To celebrate the end of our first online auction, we are having a reading for poets with new and forthcoming (in ’24 or ’25) Hanging Press Books.
Check out our fundraiser and auction. New items to come.
And please join us at the zoom event.
Poets reading include:
SHERMAN ALEXIE was first published by Hanging Loose in 1988. They’ll publish his new book of poems in 2025. It doesn’t have a damn title yet. He lives with his family in Seattle.
INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM’S Seer is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press. He is a publisher at Beltway Editions.
PAULA CISEWSKI’S poetry collection, The Becoming Game, is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press in spring of 2025. She is also the author of Ceremony for No Repair (Beauty School Editions, 2024), Quitter (Diode Editions Book Prize winner), The Threatened Everything (Burnside Review Press), Ghost Fargo (Nightboat Poetry Prize winner, selected by Franz Wright), Upon Arrival (Black Ocean), and several chapbooks.
STARR DAVIS is the winner of the second annual Hanging Loose Press Founder’s Award. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, the Rumpus, and Catapult. She has been recognized as a fellow at The Luminary, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and PEN America.
BARBARA HENNING has published five novels and eight collections of poetry, most recently, Ferne, a Detroit Story (Spuyten Duyvil Press, Michigan Notable Book 2023) and a collection of prose poems, Digigram (United Artists Books 2020). A native Detroiter, she lives in Brooklyn. Girlfriend is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press.
CARLIE HOFFMAN is the winner of the 2023 Loose Translation Award for her translation of Blütenlese by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, forthcoming with Hanging Loose Press. She is the author of two collections of poetry, When There Where Was Light (Four Way Books 2023) and This Alaska (Four Way Books 2021).
MARIA DYLAN HIMMELMAN is the author of Sundry Abductions (Hanging Loose Press 2021), winner of the Founders Award. Her poems appear in Image Journal, Nimrod, Plume, New Ohio Review and elsewhere.
KAREN KOVACIK’S third collection Portable City is forthcoming from Hanging Loose in fall, 2024. She’s also the translator of contemporary Polish poets Krystyna Dąbrowska and Jacek Dehnel She has received a Fulbright research grant to Poland and two NEA fellowships in translation.
JOEL LEWIS’S Well You Needn’t, is forthcoming from Hanging Loose. A Hoboken “old timer”, he is now happily retired after after a thirty-year stretch as a social worker.
PABLO MEDINA’S latest collection, Sea of Broken Mirrors, is forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press in 2024. His is the author of many other works of poetry, fiction and translation. He currently lives in Cambridge, MA, and Williamsville, VT.
M.L. SMOKER, a member of the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, was the former poet laureate of Montana. Her first collection of poems, Another Attempt at Rescue, was published by Hanging Loose Press in 2005. Her second collection is forthcoming in 2025.
REBECCA SUZUKI is a writer, translator and educator from Nagoya, Japan and Queens, New York. She is the author of When My Mother Is Most Beautiful, winner of the Hanging Loose Translation Award.
TERENCE WINCH’S latest book is That Ship Has Sailed (Pitt Poetry Series, 2023). The Bronx-born son of Irish immigrants, he is the author of eight earlier poetry collections. Winner of an American Book Award and a Columbia Book Award, he has also written a young adult novel called Seeing-Eye Boy and two story collections, Contenders and That Special Place.
