 1996, publishes writing by musicians.
First Intensity Press
As the magazine continues its impressive run, First Intensity has now begun publishing books, including a new one by Patrick Doud.
Five Seasons
Five Seasons Press has published Gary Snyder, Alan Halsey, Frances Horovitz, Paul Merchant and Michael Hamburger and is resuming its role as publisher of individually-designed books of poetry, graphics, essays and translation.
flim forum
flim forum is an independent press for the publication of new poetry.
Four Way Books
Four Way Books publishes established and emerging poets.
Fugue State Press
For fifteen years, Fugue State Press has published experimental, ambitious innovative novels of a high literary quality.
FuturePoem
Futurepoem books is a publishing collaborative dedicated to presenting innovative works of contemporary poetry and prose. They currently publish two titles per year, selected, designed and promoted by a rotating editorial panel.
Ghost Road Press
Ghost Road Press is a literary press in Denver in its
fourth year. It publishes poetry in a variety of forms
and voices, provocative fiction, and socially relevant
memoir and nonfiction essays, averaging twelve titles
per year. As a small press, GRP works closely with its
authors to create strong content and cultivate reading
audiences.
Gorgeous Notions
Gorgeous Notions, a New York press, recently published Leslie Woodard's collection of short stories.
Granary Books
Granary Books is a publisher of beautifully-produced
artists' books, poetry and the documentation thereof.
Hanging Loose
Hanging Loose Press, founded in 1966, publishes
Hanging Loose magazine and individual collections
of fiction and poetry, including the first books
of writers like Sherman Alexie and Kimiko Hahn.
Harbor Mountain
Harbor Mountain Press was established in January 2006 to publish six books annually. Harbor Mountain Press is a not-for-profit publisher located in Vermont, near Mt. Ascutney. Their interest is poetry which ranges near and far.
The Haworth Press
Haworth publishes books in a wide variety of subject areas for academic and professional audiences, with titles covering such topics as social work and human services, chronic fatigue syndrome, gerontology, gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered studies, herbal medicine, mental health, and much more.
Heyday Books
Heyday Books is dedicated to producing high-quality,
accessible books about California. Founded in 1974
by Malcolm Margolin, Heyday has maintained a highly-respected
list of titles covering California history and culture,
natural history, literature, poetry, regional guides,
and California Native American life for over 25
years.
Horse & Buggy Press
Publishers of City of Midnight Skies (available in a hand-printed version directly from their Web site, as well as a trade version from SPD), Horse & Buggy Press combines design, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking under one roof.
Host Publications
Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas HOST Publications is a press dedicated to bringing readers the best in international literature and the most exciting writing from the United States. Since its inception, HOST has published works from countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, Turkey and the United States.
Hot Whiskey
Hot Whiskey Press publishes poetry in the form of books, chapbooks and a magazine. They have recently published books and chapbooks by Clayton Eshelman, Anne Waldman and Elizabeth Robinson to name a few.
Ibis Editions
Founded in Jerusalem in 1998, Ibis Editions is dedicated to the publication of Levant-related books of poetry and belletristic prose. The press publishes translations from Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, French, and the other languages of the region and is motivated by the belief that literary work can serve as an important vehicle for the promotion of understanding between individuals and peoples, and for the discovery of common ground.
Impetus Press
Impetus Press was created to bridge the gap between experimental and commerical publishing. Impetus publishes serious works of literary fiction with a pop or urban sensibility.
Inkworks Press
Inkworks formed in 1974 as a worker managed, union printshop. They are the publishers of Visions of Peace and Justice.
Jargon Society
A not for profit, public corporation devoted to
charitable, educational and literary purposes, the
Jargon Society and its numerous publications represent
the singular editorial vision of their publisher
Jonathan Williams.
Kaya Press
A publisher of Asian/diasporic literature and culture,
Kaya's site is a model for taking literature &
politics online.
Kearney
Street Press
A glimpse into Asian Pacific American culture as
expressed by some of the most talented artists and
writers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kelsey St. Press
Kelsey St. Press has been publishing innovative
writing by women since 1974.
