Recenter Press

Recenter Press Recenter Press is a small independent publisher and poetry journal founded in June 2017.

Works published speak to workers’ rights and experiences, LGBTQ and racial justice, faith and recovery, and our interdependence with each other and the natural world. Recenter Press is a small independent publisher and poetry journal founded in June 2017 by Terra Oliveira. Works published speak to workers’ rights and experiences, LGBTQ and racial justice, recovery and mysticism, and our interdependence with each other and the natural world.

One of two poems by Erick Sáenz in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 〰️Erick Sáenz is a writer in San Fran...
10/20/2025

One of two poems by Erick Sáenz in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 〰️

Erick Sáenz is a writer in San Francisco. He’s the author of two books of poetry, one collection of fiction, and several self-published chapbooks/zines. He is the founding editor of Lilac Press, and co-hosts the Light Jacket Reading Series. You can find more at lucidtraversal.com, and on Instagram .

Thank you !! Love the DIY publishing community with all I’ve got
10/20/2025

Thank you !! Love the DIY publishing community with all I’ve got

By Lotte Mitchell Reford in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🌋🗻Lotte Mitchell Reford is usually a poet, b...
10/16/2025

By Lotte Mitchell Reford in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🌋🗻

Lotte Mitchell Reford is usually a poet, but currently working on nonfiction about sickness, language learning, loneliness, and starving medieval saints. Lotte holds an MFA from Virginia Tech and they currently live in Mexico City. Their writing has been published in, amongst other places, Copper Nickel, Spam, Poetry Bus, and Hobart Pulp. Their first pamphlet was published in 2021 by Broken Sleep Books. Lotte won CRAFT’s 2023 nonfiction prize and was nominated for a Pushcart for the same.

by in issue five of the recenter press poetry journal 👀
10/02/2025

by in issue five of the recenter press poetry journal 👀

The Litquake Small Press Bookfair today was a huge success! We had so much fun sharing all of the Recenter Press books w...
09/29/2025

The Litquake Small Press Bookfair today was a huge success! We had so much fun sharing all of the Recenter Press books with San Francisco’s vibrant literary community, and even more fun talking to everyone and learning more about what YOU are up to. Thank you to all those of you that stopped by the Recenter Press table, that organized this event, that read their beautiful poems, and to all of the amazing vendors today. It’s such a joy to support and be a part of the small press community 💓

One of two pieces by Johnny Rafter in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🏠 Definitely ended up going with h...
09/26/2025

One of two pieces by Johnny Rafter in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🏠 Definitely ended up going with homes and housing as one of the main themes of this issue, sometimes themes reveal themselves in the collective submissions process

Johnny Rafter is a writer of songs and poems from California. His recording project is The Fruit Trees. You can find him on Instagram .rafter.

Spotted a new poetry book from Recenter Press contributor Mia S. Willis at City Lights Books in San Fransisco today! “P...
09/25/2025

Spotted a new poetry book from Recenter Press contributor Mia S. Willis at City Lights Books in San Fransisco today! “PARABLE OF THE GREAT BANQUET.” was first published in Issue Three of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal, and is now a part of Mia’s stunning poetry collection, The Space Between Men, out from Penguin Poets in January 2025 and winner of the National Poetry series. Congrats Mia!

One of two poems by Tolu Ogunlesi published in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🏠Tolu Ogunlesi’s fiction ...
09/23/2025

One of two poems by Tolu Ogunlesi published in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal 🏠

Tolu Ogunlesi’s fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Wasafiri, Transition, Sable, Magma, Orbis, MQR, Westchester Review, Nine Muses Review, Ad Fontes, and many others. He’s the winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, a PEN/Studzinski Literary Award, and a Honorable Mention in the 2006 Concorso internazionale di poesia Castello di Duino. He was shortlisted for a 2023 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship. He has been awarded writing/research fellowships by the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Sweden; University of Birmingham, England; Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria. You can find him on Instagram and X (Twitter) .

I’ll be vending all of the Recenter Press books at ’s Small Press Book Fair in San Francisco next weekend! Head to the R...
09/19/2025

I’ll be vending all of the Recenter Press books at ’s Small Press Book Fair in San Francisco next weekend! Head to the Recenter Press table at on Sunday, September 28th from 11am-4pm to check out our books and learn more about the call for submissions for Issue 6 of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal, open now through November 30th. So looking forward to a day of local vendors and poetry readings!

We'll be vending all of the Recenter Press books at Litquake's Small Press Book Fair at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Franc...
09/18/2025

We'll be vending all of the Recenter Press books at Litquake's Small Press Book Fair at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco on Sunday, September 28th! Come check out our books and ask us about our open call for submissions for the Recenter Press Poetry Journal :)

One of three poems by Lora Mathis in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry JournalLora Mathis is a poet, writer, and v...
09/18/2025

One of three poems by Lora Mathis in Issue Five of the Recenter Press Poetry Journal

Lora Mathis is a poet, writer, and visual artist. She has written three books of poems, including The Snakes Came Back (, 2023). She makes sculptures, paintings, photos, and likes to collaborate with friends. With the musician Matty Terrones, they released the live performance album Sediment (, 2022). You can more of their work at loramathis.com, and on Instagram .

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Recenter Press is a Philadelphia-based publisher dedicated to sharing work that is grounded in both the spiritual and the material. Our vision is to support work that documents personal transformation, that challenges social conditioning under capitalism, that speaks to the need for the revolutionary transformation of society, and that captures our deep communion with the world. ​Thank you for sharing this space with us.