Pierian Springs Press

06/01/2025

The audiobook is now available! NIGHTBIRD delves unflinchingly into the complex dynamics of revenge su***de in abusive relationships, laying bare the manipulative tactics and emotional toll they inflict.

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11/24/2024

It is with great sadness that I wish to announce the passing, yesterday, of one of our authors, Djelloul Marbrook, of Germantown, NY, poet, novelist, photographer, newspaper man, sailor and Arabist scholar, died on Saturday, November 23rd.

Djelloul attended Columbia University and served in both the Merchant Marine and the United States Navy, where he saw action during the early armistice period in North Korea and on the deck of the USS Leyte during the 1956 Suez Crisis.

Djelloul’s work frequently explored metaphysical themes, addressing the subjects of child s*x abuse—to which he fell victim—personal identity, and living as an outsider amongst racists in his own extended family and society at large.

He leaves us with two books pending publication with our press, one, a memoir,"Whuddya See, Kid?" and a second book, "The Yellow Suitcase,” his last collection of poems, both forthcoming in 2025.

Dying? Dying, I’m dying to be dead,
to sweep red-handed half past dread,
not for the rest of it, which I can’t know,
but the exquisite moment when I go.

from "Falling Down Stairs”
Djelloul Marbrook
b. August 12, 1934, d. November 23, 2024

10/11/2024

Please enjoy watching our first ever Pierian Springs Press reading held Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 with two of our authors. The first is Michael C. Keith reading from his prose poem collection, “PINGS”. Second is author Krysia Jopek reading her poetry from "DIRGE: a ballet for 13 dancers.” We then followed this with wonderful open mic readings from authors present at our event.

Pierian Springs Press reading held on Wednesday, October 9th, 2024 featuring our author Michael C. Keith and author Krysia Jopek, followed by our open mic re...

09/28/2024

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Join us for a virtual Pierian Springs Press Reading with Krysia Jopek and Michael C. Keith - it's going to be a literary blast!

08/08/2024

08/03/2024

A reading of BAD GIRL, a poem by Lucy Logsdon from her forthcoming collection, The Stone in My Shoe, available Fall 2024.

02/11/2024

The Amazing Caroline Reddy signing her book at our booth at AWP 2024 in Kansas City this week. Caroline sold all 70 copies of the Pierian Springs Press collection of her first book of poems at AWP this week!

01/12/2024

Don’t miss new chapbooks, short story collections, novels, poetry collections, anthologies, lectures, and nonfiction books—all coming out this month from Pierian Springs Press, Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press, Devil's Party Press, Regal House Publishing, Wolfson Press, Trio House Press, Black Lawrence Press, Feral House, Slant, Swan Isle Press, Read Furiously, Clare Songbirds Publishing House, Belle Point Press, Graywolf Press, The Feminist Press, Thirty West Publishing House, Frayed Edge Press, Digging Press/Digging Through The Fat, and more indie presses!

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in January 2024 from CLMP members.   Sleeplessness by Paul Hetherington Pierian Springs Press | January 1, 2024 According to Kristin Sanders, in this poetry collection “two loves tr...

12/01/2023

Just released, The Circle, an anthology of contemporary, original poems and poems in translation from Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Marathi, Persian, French, Spanish, Latin and polyglot experiments in Japanese and Turkish, all are present and celebrating human verbal creativity, in all its modes, as is the theme, this year, of The Circle.

For fast delivery, order from Barnes and Noble. Go to our website, and find your favorite bookseller to order your copy today: https://pierianspringspress.com/the_circle/

12/01/2023

Our press's first audiobook is out! Sleeplessness by Paul Hetherington is now available globally via Apple, Kobo, Google Play, Audible, Overdrive, Bookmate, Spotify, Voxa, StoryTel, Empik, LazyJoy, Gardners, and eReaDing.

"SLEEPLESSNESS is a postmodern pillow book charting desire’s insomnolence. In a series of fissured fragments beginning at 3 a.m. ‘with a wide bed as a harbour’ and ending with a 6 a.m. aubade, the narrator writes back to Sei Shōnagon’s THE PILLOW BOOK, politicising pleasure by revealing language’s chimeric intimacies. This work sits beguilingly at the boundary between bodily knowledge and language’s attempts to catch and name, transforming the idea of in-betweenness into a thrilling threshold between intimacy and strangeness, ardour and uncertainty, and speaking and silence. "

-- from Foreword by Cassandra Atherton

‎Fiction · 2023

11/23/2023

New release the 21st of November: Trim Reckonings by DeWitt Henry.

In this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of American political life. His narratives and portraits are drawn and colored by candid and resonant observations. “Are scars proof of wounds / or of healing?” So asks DeWitt Henry’s splendid book of poems. Profound and often profoundly, wryly funny, Trim Reckonings asks questions poems don’t seem to have asked before, and leaves the reader in wonder. These are hard-won, earned, poems of passionate engagement.

Available at: https://pierianspringspress.com/trim-reckonings/

09/30/2023

By Richard Wertime   A culling? A sampling? No; much better: DeWitt Henry’s Foundlings: Found Poems from Prose is an inspired “divining” of an unsuspected presence hidden away in the texts tha…