Kenning Editions
Kenning Editions was founded in 1998 to publish Kenning: A Newsletter of Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, and Nonfiction Writing. The press now publishes poetry and hybrid-genre works in the tradition of radical modernism, including archival collections by established authors, bilingual editions by international authors, and debut volumes by emerging authors from the U.S.
Krupskaya
Books
A new press out of San Francisco, Krupskaya publishes
innovative poetry & fiction. Krupskaya has published books
by Tyrone Williams, Kevin Killian, Sarah Anne Cox
& Taylor Brady, Laura Moriarty, Rob Halpern, and Norma Cole, to name a few.
Leaping Dog Press
Publishers of contemporary literature with bark and bite, Leaping Dog has publishes fiction, poetry, and translations. Their list includes Greg Boyd, Eric Paul Shaffer, Marie Redonnet translated by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, and many other compelling new writers.
Left
Hand Books
Books by Dick Higgins, Allison Knowles and other
Fluxus and Fluxus-influenced art.
Livingston Press
Founded in 1983, Livingston Press publishes "Offbeat and Southern Literature" as well as regional history.
Long River Press
Long River Press is an independent small press publishing books on all aspects of traditional and contemporary Chinese history, society, art, and culture.
Long Shot Productions
Launched with the assistance of Beat poet Allen
Ginsberg in 1982, Long Shot continues to publish
literary luminaries with connections to an array
of countercultures.
Maisonneuve Press
Maisonneuve Press began publishing in 1988 as a
division of the Institute for Advanced Cultural
Studies, a non-profit organization committed to
progressive social change through cultural analysis
and education.
Make Now Press
Make Now Press publishes contemporary works of constraint and conceptual literature, including a revised and updated edition of the OULIPO COMPENDIUM.
Mango Publishing
Mango Publishing is a small independent press based
in London, UK. It publishes literary works, including
poetry, by authors of Caribbean, Latin American and
Black British heritage. Its catalogue lists several dual-language
editions of important works not originally
written in English.
Many Mountains Moving
Many Mountains publishes a literary magazine and sponsors annual poetry and fiction contests. The journal features work by popular, widely anthologized writers along with the up and coming.
Many Names Press
Many Names Press, founded by printer/poet Kate Hitt in Santa Cruz County, California as an environmentally aware offset and letterpress printing office in 1993, continues to address social, economic and
environmental issues through graphic design and award-winning books
of lasting quality. Over half of the authors are seniors, women and
fine artists.
Margie Review
MARGIE is an annual review of poetry, containing approximately 400 pages, published in the autumn of each year. MARGIE publishes superlative poetry without restriction to form, school or subject matter.
Marick Press
Marick Press is not-for-profit literary publisher, founded to preserve the best work by poets of the American Midwest, including many underpublished women poets.
Mayapple Press
Mayapple Press is a small press established in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. They specialize in contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories.
Mercury House
Mercury House is a nonprofit press guided by a dedication to literary values and works of social significance, with an especially strong emphasis on translation, multicultural titles, and fiction.
Monkfish Book Publishing
Monkfish intends to publish books of spiritual and literary merit, focusing on memoirs, fiction, scholarly works, and spiritual journalism.
Moore Black Press
Moore Black Press was created by poet Jessica Care Moore in 1997. The press focuses on bringing education to young people through poetry, hip-hop seminars, and workshops and publishes poets asha bandela, Etan Thomas and Ras Baraka, among others.
Moving Parts Press
Moving Parts Press has published handsome and innovative
books, broadsides and prints under the direction
of Felicia Rice since 1977. These editions of new
literature, works in translation, and contemporary
art explore the relationship of word and image,
typography and the visual arts, the fine arts and
popular culture.
New Clarion Press
New Clarion Press is an independent UK publisher of books on history, politics and social policy written from a radical perspective.
