Happy to see Barbara Henning's book Girlfriends on Itasca's top 10 titles from CLMP member presses in August!
Hanging Loose Press
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Award-winning independent press and magazine founded in 1966—an oldie but a goodie.
Hanging Loose interns transcribing unpublished David Shapiro poems for a special supplement forthcoming in Hanging Loose issue 120. He is also the featured artist. www.tiktok.com/@hanging.loo... #poetry #litmag
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Hanging Loose editor talks about our press with Červená Barva Press. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJZ3...
PUBLISHER'S TALK / MARK PAWLAK / HANGING LOOSE PRESS
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Co-editor Joanna Fuhrman working with the team of Hanging Loose interns in Newark. #smallpresspoetry
IALA’s New York City Chapter is pleased to invite you to a reading in celebration of Armenian voices, in collaboration with @hangingloosepress.bsky.social, at @bookculture.com. 🍎 🗓️ August 13, 2026 🕛 7:00 PM ET 📍 26-09 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY. Register here: bit.ly/4hGG17W
Brooklyn Book launch for Starr Davis' new book Affidavit at Brooklyn Poets this Friday.
Today's Feature: "Ofrendas" by @kkovacik.bsky.social from Portable City published by Hanging Loose Press Read here: poems.com/poem/ofrendas/
Ofrendas
your breast a dartboard, lush papaya packed with yellow fat
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Check out Starr Davis talking about her new Hanging Loose Book with Radha Marcum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwj5...
The Form Survival Takes: Poet Starr Davis on Affidavit
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Donna Brooks poems from 2008 about editing for Hanging Loose Press.
Joanna Fuhrman@joannafuhrman.bsky.social · 4mo agoI totally forgot about this Donna Brook poem so was surprised to see my name in it. (I’ll let you know when I stop crying.)
Don't forget to send us work this month. You have until JUNE 30th to email us poems and prose.
Maria Dylan Himmelman’s poetry collection “honors the memory of three Hanging Loose founders: Ron Schreiber, Emmett Jarrett, and Robert Hershon.” Read SUNDRY ABDUCTIONS, published by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social, this #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: www.hangingloosepress.com/book/sundry-...
Sundry Abductions - Hanging Loose Press
Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman is winner of the inaugural Hanging Loose Press Founders Award. This annual award for a first book of poems honors the memory of three Hanging Loose…
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Joel Lewis’s WELL YOU NEEDN’T is on our reading list for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth! In this collection published by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social, Lewis “gathers his poems about the music that has occupied him since his teenage years.” www.hangingloosepress.com/book/well-yo...
Well You Needn’t - Hanging Loose Press
Well You Needn’t, Joel Lewis’s seventh volume of poetry, gathers his poems about the music that has occupied him since his teenage years. The prose memoir “My Life as a Jazz Fan” weaves its way…
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Check out the forthcoming book by Starr Davis is featured on the Wardrobe. sundressblog.com/2026/04/27/t...
The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Affidavit by Starr Davis - The Sundress Blog
This selection, chosen by Guest Editor Claudia Santos, is from Affidavit by Starr Davis (Hanging Loose Press 2026). AFFIDAVIT I I CONFIRM I have never known any fathers. I do not know this one...
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Karen Kovacik’s PORTABLE CITY is “primarily a travelogue composed of introspections on movement through both the physical world and nonlinear timelines.” From @hangingloosepress.bsky.social & our #WomensHistoryMonth list: www.hangingloosepress.com/book/portabl...
Portable City - Hanging Loose Press
Portable City is primarily a travelogue composed of introspections on movement through both the physical world and nonlinear timelines. Introducing the concrete and the abstract to one another, it is…
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Read Jayne Cortez’s ON THE IMPERIAL HIGHWAY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS this #BlackHistoryMonth! According to Maya Angelou, Cortez “has been and continues to be an explorer, probing the valleys and chasms of human existence.” @hangingloosepress.bsky.social itascabooks.com/products/on-...
On the Imperial Highway: New and selected Poems
Jayne Cortez (1936-2012) was the author of eleven books of poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice was celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic…
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We are so excited that The Becoming Game by Paula Cisewski is a finalist for the Minnesota book award! (Link to buy in comments) thefriends.org/minnesota-bo...
Minnesota Book Artist Award Announced - The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
The Minnesota Book Awards is pleased to announce Jana Pullman as the winner of the 2013 Minnesota Book Artist Award sponsored by Lerner Publishing Group.
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jacket2.org/podcasts/gam... Check out this week's Poemtalk. Ernest Hilbert, Guy D'Annolfo, and Larry Robin talk about three poems from Thomas Devaney's Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press, 2019):
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Less than two weeks! Please send us your best work!
WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU Hanging Loose Press is still going, and hoping to do so for many years to come with your support. . You can access our second ever online fundraiser and auction at: givebutter.com/BxQCf6
HLP 60: We remain printed—and we’re proud of that
We couldn't do it without you!
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A poem for my brother in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, in fine company. Many thanks to editor @jamiepcameron.bsky.social thelondonmagazine.org
Hanging Loose history. Please send us your best work.
“And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk.” Read M. L. Smoker’s ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE (@hangingloosepress.bsky.social) this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth: www.hangingloosepress.com/book/another...
Another Attempt at Rescue - Hanging Loose Press
Paper: ISBN 978-1-931236-51-5 $14Hard Cover: ISBN 978-1-931236-52-2 $24
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Out today from @hangingloosepress.bsky.social: THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by @koimolove.bsky.social, translated from the Swahili by yours truly. The first collection of Swahili Afro-Speculative fiction to come alive in English. Scoop it up! itascabooks.com/products/the... #booksky
The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories
The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories is the first full-length book of fiction by award-winning contemporary Tanzanian author Esther Karin Mngodo. Its seven stories, translated from Swahili, ra...
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We are excited to announce the release of Paula Cisewski's book The Becoming Game. The official release date is tomorrow.
