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03/01/2023

Book Review: Mark Pawlak's My Deniversity | The Worcester Review

Mark Pawlak's Deniversity featured in the The Worcester Review:

"It is an introduction to the poets one should know if one wishes to become a poet, to immerse oneself into the craft and history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and its changes. In short, the book is a primer on how to become a poet, and the steps required for success (if not renown)." –– Eugene McCarthy

Mark Pawlak’s My Deniversity is a book of many parts. It is biography of Denise Levertov as poet and teacher at MIT in the 1970s. The title puns on her as an education in herself, a “university” of lifetime learning with her. It is Pawlak’s autobiography as a developing poet. It is the liter...

02/25/2023

Dig the algorithim of: HLP = T312 @ AWP. Come by our table, we'll be happy to see you!

02/20/2023

Hanging Loose Press knows how important it is to keep our poets' voices alive. They tell the story of America and the world. Here is George Mosby, Jr. and his fine collection, Population, which we published in 1983. Mosby writes of family, heritage, prison and home. His work has also appeared in The Black Scholar, Phoebe, and Glassworks.

02/14/2023

We really mean it!

02/02/2023

Catching Up With Indran Amirthanayagam - Hanging Loose Press

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Check out what Hanging Loose poet Indran Amirthanayagam is up to. No surprise, he's been busy!

Poet, essayist, and translator Indran Amirthanayagam talks with Hanging Loose about his past year. Amirthanayagam writes, translates, and publishes poetry and essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole, which means he is always in the middle of a project, and in quite possib...

01/25/2023

books

We are so proud of Hahn Kimiko for her new role as a Chancellor for The Academy of American Poets! We are also proud of having published her books, Air Pocket, Earshot, and Volatile. Check out her books!

FOREIGN BODIES Inspired by her encounter with Dr. Chevalier Jackson’s collection of ingested curiosities at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum, Kimiko Hahn’s tenth collection investigates the grip that s…

01/21/2023

The Lunar New Year starts on Sunday. May it be the sweetest one yet...

12/28/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022:

Jiwon Choi on making space:

"As a poet and editor of color, I have been thinking a lot this year about what it means to take up space. And what I have learned is that if I want space to express my art and poetry, I need to make it. Making space is making opportunities for me and others to share ideas and stories. It means expanding the landscape of poetry to inlcude as many diverse voices as possible. Let's keep building our , y'all!"

12/27/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022:

Thomas Moody on kindness:

"I’m no good with resolutions and I always try to think of the new year as something that has happened so far in the past I can’t even put a date on it, but in the meantime I want to lose my guilt over smoking and see as much live music as possible and continue to work hard on the important things, like kindness."

12/26/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022:

Dick Lourie on balance:

"Over the years I’ve tried to balance my working life among my three professions of poet, editor, and musician. Frequently I find myself being seesawed in one direction or another.

This coming year, I want to try to write every day. I’m well aware that this idea is more a cliché than a revolutionary practice, but for me it’s been difficult to carry out. I will still be editing Hanging Loose (a lot) and still energizing myself by playing music, but I’m feeling the need to do every day what a poet does. So ask me again at the end of 2023 and I’ll give you an update."

12/23/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022:

Joanna Fuhrman on grief and writing:

"This was the year I started to recover from the grief of losing my mom and our dear publisher Bob (both died in March of 2021). In 2022, I threw myself into writing and finished a book of darkly comic, surreal prose poems about the internet called Data Mind (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and published poems in The Baffler, Concision, The Laurel Review, Limp Wrist, Pithead Chapel, South Florida Poetry Review and Tribes (as well as the Japanese Anthology of NY Poets—which also included a bunch of other HL poets). I also co-curated a couple of months of The Segue reading series with my friend Janice Lowe. Most importantly, I became an editor at Hanging Loose! My goal for the year is to help Hanging Loose start offering e-books, to host some zoom events for the press, and to discover new writers in the slush. In March, I’m looking forward to meeting our readers at AWP in Seattle."

12/22/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022.

Keri Smith muses good chaos:

“This year I’ve been reading a lot of literature that’s been newly translated. It’s kind of wild to read prose and poetry from 20, 50, 100 years ago that still resonates with me and at the same time reminds me how quickly our national and political landscapes can change. Everything is so mercurial and always on the precipice of absolute chaos, in a bad way. I hope for good chaos in the future but honestly feel pretty bleak about ours now. Let’s hope we tilt things onto the scale we want- for me- it’s radical justice, compassion, and creativity for all.”