New Pacific Press
Established in 2001, New Pacific Press is dedicated to publishing primarily socio-political, economic cultural studies whose scholarly, personal, poetic, mixed-media presentations reflect the multiplicity of cultural work being done in the greater
Bay Area and throughout the Pacific Rim(s).
O Books
O Books publishes innovative works of contemporary
poetry as well as essays and plays by poets. The
O Books list includes younger, emerging writers
and also renowned poets such as Alice Notley, the
late Ted Berrigan, Robert Grenier, Fanny Howe, Carla
Harryman, Tom Raworth and others.
OmniArts, LLC
Omni Arts publishes artful anthologies of creative nonfiction
presenting diverse voices and points of view on
poignant contemporary subjects. OmniArts, LLC is
dedicated to donating a portion of profits from book
sales to progressive charitable purposes relevant to
each book title’s subject matter.
Palm Press
Palm Press is an independent press located in Long Beach, California, publishing writers whose work challenges notions of genre and navigates the spaces between academic and non-academic discourse in poetry, essay, cultural studies, narrativity and theory. Authors include Juliana Spahr, Jonathan Skinner, and Mairead Byrne.
Paradigm Press
Some of the best known poets, from Susan Howe to
Charles Bernstein to Rosmarie Waldrop, have published
books or chapbooks on Paradigm.
Past Tents Press
Past Tents Press is a non-profit small press founded
in 1985 to support and publish writers who live,
work or have a history of commitment and involvement
in Detroit's communities.
Pleasure Boat Studio
Pleasure Boat Studio is a desktop publishing company
operated by Jack Estes on Bainbridge Island publishing
poetry, fiction, and nonfiction in English language
original and translation.
Plum Branch Press
Plum Branch Press recently published collections from Matthew McKay and Deborah Cumming.
Poltroon Press
Poltroon Press was founded in 1975 with the aim
of printing innovative work in both content and
format. We have pulbished poetry, fiction, bibliographies,
artist books, books on landscape design, architecture,
posters, typography, etc.
Portal Press
Portal Publications is one of the world's largest publishers of graphic arts.
Post-Apollo Press
The Post Apollo Press was founded in Sausalito, California in 1982, specializing in writing by women. Writers published on Post Apollo include internationally-known poets Etel Adnan and Anne-Marie Albiach, and novelists Marguerite Duras and Ulla Berke'wicz.
Practice Press
Mixing more traditional prose with innovative art and
poetry, PRACTICE attempts to break down the barriers
between these genres and pull them into conversation
with each other.
Printed Matter Press
Printed Matter Press is a publisher of poetry, fiction,
and non-fiction titles, both English-language originals
and translations from the Japanese.
Public House Press
Public House Press was born out of the writing scene that flourishes at San Francisco's renowned literary pub, the Edinburgh Castle, and specializes in Scottish and contemporary writing.
Quale Press
Quale Press is an independent, small publishing
house that also provides desktop-based services
to other publishers.
Quercus Review Press
Established in 2000, QR has quickly become a prominent literary arts journal, publishing numerous nationally recognized, award-winning authors and artists from around the world. Additionally, QR continues to discover new and emerging voices in fiction and poetry.
Rager Media
Rager Media, Inc. publishes books of high quality fiction and poetry, and is preparing to start new imprints for mystery novels, childrens's books, and various multimedia ventures.
RedBone Press
RedBone Press publishes work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream.
Red Letter Press
Red Letter Press aims to create attractive, readable, and low-cost publications that can change the world. Our books and Red Banner Reader booklets feature writings that advance human rights and combat prejudice, that educate about civil liberties, inform on international issues, analyze social problems, explore progressive political theories, and encourage dialogue and critical thought.
Redwood Coast Press
Redwood Coast Press puts out the Bite to East Place,
an international anthology of contemporary food
poetry and poetic prose.
R.L. Crow Publications
R.L. Crow Publications is a small publishing house publishing from one to five books and several limited edition broadsides per year. They currently focus on contemporary poetry and prose, leaning toward the Meat and Street styles of writing.
Ronsdale Press, Ltd.
