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Host Publications Literature from around the world!

Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas HOST Publications is a press dedicated to bringing readers the best in international literature and exciting writing from the United States. Since its inception, HOST has published works from countries as diverse as Brazil, Chile, Poland, Belgium, Turkey and the United States. From Nobel Prize winners Pablo Neruda and Wisława Szymborska to renowned Texas writers Da

ve Oliphant and Christopher Cook, HOST Publications presents writers who should be more widely known than they are.

Hey friends! We have digital and physical copies of book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz available for review. If...
07/22/2024

Hey friends! We have digital and physical copies of book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz available for review. If you're a book reviewer, book buyer, librarian, and literary mover & shaker & you need a copy, email us at: editors [at] hostpublications [dot] com!

🎉 TONIGHT at ALIENATED MAJESTY | 7PM 🦪 Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Di...
02/23/2024

🎉 TONIGHT at ALIENATED MAJESTY | 7PM

🦪 Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu!

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

✨ Survived By pre-orders will be signed by Stephanie Niu tomorrow afternoon (& ship out early next week)! Order now to m...
02/22/2024

✨ Survived By pre-orders will be signed by Stephanie Niu tomorrow afternoon (& ship out early next week)! Order now to make sure receive a signed copy + a custom pencil by + a limited-edition postcard + a playlist curated by Stephanie! ✨

🌊Welcome to Season 5 of The Host Dispatch!! 🌊We can’t think of a better way to kick off the new season than this convers...
02/20/2024

🌊Welcome to Season 5 of The Host Dispatch!! 🌊

We can’t think of a better way to kick off the new season than this conversation with Stephanie Niu—the most recent winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize! 🐚

Stephanie’s chapbook SURVIVED BY is a mesmerizing collection of poems, full of grief and wonder in equal measure. Niu’s work explores ecopoetics as we’ve never encountered before, maps and visual poems create a kind of “atlas of disappearance” centered around the species of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and the place of origin of many poems in this collection.

🐚 We talked about the shell wall at the American Museum of Natural History, the connections between poetic and scientific worldviews, what poetry as “atlas” might mean, and much, much more!

This conversation was dreamy, scholarly and enlightening, and through it we’ve come to love Stephanie and her chapbook in a whole new way 🥹💙

We hope you enjoy S. 5 Ep. 1: “In Conversation with Stephanie Niu” available now, wherever you listen 🎧

🐚 Party Alert: Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie...
02/16/2024

🐚 Party Alert: Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu next Friday (Feb. 23rd, 7pm) at

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

💖 Dozens of great reasons to attend WORK Conference this Saturday with but we’re so thrilled to see will be doing the ...
02/15/2024

💖 Dozens of great reasons to attend WORK Conference this Saturday with but we’re so thrilled to see will be doing the morning welcome! We hope to see you there!!!

💖 “Launched by Future Front in collaboration with TEXAS McCombs in January 2018, WORK emerged from genuine conversations between women and LGBTQ+ leaders in creative industries, tech, nonprofit communities, small business and the arts. Now, this one-day annual gathering serves as a moment to share stories, community-source inspiration and get real about the frameworks & skills required to do big work.”

💖 grab your tix at meetyouatwork.com

🎉 Thank you to all who visited our author signings! We sold out of copies of both: SURVIVED BY & TH*****ME IN THE LAST...
02/11/2024

🎉 Thank you to all who visited our author signings! We sold out of copies of both: SURVIVED BY & TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICS by & !!!! Thank you for celebrating incredible poetry, happy reading!!!! 🎉

✨ 💙 Hi 🎉!!! The brilliant Stephanie Niu, author of SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE will be signing at BOOTH 313...
02/10/2024

✨ 💙 Hi 🎉!!! The brilliant Stephanie Niu, author of SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! 💙✨

🎉 Tremendous gratitude to our hosts , our readers & friends & guests for a stellar reading last night! Our hearts are s...
02/09/2024

🎉 Tremendous gratitude to our hosts , our readers & friends & guests for a stellar reading last night! Our hearts are so full—we had an extraordinary time celebrating incredible poetry! 🎉

🩵✨ Hi 🎉!!! Dear poet & author of TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS, m. mick powell will be sig...
02/09/2024

🩵✨ Hi 🎉!!! Dear poet & author of TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS, m. mick powell will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! ✨🩵

“If the sea wants you, it takes you. / But the sea doesn’t want, desire / is a human trait.” We’re so happy to see “Medi...
02/08/2024

“If the sea wants you, it takes you. / But the sea doesn’t want, desire / is a human trait.”

We’re so happy to see “Meditation In Guanajuato, Mexico” by Maryan Nagy Captan .nagy.captan featured today over at !!! Head over to Poems.com to read it in full 🎉🎉🎉!!!

✨ TONIGHT 7pm :: AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!! ✨ Ho...
02/08/2024

✨ TONIGHT 7pm :: AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!!

