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Now Available! Signal Flow by William Fuller. "Signal Flow is a clear statement of what's possible in the twenty-first century—non-totalizing, democratic in its equivalence of anticipation, expectation and unpredictability, and optimistic in its assessment of the power for renewal." Larry Price
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work:

"In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout
October 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout
September 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
August 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August!
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July 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.
April 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our latest books, postcards, and catalog will be available next week at the AWP in Los Angeles, booth #605. Please say hello!
March 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
FORTHCOMING IN AUGUST: Liza Hudock's Reveille, an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. "The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. A magnificent, memorable debut" (August Kleinzahler).
March 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
NOW AVAILABLE! Ronald Johnson's ARK: "Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems (and we have had more than a few), ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun."—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker
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March 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Flood Editions t-shirt, a collaboration with the artist Brian Calvin, using an image from his book DAYS. Beautifully silkscreened by Love Shack Press. Available domestically, while supplies last, for $27 with free shipping:
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February 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"Rigel leaves a ripple— / otter / through black water."

Merrill Gilfillan, "Night Sky, Pawnee Creek" from Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems
February 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Be sure to catch Sophocles' Ajax, in John Tipton's translation, brought to the stage of the Scena Theatre in Washington, DC!
February 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Readers in Asheville, NC can find Merrill Gilfillan's new Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems, at Malaprop's Bookstore!
www.malaprops.com/book/9798985...
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Forthcoming in March: a beautiful new printing of Ronald Johnson's ARK! “Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems . . . ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun.”—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker
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January 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For readers with an interest in Indigenous literatures, Ali Cobby Eckermann's She Is the Earth offers a door into Aboriginal Australian poetry. With a reciprocity between inner and outer realities, it tells a story of becoming, “a ritual made of self.”
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January 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Now available: SHE IS THE EARTH by Ali Cobby Eckermann and THREE ROANS IN THE SHALLOWS, ONE OF THEM BLUE: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan! Order from Flood Editions, @weslpress.bsky.social, or your local independent bookseller
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January 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Merrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems will be out on Tuesday! Read his essay "Alfresco," on the art of landscape writing, at the Poetry Foundation:
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January 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"Christmas Prelude" from Jarnot's NIGHT SCENES

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December 20, 2024 at 3:02 PM
"Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has described this verse novel as 'a poetic manifesto of inner truth', narrated by 'a creation without birth' . . . Beautifully metaphysical, it charts this journey of sound, light, rock and sea; we witness the creation of Country."—Sian Cain, The Guardian
December 19, 2024 at 5:07 AM
Robert Adamson, one of Australia's greatest poets, passed away two years ago today. If you are unfamiliar with his work, Reaching Light: Selected Poems is the place to begin. [photo of Adamson with Powerful Owl by Juno Gemes]
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December 15, 2024 at 4:08 PM
If you have enjoyed the novels of Alexis Wright, if you are curious to explore Aboriginal Australian poetry, we strongly recommend Ali Cobby Eckermann's highly celebrated SHE IS THE EARTH, available in North America for the first time!
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December 14, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Recent: Brian Calvin's DAYS, a wordless book of drawings that feels (to us) like a volume of poetry. These images give us an intimate sense of the thought and process of an artist who has been described as "quietly disconcerting and mischievously witty" (Artforum).
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December 6, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Still available: "He was thirty-three years old when he was killed, but in those thirty-three years, he had completed work, the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes. He was brilliant. He was magnetic, and he was an incredible artist."—Toni Morrison
December 4, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Still available: For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds: Essays by Jennifer Moxley: "a meditative series of essays that chart the 'bird soul' that lives in her, as well as avian imagery in poems . . . "—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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December 3, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Graham Foust, "Conceptual Poem" from Time Down to Mind:
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December 2, 2024 at 8:11 PM