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Afterwords Literature

Features a superb search engine to locate small press publications by several Canadian concrete and experimental poets.

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Anabasis Press

Atelos Press

Avec Press

California experimental poetry press, also interested in translations of French. Has published Norma Cole, Michael Palmer and Rae Armantrout.

Avenue B Press (cite)

See also Avenue B list

Barefoot Press

South African press which distributes in Samizdat fashion free poetry pamphlets featuring the work of regional authors.

Barque Press

Barrytown, Ltd.

Bathurst Street Press

Black Sparrow Press

The Santa Rosa, CA press responsible for the beautiful Charles Bukowski monographs.

Book Unbound

Burning Deck Press (cite)

Providence, RI press edited by Keith and Rosemary Waldrop. Since 1962, press has welcomed experimental poetry and published high-quality pieces.

Caju Press

Press focuses on South Asian writers and their folk literature in translation.

Chax Press

Since 1984, publisher of fine art and trade paperback editions of innovative writing. Titles by Tom Mandel, Karen Mac Cormack, Myung Mi Kim, Hank Lazer, and many others.

City Lights

Coach House Books

Influential Canadian press publishing Canadian writers since 1965. Current offerings feature Michael Ondaatje, Gary Barwin, Stuart Ross amongst others.

Copper Canyon Press (cite)

Port Townsend, WA press specializing in multicultural and feminist poetry rather than experimental or concrete poetry.

Cyanobacteria Publications

Welcoming those who want to experiment, Cyanobacteria is lusciously innovative. Publishing Glossolalia as well as electronic chapbooks, this press is a prophet of the open-minded attitude of web publishing.

Edge Books

Editions Herisson (cite)

Editions Phi (cite)

Elemenope (cite)

What could be said of Elemenope other than they are responsible for producing the long-desired Live at the Ear - the first audio-anthology of Post-Modern Language Poetry and a necessity for anyone who longs for an understanding of modern American poetry.

Ex Nihilo Press

Exact Change

Figures

Maine publisher of language poetry.

Fingerprinting Inkoperated

Canadian haven for experimental and visual poetry including realia.

Flood Editions

Futurepoem books

Generator Press (cite)

Granary Books

Grist On-Line (New York)

Handwritten Press

Hard Press

New York press issuing innovative pieces such as poem-postcards on a regular basis from a range of poets.

The Impercipient Lecture Series (cite)

Indra's Net

Instress Saratoga, CA

California publisher has a solid catalogue of innovative poetry pieces and also produces Inscape and Windhover zines.

Jargon Society

Kelsey St. Press

Berkeley, CA press focusing on experimental women poets.

Koja Press

Krupskaya

Leave Books (Buffalo) (cite)

See also Leave | Leave April'95 | Juliana Spahr

Light & Dust Poets

Contemporary poetry press edited by Karl Young. Site features samples of published poets -- a list which is extensive and impressive.

Lingo (West Stockbridge, MA)

Lit Press

Online guide to poetry publishers hosted by L.A. Books, the Los Angeles cooperative of publishers.

Littoral Books / Los Angeles (via L.A. Books)

Logopoeia

Lollipop: List of Little Press Publications (UK)

Many Press

Mayapple Press

Michigan press interested in Great Lakes poets.

McPherson & Company

Founded in 1974 by Bruce McPherson, this Kingston, N.Y. press specializes in high quality editions of American fiction and non fiction works and also some Italian translations.

Meow Press

Meow Press, a small press publisher of mostly poetry chapbooks, has been in operation since 1993, and is celebrating the publication of its 50th chapbook in July 1998.

National Poetry Foundation

Orono, Me. based publishing wing of Sydney Pollet's Foundation

New Directions

Ninth Lab Chapbooks (full text)

Press edited by Jake Berry interested in language poets. Publications are available in paper or electronic format and are featured on the EPC.

O Books

Oakland, CA publisher featuring an extensive list of emerging and established poets.

Paisan Press

Pavement Saw Press

Penguin Books

Corporate publisher's site offering an impressive list of canon texts and paperbacks.

Pleasure Boat Studio

Poetry Mission

Postypographika Press

Web-publishing body exploring visual and postmodern poetry.

Potes & Poets Press

Small Elmwood, Ct. press founded in 1980 edited by Peter Ganick issuing limited editions of contemporary language and experimental poetry. Past works published from Charles Bernstein, Bruce Andrews and Leslie Scalapino.

Prest Roots Press (cite)

10 year old British small press publishing such emerging writers as Paul Green and Peter Larkin.

Primitive Publications / Washington DC (cite)

Public Works (cite)

Reality Street Editions

British publisher interested in promoting the works of recognizable U.K. poets.

Roof Books

Premier publishers of innovative North American poetry and criticism, with over 70 titles in print.In the late 1970s/early 80s, SEGUE published the poetry journal ROOF and distributed thecritical journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, two of the early seminal publications of the "language" poetrymovement.

Room Temperature

SALT

Second Story Books
Seeing Eye Books / Los Angeles (via L.A. Books)
Segue Books

Shuffaloff / Buffalo & Toronto (cite)

A Small Garlic Press

In Kennewick, Washington exists an exuberent modern poetry press with a peculiarly engaging name. A.S.G.P. is responsible for producing affordable chapbooks that will impress you with what the future holds for contemporary poetry.

Spanner

Allen Fisher imprint also serves as distributor of selected volumes of poetry

Spectacular Books
Station Hill Press

Publishing a variety of modern poetry (amongst other subjects), Station Hill Press has a well organized site which features a superb catalogue befitting the quality pieces which this press produces.

Story Line Press (cite)

Oregon publisher of U.S. and U.K. poets (primarily narrative) headed by Robert McDowell and funded by the Nicholas Roerich Museum of N.Y.

Subpress Collective

Subtext (Seattle)

Sun & Moon Website

Groundbreaking California press edited by Douglas Messerli. Arguably the premier small press for language poets.

Tailspin Press (cite)

Talisman Jersey City
Tender Buttons Books (cite)

Tender Buttons Press
Texture Press (cite)

Spirited Norman Oklahoma press directed by Susan Smith Nash.

Tinfish Press
Tuumba Press
Underwich Editions
United Artists Books

University of Alabama Modern and Contemporary Poetry Series
University of Illinois Press

Long-standing poetry press producing anthologies and single author works.

Viet Nam Generation, Inc. (cite)

Kali Tal's thought-provoking press devoted to the spirit of the 1960's. Catalogue of past publications is thorough, sincere and inviting.

Washington Review Online

We Press

Wellsweep Press

John Cayley's British publishing organization specializing in translations of Chinese literature.

Wesleyan University Press
Writer's Forum (UK)

Xenos Press

Site is in development

Xexoxial Endarchy

Multimedia press from Wisconsin run by the dynamic duo -- Miekal And and Liz Was. Catalogue of previous press publications is impressive and its diversity in formats in which it has published pieces is without comparison.

xPress(ed)
Ye Olde Font Shop

Located in Manchester, CT, this unique shop offers artists and poets interesting things to purchase. In addition, their website offers to "publish your poetry" on the web and supply you with love and fame and all those other goodies that we "became" poets in order to experience.

Zasterle Press