Blue Sketch Press

03/11/2022

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

An Idea Of Feathers has a very tactile nature. The work is not just textures and surfaces, but the feeling of whole structures—chain restaurants, relationships, grief— burning, decaying, pieced together and well lived-in.

—Billy Tuggle, author of Conscience Under Pressure

With their first poem, Feathers and Michael Hodges draw you into a unique world, both inner and outer. The lens, while hardly rose-colored, is radiant and made even more so by the darker colors it reveals.

—Paulie Lipman, author of A List Of Imagined Saints

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09/15/2021

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER

"The Ghost Was Always The Machine is an artist’s book which blends digital and analog platforms. You’ll be bouncing between this book and web pages. You’ll only be able to access the web pages with passwords which can be deduced from the content of the poems and the hints laid out in the analog portion of the book.

The poems in this book must be exhumed, peeled apart, summoned, disassembled, and re-assembled. It is strongly encouraged that you take notes. Write in this book. Dog-ear the pages. Bookmark websites. Use the book as an umbrella. Eat pizza off of it. Make this book your own. There are more poems than are listed in the table of contents. You’ll have to be clever if you want to find all the poems."

The Ghost Was Always The Machine is an artist’s book which blends digital and analog platforms. You’ll be bouncing between this book and web pages. You’ll only be able to access the web pages with passwords which can be deduced from the content of the poems and the hints laid out in the analog...

02/27/2018

Blue Sketch Press is proud to announce our 2018 Manuscript Contest (“Damn… That’s a Good Book”) for a previously unpublished collection of poetry or prose. This contest is open to any writer, regardless of his or her publication history, provided the manuscript is written in English and the author lives in the United States. The winner of this contest will receive publication by Blue Sketch Press, a $250 cash advance, and ten copies of the book; all prizes will be awarded upon publication.

02/01/2018

Latest issue of Asterix Journal is available at the Blue Sketch Press store!

Angie Cruz: This issue was anchored by a conversation we had with Sandra Cisneros when she visited Pittsburgh, and she spontaneously had us draw maps at the dinner table. How we quickly could see by looking at our maps where we have been and even where we wanted to go. Some of us were very good at i...

01/31/2018

We forgot to mention that we're sponsoring the January 31 Nasty Slam tonight! Winner is guaranteed $150! When was the last time three poems got you at least that much?

08/07/2017

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER: Cheryl Maddalena's "Children, It Is Time We Had The Talk," Winner of the 2016 Blue Sketch Press Prize!

Orders ship on 09/22

Cheryl Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. In Children, it is Time We Had The Talk, the domestic is turned on its head, reimagined and deconstructed. Her explorations are many—sometimes charming, sometimes grotesque, sometimes ghoulishly sexy. Of...

04/24/2017

Aster(ix) Journal Summer 2017 Issue, Kitchen Table Translation, now available for pre-order.

Featuring the work of immigrant and diasporic translators, it brings personal, cultural, and political dimensions of translation together with literary and aesthetic aspects of the work, and compiles writing and translation from languages including Ahmaric, Arabic, French, Greek, Japanese, Korean, M...

03/26/2017

Now Shipping!

(an online-only journal of experimental African American literature) in the past seven years. This issue of Aster(ix) is edited by Laura Pegram and Angie Cruz, with the help of University of Pittsburgh Writing MFA students. Featuring

11/21/2016

Shipping next week: What We Love (An Asterix Journal anthology)

11/21/2016

Now offering subscriptions to (our awesome partners!) Asterix Journal!

Aster(ix) is a journal of literature, art, and criticism. Aster(ix) is a play on asterisk, star, splat, a wildcard. It’s the censored and omitted. It’s footnotes and to be continued. (ix) honors Mayan heart-knowing, the alignment with divine will, the torch bearer. We cast lines between the future a...

11/03/2016

Blue Sketch Press is proud to announce the winner of our 2016 Manuscript Contest and one damn good book—Children, It is Time We Had the Talk by Cheryl Maddalena.

In her stunning book, Maddalena confronts the stereotypes of home life and leaves us reeling on the other side. Children, It is Time We Had the Talk is forthcoming from Blue Sketch Press in 2017.

We’re also happy to list and honor our finalists:

Hassan Riaz for Already Gone
Tessa Brown for The Nights


For information on our 2017 Book Contest, please visit us in April.