Entre Ríos Books

05/04/2022

Morning errands in Lake City is all the excuse needed to stop at @seatangofoods for some empanadas y pasteles.

04/28/2022

Stopped by @openpoetrybooks for honest to god browsing— so delighted to see this Lao Yang translation by @architecturefortravelers & Lynn Xu. Another book to take to @_ianboyden when we finally meet this summer. Beautiful production by @circbooks!

04/28/2022

Stopped by @openpoetrybooks for honest to god browsing— so delighted to see this Lao Yang translation by @architecturefortravelers & Lynn Xu. Another book to take to @_ianboyden when we finally meet this summer. Beautiful production by @circbooks!

04/25/2022

BOITOI back from the spa and ready to go to the lake tomorrow— but while he was gone my heart— oh these blue vans @peacevans… it is just so BUTCH. (That Ozette, part of the rental fleet). #vanlife #smallpress #ilovemyvan Now just to get back to the office to channel all the positive vibes @getlitfestival !!!

04/25/2022

BOITOI Imposter filling in admirably on the morning swim, though now it definitely looks like we’re part of a dangerous cult. One of the dog walkers asked “how many vans do you have?”😂 #vanlife #ows #openwater Thanks to the team at @peacevans, a great place to rent these for your PNW adventure.

04/24/2022

We had a chance to squeeze in a visit to the adorable @wishingtreebooks— while it seems mostly childrens books, the adult section is super well-considered and the poetry shelf has local poets. Yea for cute bookstores! #poetry #smallpress

04/24/2022

Some more Washington poetry presses @getlitfestival — Lost Horse Press and @lynxhousepress (which is funny Af on Insta). Here at Montvale Exhibit Center today. #poetry #smallpress

04/24/2022

Feeling a little wistful at leaving Spokane tomorrow as it’s been so nice to relax, meet some friends, and have a few walks in good weather— still a bit more time would have been lovely for friends & family. Looking forward to @getlitfestival 2023. We’re at the book fair in the morning then on the road home. #poetry

04/23/2022

Our friends @floatingbridgepress selling Washington state poets. @getlitfestival #poetry

04/23/2022

First book sale since 2019! Come find us at @montvaleeventcenter @getlitfestival till 4 pm. #poetry

04/22/2022

Really loved everyone’s good-natured exploration of publishing at @getlitfestival this afternoon… looking forward to the rest of the weekend!

And shout out to the awesome @sharmashields, @pompadourlemousse, @karenvielle! An excellent team!!!

04/20/2022

In which our van shop gives us a loaner and saves poetry once again!!! THANKS @peacevans!!! Let us try again to get to @getlitfestival. #vanlife #poetry

04/20/2022

BOITOI must hate poetry, becuase every time we try to go to a book festival it decides to throw a fit! #vanlife #poetry @getlitfestival

04/19/2022

Getting out our trade show box to pack for @getlitfestival and wondering why our table cloth is so gigantic and when did I even order it??? 😂😂😂

04/14/2022

Ah, house sitting at an Argentinian’s. My father-in-law loved him some Doña Petrona.

04/01/2022

This work retreat does not suck. #whidbeyisland

03/31/2022

I’ve been making a point to do one new thing every day on this “catch up the press” retreat. Today, between showers, wandered around the paths at @meerkerkgardens. A most pleasant way to stretch my legs. #pnw #whidbeyisland #smallpress

03/30/2022

FABIÁN O. IRIARTENicole Wanders by the Riverbank(translation by Lawrence Schimel)

A new Lawrence Schimel translation from our forthcoming Fabián O. Iriarte collection, "The Confessions."

Lawrence writes, "While Fabián and I have not yet met in person, I’ve been reading his work for many decades, and was drawn to the poems in this book, which are both erudite and sexy, sophisticated but playful, unquestionably q***r in both content and how they tackle and subvert language."

Thanks to Poetry Northwest for publishing "Nicole Wanders by the Riverbank."

She walks, a bit lost, between the shores

03/29/2022

A 2021 Good Thing: Visit by Winter Texts publisher Conner Roberts.

One of my failings as a younger poet was understanding the importance of finding the right community— I just had no idea how to do that with the work I wanted to create. So it's not something I take for granted now, and grateful to the many publishers I have gotten to meet and badger with questions.

I am inspired by Conor's design work and his drive toward the community in Port Townsend, where he is based. He has managed to create a bookstore in the bar he works, host readings, and come up with some great projects thinking about the history and ecology of his community.

One helpful thing was talking about print runs. Winter Texts has tiny runs— feels good to sell out of books and easily stored. I've been using the other approach— the more you print, the less they cost per unit. I tend toward hopeful exuberance anyhow.

But I never once considered the cost of having to store books. In Seattle, the smallest temperature-controlled spaces are over $300 a month. This is the primary reason we have an office. Oy vey! Storing books is something I will spend money on twenty years from now. I did not plan for this at all.

Here's a Winter Text book you should know: Haines Whitacre's
"Accounts of Wreckage". A lively and well-designed poetic essay of sorts on John Henry- the song, the myth, the history. They are a young Seattle poet to keep on your reading list.
https://www.wintertexts.com/product-page/accounts-of-wreckage

I can't wait to see his new bookstore! Follow them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/winter_texts/

03/28/2022

Island time! So grateful to some pals lending me their place for some time alone to be able to focus on getting our next books ready for press. There are all kinds of poetry heroes!

