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Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas HOST Publications is a press dedicated to bringing readers the best in international literature and exciting writing from the United States. Since its inception, HOST has published works from countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, Turkey and the United States. From Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda and Wisława Szymborska to renowned Texas writers Da

ve Oliphant and Christopher Cook, HOST Publications presents writers who should be more widely known than they are.

07/22/2024

Hey friends! We have digital and physical copies of book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz available for review. If you're a book reviewer, book buyer, librarian, and literary mover & shaker & you need a copy, email us at: editors [at] hostpublications [dot] com!

02/23/2024

🎉 TONIGHT at ALIENATED MAJESTY | 7PM

🦪 Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu!

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

02/22/2024

✨ Survived By pre-orders will be signed by Stephanie Niu tomorrow afternoon (& ship out early next week)! Order now to make sure receive a signed copy + a custom pencil by + a limited-edition postcard + a playlist curated by Stephanie! ✨

02/20/2024

🌊Welcome to Season 5 of The Host Dispatch!! 🌊

We can’t think of a better way to kick off the new season than this conversation with Stephanie Niu—the most recent winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize! 🐚

Stephanie’s chapbook SURVIVED BY is a mesmerizing collection of poems, full of grief and wonder in equal measure. Niu’s work explores ecopoetics as we’ve never encountered before, maps and visual poems create a kind of “atlas of disappearance” centered around the species of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and the place of origin of many poems in this collection.

🐚 We talked about the shell wall at the American Museum of Natural History, the connections between poetic and scientific worldviews, what poetry as “atlas” might mean, and much, much more!

This conversation was dreamy, scholarly and enlightening, and through it we’ve come to love Stephanie and her chapbook in a whole new way 🥹💙

We hope you enjoy S. 5 Ep. 1: “In Conversation with Stephanie Niu” available now, wherever you listen 🎧

02/16/2024

🐚 Party Alert: Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu next Friday (Feb. 23rd, 7pm) at

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

02/15/2024

💖 Dozens of great reasons to attend WORK Conference this Saturday with but we’re so thrilled to see will be doing the morning welcome! We hope to see you there!!!

💖 “Launched by Future Front in collaboration with TEXAS McCombs in January 2018, WORK emerged from genuine conversations between women and LGBTQ+ leaders in creative industries, tech, nonprofit communities, small business and the arts. Now, this one-day annual gathering serves as a moment to share stories, community-source inspiration and get real about the frameworks & skills required to do big work.”

💖 grab your tix at meetyouatwork.com

02/11/2024

🎉 Thank you to all who visited our author signings! We sold out of copies of both: SURVIVED BY & TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICS by & !!!! Thank you for celebrating incredible poetry, happy reading!!!! 🎉

02/10/2024

✨ 💙 Hi 🎉!!! The brilliant Stephanie Niu, author of SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! 💙✨

02/09/2024

🎉 Tremendous gratitude to our hosts , our readers & friends & guests for a stellar reading last night! Our hearts are so full—we had an extraordinary time celebrating incredible poetry! 🎉

02/09/2024

🩵✨ Hi 🎉!!! Dear poet & author of TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS, m. mick powell will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! ✨🩵

02/08/2024

“If the sea wants you, it takes you. / But the sea doesn’t want, desire / is a human trait.”

We’re so happy to see “Meditation In Guanajuato, Mexico” by Maryan Nagy Captan .nagy.captan featured today over at !!! Head over to Poems.com to read it in full 🎉🎉🎉!!!

02/08/2024

✨ TONIGHT 7pm :: AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!!

✨ Host Publications proudly presents “A Feminist Reading at AWP Kansas City’’ featuring nine women & non-binary authors. A special opportunity to celebrate our 2023/2024 chapbooks, th*****me in the last Toyota Celica and Survived By at the independently owned Kansas City Bookstore BLK+BRWN.

Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, m. mick powell, mónica teresa ortiz, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, lily someson, Ae Hee Lee, Jae Nichelle, and Ashley-Devon Williamston. Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and BLK+ BRWN. bookstore gift cards.

✨ Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

02/08/2024

🩵 Here’s a little run down of our week! Swing by Booth 3130 to say hello! 🩵

02/08/2024

✨ Poetry & Jazz go hand in hand—we were so honored to visit the American Jazz Museum today in Kansas City this afternoon before setting up for AWP ‘24! Kansas City was a monumental place in the vast landscape of jazz and was home to Charlie “Bird” Parker, Mary Lou Williams & many more! Poets, check it out this week! ✨

02/07/2024

✨ We’re all set up for — come say hello over at Booth 3130!!!! ✨

02/06/2024

✨ We’ve safely arrived to Kansas City, !!! Our first stop was the beautiful —where Annar made her first AWP ‘24 book purchase: The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral’s, translated by Doris Dana! We can’t wait to continue to explore and support local area bookstores this week! 🥰✨🎉

01/29/2024

💕 Kansas City: Come on out to “A Very Q***r BIPOC Reading” next Wednesday night at Nighthawk, where you can hear Host poets read their work in great company 🎉

This lineup is proudly curated by Texas presses & journals:

01/19/2024

✨ AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to return host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!! Join us on Feb. 8th from 7pm -9pm!

✨ Host Publications proudly presents “A Feminist Reading at AWP Kansas City’’ featuring nine women & non-binary authors. A special opportunity to celebrate our 2023/2024 chapbooks, th*****me in the last Toyota Celica and Survived By at the independently owned Kansas City Bookstore BLK+BRWN.

Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, m. mick powell, mónica teresa ortiz, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, lily someson, Ae Hee Lee, Jae Nichelle, and Ashley-Devon Williamston. Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and BLK+ BRWN. bookstore gift cards.

✨ Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

01/17/2024

“Motherhood in the climate crisis / means my womb is a bomb I choose / to wield.”

✨ We’re running low on signed pre-orders & all the fun limited-edition goodies that come with them! To secure your pre-order, follow the link in our bio!
🦪: signed pre-orders will ship by March 1st, 2024
✨: the first 100 orders will receive limited-edition goodies
🦪: reviewers, movers & shakers, booksellers, DM if you need a physical or digital ARC
✨: international friends, purchasing a digital download will be available Feb. 23rd, 2024.

About Survived By: Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Stephanie Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

Featuring an introduction by poet Natasha Rao.

About the author: Stephanie Niu is a Chinese-American poet, digital humanities scholar, and ecology enthusiast from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, and the editor of Our Island, Our Future: A Zine of Youth Poetry from Christmas Island. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for community archiving research on Christmas Island’s immigration and labor history.

01/04/2024

✨ Official cover reveal + proudly announcing that pre-orders for SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE by are officially live!

✨: follow the link in our bio to order
🦪: signed pre-orders will ship by March 1st, 2024
✨: the first 100 orders will receive limited-edition goodies
🦪: reviewers, movers & shakers, booksellers, DM if you need a physical or digital ARC

About Survived By: Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Stephanie Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

Featuring an introduction by poet Natasha Rao.

About the author: Stephanie Niu is a Chinese-American poet, digital humanities scholar, and ecology enthusiast from Marietta, Georgia. She is the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Editions Chapbook Contest, and the editor of Our Island, Our Future: A Zine of Youth Poetry from Christmas Island. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Missouri Review, Georgia Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for community archiving research on Christmas Island’s immigration and labor history.

11/29/2023

🩵 Catalogue Spotlight: a staff favorite & a Host Publications bestseller, OVER AUTUMN ROOFTOPS by Hai Zi, translated from Chinese by Dan Murphy 🩵

Hai Zi wrote his best poems from 1984 to 1989, a time of fertile artistic innovation for literature and the arts in China. But Hai Zi’s poetry easily transcends the trends of the literary world during his lifetime. In his work we find the poverty, agricultural scenes, and hunger of his peasant upbringing.

His poems touch down on the grasslands, wheat fields and landscapes of western China, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia, where he traveled. At times he draws on China’s literary and cultural history. He writes to the night, the snow, mountains, the earth, and the sea. Yet he is not simply a cultural poet or a nature poet.

And although his work is distinctly Chinese, his poetry does not belong exclusively to any particular time or place - it transcends all of this.

❣️ We’re down to our final box of this incredible title before it’s gone forever! Get your copy over at HostPublications.com or follow the link in our stories ❣️

11/05/2023

✨ Come over and see us at .market over at —we’re here selling your faves until 5pm! 💫

10/21/2023

❣️🎉 Happy Pub Day to and their chapbook TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS! We’re so excited to virtually celebrate our tenth (!!!) chapbook prize winner tonight with a stellar poetry lineup tonight!

We’ll be live-streaming readings by m. mick powell, Brittany Rogers, and Jae Nichelle to our YouTube channel at 7pm ET, 6pm CT (follow the link in our bio)!

10/19/2023

✨🍒 NEW EPISODE! 🍒✨

“In Conversation with m. mick powell” is such a delightful introduction to the work of a brilliant and charming poet who we truly adore 🥰

In this episode, we discuss the film Love & Basketball, the relationship of poetry to digital collage art, the practice of “gathering fuel” to write the passion poem, how organizing a manuscript can be inspired by the structure of a great musical album, and so much more! ❤️‍🔥

Have a listen to get yourself pumped up for the book launch this Saturday for and their incredible new book TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS—we hope to see you there! 🍒✨

10/18/2023

💌 We’re loving all the mail day posts & can’t believe we’re officially launching TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS by this Saturday!

Tune in over at our YouTube Channel next week at 7pm ET / 6pm CT for our virtual launch party! The night will feature readings by m. mick powell, Jae Nichelle, and Brittany Rogers 🎉

10/12/2023

🍒 Hooray!!! We’re packing pre-orders for ‘s TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA today! Place your order now if you’d like a copy in time for the book launch! We still have a few pencils, postcards, and playlists for that extra rush of excitement! 🍒

10/05/2023

Hello Wildlings! This is your ⚡️NEW EPISODE ALERT⚡️

This episode is all about the idea of the primal in poetry, how and why we might tap into our most raw and instinctive urges in the making of a poem, to explore the “unknown capacities of the mind and heart." ❤️‍🔥

If you’re interested in ideas around fueling the fire of imagination, giving yourself permission to be wild, and reading the work of poets whose spirit of desire is unhindered by doubt, this episode is for you! 💫

Season 4, episode 8: “Poetry and The Primal” is available now, wherever you listen ⚡️

10/03/2023

💞 We are over the moon to announce our virtual launch party celebrating m. mick powell & their chapbook TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS! Our star-studded poetry lineup features m. mick powell, Jae Nichelle, and Brittany Rogers ( )

💞 Mark your calendars for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21st at 7pm ET | 6pm CT!

💞 We will be live-streaming to the Host Publications YouTube Channel: YOUTUBE.COM/@ HOSTPUB

09/29/2023

🍭 Book reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and movers & shakers, do you need a review copy of TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA by ? Shoot us a DM or email us at editors (at) hostpublications.com 🍭

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