June Road Press

June Road Press Tiny indie poetry publisher based outside Philadelphia. Visit the press website to find out more about us and the books we publish!

It’s high time for a cover reveal! Here’s an early look at our first fall book: Level Watch is Mary Ardery’s debut colle...
05/30/2025

It’s high time for a cover reveal! Here’s an early look at our first fall book: Level Watch is Mary Ardery’s debut collection, out September 23. It’s as outdoorsy and as place-based as they come—a raw and moving poetic account of life as a wilderness guide in the Blue Ridge Mountains for women in an addiction treatment program. The watercolor painting on the cover is by Asheville-based artist Bronwen McCormick, whose work is just gorgeous—check out on Instagram. We’ll have lots to share this summer about Mary’s book, but for now you can find audio clips, preorder links, a playlist to get the vibe, and more at juneroadpress.com/level-watch. 🌲🥾✨

We’re delighted to report that Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s debut collection, Songs for the Land-Bound, made the honorable m...
05/15/2025

We’re delighted to report that Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s debut collection, Songs for the Land-Bound, made the honorable mention list for this year’s Eric Hoffer Award in poetry! Her book, which was also a finalist for the First Horizon Award and shortlisted for the Grand Prize, is in excellent company among the other honorees (which you can find at the link above, below, and in our story), particularly ’s Joan Kwon Glass, this year’s category winner for her haunting Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms. Congratulations, Violeta! 🎉✨

Visit our website for a tour of all the press books’ accolades to date—we’re proud to showcase this growing list of honors for our authors at juneroadpress.com/accolades.

05/04/2025

For Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of May, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Asian American and Pacific Islander American writers they recommend reading in celebration.   Poetry Hard Damage by Aria Aber U...

Things are getting greener outside and another book award season’s beginning—and we’re so glad to kick it off with news ...
04/15/2025

Things are getting greener outside and another book award season’s beginning—and we’re so glad to kick it off with news that Violeta Garcia-Mendoza’s SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND is a finalist for the First Horizon Award, an honor from the Eric Hoffer Award committee that specifically recognizes debut books. Violeta and her collection are in great company among the fellow poetry finalists (list at the link below and in our story)!

Our foundational author Hannah Lee Jones’s WHEN I WAS THE WIND was the 2022 winner of this prize *and* the main Eric Hoffer Award in the poetry category, so it’s a special one for us (and we love its dedication to honoring small presses)! 🤩🎉

https://www.hofferaward.com/First-Horizon-Award-finalists.html

Don’t miss this excellent roundup of poetry collections by poets over 40, featuring Abbie Kiefer’s phenomenal CERTAIN SH...
04/04/2025

Don’t miss this excellent roundup of poetry collections by poets over 40, featuring Abbie Kiefer’s phenomenal CERTAIN SHELTER, out today in Electric Literature (by Elizabeth Galoozis)—link in our story, or go to electricliterature.com/8-debut-poetry-collections-by-poets-over-40/!

To wrap up the AWP recap, here’s a little bookfair table photo roundup—including the goofy arrow we made to take advanta...
03/30/2025

To wrap up the AWP recap, here’s a little bookfair table photo roundup—including the goofy arrow we made to take advantage of our corner spot. This year we had a fancier chocolate medley on offer that only lasted partway through day two, so: next year, more chocolate. Another lesson: Rolos are a fun throwback and a crowdpleaser, but have you tried having a conversation about books while eating a Rolo? 😬

If you stopped by the June Road Press table at the AWP bookfair, you probably met one of these smiley people: publisher ...
03/30/2025

If you stopped by the June Road Press table at the AWP bookfair, you probably met one of these smiley people: publisher and editor or Jon, her in-house environmental scientist (and husband). Both are so grateful for all the wonderful conversations and interest in this tiny press, its authors, its books, and its future. Thank you, and hope to see you for another round next year in Baltimore! 🍻

With thanks to for capturing this happy editor overlap during the blur of the bookfair, here’s one of the people we adm...
03/30/2025

With thanks to for capturing this happy editor overlap during the blur of the bookfair, here’s one of the people we admire most at June Road Press, Rebecca Olander of Perugia Press. The grin says what the lady on the right couldn’t by this point on day three, having lost most of her voice from sheer verbosity/exuberance for the third year in a row. AWP 2025 was full of joy and connection! 🤩❤️📚

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