This collection of interviews with women actively engaged in small press publishing in the latter half of the twentieth century contains invaluable insights into a variety of approaches to independent publishing as well as illuminating histories of literary movements of the era. Readers hear directly from editors and publishers including Hettie Jones on Yugen, a journal that brought together the Beats, the Black Mountain poets, and the New York School poets of the late 1950s; Rosmarie Waldrop on Burning Deck Press, which published titles by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lyn Hejinian, Marjorie Welish, and many others between 1961 and 2017; Alice Notley on the nine issues of Chicago magazine published between 1972 and 1974; Patricia Spears Jones on WB, Ordinary Women, and the Heresies Collective; C. D. Wright on Lost Roads Press; and Lee Ann Brown on Tender Buttons Press.
