Apogee Press

11/04/2024

We're delighted to share a recent conversation with Susanne and Elizabeth about their collaborative process on Rendered Paradise.

Many thanks to Elizabeth and Susanne for sitting down with us!

https://www.apogeepress.com/blog-1/2024/9/12/rendered-paradise-edward-smallfield-interviews-susanne-dyckman-and-elizabeth-robinson

10/24/2024

It was such a pleasure for us to be in conversation with Cole Swensen and the wonderful team at The Brooklyn Rail yesterday. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Here's the recording on YouTube, in case you'd like to have a look. The recording includes poetry readings and a wide-ranging talk about the history and process of Apogee Press.

Publishing-in-Transit: Apogee PressApogee Press editors Valerie Coulton, Edward Smallfield, and Laura Walker join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a convers...

10/21/2024

We're honored and excited to be a part of this remarkable series! We'd love for you to join us on Zoom, this Wednesday at 1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific and 7pm CEST!

Details to register are here and in our bio: https://brooklynrail.org/event/2024/10/23/publishing-in-transit-apogee-press/

10/18/2024

We're excited and honored to get to converse with Cole Swensen as part of The Brooklyn Rail's Publishing-in-Transit series. It would be wonderful to see you there!

The Brooklyn Rail is a journal committed to providing an independent forum for visual arts, culture, and politics throughout New York City and beyond.

10/04/2024

Our next Apogee Press book will be Stephen Hemenway’s gorgeous collection, untitled ocean. We’re delighted that Steve is able to join us at our 25th anniversary celebration tomorrow, and we can’t wait to hear him read!

10/04/2024

Paul Hoover is the author of fifteen poetry collections, including O, and Green: New and Selected Poems (MadHat Press, 2021), His book with Apogee is Edge and Fold. His numerous translations include, most recently, The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz, (with María Baranda, Milkweed Editions, 2021).
He is editor of many books as well as the annual literary magazine New American Writing. We can’t wait to hear Paul read!

10/04/2024

Alice Jones is a co-founder of Apogee Press, and now Editor Emerita. Her collections of poetry from Alice James Books are The Knot, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and Isthmus, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award. Extreme Directions (The fifty four moves of Tai Chi Sword) was published by Omnidawn Press. Poetry from Apogee Press includes Gorgeous Mourning, Plunge, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, and Vault.

10/04/2024

Hi! I’m Ed Smallfield, and along with Laura Walker and Valerie Coulton, I’m one of the editors at Apogee Press. I would love to see you at our anniversary celebration tomorrow. We have so many wonderful poets reading, and so many gorgeous books to give away and sell.

09/29/2024

Denise Newman is a multimedia poet and translator based in San Francisco. Her poetry collections are Future People, Wild Goods, Human Forest (all from Apogee) and The New Make Believe. Her forthcoming collection is The Redesignation of Paradise. Newman is also involved in video and social practice projects that explore incongruities between perception, language and reality, and for many years she has collaborated with composers providing lyrics for choral works and songs. We’re so happy that Denise will join in our celebration, and we can’t wait to hear her read. We’d love to see you there!

09/28/2024

Susanne Dyckman is the author of three poetry collections and five chapbooks. Earlier this year, we had the pleasure of publishing Susanne's collaboration with the poet Elizabeth Robinson, Rendered Paradise. We're so happy that Susanne can join our celebration... We can't wait to hear her read her beautiful work!We hope to see you there!

09/28/2024

Maxine Chernoff is the author of nineteen books of poetry and six works of fiction, and is a former editor of New American Writing and former chair of Creative Writing at SFSU. Apogee had the great good fortune to publish two of her wonderful books, Among the Names and The Turning. We can't wait to see her and hear her read!

09/24/2024

Hello from Laura! In 2022, after publishing 3 books with Apogee (story, Follow-Haswed, and psalmbook), I became a co-editor of the press. I have always admired Apogee’s dedication to publishing experimental lyric poetry in beautifully-designed books, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to celebrate 25 years of Apogee on October 5. Please join Ed, Valerie and me as we celebrate Apogee’s legacy and Apogee’s future with food, drink, book giveways, and a great slate of readers!

09/23/2024

We've had the honor and the pleasure of publishing a number of Elizabeth Robinson's marvelous books, most recently, Rendered Paradise, a remarkable collaboration with Susanne Dyckman.
In addition to being one our favorite poets and dearest friends, Elizabeth is also the pastor of the Orinda Community Church, which she generously offered as a space for our 25th anniversary celebration.
We can't wait to see Elizabeth and and hear her gorgeous reading, and we'd live to see you there!

09/22/2024

Our beloved friend and poet, Barbara Tomash, will be reading at our celebration, and we can't wait to see her and hear her beautiful work!
Everyone is welcome, and the complete details are on Eventbrite below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apogee-press-25th-anniversary-celebration-tickets-1014526003587?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

09/11/2024

We'd LOVE to see you on October 5th!

09/10/2024

It's less than a month away, and we couldn't be more excited to celebrate our 25th anniversary with readings by these wonderful poets!

We'd love to see you on October 5th from 1-5pm at the Orinda Community Church for poetry, drinks, snacks and general merrymaking!