Black Widow Press

08/21/2025

We, at Sulfur Editions, are pleased and honored to announce that the French translation of the poetry collection Crossfall by Heller Levinson will be published worldwide in December 2025 via Sulfur…

07/04/2025

Newly-published titles from Black Widow Press now available to order, either directly from us or from your local bookstore.

African Bestiary by Willis Barnstone
Crossfall by Heller Levinson
Keener Sounds by Roger Greenwald
The Water Drinkers by Henry Murger, translated and adapted by Zack Rogow

05/17/2025

Come see Andrei Codrescu read from his new collection of poetry at the book launch for How to Live under Fascism. The event will take place this coming Friday, May 23, at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City, from 7 pm to 9 pm. For more information or to RSVP please visit

We are thrilled to host the launching event of Andrei Codrescu’s latest poetry collection, provocatively titled “How to Live Under Fascism”, a timely and brilliant poetic statement that confronts the specters of history with dark irony, lyrical defiance, and fierce clarity. One of the most suc...

05/03/2025

Now available: How to Live Fascism, a new poetry collection from Andrei Codrescu. Andrei shares some thoughts on the publication in his latest Substack post below

https://andreicodrescu.substack.com/p/my-new-book?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1612096&post_id=162703360

12/23/2024

New poems by Heller Levinson published in the Big Other. Poems to be included in Crossfall....coming in Spring 2025

  “Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Patmos”   wrench lateral carapace bleed rowel from which turbulent fathom this tremor, this blush foment, t…

12/03/2024

See Roger Greenwald read from his new collection, An Opening in the Vertical World.

Roger Greenwald, American poet: his book of poems, AN OPENING IN THE VERTICAL WORLD

11/27/2024

John Olson with a nice review of Heller Levinson's Valvular Ash over at Sulfur.

Levinson’s Quantum Foam The task ahead of me is as alluring as it is frustrating. Any description of what Heller Levinson does with words cannot be hemmed in by conventional means. It’s so complete…

09/17/2024

I'm Farguing away! No one I know studied his poetry in school. Why? Pourquoi?

07/06/2024

Since you asked what I was reading...! Fargue has made himself at home on our guest room bed. More can be found on our kitchen chairs! So far, my favorite is his collection of short essays on the twenty arrondissements in Paris. Where's my croissant?

06/24/2024

The guest room bed is covered in Fargue books! The dude covered social life in Paris as well as writing essays on writers, artists and musicians. He hung out with Satie until they fought and the threat of a duel came up. Fargue chose the weapons and his pick: spelling!

06/12/2024

In stock and available to order, Valvular Ash, the new collection from Heller Levinson, and Even the Wicked Get Worse than we Deserve, the new novel from P. Curran. Available directly from us at www.blackwidowpress.com, or you can order from your local brick and mortar shop or from your online bookseller of choice.

06/10/2024

If Fargue were still alive, I would meet him at Le Boeuf Sur le Toit for an apéro, and ask him a few questions. Would he trust me enough to talk a bit about his time with Jarry?