✨ Host Publications proudly presents “A Feminist Reading at AWP Kansas City’’ featuring nine women & non-binary authors. A special opportunity to celebrate our 2023/2024 chapbooks, th*****me in the last Toyota Celica and Survived By at the independently owned Kansas City Bookstore BLK+BRWN.

Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, m. mick powell, mónica teresa ortiz, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, lily someson, Ae Hee Lee, Jae Nichelle, and Ashley-Devon Williamston. Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and BLK+ BRWN. bookstore gift cards.

✨ Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

🩵 Here’s a little run down of our week! Swing by Booth 3130 to say hello! 🩵
02/08/2024

🩵 Here’s a little run down of our week! Swing by Booth 3130 to say hello! 🩵

✨ Poetry & Jazz go hand in hand—we were so honored to visit the American Jazz Museum today in Kansas City this afternoon...
02/08/2024

✨ Poetry & Jazz go hand in hand—we were so honored to visit the American Jazz Museum today in Kansas City this afternoon before setting up for AWP ‘24! Kansas City was a monumental place in the vast landscape of jazz and was home to Charlie “Bird” Parker, Mary Lou Williams & many more! Poets, check it out this week! ✨

✨ We’re all set up for — come say hello over at Booth 3130!!!! ✨
02/07/2024

✨ We’re all set up for — come say hello over at Booth 3130!!!! ✨

✨ We’ve safely arrived to Kansas City, !!! Our first stop was the beautiful —where Annar made her first AWP ‘24 book ...
02/06/2024

✨ We’ve safely arrived to Kansas City, !!! Our first stop was the beautiful —where Annar made her first AWP ‘24 book purchase: The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral’s, translated by Doris Dana! We can’t wait to continue to explore and support local area bookstores this week! 🥰✨🎉

💕 Kansas City: Come on out to “A Very Q***r BIPOC Reading” next Wednesday night at Nighthawk, where you can hear Host ...
01/29/2024

💕 Kansas City: Come on out to “A Very Q***r BIPOC Reading” next Wednesday night at Nighthawk, where you can hear Host poets read their work in great company 🎉

This lineup is proudly curated by Texas presses & journals:

✨ AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to return host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!! Join us on F...
01/19/2024

✨ AWP Kansas City!!! We’re so excited to return host an incredible lineup of poets we love & admire at !!! Join us on Feb. 8th from 7pm -9pm!

✨ Host Publications proudly presents “A Feminist Reading at AWP Kansas City’’ featuring nine women & non-binary authors. A special opportunity to celebrate our 2023/2024 chapbooks, th*****me in the last Toyota Celica and Survived By at the independently owned Kansas City Bookstore BLK+BRWN.

Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, m. mick powell, mónica teresa ortiz, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, lily someson, Ae Hee Lee, Jae Nichelle, and Ashley-Devon Williamston. Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and BLK+ BRWN. bookstore gift cards.

✨ Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

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📯 We’re hanging out at Booth 3130–come say hello! 📯

#tbt to our silly office tour video! We’re currently dreaming up fun times & thinking about how our space can serve our mission in the near future—but for today, there’s the party curtain!

🖤🤍🖤 in the spirit of #fridayreads & our obsession with asking everyone we meet what they’re #currentlyreading // comment below what you’re reading this weekend for a chance to win a copy of @thehastypapers 🤩🖤🤍🖤

🌸💗 we’re not ready to let go of National Poetry Month, so please enjoy our automatic 20% discount through May 3rd over at HostPublications.com 💗🌸

🌺🤩!!! & we picked up our third Host Publications Chapbook Prize Winner yesterday & are genuinely so proud & excited to share THRESHOLD by Julie Howd with the world! Our official launch party will be on 02/29/2020 (leap day!)!Our hearts are so full & we’re so grateful to have worked with these three incredible poets!!!🤩🌺

✨ Morning muse: the epigraph from ( @eselgoehring ) Stephanie Goehring’s chapbook from THE WATER [INAUDIBLE] // launching this Saturday Oct. 5th, 7pm at @malvernbooks ✨

✨❤️ A gorgeous clip of mónica teresa ortiz reading from autobiography of a semiromantic anarchist. Check out the full interview on remezcla.com ❤️✨

🎸We’re currently packing up advanced review copies of Death to the Bullsh*t Artists of South Texas! Need a copy to review? Shoot us a message! 🎸

🍃🌿Austin is lush with so much greenery this Spring & we’re obsessed with pairing our love for nature with Brazilian poet ASTRID CABRAL’s bilingual collection CAGE, translated by Alexis Levitin. CAGE is an insightful and irreverent guide to the natural world, leading the beguiled reader through landscapes of rare and surprising beauty – urging us to consider our surroundings with empathy and attentiveness!🍃🌿

🍃🌸Taking in a few of JAMES SALLIS’ poetic, vivid, and edgy short stories from POTATO TREE beneath our shedding oak tree today! How are you enjoying a book today? 🌸🍃

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