Essential Micropress Reading

(What follows here is the product of a process roughly 60 percent democratic and 40 percent subjective. All the presses featured in this issue were asked to nominate titles, and each is represented by at least two titles. The remainder is highly idiosyncratic, even biased, on numerous counts, not the least of which is that, as a fiction writer/publisher, I read more writing that doesn't break lines than otherwise. —Ted Pelton)

Berg, Aase. Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg. Trans. Johannes Göransson. Action Books, 2005.

Bernstein, Emma Bee, Susan Bee, and Marjorie Perloff. Belladonna Elders Series #4. Belladonna Books, 2009.

Berry, R.M. Frank. Chiasmus Press, 2005.

Bierlein, Stacy, ed. A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection. Other Voices Books, 2008.

Björling, Gunnar. You go the words. Trans. Fredrik Hertzberg. Action Books, 2007.

Boyd, Sissy. in the plain turn of the body make a sentence. Les Figues Press, 2006.

Brainard, Joe. The Nancy Book. Siglio Press, 2008.

Carter, Allison. A Fixed, Formal Arrangement. Les Figues Press, 2008.

Char, René. The Brittle Age and Returning Upland. Trans. Gustaf Sobin. Counterpath Press, 2009.

Conners, Peter, ed. PP/FF: An Anthology. Starcherone Books, 2006.

Curran, Oisín. Mopus. Counterpath Press, 2008.

Davies, Jeremy. Rose Alley. Counterpath Press, 2009.

Dodge, Trevor, Andy Mingo, and Lidia Yuknavitch, eds. Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction. Chiasmus Press, 2003.

Durand, Marcella. Traffic & Weather. Futurepoem, 2008.

Edwards, Kari. Bharat Jiva. Belladonna Books, 2009.

Federman, Raymond. The Voice in the Closet. Starcherone Books, 2001.

Florian, Sandy. Telescope. Action Books, 2006.

Frangello, Gina. My Sister's Continent. Chiasmus Press, 2006.

Gaudry, Molly. We Take Me Apart. Mud Luscious Press, 2009.

Goldberg, Tod. Other Resort Cities. Other Voices Books, 2009.

Göransson, Johannes. Pilot ("Johann The Carousel Horse"). Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008.

Harmon, Joshua. Quinnehtukqut. Starcherone Books, 2007.

Hoang, Lily. Changing. Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008.

Hoover, Paul. Sonnet 56. Les Figues Press, 2009.

Ives, Lucy. Anamnesis. Slope Editions, 2010.

Johnson, Kent. Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets. BlazeVOX [books], 2007.

King, Amy. I'm the Man Who Loves You. BlazeVOX [books], 2007.

Koeneke, Rodney. Musee Mechanique. BlazeVOX [books], 2006.

Levitsky, Rachel. Under the Sun. Futurepoem, 2003.

Lock, Norman. Shadowplay. Ellipsis Press, 2009.

Lutz, Gary. Stories in the Worst Way. Calamari Press, 2009.

Magi, Jill. Threads. Futurepoem, 2007.

Markus, Peter. The Singing Fish. Calamari Press, 2005.

Marten, Eugene. Waste. Ellipsis Press, 2008.

Mullen, Laura. Murmur. Futurepoem, 2007.

Ohle, David. Motorman. 3rd ed. Calamari Press, 2008.

Olsen, Lance. Head in Flames. Chiasmus Press, 2009.

Pelton, Ted. Bhang. BlazeVOX [books], 2006.

Ruocco, Joanna. The Mothering Coven. Ellipsis Press, 2009.

Scalapino, Leslie. Floats Horse-Floats, or Horse Flows. Starcherone Books, 2010.

Shope, Nina. Hangings: Three Novellas. Starcherone Books, 2005.

Spero, Nancy. Torture of Women. Siglio Press, 2010.

Sumari, Anni, and Nicolaj Stocholm, eds. The Other Side of Landscape: An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Poetry. Slope Editions, 2006.

Tyler, J. A., ed. First Year: An MLP Anthology. Mud Luscious Press, 2010.

Viegener, Matias, and Christine Wertheim, eds. The noulipian Analects. Les Figues Press, 2007.

Waldman, Anne. First Baby Poems. Collages by George Schneeman. BlazeVOX [books], 2008.

Waldrop, Keith. Several Gravities. Siglio Press, 2009.

Wang, Shanxing. Mad Science in Imperial City. Futurepoem, 2005.

Wertheim, Christine, ed. Feminaissance. Les Figues Press, 2010.

Williams, Joy. The Changeling: 30th Anniversary Edition. Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008.