Persea Books

Persea Books Independent publishers since 1975

Founded in 1975 by Karen Braziller and Michael Braziller, Persea Books is an independent literary publisher of fiction and nonfiction, contemporary American poetry, poetry in translation, books for young adults, literary anthologies for the classroom, and rediscovered classics.

Students are writing the story of their New Student Orientation: in only 6 words! Here’s ours for the day:QueensCollegeW...
08/06/2025

Students are writing the story of their New Student Orientation: in only 6 words!

Here’s ours for the day:

Queens
College
Writing
Center
Welcomes
You!

What would yours say?

Happy pub date to Lost Cities by Valenica Robin! Use the discount code SUMMERSALE on Persea’s website for a 20% discount...
08/05/2025

Happy pub date to Lost Cities by Valenica Robin!

Use the discount code SUMMERSALE on Persea’s website for a 20% discount or purchase the book from your favorite independent bookseller!

A poem from Lost Cities by is featured in books editor Ron Charles’ newsletter today. Lost Cities is out next week! O...
08/01/2025

A poem from Lost Cities by is featured in books editor Ron Charles’ newsletter today.

Lost Cities is out next week! Order from our website using discount code SUMMERSALE for a 20% discount.

New ARCs of fall poetry books by Carey Salerno and Michelle Peñaloza, featuring our marketing intern Howie Wanda Busines...
07/10/2025

New ARCs of fall poetry books by Carey Salerno and Michelle Peñaloza, featuring our marketing intern Howie Wanda Business, age 4.5. Interested in considering one of these mind-blowing collections for review? Email Howie at [email protected] to request an ARC!

Fall ARCs of new poetry by Carey Salerno and Michelle Peñaloza, featuring marketing intern extraordinaire Howie Wanda Bu...
07/10/2025

Fall ARCs of new poetry by Carey Salerno and Michelle Peñaloza, featuring marketing intern extraordinaire Howie Wanda Business (age 4.5). Interested in reviewing either book? Email us at [email protected]. They are both stunners!

Cover reveals are even more exciting when the author is also the cover artist! ALL THE WORDS I REMEMBER ARE POEMS by Mic...
05/27/2025

Cover reveals are even more exciting when the author is also the cover artist! ALL THE WORDS I REMEMBER ARE POEMS by Michelle Peñaloza comes out in September with the poet’s gorgeous collage on the front cover and seven additional color collages within the book. Winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, this extraordinary collection challenges colonial narratives while reveling in what’s passed from mother to daughter across generations.

Advance reading copies of some of the amazing poetry collections coming out in Summer & Fall 2025! Dynamic, iconoclastic...
05/23/2025

Advance reading copies of some of the amazing poetry collections coming out in Summer & Fall 2025! Dynamic, iconoclastic new books by Cameron Awkward-Rich, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Valencia Robin!

We are thrilled to announce that The Beautiful Relations by Benjamin Gucciardi is the winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky ...
05/17/2025

We are thrilled to announce that The Beautiful Relations by Benjamin Gucciardi is the winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky Editors’ Choice Award. Persea will publish this extraordinary collection in Fall 2026.
The editors are also pleased to recognize this year’s runner up, Redwork by Laurie Ann Guerrero.

Benjamin Gucciardi was born and raised in San Francisco, California. His first book, West Portal, (University of Utah Press, 2021), received the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and the Julie Suk Award. He is also the author of the chapbooks Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage (Quarterly West, 2021), winner of the 2020 Quarterly West chapbook contest, and I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, On Being’s Poetry Unbound and elsewhere. In addition to writing, he works with newcomer youth in the bay area through Soccer Without Borders, an organization he founded in 2006.

Huzzah for Andrea Ballou, whose first collection of poetry, OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT is reviewed by Stephanie Burt in this ...
04/23/2025

Huzzah for Andrea Ballou, whose first collection of poetry, OTHER TIMES, MIDNIGHT is reviewed by Stephanie Burt in this week’s New York Times Book Review! 🔥 📕 🕛

See first comment for the full write-up.

Thanks to the for including Glass Jaw by and [ominous music intensifying] in its showcase!📷:
04/18/2025

Thanks to the for including Glass Jaw by and [ominous music intensifying] in its showcase!

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To celebrate both National Poetry Month and Persea’s 50th anniversary, we are excited publish HOWEVER AND WHEREVER WE AR...
04/01/2025

To celebrate both National Poetry Month and Persea’s 50th anniversary, we are excited publish HOWEVER AND WHEREVER WE ARE: POEMS FROM PERSEA’S FIRST FIFTY YEARS. Throughout April, we will be posting poem-excerpts from the anthology to our stories. Look for excerpts from Cameron Awkward-Rich, Elizabeth Bradfield, Molly McCully Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Nazim Hikmet, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Marie Howe, James Richardson, Patrick Rosal, Lisa Russ Spaar, and dozens of others!

Thanks for helping us celebrate 50 years of independent publishing, ! See you next year every one!
03/30/2025

Thanks for helping us celebrate 50 years of independent publishing, ! See you next year every one!

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