Writers

Catching Up With Elinor Nauen

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...

Hanging Loose Press @Le Petit Versailles, May 13th

Hanging Loose Press will be @ Le Petit Versailles to celebrate our issue #113 and the publication of UNVEILING, a collab of poems and paintings by Robert Hershon & Elizabeth Hershon. Featuring poets: Quincy Scott Jones, Maureen Owen, Elinor Nauen and Jiwon...

Catching Up With Gerald Fleming

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...

Catching Up With Terence Winch

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...

Catching Up With Kimiko Hahn

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....

Catching Up With Indran Amirthanayagam

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...

Any Major Poet Will Tell You, A Reflection of Sorts

As we near the end of 2022, what better time to contemplate and reflect upon our work and mission through what we and others have said/written about us over the years. https://lithub.com/nobody-tells-us-what-to-do-on-50-years-of-hanging-loose-press/...

A Strong Female Lead: Joan, Caroline, Emily, Jiwon

We make our own space. We take up space. Women who read out loud rework the landscape of poetry. In September, four poets with strong opinions filled up the backyard of Unnameable Books with an abundance of good words and insight. Joan Larkin, Emily Wallis-Hughes,...

Nameable Women at Unnameable Books

Come see Jiwon Choi, Joan Larkin, Caroline Hagood and Emily Wallis Hughes at Unnameable Books on 9/24 @ 6pm. Urban dwellers, we have been cut off from the garden for too long! Here is our chance to reconstruct and reclaim our place in the lost Eden (of our dreams)....

a flyer announcing a poetry reading by Caroline Hagood, Jiwon Choi, Joan Larkin and Emily Wallis Huges at Unnameable Books @9/24

The 11th Annual New York City Poetry Festival

The Hanging Loose Poets will be repping the press at the 11th annual NYC Poetry Festival. The Poets of Hanging Loose will be repping Brooklyn on September 11th on the White Horse stage. Come see and hear us plus a roster of poets from our five boroughs. WELCOME IN...

The Poetry Days of August: 31 Hanging Loose Titles

Inspired by @grolierpoetry to turn the dog days of August into the Poetry Days of August. We've compiled 31 HL titles to expand minds, hearts and souls. Thanks to the Sealey Challenge for helping us to remember how much we need poetry in our daily lives. Hanging...