Poet Republik Ltd. is pleased to announce the publication of Mark Lamoureux’s, poetry book of hours, Horologion.

Mark Lamoureux’s poems form a druids’ circle for the precarious worker. Their everyday vibrates in mythic structures. Read More >

“A perfect book of poems for the contemplative weirdo.” —Lena Dunham

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The Henry Miller Library and Ping-Pong Free Press is pleased to announce the publication of A Small Suitcase of Russian Poetry, an anthology of Russian poetry with translations by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris. Ping-Pong Free Press is an imprint of the Henry Miller Library and seeks work with a bent toward cultural dialogue in an effort to promote free speech. Just earlier this month Henry Miller‘s books were burned in a ritual worthy of a Dan Brown novel by a group calling themselves “Pagan Librarians Perun,” who find Miller’s works “an archetype of a morally decaying western world with its prevalence of fornication and its decline of family values,” the video featuring this piece of bad theatre has gone viral. We here at the Henry Miller Library are librarians of a different sort, realizing as we do that free speech is a sticky wicket.

Ping-Pong Free Press is an imprint of the Henry Miller Memorial Library. We are proud to publish these poets who were banned in Russia during their lifetimes. Anna Akhmatova’s poetry was banned from 1925-1953 as a threat to the social order. Akhmatova was labeled “alien to the Soviet people” for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political impartiality.” Russian futurist Vladimir Mayakovsky’s works found an audience in Stalin which Pasternak said was both Mayakovsky’s blessing and his curse. Mayakovsky killed himself in 1930, and his writings were later coöpted by the state, who many believe (his daughter included) was responsible for his death. Absurdist poet Daniil Kharms only saw two of his adult poems published during his lifetime. Also included in this collection is the wondrous poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva, and Polina Barskova.

Dana Jennings, of The New York Times says of Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky’s translations: “Words flicker — strange, elegant — a Russian evanescence. Heat lightning pulses between lines.”

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The Homestead Review features the following artists:

Kim Addonizio, Brian Henry, Dylan Krieger, Jennifer Minniti- Shippey, Joanna Penn Cooper, Monika Rinck, Mark Lamoureux, Dan Linehan, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts, Joanna Fuhrman, Aliah Rosenthal, jillian mukavetz, Cynthia Cruz, David Allen Sullivan, Brenda Coultas, Joe Hall, Eleni Sikelianos, Jameson O’Hara Laurens, Laura Bayless, Jennifer Lagier, Megin Jimenez, Adrian Nichols, River Atwood Tabor, George Lober, Jonathan Apelbaum and many more….

Poet Republik Ltd. is happy to announce the release of the poetry collection, Le Sang de L’Étoile / Star-Blood by Jean-Noel Chazelle in a bilingual translation from the French to English. Translation by Brooke Petersen. Read More >

Invitation to a Rescue by Kate Lutzner is a poetry book “forged from a steely endurance, wrought in the delicacy of language, there is an urgency to the poems in Invitation to a Rescue that propels the reader forward.” –Dorianne Laux

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What does “Pussy” mean?  On the playground, it means wimp; in the bedroom, it means female genitalia.  But to many feminists, and many women who ground their work in a sense of pride about the female body, “pussy” is a call to arms, a in-your-face riot-grrl exclamation about purely bad-ass female experience.  Maria Garcia Teutsch’s Pussy: Poems About Things You Think are Pornographic, uses the idea of the feminine “pussy” and the female self to sculpt carefully, wildly, delicately made poems that make being a woman and having a voice both a kind of resistance and kind of opening, a kind of violence, and a kind of seduction. With beautiful, strange and unique images, structures and language, Teutsch’s poems are mini-manifestos of feminine experience and feminine power.

Christine Hamm, author, Echo Park

French/English translation