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15/10/2024

🐸💼 We can't wait to read what you've been working on! Toad Press is open for submissions of chapbook-length translations now through the end of the year!

Check out what we've published in the past, and head to https://toadpress.blogspot.com/ or the our Submittable page to review our guidelines and get ready to submit your work.

We're so excited to read your weird, your wild, your wonderful translations of poetry and prose. 🐸💼

11/10/2024

Veliz Books & Toad chappies are going places this fall! Hope to see you at the upcoming American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) and/or Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conferences 💼 🐸

26/09/2024

Thank you, Tiffany Troy, for this brilliant and thoughtful review of Naoko Fujimoto's fresh translation, 09/09 Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka ✨

Lucky us, we can read this whole great review over at the Asymptote blog! Link is in the comments 🤩

17/09/2024

Join us in wishing a warm welcome to our final chapbook of the season, AN UNKNOWN TASTE, poems by Park Soran, translated by Susan K.

These 18 poems from Soran's collection "One Person's Closed Door" (Changbi, 2019) explore contemporary life in South Korea, with attention to themes of food, place, and loneliness.

An Unknown Taste, Park Soran/Susan K (Toad Press / Veliz Books, 2024. 24 pages, paper, staple-bound). Cover image is a detail from the art print "Vegetables ; Vegetables ; Vegetables ; Vegetables," in the NYPL Digital Collection.

For more info and to get your own copy, visit the Veliz Books store at https://veliz-books.square.site/ or toadpress.blogspot.com 🐸💼

22/08/2024

Wow, 09/09 : NINE JAPANESE FEMALE POETS / NINE HEIAN WAKA is here 🧡✨

09/09 contains poems by Sei Shōnagon, Fujiwara no Teishi, Murasaki Shikibu, Kōkamonin no Bettō, Izumi Shikibu, Koshikibu no Naishi, Ukon, Daini no Sanmi, and Empress Shōshi in Japanese, alongside translations, original essays, and drawings by Naoko Fujimoto

(Toad Press / Veliz Books, 2024. 21 pages, paper, staple-bound)

For more info and to get your own copy, visit the Veliz Books store at https://veliz-books.square.site/ or toadpress.blogspot.com 🐸💼

03/08/2024

Happy month!!!

Celebrate with 20% off all Veliz Books and Toad Press chapbooks by women authors in translation 🧳🐸 Check out this great opportunity to add to your bookshelf, expand your horizons, and 📚

It's also a great time to nab your own copy of our hot-off-the-presses brand new chappie, a species of least concern (poems by Maria Cyranowicz, trans. Małgorzata Myk) at a 20% discount! 💕Shop sale here: https://veliz-books.square.site/

Happy !!! Celebrate with 20% off all Veliz Books and Toad Press chapbooks by women authors in translation 🧳🐸 We’ll be featuring titles throughout the month to learn more about the titles and help you !!! Shop sale here: https://veliz-books.square.site/

22/07/2024

We're so excited to share A SPECIES OF LEAST CONCERN, our first chapbook of 2024!

a species of least concern is a short collection of poems by Maria Cyranowicz, translated from the Polish by Małgorzata Myk (Toad Press / Veliz Books, 2024. 26 pages, paper, staple-bound).

For more info and to get your own copy, visit the Veliz Books store at https://veliz-books.square.site/ or toadpress.blogspot.com 🐸💼

14/07/2024

We're getting excited about our first chapbook of the season "A Species of Least Concern," poems by Maria Cyranowicz, trans. Małgorzata Myk! We're just finishing up the assembly (printing, folding, stapling, trimming...) process, and then this bright red chappy will be ready to share later this month! Stay tuned!

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02/04/2024

April is , which means it's a great time to nab a chapbook! All poetry titles at Veliz Books, including Toad Press's translation chapbooks, are 20% off through the end of April 🌸

Hop on over to the Veliz store and pick up some poetry today! https://veliz-books.square.site/

02/03/2024

We are selling Toad Press chapbooks and Veliz Books titles this weekend at the Print Pomona Art Book Fair in Claremont, CA! Come on by if you're in the neighborhood 📚🐸🧳

28/02/2024

We are so excited to share our 2024 selections! This year we'll publish three chapbooks:

A Species of the Smallest Care, poems by Maria Cyranowicz, translated by Małgorzata Myk

An Unknown Taste, poems by Park Soran, translated by Susan K

09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka, translated by Naoko Fujimoto

Thanks again to all who submitted during our open reading period this year! It was wonderful to see what you've been working on, and we loved reading your translations!

Look for A Species of the Smallest Care & An Unknown Taste & 09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets / Nine Heian Waka from Toad Press/Veliz Books this summer and fall!

23/02/2024

Whee - we're still reeling from the wonderful time we had at ! We loved hopping about with Veliz Books -- and all of you -- in Kansas City, MO 💚🧳

Next up: back to work! Gotta get a leg up on prepping for the Print Pomona Art Book Fair in early March🐸💼

AWP 24, we’ll never FROG-et about you! 🧳✨🐸📚 It was so fun to get the Veliz Books team together!

08/02/2024

Toad Press chappies are here at ! Find our translations at table 2921! We're here with Veliz Books 🐸 💼

14/12/2023

Happy to see this mention of Yaxkin Melchy's Word Heart (trans. Ryan Greene) over at rob mcclennan's blog! Hop over to read more: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2023/12/ongoing-notes-mid-december-2023-jack.html?m=1

And, of course, you can buy this great chappie online from Toad Press/ Veliz Books 💼

I sure have been picking up a bunch of chapbooks lately (but I would welcome further, as you probably know). Calgary AB: Parry Sound ON: ...

