Ledge Mule Press

03/24/2023

Join us for Matt Hart's book release party APRIL 6, 8pm at The Bishop. Celebrate Matt's latest book, Familiar.
Music by Busman's Holiday, Nevernew.
Readings by Matt Hart, Hiromi Yoshida, Rose Zinnia & Tony Brewer. $5 cover.

08/22/2022

Dear Friends, Co-conspirators, Couch Surfers, and POETS! Matt Hart's new book, FAMILIAR is now available for pre-order from Pickpocket Books (an imprint of Ledge Mule Press). The book is an obliteration of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" (via the Spanish of the 20th Century anti-fascist poet and critic León Felipe). Place your pre-order now for October delivery. https://www.ledgemulepress.org/releases/familiar

05/02/2022

Hey book lovers! Did you know that you can now find books by your favorite Ledge Mule Press authors at Morgenstern Books !? Check out the "Local" section near the front of the store the next time you visit this wonderful, local, independent bookstore! 📚❤️

08/12/2018

Ledge Mule Press at Poets House in NYC! Yalie Kamara stopped by to see our recent releases on exhibit this summer. We are honored to be included in the The 2018 Showcase Exhibit. Thanks for the photos, Yalie! https://www.poetshouse.org/programs-and-events/ph-showcase/26th-annual-poets-house-showcase

02/06/2018

“I think we’re in a really tense time and and it feels unsafe in a lot of ways. But I think if you were messing around with arts and not taking it seriously— now’s the time to take it seriously, and I don’t think we have to labor all the time and be martyrs, I’m not saying that, necessarily—I’m just interested in getting more serious about my writing and I want to encourage other people to do it too, and I also want to do it in the spirit of joy..." Yalie Kamara as quoted in José Vadi's profile in Wolfman New Life Quarterly. Please read the whole piece. You will be happy you did.

The Thursday night crowd packed Oakland’s East Bay Booksellers to hear the poetry of one of their own. A framed painting of a bald bearded man hugging an even taller fish somewhere in a far away field of magical daisies looms behind and above the empty brown podium. Rows of folded chairs are slalo...

09/08/2017

Tomorrow night, 7pm, don't miss Chris Mattingly reading poetry at the I Fell. David Watters and Kayte Young will join him, sharing poetry and graphic memoir.

08/26/2017

One of Yalie Kamara's poems has been short listed for the Brittle Paper Literary Awards, recognizing the finest, original pieces of African writing published online. We are so thrilled that her brilliant work is being recognized far and wide!

August 1, 2017 was Brittle Paper's seventh anniversary. In celebration of this milestone, we are launching the Brittle Paper Literary Awards, to recognize the finest, original pieces of African writing published online. The awards come in five categories: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Essays/Think

08/18/2017

Check out this reading at The Back Door, sponsored by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

Alexander Reid: Against the Fascist Creep Alexander Reid Ross will be reading from his new book Against the Fascist Creep about the rise of fascism, and facilitating a discussion afterwords around local community responses to fascist aggression. At a time when the line between conventional con

08/14/2017

Looks like Yalie Kamara packed the house for her reading at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland, Ca last week! Go Yalie!!!

08/10/2017

"I've said this before, but I think my life has been a negotiation of liminal spaces," Kamara says by phone. [...] I think that for a lot of first-generation American young people or adults, our nationality is a hyphen. [...] it's - how do you live between those two things and make a home out of the...

08/10/2017

The San Francisco Chronicle features Yalie Karmara, ahead of her reading at Diesel Bookstore in Oakland, August 10! http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Life-and-loss-in-Yalie-Kamara-s-When-the-11745663.php

"I've said this before, but I think my life has been a negotiation of liminal spaces," Kamara says by phone. [...] I think that for a lot of first-generation American young people or adults, our nationality is a hyphen. [...] it's - how do you live between those two things and make a home out of the...