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 time for our next annual winter reading period! We’re open for submissions until February 1, and we’re mixing thing...
12/02/2025

It’s time for our next annual winter reading period! We’re open for submissions until February 1, and we’re mixing things up this cycle—instead of full-length manuscripts, we’re looking for individual poems for inclusion in our first anthology, with a projected publication date of late 2026.

This anthology will be loosely organized as a cross-country road trip: a tour of new voices from different regions of the United States. In keeping with the spirit and orientation of our full-length collections, we’re particularly interested in work that engages in meaningful ways with nature or place—the more specifically place-based or regionally inflected, the better suited to this project.

We’re accepting submissions of up to three poems via Duosuma, and you can find full details and a link to submit your work at the press website (www.juneroadpress.com/submissions). ❄️✨

It’s an honor to be in the position to nominate work from our two new collections each year for the Pushcart Prize, and ...
11/07/2025

It’s an honor to be in the position to nominate work from our two new collections each year for the Pushcart Prize, and here are this season’s picks! These beautiful pieces from our new authors Mary Ardery and Mary Simmons are both representative of their incredible debut books and strong, impactful standalone poems, and it’s a pleasure to recognize them—and celebrate these two excellent poets—this way. 🔥🙌

Check out the two books that include these poems, LEVEL WATCH and MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR, at juneroadpress.com!

Hey, we’ve made another audiobook! Curious about this new collection? Here’s your chance to hear it read brilliantly by ...
11/05/2025

Hey, we’ve made another audiobook! Curious about this new collection? Here’s your chance to hear it read brilliantly by the author—it’ll really deepen your experience of the poetry. Like all our audiobooks, it’s also produced in-house, with love. It’s available for download from the press website shop, and there are links to other retail platforms plus some great poems to listen to at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur. 🎧

(P.S. Check out all our audiobooks at www.juneroadpress.com/bookstore/audiobooks!)

Here’s a first: MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons, our latest book, is in the holiday edition of Foreword Reviews ...
11/04/2025

Here’s a first: MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons, our latest book, is in the holiday edition of Foreword Reviews (a longstanding review platform and periodical that aims to help booksellers and librarians discover great books from indie presses)! Our new collection is part of the November/December issue’s poetry spotlight feature, and reviewer Matt Sutherland gave it 5/5 stars. ✨

(https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/mother-daughter-augur/)

Happy Halloween! 🎃🍂✨Both of this year’s fall books are officially out in the world as of this week, and here they are to...
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! 🎃🍂✨Both of this year’s fall books are officially out in the world as of this week, and here they are together, marking a pivotal seasonal moment as well as a larger juncture for this little press: five years, ten books! Check out these astounding debut collections at the press website, juneroadpress.com, along with our others, each of which is a wonder—and stay tuned for what’s next (hint: our winter open reading period, but with a big fun twist this time around)! 🔥

P.S. If you didn’t catch our Halloween Eve launch party last night, the recording is up at our YouTube channel—find the link in our bio or head right to https://youtu.be/7sPSg-Mlubk. Six press authors, costumes, candles, and some great poetry—it’s a spooky good time!

We gathered a bunch of June Road Press poets and all the October vibes we could summon last night, right before Hallowee...
10/31/2025

We gathered a bunch of June Road Press poets and all the October vibes we could summon last night, right before Halloween, to celebrate the second publication of our 2025 fall season, MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR, the dark, dreamy, and beautifully strange debut collection from Ohio-based poet Mary Simmons. You can watch a recording of the evening on our YouTube channel for an inside look at this totally original and bewitching new book—the press’s tenth, wrapping up our fifth season in operation! You’ll also hear a fabulous set of ghostly, eerie, and otherwise autumnal poems shared by press authors Diana Whitney, Hila Ratzabi, Hannah Lee Jones, Mariella Saavedra Carquin, and Mary Ardery. 🍂✨

Watch it at https://youtu.be/7sPSg-Mlubk!

Poet Alyse Knorr perfectly captures much of what makes our newest book, Mother, Daughter, Augur, so distinctive. We’re g...
10/29/2025

Poet Alyse Knorr perfectly captures much of what makes our newest book, Mother, Daughter, Augur, so distinctive. We’re grateful for this elegant distillation of Mary Simmons’s collection, which is like stepping out of time and inhabiting a series of mysteries—bewildering in the best of ways.

Read the full blurb and other endorsements at the press website, juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur, where you’ll find all kinds of things to do with this new book, like audio clips, a playlist, and pictures (because you’ve really got to see this one in print)! 🍁✨

It’s pub day for our second book of the season, MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons! 🎉This one’s a bit of a departur...
10/28/2025

It’s pub day for our second book of the season, MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons! 🎉This one’s a bit of a departure for the press, and it’s unlike anything else you’ll find. Think of it as a Victorian naturalist’s collection gathered from fables and folklore and myth and ballet and ghost stories. It’s richly, compellingly weird, full of omens and insects and water and wolves and women transforming, with just the right dark-and-witchy vibe to launch the week of Halloween.

Mary Simmons’s poetic style is both lush and precise—eerie, dreamlike, intricate, almost undulating. This book has atmosphere. It holds up a lantern and leads you deep into some dark storybook woods, where you’ll lose yourself in the language of the different feminine personas that speak through its pages. And it’s especially engaging in print, with tarot cards, woodcuts, vintage typography, and mysterious botanical details that frame and echo the beautiful strangeness of the poetry. 

Visit the press website (www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur) for endorsements, full book and author info, audio clips, pictures, a playlist, and ways to order this bewitching new collection—our ✨tenth✨ book to date. And join us this Thursday night, right before Halloween, for a virtual celebration featuring a bunch of other press authors reading spooky-seasonal poems (link in bio or register at bit.ly/mother-daughter-augur-launch)!

Here’s a beautiful blurb for our next book—Mary Simmons’s strange and elegant debut, ✨Mother, Daughter, Augur✨—from poet...
10/23/2025

Here’s a beautiful blurb for our next book—Mary Simmons’s strange and elegant debut, ✨Mother, Daughter, Augur✨—from poet Larissa Szporluk, author of too many collections to list here. Read her full take at the press website, juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur, where you’ll also find all sorts of info and extras about this stylishly spooky new book, out next week! 🎃🍂

Coming sooooon! 👻 Make the most of decorative gourd season by picking up our fittingly eerie second fall collection, out...
10/21/2025

Coming sooooon! 👻 Make the most of decorative gourd season by picking up our fittingly eerie second fall collection, out the week of Halloween, October 28—preorder from the press and we’ll ship your book now with a little thank-you treat (that’ll last longer than fun-sized candy). All the links and details are at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur! 🎃🍂

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