We kicked off HLP 60 and National Poetry Month at the Center for Brooklyn History on April 20th! Jiwon Choi, Miguel Coronado, Kimiko Hahn, D. Nurkse, and Rebecca Suzuki drew inspiration from CBH’s...
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Send Us Your Good Words
In 2026, for the first time in Hanging Loose Press's 60 year history, we will welcome your poems, short stories and flash fiction via email. One of the few presses who still asks for paper...
BKBF 2025 Bookend Poetry Reading: We Are the Genre
Poets Jordan Franklin, Caroline Hagood, Paula Cisewski, Jiwon Choi, and Matthew Daddona will embark on a candid exploration of how we embody our own forms of writing, whether we’re engaged in...
Hanging Loose Magazine
Hanging Loose has published well over 10,000 pages of poetry, prose, and art in our magazine spanning for more than half a century.
From loose pages to issue 119 of our magazine, an anthology of over 100 HLP poets, over a decade of the Loose Award for translated works, the Founders prize for first book in its third year, and a bunch of great books in the works, we couldn’t have come this far without you.