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Slope Editions is a non-profit, small poetry press. Visit us at www.slopeeditions.org, Twitter (), and Instagram (slopeeditions)

Slope Editions presents readers with an eclectic array of poetry and near-poetry being written in English today. Each year, we aim to release several well-chosen and stylistically diverse books that defy convention and categorization. Among those who have taken note of our work (as well as the work of parent journal Slope.org) are Publishers Weekly, Poets & Writers, PN Review, and other publicatio

ns across the world. Our titles are distributed to the trade by Small Press Distribution and Baker & Taylor. Slope Editions is part of Slope Publishing Inc., a registered non-profit literary and educational organization with 501(c)(3) status. Contributions are welcome.

30/08/2024

We now have 7 titles available to order via Itasca Books. Including:

The R**e Kit
by Terri Witek

Learn more or order here—> https://itascabooks.com/products/the-r**e-kit

As her perp comes up for parole, witness tw recalls the objects he brought to the assault. She tracks r**e as a signature crime of US history and Western Civ and tests the (often underwater) escape routes offered by sources personal, mythic, and geologic. Whatever else can be said of her attempts, she joins a hyphenated line of women who must angle through and over their own r**ed bodies to note what lies down with the language of violence. In the process she assembles her own r**e kit/ evidence bag, climbs through various holes in the text, and names some perps.

Terri Witek is the author of six books of poems, most recently THE R**E KIT (Slope Editions, 2018). Her work has been included in American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, Hudson Review , and many other journals and anthologies. Her poetry often traces the breakages between words and images: she has collaborated with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes) since 2005. Their works together include gallery shows, video, performance and site-specific projects--these have been featured internationally in New York, Seoul, Miami, Lisbon, and Rio de Janeiro. Collaborations with digital artist Matt Roberts (mattroberts) use augmented reality technology for smart phones to poetically map cities and have been featured in Matanza (Colombia), Lisbon, Glasgow, Vancouver, and Miami. With Lopes she team-teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University's low- residency MFA of the Americas, and she also runs Stetson's undergraduate creative writing program, where she holds the Sullivan Chair.

26/08/2024

We now have 7 titles available to order via Itasca Books. Including:

Our Po*******hy and other disaster songs
by B.J. Soloy

Learn more or order here—> https://itascabooks.com/products/our-pornography-and-other-disaster-songs

The winner of the 2018 Slope Book Prize, Our Po*******hy and other disaster songs was chosen by judge Ocean Vuong. Ocean writes, "Our Po*******hy is a crystalline, dusky and charmingly stubborn American text whose power rests in its desire to complicate linear time into a constellation of epicenters. This myriad-voiced long poem embraces the detritus and paraphernalia of its moment, and ushers it all, like a river carrying the grit and sparkle, truth and secrets of its undertows, toward a future not yet accounted for because the present still promises discovery. And what discoveries here in these staccato and ruptured lines that, despite everything, find a way to offer the world anew."

B.J. Soloy lives in Kansas City with Julie "The Hammer" Rouse, Solomon Longfellow, and any combination of unstable familiars that Julie's lured into the apartment. He has a chapbook, Selected Letters, out with New Michigan Press and poems in places like FIELD, Colorado Review, New American Writing, BOAAT, Guernica, Tenderloin, and Forklift, Ohio.

21/08/2024

We're back! After a long hiatus, we now have 7 titles for sale again. Including:

My Heart But Not My Heart
by Stephanie Cawley

Learn more or order here—> https://itascabooks.com/products/my-heart-but-not-my-heart

To quote Solmaz Sharif, who selected Cawley's manuscript as the winner of our 18th Annual Book Prize: "Stephanie Cawley's My Heart But Not My Heart, I want to say, is a book of refusals. The losses and grief that refuse language, the poet's own refusal of certain performances, the poem's refusal of expected forms, the speaker's refusal to slap a manicure on and understand it as self-care, despite the therapist's best intentions. It is in part about the ways in which our refusals, and our passivity, brought about often by external forces and pressures are then pathologized, medicated, explained away in the dismal language of diagnosis."

Stephanie Cawley is the author of No More Flowers (Birds, LLC) and My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions), chosen by Solmaz Sharif as winner of the Slope Book Prize. They were a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, and their poems and hybrid writing have been featured in Poetry Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, and published in journals including Protean, TYPO, and West Branch. They live in Philadelphia.

18/08/2024

We're back! After a long hiatus, we now have 7 titles for sale again. Including:

Instrument of Gaps
by Felicia Zamora

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To quote Carmen Gimenez Smith, "In Instrument of Gaps, Felicia Zamora opens new windows into the idea of the speaker in poems of passion, of prayer, and of hope. In her work, 'to believe in combustion we must believe in embers,' and she brings this to bear in a history of capturing life inside memory. Zamora marries a sharp diction with a transcendental power to enact the dynamic interplay between what is inside and what is outside the lyric in this thrilling third collection from Zamora."

