Unbound Edition Press

09/07/2026

Join us 9/17 at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA for a poetry reading by Jennifer Clarvoe and Melissa Range with an introduction by Martha Collins. Attend in person or on Zoom.

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Order PIANO PIANO: ueplit.short.gy/PIANOPIANO

09/05/2026

What a thrill it is to publish this major work from the legendary Janet Hardy! A Slut's Life in Three Acts is now available for pre-order at this link:

A Slut’s Life in Three Acts gathers the best of Janet W. Hardy’s autobiographical writing, plus some moving unpublished gems, into a single volume for the first time. The dramatic arc of this essential collection captures a crushingly earnest “girlfag” teenager in 1960s California; moves thr...

09/04/2026

In S4 Ep5 of Authors Unbound, Tomas Unger reads from "Once", a poem in his debut collection, Odd Hour.

Listen to the full episode: ueplit.short.gy/UngerUnbound
Odd Hour: ueplit.short.gy/OddHour

09/04/2026

John Shoptaw and Jesse Nathan will be featured in UC Berkeley's Holloway Poetry Series Faculty Reading on September 10th. The reading will be held at 5:30 pm in Wheeler Hall, Room 300. Learn More: ueplit.short.gy/events . .
Eggtooth, Jesse Nathan's first collection of poems, was published in September 2023 by Unbound Edition Press: ueplit.short.gy/Eggtooth

Unbound Edition Press published John Shoptaw's poetry collection Near-Earth Object in April 2024: ueplit.short.gy/Near-EarthObject

09/03/2026

In S4 Ep5 of Authors Unbound, we talk with poet, teacher and critic Tomas Unger about his debut collection, Odd Hour (Unbound Edition Press, 2026). His poems are marked by a remarkable spareness and precision, allowing familiar things—a piano, a moon, a hotel hallway, a boat—to gather presence and significance without forcing them into explanation. Join us for a rich conversation about the mysterious ways poetry makes the world newly present.

Listen: ueplit.short.gy/UngerUnbound
Odd Hour: ueplit.short.gy/OddHour

09/01/2026

Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT presents an author talk and signing with Jennifer Clarvoe on September 15 for her third book of poetry, PIANO PIANO. Learn more and RSVP: ueplit.short.gy/events

08/24/2026

Unbound Edition Press today announced it will publish David Biespiel’s latest collection of poetry, Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026. The title is scheduled for publication in September 2026.

These poems move between the Pacific Northwest’s rain-soaked landscapes and the haunted reaches of Jewish ancestry, between the urgent present and history’s long shadows. Biespiel’s lines shimmer with atmospheric precision — “star-this, star-that, settled into rest” — while confronting mortality, brotherhood, and the stubborn persistence of the past.

Learn more: ueplit.short.gy/BiespielNews

Photo credit: Marion Ettlinger

08/21/2026

Thrilled to see Christian Bancroft's essential and haunting debut book of poetry, A Ghost Has No Fantasies, on this list.
Learn More: ueplit.short.gy/Ghost

Working on the Sealey Challenge? (A community challenge to read more poetry!)

Itasca recommends:
Encounters for the Living and the Dead, River River Books
Dope Calisthenics, Relegation Books
Tragic City, Anhinga Press
From the Flutes of Our Bones, Nodin Press
Prairie Bones, Wiyounkihipi Productions
A Ghost Has No Fantasies, Unbound Edition Press
Upend, Noemi Press
21 Birthdays, Lost Kite Press
Antidote, Andra Knox
Southwest Reconstruction, Noemi Press
The Visible Field, River River Books
The Oldtimers, Bamboo Ridge Press

Find these titles and more great poetry at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07hM340
More on The Sealey Challenge at https://na2.hubs.ly/H07hKwy0

08/19/2026

In S4 Ep4 of Authors Unbound, we talk with Willard Spiegelman about My (Lucky) Stars, his forthcoming collection of essays and unconventional memoir of taste. The book grew from individual essays on figures such as Mabel Mercer, Ruth Draper, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, and Patsy Cline, which gradually revealed themselves as a way of telling Spiegelman’s own story through the people, performances, music, and entertainments that have shaped his life.

Along the way, he considers the middlebrow—not as something to be dismissed, but as a cultural space capable of offering pleasure, community, generosity, and relief from hardship.

This is Willard Spiegelman Unbound.

Listen: ueplit.short.gy/SpiegelmanUnbound

08/19/2026

What a wonderful accomplishment for Lauterstein of Pig to launch the audiobook version of So**my Gods on Spotify... and soon everywhere else! The compelling memoir is even more moving in the author's own voice. We had the honor of publishing the print edition in 2024.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2CUC9g5oADMGv3nqmbFVyl?si=1abe689f0f234c4c

David Lauterstein · Audiobook