42 Miles Press

01/06/2025

Dana Jaye Cadman's wildly inventive Nova is the winner of this year’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Award! Congratulations, Dana!

12/28/2024

Our Pushcart nominations for 2024 include poets Tracey Knapp, Lynn Domina, Cal Freeman, Samodh Porawagamage, Bianca Stone, and Kami Enzie

12/27/2024

https://theglacierjournal.com/issue-three/

12/20/2024

Cover Reveal for a Spring Title!

THE PILLOW MUSEUM is a collection of 56 flash fictions, micro-essays, and contemporary fables set in various simulacra of our world.

Claire Bateman’s gorgeous prose captures the imagination with closely observed details of people and places that are startlingly familiar yet unreal, where nothing can be taken for granted.

Pre-Order now: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9781573662093/the-pillow-museum/

12/15/2024

42 Miles' 2024 Poetry Award Finalist List. Winner announced soon.

11/22/2024

More on Love Sick Century:

Many a writer dreams of blindly submitting their work to The New Yorker and getting it plucked from the slush pile for publication. But if you don’t have a connection or a literary agent to advocate for you, does it ever really happen?

11/22/2024

Andrea Sarvady wrote about Elly Bookman's Love Sick Century! Check it out!

Like all poetry, this is a book best read aloud, with a cup of tea or a glass of something stronger and a view out your window. With Love Sick Century, in language that is accessible and dazzling, Bookman invites us to take stock of the pain inherent in this precarious world that is dark and hopeful...

10/26/2024

Poem from American Poetry Review that is also the third poem in Love Sick Century, which you'll know you want after you read this post.

Published in American Poetry Review - Volume 39  |  No. 05

10/13/2024

Just wanted to remind everyone that the 2022 42 Miles Press Poetry Award winner is out, Elly Bookman's relevant, heartbreaking, insightful, and beautiful Love Sick Century is available (see comments for link).

What’s so wonderful about this book is the gorgeous precision of its grieving. Love Sick Century works like a slow boil on a flame made out of a sublime capacity for seeing the awful truths inside the worst of us. I mean, Bookman has this capacity, giving Love Sick Century this simmering quality that’s so rare these days it seems almost otherworldly. In poem after poem, Bookman’s keen-eyed speaker shows us what it feels like to be mesmerized by dismay. She looks unflinchingly at what the podcasters and pundits call “our current moment”—“dozens dead again.” She says in one poem: “doom, doom, doom”—and takes the horror there quite personally. That wounding makes the beautiful song that is this beautiful book.
—Adrian Blevins, author of Status Pending

10/12/2024

Note about the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award contest. Please be patient. We are on it. We expect to announce a winner near the end of the year. Our entire staff consists of three people (and that includes folks working on The Glacier). We'd love to respond sooner but production takes up a lot of time in summer and fall. Rest assured, we are reading. Thank you.

09/20/2024

This is the book you need this fall. Elly Bookman's Love Sick Century (42 Miles Press). Available through our own bookstore, Amazon, and Indiana University Press.

09/19/2024

Elly Bookman's Love Sick Century is out! (Published by 42 Miles press.) Read the review here and buy the book in our online bookstore! Coming to Amazon (in a few days) and available soon through Indiana University Press.

Check out new poetry books being published the week of 9/17 from Red Hen Press, Wayne State University Press, Milkweed Editions, The Kent State University Press, Tin House Books, Wesleyan University Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Ecco, ECW Press, American Poetry Review, Querencia Press, White Pine P...

07/22/2024

We’ll be posting poems we love weekly from now on. Send people over. This first poem is by Laura Jensen (from Shelter, 1985, published by Dragon Gate).

07/17/2024

Coming this winter! Poetry, Fiction, & Art by Joel Brouwer, Beth Roberts, Samodh Porawagamage, Kami Enzi, Shira Dentz, Lucille Walker, Steve Langan, Russell Thorburn, Diana Goetsch, Maggie Nipps, Steve Henn, David Marlatt, Tracey Knapp, Graham Foust, Kate Pyontek, Kathleen McGookey, Lee Upton, Lynn Domina, Kathleen Rooney, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Jennifer Martelli, Michael Bazzett, Kelly Cressio-Moeller, Peter Krumbach, Clay Matthews, Triin Paja, John Gallaher, Bryan D. Price, Jon Davis, Stuart Ross, Ken Meisel, Cal Freeman, Lara Egger, Renée Agatep, Kate Northrup, Rebecca Reynolds

06/20/2024

New Elly Bookman poem in The Atlantic. You can preorder her first book "Love Sick Century" in our 42 Miles/Wolfson Press bookstore.

A poem for Wednesday