Felicia Zamora is the author of the poetry books Of Form & Gather, winner of the 2016 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (University of Notre Dame Press) and & in Open, Marvel (Parlor Press). Of Form & Gather was listed as one of the "9 Outstanding Latino Books Recently Published by Independent and University Presses" by NBC News. She won the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse, authored two chapbooks, and was the 2017 Poet Laureate for Fort Collins, CO. Her published works may be found or forthcoming in Academy of American Poets (Poem-A-Day), Alaska Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Indiana Review, jubilat, Lana Turner, North American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, The Nation, TriQuarterly Review, Verse Daily, Witness Magazine, West Branch, and others. She is the Associate Poetry Editor for the Colorado Review, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University, and is the Education Programs Manager for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, AZ with her partner Chris and their two dogs.

15/08/2024

We're back! After a long hiatus, we now have 7 titles for sale again. Including:

Famous Times
by Thea Brown

Learn more or order here—> https://itascabooks.com/products/famous-times

To quote Jennifer Chang, "In Famous Times, Thea Brown trains her vertiginous wit and lyricism on all that we overlook and risk losing when we start believing too much in the chaos of our lamentable contemporary moment. Yes, this is a mournful book, but sardonic and weirdly resourceful, bounding imaginatively among the horizon's blue dot, our burnt-toast insides, adult acne, and questionable sciences like linguistics and physics. "My everyday is too much as it is," Brown admits, balancing nervously between fragility and ferocity, and it is this "too much" that Famous Times scrutinizes with both savage attention and weary distraction. I found it mesmerizing."

Thea Brown is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She is the author of the chapbook We Are Fantastic (Petri Press 2013) and the full-length collection Think of the Danger (H_NGM_N 2016). She lives in Baltimore, where she was the 2016-2017 Tickner Fellow at the Gilman School, a 2016 Rubys Artist Project Grant awardee, and the recipient of a 2017 UCross Foundation fellowship.

12/08/2024

We're back! After a long hiatus, we now have 7 titles for sale again. Including:

Beautyberry
by Cass Donish

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To quote Mary Jo Bang, "This is a book of boundaries, objects, intersections. A book of multiple selves caught in the midst of self-definition. A book of conflagrations ("my hair / yesterday's / fire caught / in a disaster"). A book inhabited by all the poets who came right up to the edge over which this book falls ("I consider any verge / a haunting"). A book by a daughter of Dickinson but of this moment. This book is not afraid to address abstractions: What is the beloved? What is a body? What is knowledge? This book barrels toward showing us what can't be told. If I could, I would quote every word of this book. Instead, you should read it. "The words fall out, click against the table."

Q***r poet and writer Cass Donish was born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area. They are the author of the poetry collections Your Dazzling Death (Knopf, 2024); The Year of the Femme (University of Iowa Press, 2019), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; and Beautyberry (Slope Editions, 2018). Their nonfiction chapbook, On the Mezzanine (Gold Line Press, 2019), was selected for publication by Maggie Nelson. Their writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Guernica, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, VICE, and elsewhere. Donish received an MA in cultural geography from the University of Oregon, an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis, and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Missouri. They live in Columbia, Missouri with their partner and four cats.

08/08/2024

‘null landing’ by isaiah a. hines- winner of our 19th annual Book Prize- is available for purchase!

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NULL LANDING sings the nuances of black q***r life and experiments with the motif of “nullness,’’ that is, of being without properties, having no legal or binding force, and amounting to nothing. These poems commune and conspire with bacterium, birds, bodies of water, mineral deposits, and Black creatives across genres.

isaiah a. hines is a poet and student from Burlington, Vermont. Their writing has appeared in Engaging Black Poetics, a blog series by Nightboat Books and their performance work has been hosted by JAG Productions. They are currently completing a degree in Ethnic Studies while assisting with instruction in the Adult Education Program at Brooklyn Public Library.

07/08/2024

We're back! After a long hiatus, we now have 7 titles for sale again.

Click here to visit the new ordering site—> https://itascabooks.com/collections/vendors?q=Slope%20Editions

- null landing by isaiah a. hines (winner of our 19th annual Book Prize)
- My Heart But Not My Heart by Stephanie Cawley
- Famous Times by Thea Brown
- Instrument of Gaps by
- Beautyberry by Cass Donish
- Our Po*******hy and other disaster songs by B.J Soloy
- The R**e Kit by Terri Witek

Covid wrecked us, but we are rebuilding. We hope to get more titles back online soon + a new book prize. Check back for updates!

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