A Midsummer Night's Press

20/08/2021

To celebrate Women in Translation Month, A Midsummer Night's Press is offering a limited number of bundles: all 5 Periscope titles, with a retail price of $63.75, plus free worldwide shipping, for just $50.

Bundle includes:

ONE IS NONE by Kätlin Kaldmaa, translated from Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov
ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN by Jana Putrle Srdić, translated from Slovenian by Barbara Jurša
DISSECTION by Care Santos, translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel
CARAVAN LULLABIES by Ilzė Butkutė, translated from Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris
HAVING NEVER MET by Inga Pizāne, translated from the Latvian by Jayde Will.

(Note: Books will be shipped media rate from Spain, so probably won't arrive during . But we of course believe in reading and celebrating women poets in translation all year long!)

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/periscope/products/women-in-translation-month-bundle

28/07/2021

Paldies to the European Literature Network which features a poem from Inga Pizāne's collection HAVING NEVER MET, translated by Jayde Will: https://www.eurolitnetwork.com/poetry-travels-with-anna-blasiak-and-lisa-kalloo-i-want-to-fold-this-day-by-inga-pizane-translated-by-jayde-will/

I want to fold this day into paper ships and load all my heavy thoughts into them, so it would sink. I want to drive away this whitenessm that pretends to be snow. I want to fold this day into paper airplanes, but I know they won't fly. I simply know that By Inga Pizāne Translated by Jayde

28/11/2020

Latvian poet Inga Pizāne (whose collection HAVING NEVER MET, tr. by Jayde Will, we published) interviewed by Steven J Fowler for the European Poetry Festival:

https://youtu.be/A0rx8YjPEf4

27/10/2020

Charles Flowers chats with Ruben Quesada about poetry, and writing & editing his debut collection THE IDEA OF HIM (published by A Midsummer Night's Press), at Kenyon Review: https://kenyonreview.org/2020/10/poetry-today-charles-and-eireann/

Poetry Today features living poets answering questions about poetry and poetics. Part of the pleasure of loving someone who can’t love you back or who you never bother to tell is to only have eyes for whoever or whatever as often and as widely as one wants, and to never have to have ears to listen...

24/10/2020

Our latest poet in translation, Milan Selj from Slovenia, talks to our publisher Lawrence Schimel over on the Global Literature in Libraries blog about writing poetry, translating poetry and being translated, etc.

https://glli-us.org/2020/10/24/translatedlit-poet-translator-milan-selj-talks-to-a-midsummer-nights-press-publisher-lawrence-schimel/

One of A Midsummer Night’s Press’ most recent titles, published just before the pandemic started, is a translation from the Slovene in our Body Language imprint: Tracing the Unspoken by…

05/09/2020

Happy birthday to poet Julie Marie Wade!

To celebrate, code WADEBDAY will give you 20% off your order from our website. Valid for 1 week (until Sep 12).

We published Julie's books WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT & SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE.

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/body-language/products/same-sexy-marriage-by-julie-marie-wade

"Julie Marie Wade's SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE does not succumb to the gravitational forces of the quotidian—the 'respectable' marriage or the 'dignified' jet-setting life. Instead, this remarkable novella in verse speaks about the unspoken and dives headlong into the familial territory of taboo. Speculat...

04/09/2020

Happy birthday, Charles Flowers!

We published his debut collection, THE IDEA OF HIM, and are offering 20% off direct orders with the code FLOWERSBDAY (good through Sept 7):

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/products/the-idea-of-him-by-charles-flowers

03/09/2020

Tomorrow, September 4th, is the birthday of poet Charles Flowers, whose debut collection THE IDEA OF HIM we published recently.

To celebrate, use code FLOWERSBDAY for 20% on direct orders from our website!

Valid through September 7.

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/products/the-idea-of-him-by-charles-flowers

"Charles Flowers’ long-awaited collection, The Idea of Him, evokes the implacable power of desire, from its earliest appearance in boyhood to the ache of adult experience. These wrenchingly honest, beautifully felt poems make clear nothing less than the soul hunger that lies deep in the body’s d...

08/06/2020

Sign up for tomorrow's month virtual reading with Charles Flowers and his debut collection THE IDEA OF HIM together with Blas Falconer sponsored by Skylight Books:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-with-charles-flowers-and-blas-falconer-tickets-105465710780

27/05/2020

Listen to Julie Marie Wade talk about and read from her poetry collections WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT and SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE & her essay collection SMALL FIRES, in this interview with Hunter O'Hanian, Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum & Archives.

https://youtu.be/fd0qdgFxZeo

A conversation and reading with poet and educator, Julie Marie Wade took place on May 20, 2020. Julie read from three of her books, Same-Sexy Marriage, When ...

30/04/2020

Thanks to the The British Library for giving some love on their blog to Slovenian poet Milan Selj's English-language debut TRACING THE UNSPOKEN (translated by the author with Harvey Vincent)

https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2020/04/slovenian-gay-poetry-in-translation-tracing-the-unspoken-by-milan-%C5%A1elj.html

16/04/2020

How exciting! The first review for Charles Flowers' debut poetry collection, THE IDEA OF HIM, in Houston's OUTSMART Magazine, in Gregg Shapiro's National Poetry Month column:

http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2020/04/national-poetry-month-2020-reading-list/

LGBTQ literary buffs have tons of great content to take in.

10/03/2020

Grateful to Roberto Friedman at Bay Area Reporter for this lovely review of Milan Selj English-language debut TRACING THE UNSPOKEN:

https://www.ebar.com/arts_&_culture/books/288909/poetic_imagination_in_small_doses

Two collections of prose poems began Out There's reading week: "Tracing the Unspoken" by Slovenian poet Milan Selj, and "The Blue Absolute," a new collection of prose poems by renowned Bay Area poet Aaron Shurin.