12/22/2022

For more than half a century, Hanging Loose has championed the work of authors marginalized by mainstream publishing—work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class or socioeconomic status.

BUT WE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT.



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12/21/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022.

Caroline Hagood muses books:

"This year, I was fascinated to see so many books about complpoetsofindiacommunity difficult, and even monstrous women in the midst of radical transformations."

12/19/2022

What the editors at Hanging Loose Press are thinking about near the end of 2022.

Mark Pawlak muses epiphany and resolutions:

Epiphany:
"Planning the recent commemoration of Denise Levertov 25 years after her death, I realized 2023 will be the 100th anniversary of her birth, so many more opportunities to celebrate her life and poetic legacy in the coming year."

Resolutions:
1. Compile the foraged mushrooms cookbook I've planned to write for too long.
2. Broaden the reach of Hanging Loose and bring new readers and new poets into the fold.

12/15/2022

Give the gift of poetry to your favorite deep reader: The New York Writers or Bust Series.





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12/12/2022

Hanging Loose Magazine: Fifty-Six Years of Poetry & Nonconformity

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Thanks to poet and writer Robert Hirschfield for this thoughtful review of Hanging Loose at 56. Snail mail forever, y'all!



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12/08/2022

Give the gift of poetry to your favorite deep reader: The Brooklyn Poets Series. Visit our website for more gifts of poetry:

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12/01/2022

Check out poet and artist, Harley Elliott, whose work is featured in issue #113, on guitar singing "Goodnight Caravaggio" along with Eric Corby (drums), Tim Werth (keyboard), ca 1985. Link below:

https://youtu.be/ZnbF0XovWcQ

Harley says, "I've been performing songs for dog years." Well, bow wow wow to that!

From the original album The Thirteen O'Clock News.

11/28/2022

Issue #113 of Hanging Loose magazine will be coming out next month, jam packed with good stuff: new work by Sherman Alexie, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, our roster of talented high school writers. And #113 marks the return of guest editor's picks: check out who Yolanda Wisher picked for this one. And featuring art by Harley Elliott.

Bada bing, bada boom!

11/15/2022

‘THE WEIGHT OF THE ISLAND’ ~ THE POETRY OF VIRGILIO PIÑERA « Centro Cultural Cubano de Nueva York

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THE WEIGHT OF THE ISLAND ~ THE POETRY OF VIRGILIO PIÑERA, Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7 pm

INSTITUTO CERVANTES
211 E 49th St, bet. 2nd & 3rd Aves., NYC

Join Hanging Loose Poet Pablo Medina and Anna Kushner in this celebration of poet Virgilio Piñera's 110th birthday.

On the 110th anniversary year of the birth of the great Cuban writer Virgilio Piñera, this presentation celebrates his work—his poetry in particular—with a view toward the embodiment of Cubanness, the absurd and daily life in Cuban literature of the 20th century. The program will feature Cuban ...

11/12/2022

Here's a sneak preview of weird girls Caroline Hagood & Jiwon Choi in conversation. Go to: https://bit.ly/3UiYc5i

And then come to Freddy's Bar & Backroom tonight for the full confab and digression!

Freddy's Bar & Backroom
627 Fifth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

11/08/2022

Maureen Owen reads from let the heart hold down the breakage Or the caregiver’s log

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Maureen Owen captures the heartbreak (even finds the humor!) and real human-ness of caring for our beloveds in her new book, "let the heart hold down the breakage". Read Don Yorty's beautiful post on Owen's recent September reading at Unnameable Books.

Books available at spdbooks.org & bookshop.org.

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When I arrived in NYC in the fall of 1979, one of the first things I did was to go to Saint Mark’s Church and […]

11/06/2022

Hanging Loose Press editors know how to get weird, and you can too!

Come on down to Freddy’s Bar next Saturday, November 12th where you can eavesdrop on Jiwon Choi and Caroline Hagood talk about monsters, ambition and not letting anyone tell us what to do. In honor of Hagood’s newly published and excellent book, Weird Girls: Writing the Art Monster (Spuyten Duyvil).

Freddy’s Bar & Backroom, 627 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn (in da house).

10/29/2022

Join us for this wonderful Queens College MFA in Creative Writing and Translation event to celebrate the Loose Translation Award winners, with opening comments from Loose Translation Award Editor Caroline Hagood & Hanging Loose Co-Editor Mark Pawlak!

10/21/2022

B A R B A R A H E N N I N G
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K I M B E R L Y L Y O N S
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M A U R E E N O W E N

@ UNNAMEABLE BOOKS
October 26th, 6:30pm

Brooklyn, the Poet's mecca.