Ronsdale Press is a literary house, based in Vancouver,
B.C. It specializes in non-fiction, poetry, fiction and
young adult novels.
Roof Books
As publisher of ROOF BOOKS and SEGUE BOOKS, SEGUE now has over 70 titles of contemporary poetry and criticism in print. In the late 1970s/early 80s, SEGUE published the poetry journal ROOF and distributed the critical journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, two of the early seminal publications of the "language" poetry movement.
SARU
SARU, founded in 1980 by the Society for the Advancement of Racial Unity, is an international writers cooperative publishing the best writing of the Pacific Basin, particularly in English, Spanish and Japanese, along with translations and bilingual editions.
Saturnalia Books
Saturnalia books was established in 2001 to publish small (under 100 pages) well-designed soft-cover books by both interesting new voices and established writers seeking to express themselves in unique ways that mainstream publishers may not be amenable to.
Scarlet Tanager Books
Scarlet Tanager Books publishes collections of poetry and short fiction.
Shearsman Books
Shearsman is a publisher of contemporary poetry in mostly late-modernist styles, now based in Exeter, England, and active since 1981. Shearsman publishes a magazine, a large number of books (all poetry, or poetry-related), and e-books, as well as the online Gallery series.
Shiny Magazine
Since its inception in 1986 in New York City, Shiny has been tracking an influential group of poetry and fiction innovators in a way that has made it a unique venue on the contemporary literary scene.
Silverfish Review Press
Silverfish Review Press, founded in 1978, is a non-profit independent literary press which has published the Silverfish Review magazine (which suspended publication in 1997) and poetry chapbooks, and which now sponsors the Gerald Cable Book Award and other book projects.
Singing Horse Press
Singing Horse Press was founded in 1976 to publish the kinds of innovative writing all too often overlooked by mainstream trade and academic presses. Singing Horse has produced a wide-ranging list of titles by a diverse group of authors, including Charles Bernstein, Harryette Mullen, Norman Fischer, and Rosmarie Waldrop, among others.
Six Gallery Press
Six Gallery Press publishes avant-garde fiction and
poetry often combining literature and art.
Sixteen Rivers Press
Sixteen Rivers Press is a shared-work, nonprofit poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for San Francisco Bay Area poets. Founded in 1999 by seven writers, the press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into the San Francisco Bay.
Skanky Possum
Started by Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith, Skanky Possum
comes out of Austin, Texas. The press is their "very
low-fi attempt to share poetry with friends and
poets around the world."
Slope Editions
Slope Editions was created with the same goal in mind as the online literary journal Slope: to present readers with the finest and most eclectic array of poetry being written in English today. Each year, Slope releases several softcover books that defy convention and categorization. Along with their innovative, moving and daring content, Slope Editions books are recognizable for the high quality of their design.
Small Desk Press
Small Desk Press publishes writing by emerging
artists, and supports writing that challenges
conventional divisions of experimental, narrative,
poetry and/or prose. Small Desk Press seeks to present
an eclectic aesthetic that gives primacy to no one
school or style of writing.
Soultheft Records
Spout Press
Spout Press publishes the finest in contemporary experimental writing.
Starcherone Books
Starcherone Books's mission is to publish new works of innovative fiction and reprints of classic avant-garde works that have gone out of print.
Straw Gate
Straw Gate Books, founded by Phyllis Wat in 2005, publishes poetry and occasional related texts. They focus on works by women and non-polemical writing with an underlying social content.
Stride Publications
With its commitment to innovative poetry and fiction
by known and unknown authors, a wide-ranging anthology
series, Conversation Pieces featuring criticism
and interviews, and a series of Stride Research
Documents, it's no wonder the Times Literary Supplement
called Stride 'one of the most impressive small
presses'.
Suspect Thoughts Press
Suspect Thoughts Press is a terrible infant hell-bent to burn the envelope by publishing dangerous books by contemporary authors and poets exploring provocative social, political, queer, spiritual, and sexual themes.
Swan King Editions
Swam Lomg Edotopms recently published Michael Parkes' THE ART OF MICHAEL PARKES.