15/10/2023

We can't wait to read what you've been working on! Toad Press is open for submissions of chapbook-length translations now through the end of the year!

Check out what we've published in the past, review our guidelines on Submittable or at https://toadpress.blogspot.com/ , and then send us your weird, your wild, your wonderful poetry and prose.

28/09/2023

"Odisseia vácuo initially appeared in 2016, in a limited edition as a 'livro-objeto' or 'book-object,' a work that is both a printed book and an object of art that can be manipulated and looked at/read from various perspectives. It is comprised of one single poem, as is the English-language edition. If the book-object generally seeks to push the physical limits of the traditional printed book and of the text it carries, Negrão’s poem pushes the limits of poetry and poetic communication by relying not only on the word and sound, but also on silence and on the empty space of the blank page" - Cristina Pinto-Bailey for the Action Books blog

It's wonderful to see this new review of VOID ODYSSEY, a poem/book/performance by Renato Negrão translated by Sarah Rebecca Kersley (Toad Press / Veliz Books, 2022) in over at Action Books' September micro-reviews feature! Thanks for Katherine Hedeen for curating ✨

Read the full review (and more!) over at Action Books -- link in the comments -- and nab your own copy of VOID ODYSSEY at the Veliz Books store or the Toad Press blog!

20/09/2023

🍂 We're delighted to share HEKATE, our final chapbook of 2023! ✨ Hekate features poems by Anna Glazova, translated from the Russian by Alex Niemi (Toad Press / Veliz Books 2023. 26 pages, paper, staple-bound).

Cover design is adapted from a botanical drawing of yellow wolfsbane from the NYPL Digital Collections.

For more info and to get your own copy, visit the Veliz Books store at https://veliz-books.square.site/ or toadpress.blogspot.com

16/09/2023

WORD HEART, poems by Yaxkin Melchy, translated from the Spanish by Ryan Greene. (35 pages, paper. Toad Press/Veliz Books, 2023. $6.00)

https://toadpress.blogspot.com/2023/08/word-heart.html

23/08/2023

It's here! 🎊 Word Heart, poems by Yaxkin Melchy, translated from the Spanish by Ryan Greene (Toad Press / Veliz Books , 2023, 35 pages, paper)! 🎊

Cover art & design by Niel Gan.

For more info and to nab your own copy, visit the Veliz Books store at https://veliz-books.square.site/ or [email protected]

31/07/2023

Working on some chapbooks, we got a surprise visit from translator Ryan Greene, who happened to be driving through!

Here's a sneek peek for you, too, of WORD HEART, poems by Yaxkin Melchy and translated by Ryan Greene, with art by Niel Gan. It'll be coming out from Toad Press / Veliz Books in August 2023!

07/07/2023

Summer = chapbook time! Going through our inventory, we found a few more copies of two fantastic backlist titles that we'd thought were almost out of print! Don't miss Jose Eugenio Sanchez's Suite Prelude A/H1N1 (trans. Anna Rosen, 2011) and Victoria Estol's Roly Poly (trans. Seth Michelson, 2014) 🤓 You can nab a copy now, at the Veliz Books store - https://veliz-books.square.site/

We're currently working on our 2023 Toad Press titles, so stay tuned. 🐸💼

23/06/2023

New summer bundles featuring some excellent Veliz books and Toad Press chapbooks have arrived in the Veliz Books store! 😎💌📚Check 'em out, and get your lit-fix online: https://veliz-books.square.site/

Veliz Books now has four new bundle options on the website! Choose from the Uruguayan Poets bundle, Prose selection, 2023 Poetry selection (2 options!), or the Maritime bundle! Bundles are a great way to find new voices and get a taste of what Veliz Books + Toad Press have to offer. Shop bundles at https://veliz-books.square.site

03/06/2023

"Yaxkin’s poems are kinetic. Thematically, syntactically, formally, linguistically, lyrically. They refuse to sit still. And as they bounce between registers and realities, they somehow remain simultaneously surreal and playful and earnest and inventive and unabashedly heartfelt." - Ryan Greene on Yaxkin Melchy

We're publishing WORD HEART, Greene's translations of Yaxkin Melchy's poems this summer, and we can't wait to share them with you! In the meantime, learn more about Melchy's poems and Greene's translations in this great Action Books blog conversation w/ Olivia Lott:

1. How did you start translating Yaxkin Melchy’s poetry? What drew you to it? Yaxkin’s poems constantly catch me by surprise. The way his images jump and loop back, how the page is activated, the lyric cascades, the scales shifting, […]

22/05/2023

You still have a few more days to --and save 20%--at Veliz Books 😍

And of course, we can’t forget to highlight Toad Press, our imprint for translation chapbooks! Our beautiful chappies are translated from languages all over the world. All chapbooks and books in translation on sale until 5/23! Be sure to shop the link in our bio to catch this sale while you can 💙

17/05/2023

Toad Press chapbooks are 20% off this week as part of the sale at the Veliz Books online store! 🤩 Hop on over and fill your cart https://veliz-books.square.site/

We’re excited to join for the 3rd year of , an online bookfair celebrating translators and their publishers through 5/23! All translations 20% off! Link in bio