03/24/2022

2021 was a challenging year for the press, and by the press, I mean me. Something I had not really grasped about small presses before I decided to start one is how small they actually can be, right? My energy is the press. My brain working right is the press. Since our house fire in the fall of 2019, I’ve organized five house moves and had seven “office spaces.” Both of my in-laws died— one slowly, one rather unexpectedly— and then there’s the pandemic, the doomscrolling— well, I am certainly floundering. And exhausted.

This picture was taken in early January when I was feeling hopeful. Since then, some days and weeks have been more optimistic than others. There are days I work on sharing poetry and writing I find interesting, which is a true gift. We will have some new books out this fall, and I can’t wait to get them into peoples’ hands and ears. Exciting partnerships, excellent writing, sweet audio— truly some beautiful work.

Once again, I am trying to “Turn on the Press.” So before we start poetry month, I thought I’d spend the week sharing some of the cool things that happened with Entre Rios Books and our authors in 2021. Mostly to buoy my own spirits and document things I was too overwhelmed to share. In this day of constant and endless handwaving and chatter, I need(ed) some time to be quiet and figure out what running a poetry press is means to me going forward.

03/05/2022

Something we haven’t had in a while— fresh ink on pages from our printers @bookmobile_printing!

03/04/2022

After such rain, a beautiful afternoon in Seattle. From this spot on the lake, you could easily walk to our office, @floatingbridgepress and @wavepoetry. That’s a lot of poetry in a 45 minute walk!

03/01/2022

When I used to take my father-in-law to the doctor’s, I’d often play Hugo del Carril on the way home and he’d sit in the back and sing along until he became too emotionally involved in his memories and start to cry. And then I’d turn it off and we’d talk about the old times. As I work to get our press turned back on after the brutality of last year’s chaos, I am sad he isn’t here to see how the house is turning out and to listen to this on the porch with us.

03/01/2022

When I used to take my father-in-law to the doctor’s, I’d often play Hugo del Carril on the way home and he’d sit in the back and sing along until he became too emotionally involved in his memories and start to cry. And then I’d turn it off and we’d talk about the old times. As I work to get our press turned back on after the brutality of last year’s chaos, I am sad he isn’t here to see how the house is turning out and to listen to this on the porch with us.

10/14/2021

AGNI Online: A Cybercafé in Mar del Plata by Fabián O. Iriarte

Oh those long ago days sitting in a computer lab...being on the DL. Here's a new q***r translation by q***r poet Fabián Iriarte at AGNI. We'll be releasing Fabián's first full-length translation in English next spring, translated by the hard-working and amazing reader, publisher, and translator, Lawrence Schimel.

AGNI - Named after the Vedic fire-god. Transformative. The writer in witness, the imagination in combustion.

09/24/2021

..."Often, that playfulness couldn't be translated per se, but had to be built afresh in English, or sometimes in Spanglish." Lawerence Schimel on translating Fabián Iriarte. New translations in Latin American Literature Today from our forthcoming, "The Confessions", spring 2020. https://buff.ly/3zAuCgl

Plus a sneak peak at some of the great art by Argentinian q***r artist, Natalia Novia specially commissioned for the book.

09/17/2021

Happy to send some book for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association's Rural Library project— this year helping rebuild the collection for the Blue River, Oregon library that was destroyed by forest fire.

Blue River is a place that has a lot of good memories for me and so was just so heart sick when the Holiday Farm Fire ripped through the community there.

https://buff.ly/3nL0VH8

09/07/2021

The Poetry of Food & Drink (IN-PERSON) [Sierra Nelson] - Hugo House

Spend some time with delightful ERB author, Sierra Nelson! She's teaching a fall class Hugo House on the poetry of food and drink.

It's on Saturdays, starting Oct 30. https://buff.ly/3gUcPKC

And what of our mythical project with her and the fantastic Vis-à-Vis Society? YES YES and YES. 2022. It will be the year of 100 Rooms.

All Levels | "There is no happiness like mine. / I have been eating poetry," writes Mark Strand. We'll consume a diverse buffet of poems inspired by food

09/02/2021

Excellent mail day with Argentinian theme! Two Silvina Ocampo books from the New York Review Books recent #WIT month sale, plus a set of perfumes to try from frassaï, an Argentinian-inspired perfumery. https://buff.ly/3tbCuTK

I am so going to smell like Patagonian torte negra while reading these books!

08/24/2021

Writing Alongside John Keats and John Clare [Deborah Woodard] - Hugo House

FACT: We get freaky for John Clare! So extra excited to hear of ERB translator Deborah Woodard's fall Hugo House class on Clare and Keats. Deep reading and writing prompts abound! ONLY TWO SEATS LEFT!

Intermediate | We'll mark the 200th anniversary of the death of John Keats, the English Romantic poet with the most visceral connection to the senses and

08/23/2021

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Here's a chance to get some manuscript feedback from the amazing and innovative Carol Guess. I can't imagine a better author to work with if you are interested in collaborations, hybrid texts, and q***ring your work.

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