For over 50 years every title published by the press has been kept in print.

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For more than half a century, Hanging Loose has championed the work of authors marginalized by mainstream publishing—work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class or socioeconomic status. We continue today, in pursuit of this mission, to look for ways of broadening our creative and cultural scope.

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Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman

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Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman
Jam Session and other Poems
I Used To Be Korean
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Featured Author

Catching Up With Dan O’Brien

Catching Up With Dan O’Brien

Dan O’Brien is an internationally produced and published playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition in playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. O’Brien’s poetry collections are the newly published Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books), Our Cancers (Acre Books), Scarsdale (Measure Press & CB Editions), New Life (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), and War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press & CB Editions), which in the UK received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Latest News

Harley Elliott is Our Allies

Harley Elliott is Our Allies

Harley Elliott, Hanging Loose Press author of Darkness at Each Elbow, Animals That Stand in Dreams, and The Mercy of Distance is exhibiting his Allies series at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Salina, Kansas.

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Are Poets the Original Chat Bots?

Are Poets the Original Chat Bots?

You be the judge at this official Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event! Yearnings of a Chat Bot: The romantic ideation of the half human/half robot is one that we have been musing since computerized...

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