10/17/2022

Hanging Loose Press announces additions to its editorial staff.
Joanna Fuhrman Caroline Hagood Elizabeth Hershon Jiwon Choi

10/15/2022

A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2022 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Hanging Loose and R. Zamora Linmark listed twice for Pop Verité and Drive-by Vigils, on this month's excellently curated CLMP list of reads by Filipino poets and writers. And we are in such good company with: The Hopkins Review, MANOA Journal, The Common, Five South, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Southeast Review, Read Furiously, Restless Books, New Rivers Press, Kaya Press, Winding Road Stories, Dalkey Archive Press, Small Beer Press, Sarabande, Bookhug Press, Tupelo Press, Alice James Books, BOA Editions, Nightboat Books, Futurepoem, Variant Literature, Marsh Hawk Press, Four Way Books, Fonograf Editions!

For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during October, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration. (Learn more about Filipino American History Month here.)   Literary Magaz...

10/11/2022

In September, the poets of Hanging Loose Press killed genre...or discussed how to stretch the parameters of literary genres at Mama Tried. Curated by Caroline Hagood.

10/05/2022

For a decade and counting, Hanging Loose Poet, Sherman Alexie's "Diary of a Part-Time Indian" has been on oh so many banned books lists. Hanging Loose Press has been publishing Alexie's poetry since 1992 and counting. Read all the banned books, y'all!

10/02/2022

We are pleased to welcome this book of writers associated with HL into the world, edited by David Walton Wright, translated by Takaomi Eda, with Mark Pawlak and Bob Hershon as Contributing Editors.

09/25/2022

For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked our members to share with us some of the literature they recommend reading in celebration—published by Hanging Loose Press, Red Hen Press, Perugia Press, Swan Isle Press, BOA Editions, Omnidawn Publishing, Wave Books, Milkweed Editions, Green Writers Press, Four Way Books, Noemi Press, The Word Works, Gival Press, great weather for MEDIA, TRP: The University Press of SHSU, Marsh Hawk Press, Haymarket Books, Copper Canyon Press, Sinister Wisdom, Split/Lip Press, Sarabande, The Feminist Press, Bellevue Literary Press, Veliz Books, Madville Publishing, Restless Books, CavanKerry Press, 53rd State Press, Frayed Edge Press, Nomadic Press, New Vessel Press, The Cincinnati Review, Southeast Review, Words Without Borders, SmokeLong Quarterly, Anomalous Press, The Common, and more! https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-national-hispanic-heritage-month-2022/

09/23/2022

We are so excited for this Brooklyn Book Festival event at Mama Tried Brooklyn!

This panel & reading features Hanging Loose Press poets who work in other genres/formats—and often blend genres to write in modes that are difficult to categorize in compelling ways. This panel will look at what it means to switch or blend genres/formats as an author. It will also explore the field of hybrid writing and examine its cultural impact and uses. If you have never gotten the chance to see the amazing Jiwon Choi, Mark Pawlak, Wang Ping, and Sharon Mesmer in action, here's your one and only chance...

09/16/2022

Please join me, Joan Larkin, Caroline Hagood, Emily Wallis Hughes at Unnameable Books on 9/24 @ 6pm for "The Garden Admires You" poetry reading.

The theme for this reading riffs off us urban dwellers being cut off from the garden of our dreams, so here is our chance to reconstruct and reclaim our place in our lost Eden (insert your idea of Eden here). We will pay homage to the Garden of Urban, elating its fecundity and whatever wilderness remains.

We would love to see you there!

09/15/2022

Maureen Owen’s moving account of caring for her mother is out now. Order it from SPD or hangingloosepress.com.

09/10/2022

Caroline Hagood's new book deals with the perils and kickassery of being ourselves! Weird girls unite and read this book. Read it even if you're not weird! Read it even if you're not a girl!

And, hey, it takes one to know one.

Check out this great review at PW: https://bit.ly/wgchagood

09/07/2022

The Poets of Hanging Loose will be Governors Island bound on Sunday, September 11th where we'll bask in the poetry of our times. Come bask with us: Caroline Hagood, Joanna Fuhrman, Jiwon Choi

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09/02/2022

Maureen Owen's "let the heart hold down the breakage" is out now. Read what she says about what it means to really give care:

https://bit.ly/caregiverslog

08/31/2022

hangingloosepress on TikTok

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I was supposed to add hashtags. But at least I figured out the stars...

hangingloosepress's short video with ♬ Strawberry

05/02/2022

We are not ornamental.