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    • 2020
      • Flammable Water by Mike Hauser, 2020
      • Sad Boi Merzbau by Jamie Townsend, 2020
      • Deep Acting: Poems 2019 by Caleb Beckwith, 2020
      • Tropospheric Clouds by Michael Begnal, 2020
      • I Hate Poetry by Thom Donovan, 2020
      • The Alphabet Sonnets by Andrew Wright Milam, 2020
      • Darkness and Light by Caleb Westphal, 2020
      • Remember Men by Shane Allison, 2020
    • 2019
      • Same Here by Zack Pieper, 2019
      • Infinity Heart by Stacy Blint, 2019
      • Squibs by Jim Chapson, 2019
    • 2018
      • Retail Labor Series
    • 2017
      • PINKpoems by Jayme Russell, 2017
    • 2016
      • don’t read this if you already want to die by Alice Ladrick, 2016
      • Rhabdomantics by Beth Towle, 2016
      • Spheres + Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror Projected on My Wall by Jonny Lohr, 2016
    • 2015
      • Invisible Cities by Paul Vogel, 2015
      • Red & White Balloons by Mike Hauser, 2015
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Flammable Water by Mike Hauser and Sad Boi Merzbau by Jamie Townsend.

Still available: Deep Acting: Poems 2019 by Caleb Beckwith and Tropospheric Clouds by Michael Begnal.

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Huge hell yeah to Caleb Westphal for creating the greatest new holiday.
Sorry long post... We 100% stand in support with @damagedbookwrkr and the workers at @spdbooks. I’m sorry we’re late on this. We didn’t post before because we’re too unofficial to qualify for SPD so we didn’t think it would matter what we said. But we were wrong. Everyone needs to speak up and keep speaking up because it seems like the company is trying to let it all roll over without making any real changes. We’re disgusted at the reports of worker abuse and especially that at the soft intimidation that seems to be ongoing both within the company and the poetry community at large. When this was first reported we saw tenured professors and editors of large presses openly mocking the posts. We keep seeing poets that we’ve admired for years, some of whom have made their brand as ‘radical communist’ publishers scoff at legitimate and easily-verified worker complaints. We saw poetry press editors that we’ve looked up to, instead of reading the posts and letters from the majority of workers within the company, ask other large press editors to verify their predetermined notions that it couldn’t be true. We can only determine the grim result that management will always default to class solidarity with itself. Tenured professors, large press editors, board members, non-profit leaders are all management and will almost always side with each other. Well, fuck them. We’ve always tried to be as ethical as possible, only working within the means of our own labor, so we’ll always be too small and unofficial to qualify for SPD, but we always want maintain class solidarity with the workers and will work to do so vocally. We’re sorry for not thinking it was our place to do it here before. Also, if you’re one of the people scoffing at these reports, or dismissing them because of the ‘important work spd does’ then just like, what the fuck? Maybe reflect on why selling your fucking poetry publication is more important than the actual people in your community working in a safe environment with fair compensation.
Hey everyone, we’re back in action! Thank you all for your patience and the well wishes! We’re sending out all outstanding orders today just in time so they can enter the big mail backlog.
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