Rebecca Suzuki is the author of When My Mother Is Most Beautiful, winner of the Loose Translation Prize and published by Hanging Loose Press in December 2023. She writes creative nonfiction in a mixture of forms and languages, and her work has been published...
Pablo Medina was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in New York City from the age of twelve. A celebrated poet and novelist, his work bridges both English and Spanish, exploring the nuances of language, identity, and the complexities of Cuban heritage. Medina's debut...
Joel Lewis was born in Brooklyn and grew up atop the Hudson Palisades of Northern New jersey. He attended college outside of Paterson, NJ, which led to his discovery of William Carlos Williams and which further led to discovery of WCW’s somewhat unruly poetic son,...
Dick Lourie lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is a founding editor (1966) of Hanging Loose Press, a poet, and a blues musician. His work has been published widely for more than fifty years; his two most recent poetry collections, both from HLP, include: **If the...
Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked Beyond My Faults both published by Hanging Loose Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Field, Poet Lore, Fence, and in the...
Joanna Furhman is an Assistant Teaching Professor in Creative Writing at Rutgers University and the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern University Press, 2024). Fuhrman’s poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2023,...
Harley Elliott was born in South Dakota, but has spent most of his life in Kansas. Elliott is an artist and a poet. He's written ten books of poems including The Mercy of Distance (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and Animals That Stand in Dreams (Hanging Loose Press,...
Marie Carter is a Scotland-born, New York City-based writer. She is also a tour guide, researcher, and developer with Boroughs of the Dead, a walk tour company specializing in macabre, strange, forgotten, and ghostly histories of New York City. She is the author of...
Jiwon Choi is a poet who struggles to identify and name emotions that remain unnamed and unrevealed from childhood experiences and traumas in order to become the fully actualized human she knows she can be. Choi is the author of One Daughter is Worth Ten Sons and I...
Mark Pawlak is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Away Away (2024) and Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals(2016). He is the editor of six anthologies and has published a book length memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov...
Carole Bernstein is the author of two poetry collections from Hanging Loose Press: Buried Alive: A To-Do List, and Familiar, which J. D. McClatchy called “an exhilarating book.” She is also the author of And Stepped Away From the Circle (Sow’s Ear Press), winner of the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Competition.
Keith Taylor is originally from Western Canada, but has lived for the past 45 years in Michigan. He has authored or edited 19 books and chapbooks. Before the very recently published All the Time You Want: Selected Poems 1977 – 2017, his last full length collection,...
Keri Marinda Smith grew up in Florida where she played in punk bands and never wore socks. In 2015, she moved to NYC to get her MFA in poetry from the New School. Her first book, Dragging Anchor, came out on Hanging Loose Press in 2018. She lives in Ridgewood and works as a bartender, and can usually be found at Rockaway Beach with her chihuahua and a book.
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.
Sharon Mesmer is a Polish-American poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing. Her poetry collections are Greetings From My Girlie Leisure Place (Bloof Books, 2015), Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008), The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), Vertigo Seeks Affinities (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), Half Angel, Half Lunch (Hard Press, 1998) and Crossing Second Avenue (chapbook, ABJ Press, Tokyo, 1997, published to coincide with a month-long reading tour of Japan sponsored by American Book Jam magazine).
Charles North is an American poet, essayist and teacher. Described by the poet James Schuyler as “the most stimulating poet of his generation,” he has received two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2008), four Fund for Poetry awards, and a Poets Foundation award. Hanging Loose Press has published six of his twelve poetry collections. His What It is Like: New and Selected Poems headed NPR’s Best Poetry Books of the Year (2011), and his most recent collection, Everything and Other Poems, was named a N.Y. Times New and Noteworthy Book.” He lives with his wife, the painter Paula North, in New York City.
D. Nurkse is the author of twelve collections of poetry, most recently A Country of Strangers (2022) from Alfred Knopf. Hanging Loose published Nurkse's first collection of poems, Shadow Wars, in 1988. He's the recipient of a Literature Award from the American Academy...
Elinor Nauen’s books include Now That I Know Where I’m Going, Snowbound, My Marriage A to Z: A big-city romance, So Late into the Night, CARS & Other Poems, American Guys (published by Hanging Loose Press), and, as editor, Ladies, Start Your Engines: Women writers on cars & the road (Faber & Faber, 1997) and Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women writers on baseball (Faber & Faber, 1994). Her work has appeared in New American Writing, FICTION, Exquisite Corpse, The World, KOFF, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Aethlon, Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, National Endowment for the Humanities Magazine, American Book Review, Café Review and other magazines and anthologies.
Gerald Fleming is the author of the poetry collections The Bastard and the Bishop, One, Night of Pure Breathing (all three published by Hanging Loose Press), The Choreographer (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013), and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore (Sixteen Rivers, 2005). His...
Terence Winch’s latest book, That Ship Has Sailed, was published in 2023 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of eight earlier poetry collections. A Columbia Book Award and American Book Award winner, he has...
Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, three of which Hanging Loose published: Airpocket, Volatile, and Earshot which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. Foreign Bodies (W. W....
Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam talks with Hanging Loose Press about his past year. Amirthanayagam writes, translates, and publishes poetry/essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole, which means he is usually in the middle...
Caroline Hagood's new book takes on the idea of women who are "too much" and not afraid to make you think twice. Published by Spuyten Duyvil and available now. Jiwon Choi and Caroline Hagood in conversation. Music credit: Matthew Beckerman. Caroline Hagood Jiwon Choi...
Maureen Owen talks with Jiwon Choi about the challenges of caring for her mother and her forthcoming book, let the heart hold down the breakage. Jiwon Choi: I am fascinated by the ritual of care that you describe in your book, the blanket struggles, the oxygen, the...
Hanging Loose Press is still going, and hoping to do so for many years to come with your support. And so, we’re coming to you with an end of year appeal for donations. As we approach this 60th birthday, we’re mindful of our history, which is also the history of the small press movement that began in the mid-’60s.
Our mission remains steadfast: to seek out and support exciting new writers and artists, as well as the acclaimed and established. One of our achievements in recent years has been the establishment of the Founders Award, our commitment to publish a first poetry collection. We are grateful to the Russell Freedman Foundation, among other donors, for support of this prize. The next award winner is Starr Davis for her book, Affidavit.
Finally, a new (and ironic) development in the world of funding for the arts. The Literary Arts Fund, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has just announced a total of $50 million to be donated in “an unprecedented effort to dramatically boost the essential yet critically underfunded nonprofit literary arts field in the United States.” Good news, except for the ironic twist: to qualify for a grant, your “critically underfunded” operation must have an annual revenue of at least $50,000. That handily leaves out Hanging Loose Press, and so many others of our small press colleagues. Oh, well.
So here we are again, coming to you, our community, in the hope that we can continue to count on your interest and generosity.