Swan Scythe Press
Founded in 1999 by Sandra McPherson, Swan Scythe Press's mission is to discover and publish some of the best new poets in America today. Swan Scythe is located in Davis, CA.
Switchback Books
Switchback Books is a feminist press publishing poetry by women. Founded in 2006 by a group of students at Columbia College Chicago, Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first book of poetry by a woman aged 18 through 39.
Talisman House
Publishers
Talisman House specializes in poetry but also publishes
essay collections and literary autobiographies.
Their latest Journal of Comtemporary Poetry and
Poetics features a history of contemporary poetry
from 1970 to the present.
Talon Books
Based in Vancouver, the venerable Talon Books publishes
poetry, fiction and drama, as well as non-fiction
books in ethnography and social issues.
Targum Press
Publisher of Jewish books for children, teens, and adults including novels, self-help, psychology and classics of Jewish law.
Tarpaulin Sky
Tarpaulin Sky Press publishes cross-/trans-genre work as well as innovative poetry and prose. They produce full-length books and chapbooks, handbound books and trade paperbacks, and offer both handbound and perfectbound paperback editions of our full-length books.
TamTam Books
TamTam Books is devoted to reprinting lost masterpieces,
presenting them to a large English speaking audience.
Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg authored TamTam's
first two titles.
Tebot Bach
Tebot Bach (Welsh for 'little teapot') is a non-profit dedicated to strengthening community, promoting literacy, and broadening the audience for poetry through Community Outreach Programs and publishing. Tebot Bach also publishes the on-line newspaper Southern California Poetix.
Telos Press
For forty years, the quarterly journal Telos has been providing an international forum for philosophy and politics, bringing critical theory to bear on contemporary debates.
Third Woman Press
Dedicated to women's literature from a broad ethnic
spectrum, T.W.P. is also the original publisher
of Theresa Cha's watershed novel Dictée.
Tibor de Nagy Editions
The Tibor de Nagy Gallery, founded in New York in 1950 and closely associated since then with the work of the New York school of poetry, publishes catalogues of artists' exhibitions, special editions of poetry, and collaborations between poets, artists, and critics.
Time Being Books
Time Being Books is a not-for-profit press specializing in adult contemporary poetry. We publish national and international authors, and our books emphasize such themes as the Holocaust, cultural exploration, the creative process, rites of passage, love, parenthood/childhood, ecology, light verse, and historical events.
Tinfish Press
A non-profit organization founded in 1995, Tinfish publishes a journal of experimental poetry from the Pacific, including Hawai`i, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Australia, California, and western Canada. The press also produces books of poetry and experimental prose, some of it written in Hawai`i Creole English (Pidgin). Tinfish uses recycled materials--including tarpaper, weather maps, proof sheets, and hamburger sleeves--to cover its always un-recycled poetry and prose.
TNI Books
TNI Books, founded in Seattle in 1999, aims to present compelling literary products with, unashamedly, a hardy nod toward the spirit of independent rock and roll. TNI is interested in the voices of writers and other artists engaged in language, story, and style on both a personal and cultural level. We focus on presenting these voices in the form of books and other book-like projects.
Tougher Disguises
Dedicated to poetry, Tougher Disguises also sponsors the Jack Spicer
Award for poetry in addition to its regular publications.
Tsar Publications
TSAR Publications is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. Our focus is on works that can loosely be termed "multicultural" and particularly those that pertain to Asia and Africa.
Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press, Inc., which released its first five books in fall 2001, is an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry and literary fiction by emerging and established writers.
Twisted Spoon Press
Twisted Spoon Press is an independent publisher
devoted to publishing new writing, translation and
graphic art. Based in Prague, it offers a unique
selection of literature in English from Central
Europe, whether from native writers or the expatriate
community.
Ugly Duckling Press
Ugly Duckling Presse is a not-for-profit collective publishing non-commercial poetry and literature, collaborations, periodicals, and experimental artist books.
