Mission Cleaners Books

26/07/2014

Good morning. We're gently opening submissions at Mission Cleaners Books. Send us your poem books.

If you’re interested in submitting your poetry manuscript to Mission Cleaners Books, please read this page first. My plans for the press have changed a little bit since last time I put out a call for submissions, so I’d encourage everyone to read this, even if you’re already familiar with MCB.

17/05/2013

Tonight in San Francisco: Wickens! Watson! Witte! Woetry!

May 17: Della Watson, Jessica Wickens, and Valerie WitteCanessa Park Reading Series 708 Montgomery St. @ Columbus, San Francisco Doors at 7:00 pm - reading starts at 7:30, $6 donation - no one turned away for lack of funds.

12/02/2013

"You’ve written a book I’ll be thinking about for a long time. Congratulations, Bug House is a beautiful, elegiac book of poems. I can’t wait to read it again."

This is a blog for my friends and fans alike. Tho, really, what's the difference? I'm only kidding. I love my fans. This blog is to stay in contact. This blog will be full of disorganized things like my thoughts, poetry, my new life in Chicago, and the like. The only organized thing talked about on…

12/02/2013

This week's MCB newsletter features a photograph of George Oppen.

Welcome to Mission Cleaners Books’ February newsletter. I’m excited to announce that our inaugural titles — Logan Ryan Smith’s Bug House and Della Watson and Jessica Wickens’ Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters — are now shipping. If you haven’t ordered them yet, you’re in s...

05/02/2013

Erin Heath read Everything Reused in the Sea in the bathroom. WHAT WILL YOU READ IT IN? http://bit.ly/inthesea

I read half this book in the bathtub today. You should, too. Why? Technologically, it is of its time—exploratorily, it is timeless. It is a collaboration between two writers in the Bay Area through...

25/01/2013

Bug House and Everything Reused in the Sea are now shipping. Everyone who preordered will get your books shortly.

Everyone who hasn't ordered will be subtly ignored in conversation in that way that makes you feel weird when you get home and replay it in your mind.

Della Watson & Jessica Wickens’ Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters and Logan Ryan Smith’s Bug House are now shipping. Buy them, guys.

13/01/2013

Boom.

13/01/2013

Visit the new Everything Reused in the Sea website and talk to the book.

28/10/2012

November 9!

BACS members Jessica Wickens and Della Watson are reading at the Lone Glen reading series on November 9, a.k.a. "chaos never dies" day. Here's a preview:

28/08/2012

What's that? You want to hear Logan Ryan Smith read you poems from Bug House over the phone from bars and buses in Chicago? Okay.

26/08/2012

Book trailer for Everything Reused in the Sea. Post it on your Facebook. Send it to your Aunt Helen and Uncle Ross and the counsins.

Writing Better Social Letters, live-tweeted by and bit.ly/inthesea

25/04/2012

You know who loves Mission Cleaners Books? 25-to-34-year-olds!

12/03/2012

Preorders are now open for Bug House and Everything Reused in the Sea. First 100 orders get a thing.

In early 2012, Mission Cleaners Books will be publishing these books: Bug House by Logan Ryan Smith Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters by Della Watson and Jessica Wickens

08/03/2012

The BACS is giving the mail some love in 2012 by sending postcards to the US Postmaster General.

01/03/2012

Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters by Della Watson and Jessica Wickens, coming summer 2012.

29/02/2012

Bug House by Logan Ryan Smith, coming summer 2012.

25/02/2012

Oh look, Joyland has started a poetry site.

If you enjoyed this work please support Joyland by purchasing an issue of our print biannual Joyland Retro. All money goes towards the site and our authors.

22/02/2012

We're about to start taking preorders for Logan Ryan Smith's Bug House and Della Watson and Jessica Wickens' Everything Reused in the Sea. Everyone who preorders both books will receive something special. WHAT DO YOU HOPE THE SPECIAL THING IS?

07/08/2011

Hooray. We're publishing two poem books next year, one by Logan Ryan Smith and one by Della Watson and Jessica Wickens.