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Small Press Points
by Staff
July/August 2010
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features Blue Hour Press, an independent poetry publisher in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that is “dedicated to bridging the gap between the beauty and tradition of print and the accessibility and possibility of the Web, releasing digital chapbooks that are satisfying, respectable, and innovative.”
Small Press Points
by Staff
May/June 2010
Small Press Points highlights the happenings of the small press players. This issue features CityLit Press, an independent publisher based in Baltimore that provides a venue for writers who might otherwise be ignored by larger independent or commercial publishers.
Q&A: April Ossmann’s Alice James Fix
by Kevin Larimer
March/April 2009
April Ossmann, who recently stepped down as executive director of Alice James Books, the Farmington, Maine–based nonprofit cooperative poetry press founded in 1973, spoke about her time at Alice James from her home in Post Mills, a snowy hamlet in eastern Vermont.
The Contester: Down Came a Contest, Cradle and All
by Kevin Larimer
November/December 2008
The brief, contentious, and ultimately fruitless relationship between poet Stacey Lynn Brown and the editors of Cider Press, points to an essential question that pops up often in literary publishing: Whose opinion—author's or publisher's—should matter most when it comes to finalizing the product that enters the marketplace as a book?
Q&A: Twichell Passes Ausable Torch
by Kevin Larimer
September/October 2008
Poet Chase Twichell talks about the decision to end her ten-year run as publisher and hand over her independent press to the nation’s largest poetry publisher, Copper Canyon Press.
The Nothing That Is: A Profile of Matthew Sharpe
by Mary Gannon
March/April 2007
In his new novel, Jamestown, small press superstar Matthew Sharpe turns to history—sort of.
Host Publications
by Mary Gannon
September/October 2006
Slowly but surely, the independent press Host has established a reputation as a publisher of literary translations from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, and Uruguay.
Poetry's Roadshow
by Timothy Schaffert
September/October 2006
Fueled by equal parts biodiesel gas and small press ambition, the Wave Books 2006 Poetry Bus Tour is scheduled to roll through forty-nine cities during the next two months, beginning in Seattle on September 4.
Q&A: Jacobs Steps In at Feminist Press
by Eleanor Henderson
July/August 2006
During her third month on the job, Jacobs spoke about her new position as executive director of the oldest independent publisher of women's writing in the world.
The Contester: The Collapse of Neil Azevedo's Zoo
by Thomas Hopkins
May/June 2006
Two years after the failure of Zoo Press's fiction contests in 2004, founder Neil Azevedo responds about more controversy surrounding its poetry contests.