It is open to new projects, submissions, and manuscript proposals and distributes its books and magazines to more than 50 hand-picked bookstores in North America and Europe.
Vagabond Press
Vagabond Press is dedicated to publishing vital, innovative literary works by presenting the essential writers of the future to the reader today.
Van Gogh’s Ear
An annual poetry/prose anthology published by Paris-based French Connection Press in conjunction with Allen Ginsberg’s Committee on Poetry in New York.
Van West & Company
Van West & Company is an independent publisher devoted
to poetry. Founded in 1999 and located in Ballard
(a fishing village that is part of Seattle) they
have published Molly Tenenbaum and Melinda Mueller,
among others.
Vehicle Editions
Vehicle Editions has employed commercial printers
and binders for some titles, done all handwork at
the kitchen table for others. The authors of Vehicle
Editions share an intensive and intimate relationship
with language itself.
Vitally Important
The independent publisher with emphasis on the curious, the original, and the difficult to categorize.
Viz. INTER-ARTS
Viz. INTER-ARTS wishes to explore the relationship among the arts and encourage the transgression of boundaries between genres.
Washington Writer's Publishing House
Washington Writers' Publishing House is a non-profit organization that has published over 50 volumes of poetry since 1973.
Wave Books/Verse Press
Wave Books and Verse Press are currently focusing on poetry by younger American poets, poetry in translation, and creative prose by poets. Early efforts include Joe Wenderoth's LETTERS TO WENDY'S and James Tate's DREAMS OF A ROBOT DANCING BEE.
West House Books
West House sees the relationship between publisher and author as a unique collaboration and aims to involve its poets in all aspects of a book’s production. They publish pamphlets, as well as more substantial books produced in association with Five Seasons Press and with the North American publishers Chax and Coach House.
Whereabouts Press
Whereabouts Press publishes collections of stories about specific locales, under the philosophy that good stories reveal as much, or more, about a place as any map or guidebook. Popular titles on Greece, Cuba, Amsterdam and Australia are already available.
Whit Press
Whit Press is a Seattle based nonprofit publishing organization dedicated to the promotion of literary work from women writers, writers from ethnic, social, and economic minorities, young writers, and first-time authors.
White Pine
Based in Buffalo, NY, White Pine publishes poetry,fiction, essays, short stories and literature in translation.
Wings Press
Wings Press, which has been publishing fiction and poetry since 1977, was called "the best little publishing house in Texas" by the Bloomsbury Review. Wings specializes in Latino and Chicano literature.
Winterhouse Editions
William Drenttel Editions is a publisher of limited and trade editions of literary works, books on design, and other important texts which might be neglected by ordinary publishing routes.
Xenos Books
Xenos specializes in experimental fiction, unusual memoirs and selected literary criticism, and in translations of poetry and prose with facing original text. In the midst of mass-media entertainments and cynically calculated conditioned reflexes Xenos Books plays a role in keeping original literature alive.
XOXOX Press
Based in Gambier, Ohio, XOXOX Press publishes fiction, poetry, and cookbooks. One of its primary goals is matching writers with readers.
Yellow Moon Press
Yellow Moon Press is committed to publishing material from the various arts of the oral tradition. It is our goal to make available material that both explores the history of the oral tradition and breathes new life into it. We started by publishing poetry in 1978 but realized over the next several years that our interest was really the spoken word as an oral tradition, which led us to storytelling and then music.
Zasterle Press
Zasterle, out of La Laguna in the Canary Islands, has published over 40 poets since 1989, all of whom fall within a framework of poetic innovation. Zasterle’s motto is: "everything changes, everything converges."
Zephyr Press
Zephyr Press, a non-profit arts and education organization, publishes literary titles that foster deeper understanding of cultures and languages. Since its first forays into American poetry and prose in 1980, Zephyr has expanded its list to include a series of Russian and Slavic literature, and most recently an East Asian line of books.
Zone 3 Press
Zone 3 is a non-profit publisher of poetry, fiction, and
a journal that is produced twice a year by the Center of
Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State
University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