05/03/2020

‪ we’re all set up in the book fair at table 1841‬

‪Stop by for poetry goodness! voices writers (plus some children’s books in Spanish by our editor Lawrence Schimel )‬

03/03/2020

Since many can't make it to AWP this year, we are participating in the and offering a discount of 25% off on orders from our website now through Sunday, March 8, with code "AWP20":

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/

14/02/2020

Announcing our next title, Charles Flowers' debut collection THE IDEA OF HIM, out in May 2020!

(Preorder link in the comments.)

Use code FlowersPreorder for 25% off!

06/01/2020

Londoners! This week is the launch of Milan Selj’s TRACING THE UNSPOKEN at Gay’s The Word on Jan 9 at 7pm.

Tracing the Unspoken is the English-language debut of Milan Šelj, an award-winning Slovenian poet and translator. Šelj is the author of four poetry collections and co-author of a satirical epistolary novel Spolitika. His work and translations have appeared in many anthologies. Milan lives and wor...

02/01/2020

Hvala to Jacob Singer for including TRACING THE UNSPOKEN by Milan Šelj (trans. Milan Šelj & Harvey Vincent) in his roundup for Entropy Magazine of notable small press titles for Dec/Jan:

https://entropymag.org/december-and-january-small-press-releases/

The texts in this list are curated through my personal interest and recommendations from publishing companies, authors, and publicists. Please contact me with u

12/12/2019

Happy birthday to Inga Pizāne!

We published her collection HAVING NEVER MET translated by Jayde Will in our Periscope Poetry imprint.

Get 35% off with code PIZANEBDAY

09/12/2019

How nice to see Pierce Alquist recommend at Book Riot Ilzė Butkutė's CARAVAN LULLABIES, translated by Rimas Uzgiris:

https://bookriot.com/2019/12/09/poetry-collections-by-women-in-translation/

From Vietnam to Denmark, these poetry collections by women in translation are from all over the world and are full of power and brilliance.

04/11/2019

How exciting! Julie Marie Wade's SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE won one of the 5 Woodrow Hall Editions Top Shelf Awards!

https://www.poetryjumpsofftheshelf.com/woodrow-hall-top-shelf-award-winners-2018

13/09/2019

‪Stephen Watts reads from his translation of Syrian Kurdish poet Golan Haji’s A TREE WHOSE NAME I DON’T KNOW at the Translating Symposium, organized by the Poetry Translation Centre & .‬

‪The book is available from:‬
‪https://amidsummernightspress.com/WP/2017/08/22/a-tree-whose-name-i-dont-know-by-golan-haji/‬

05/09/2019

Happy birthday to our author Julie Marie Wade !

Use code "WadeBday" to get 25% your order from our website. Including her books WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT and SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE: https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/body-language

Valid for 1 week from today!

Body Language is our imprint devoted to LGBT voices.

01/08/2019

Today is the birthday of our poet Edward Van de Vendel!

To celebrate, get 25% your entire order from our website using code "EdwardBirthday"!

Pick up a copy of his THE SEXY STORM translated by David Colmer, for yourself or for a friend:

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/body-language/products/the-sexy-storm-by-edward-van-de-vendel

Dutch Foundation for Literature

19/07/2019

For the European Literature Network, Anna Blasiak reviews HAVING NEVER MET by Inga Pizāne, translated by Jayde Will: http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/rivetingreviews-anna-blasiak-reviews-having-never-met-by-inga-pizane/

: Anna Blasiak reviews HAVING NEVER MET by Inga Pizāne Jul 19, 2019 • No comments This is the fifth volume in the Periscope series of translated poetry by the New York-based publisher A Midsummer Night’s Press, following One is None by Kätlin Kaldmaa, Anything Could Happen by J...

18/07/2019

It's Rigoberto Gonzalez's birthday today!

To celebrate, use code "RigoBirthday" for 25% off your entire order from our website. (Valid for 1 week)

Pick up a copy of his collection OUR LADY OF THE CROSSWORD for yourself or send one to a friend as a gift:

https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/body-language/products/our-lady-of-the-crossword-by-rigoberto-gonzalez

New edition, now with French flaps! The lesson in Aguascalientes, is that the heart’sthe center in everything—the guava, the mouththat bites it, the palm of a man’s hand wiping juiceoff another man’s chin. Call it sin, I’d call it Eden,if it hadn’t lasted, this paradise made complete whe...

09/07/2019

To celebrate Roz Kaveney's birthday today we're offering a special: get *both* her collections ($14.95 retail price each) for just $10 (including shipping worldwide).

Order here: https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/fabula-rasa/products/roz-kaveney-birthday-special

03/07/2019

Over a year after publication and SISTER LOVE: THE LETTERS OF AUDRE LORDE & PAT PARKER is *still* on the Small Press Distribution Bestseller List!

Congrats to Julie R. Enszer who put this important volume together.

03/06/2019

Today is the birthday of Matthew Landrum, whose BERLIN POEMS we just published: https://a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/berlin-poems

To celebrate, use code "LandrumBirthday" for 25% off your entire order. Good for 1 week starting today.

15/05/2019

How nice to see Inga Pizāne's HAVING NEVER MET, translated by Jayde Will, from our Periscope Poetry series, featured in Sundress Publications's The Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-having-never-met-by-inga-pizane-2/

— This selection comes from Inga Pizāne’s poetry collection Having Never Met, available from A Midsummer Night’s Press. Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Letit…