Ursus Americanus Press

24/03/2023

This website is barely useable. We will be releasing five chapbooks in the next year(ish). First one is out today. Here's the link:

https://ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/love-me-with-the-fierce-horse-of-your-heart-by-gabrielle-grace-hogan

Thanks!

Ursus Americanus Press is proud to present Gabrielle Grace Hogan's Love Me with the Fierce Horse of Your Heart! - “I gave up on breath / a long...

15/04/2022

Logging onto this website is depressing, but here’s a friendly reminder that we try to publish poetry every two weeks in the internet at the link below. New one from Meagan Dermody today! Click and leave this digital wasteland for a moment!

https://ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill

"holding a grudge for years bc i’m wifey" by Meagan Dermody April 14, 2022 in Poetry for k, part 1I know we are situated in this hourstretching in all directions to every hourat each moment I see usand do not grieve like a dog I want you to fixyour attention here on me which is too ...

29/11/2021

Hi! Samantha Wall and Amie Zimmerman’s collaborative chapbook, 31 Days / The Self, is out today! Click that link to grab a copy! Thanks!

https://ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/31-days-the-self-by-samantha-wall-amie-zimmerman

PREORDER FOR 11/25 Amie Zimmerman tells us in her poem, The Self, which is accompanied by and faced with the metamorphic, gradient illustrations of...

02/08/2021

MICHAEL CHANG’s Chinatown Romeo is finally in print and available in the webstore! Link in comments!

12/06/2021

Here’s a peek at the cover for Michael Chang’s Chinatown Romeo! Huge thanks to Bennet Tadashi Adamson for our bird friend!

Preorder: https://ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/chinatown-romeo-by-michael-chang

09/04/2021

Three poems from Chad Morgan on Landfill today!

https://www.ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/4/8/3-poems-by-chad-morgan

Nocturne in My Favorite Coat Meanwhile, the moon’s bone white  & waxing crescent—my God, it’s winking  isn’t it? I do that too on less moderate nights than this & when my legs are bare  against the encroaching dimmet. I’m just  cleaned up for wo

27/03/2021

New poems from Evan Fusco on Landfill today!

https://ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/3/26/bound-up-in-earthly-musings-against-the-world-and-the-ineffable-tourniquet-by-evan-fusco

bound up in earthly musings (against the world) there is a man wearing a mask, quite unreal quite ethereal and quite radiating, beautiful denial of a face i see him flying away as if from something homogenous and there is the dog groupings of seething and r

10/03/2021

New poem by Selena Cotte on Landfill today!

https://www.ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/3/10/mk-ultralight-beam-by-selena-cotte

I stopped listening to anything but rap music, all the rest reminds me of people I once knew  in Florida, and then I start ruminating on the words You don’t want to get caught up with a girl like me .  There are steps between, of course, but this is always  point Z, and

25/02/2021

Two new poems from Marlo Koch on Landfill today!

https://ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/2/25/engraved-grain-of-rice-and-clammy-hands-by-marlo-koch

Engraved Grain of Rice I used to want more than walking, more than singing, more than writing. Our walls are yellow, our fingernails are gold, our stomachs are full, and our rug is a faux tiger coat. Coaxing you out from under the couch takes much of the day. I walked down a street thinking awful

25/02/2021

Two new poems by Marlo Koch on Landfill today!

http://www.ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/2/21/engrained-grain-of-rice-and-clammy-hands-by-marlo-koch

Engrained Grain of Rice I used to want more than walking, more than singing, more than writing. Our walls are yellow, our fingernails are gold, our stomachs are full, and our rug is a faux tiger coat. Coaxing you out from under the couch takes much of the day. I walked down a street thinking awful

11/02/2021

Last but far from least, we’re delighted to welcome Peach Kander and their chapbook, MAGIC BOX, to the press this year! One final virtual bear hug for the week! Love y’all!

Peach Kander is a q***r poet, miniaturist, and current MFA candidate in poetry at NYU. Their work has appeared in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Sporklet, Peach Mag, Landfill Journal, Fugue, and dirt child, vol. 1. Other creative property can be found in the Sephora archives.

10/02/2021

Let’s keep the ursine love flowing! It’s a joy to announce that we will be releasing Constantine Jones and Vincente Sampaio’s collaborative chapbook, BALEEN (A POEM IN TWELVE DAYS), this year! Welcome them to the family!

Constantine Jones is an interdisciplinary thingmaker from Tennessee housed in Brooklyn. They are a member of the Visual AIDS Artist+ Registry & the author of In Still Rooms (The Operating System). They facilitate creative writing workshops at the CIty College of New York, Brooklyn Poets, Liminal Lab & elsewhere. Their work has been performed or exhibited at various venues across NYC.

Vicente Sampaio is a Portuguese visual artist based in Porto, Portugal, who earned an MFA in Painting in Ghent, Belgium. His practice is rooted in a deeply personal perception of urban landscapes and the visual casualties of human presence, and is informed by his/our relation to a world in which the banal can become a theater of social interconnections. He also dreams of becoming a rockstar, an actor, or a writer with little recognition living in the middle of nowhere.

09/02/2021

Today we welcome Amie Zimmerman and Samantha Wall to the Ursus family! Their collaborative chapbook, 31 Days / The Self, is coming later this year!

Amie Zimmerman lives in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been recently published, or is forthcoming, in Sixth Finch, West Branch, Guesthouse, the tiny, and Seneca Review, among others. She has two chapbooks, Oyster (REALITY BEACH) and Compliance (Essay Press), and is an editor for YesYes Books.

Samantha Wall, originally from Seoul, South Korea, is an artist working in Portland, Oregon. Wall immigrated to the United States as a child and comes from a multiracial background. Operating from within this framework, her drawings embody the experience of navigating transcultural identity. Wall graduated with an MFA in Visual Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and she is the recipient of awards and grants from organizations including the Oregon Arts Commission; Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts; The Ford Family Foundation; and The Joan Mitchell Foundation.

08/02/2021

Good day! We will be announcing our newest bear family members all week!

Say hello to Michael Chang! Their chapbook, Chinatown Romeo, will be our first release of the year!

A Lambda Literary fellow, Michael Chang (they/them) was awarded the Kundiman Scholarship at the Miami Writers Institute. A finalist in contests at the Iowa Review, BOMB, NightBlock, & many others, their poems have been nominated for Best of the Net & the Pushcart Prize.

07/02/2021

New poems from Kate Greene on Landfill today!

https://ursusamericanuslit.com/landfill/2021/2/7/ghost-and-late-to-the-orgy-by-kate-greene

Ghost Holy ghost of a peanut butter egg On my tongue for you My tongue for you The world has turned upside down World so different from what it was Homemade margaritas remember When the spent lemon half splatted on the floor Sticky, we waited to pick it up Of course not It was just me, those day