Steven Schrader is a lifelong New Yorker. Born in Washington Heights in 1935, he moved with his family to the Upper West Side at the age of fourteen, and never left. Over the years, he has been a public-school teacher, a city employee (the Welfare Department, the New...
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 poetry, fiction, memoir, biography, etc. we can’t help but go beyond...
Hello Poets Community, Check us out at these upcoming events! Hanging Loose Press is collaborating with Girls Write Now for a reading at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island! GWN has been breaking down the barriers of gender, race, age and poverty to mentor...
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. https://givebutter.com/c/HLP58 And please join us at the...
“I know the light and the shadows are definitionless without each other” ––Carl Phillips
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.
Join Elizabeth Hershon, Jiwon Choi, Joan Larkin and Barbara Henning at FiveMyles for a reading and dialogue on the kindredness of words and images.
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.
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 sentience in woman/man/creature form has graced our movies and tv...
As we move into the new year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect upon the past year in reading lists. As a proud member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, we are so honored to have some of our titles listed in their outstanding curated reading...
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/...
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, and...
We look forward to continuing Hanging Loose's commitment of uplifting emerging and underrepresented poets, writers and artists for another five decades. Thank you for all of your support. We couldn't do it without...
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)....
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...
Reading new work at the Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope branch, was just a pleasure! Caroline Hagood, Joanna Fuhrman & Jiwon Choi are the Poets of Hanging Loose Press.
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 Loose...
Come on down to the Park Slope branch of the Brooklyn Public Library on August 18th at 6pm for poets Caroline Hagood, Joanna Fuhrman and Jiwon Choi who will read their poetry out loud in the library's garden space. The BPL is celebrating 125 years of serving all the...
If you haven't read former intern Marina Chen's interview with editors Caroline, Dick and Mark on how Hanging Loose has managed to stay fresh and potent through six decades of publishing, check it out at Rain Taxi: https://bit.ly/3GvakbJ Founded in 1966 by Robert...
Check out Mark's conversation with Indran Amirthanayagam on his latest book about Levertov and the impact of this great modern poet. https://youtu.be/gI4K-r7ecEM
Talking to folks and hawking our books at the storied Washington Square Park at the invitation of the Indie Lit Fest, sponsored by PEN America and CLMP. Can't lie, I think we all got a contact high from all the ganja being smoked around us. Get Your Book On!
Join us for the seventh annual event that celebrates the vitality and diversity of independent literary publishing. Free and open to the public, Indie Lit Fair showcases new and established poetry presses, fiction and creative nonfiction publishers, and innovative...
Start the Presses! We hope you will join us for the 21st Annual New York City Independent Publishers Book Party at James Cohan Gallery on Thursday, May 5th from 6-8pm.
