Central Square Press

Central Square Press Central Square Press, is a small, independent, literary press that publishes thought-provoking and high quality poetry. www.centralsquarepress.com

Central Square Press, LLC, was founded by Enzo Silon Surin, a Haitian-born poet, educator, publisher and social advocate and the author of the chapbooks, A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto (2017) and Higher Ground (2006). His poems have appeared in Transition Magazine/Jalada, Interviewing the Caribbean, Pangyrus, jubilat, Soundings East, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the A

ge of Hip-Hop, sx salon and Tidal Basin Review, among others. Surin is the recipient of a 2017 Brother Thomas Fellowship from The Boston Foundation and is a PEN New England Celebrated New Voice in Poetry. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and is currently Associate Professor of English at Bunker Hill Community College.

What a wonderful way to spend a Friday night!!! I hope you’ll get to check out Central Square Press author, Angel C. Dye...
11/26/2021

What a wonderful way to spend a Friday night!!! I hope you’ll get to check out Central Square Press author, Angel C. Dye , who will be reading from her collection BREATHE tonight 🙏🏾❤️

BREATHE: all pre-orders have been Signed, Sealed and are ready to be Delivered and to be Yours. Thank you for all the lo...
09/10/2021

BREATHE: all pre-orders have been Signed, Sealed and are ready to be Delivered and to be Yours. Thank you for all the love you have shown and for your support of Angel C. Dye’s () debut ❤️.

For those of you who might think we’ve only been at this for a short while due to our number of posts on IG (we shifted ...
08/28/2021

For those of you who might think we’ve only been at this for a short while due to our number of posts on IG (we shifted our account from a personal to a Press one), let’s get reacquainted this week as we prepare to ship our latest title. And no better place to start than with our very first publication, A HARD SUMMATION by Afaa Michael Weaver.
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Publication Date: July 2014

A HARD SUMMATION is a suite of 13 new poems, covering the history of African Americans from the Middle Passage to Now. Like a rite of passage, struggle has been unyielding and synonymous with the black experience in America. In this rich compilation, Weaver unearths a genealogical deficit that permeates through generations. But in this collection, you won’t hear the poems cry foul or attempt to appease friend or offend foe. Its intention is hardly to be conclusive.  When you add it all up, A HARD SUMMATION offers us an opportunity to listen, celebrate, commemorate, and appreciate the successes and failures of the past in order to develop a current and contextual understanding of what it means to be Black and American.

Exciting news!!! All pre-orders are on their way to be signed by the author and will be shipped out to you shortly there...
08/28/2021

Exciting news!!! All pre-orders are on their way to be signed by the author and will be shipped out to you shortly thereafter. Our printer experienced some delays due to the recent tropical storm so we think you for your patience. Wait until you receive this gorgeous and bold debut.❤️🙏🏾

In Haitian Creole there is the term “kè mwen plen”, which is loosely translated as my heart is full. I say loosely becau...
08/16/2021

In Haitian Creole there is the term “kè mwen plen”, which is loosely translated as my heart is full. I say loosely because it is a literal definition and often literal definitions are not sufficient. This fantastic debut chapbook of poems by Angel C. Dye left my heart extremely full with gratitude for what we are able to survive and live to tell. As a publisher, this is what keeps us going. And BREATHE allows us to focus on the literal definition, one breath at a time. ❤️ This book is a must read. Today is the last day to pre-order signed copies. See link in bio.

Breathe is a timely offering and a catalogue of sharp inhales and deep exhales punctuated by the shifting air around us....
07/12/2021

Breathe is a timely offering and a catalogue of sharp inhales and deep exhales punctuated by the shifting air around us. Ancestral wounds and present-day pain unwind on these pages, but even in the darkest depths of their undercurrents, there is hope and joy to be found. These poems roar with the truths of the body and its breaks, and sigh with its jagged sutures. In this powerful debut collection, Angel C. Dye bears witness to the sacredness of scars and to the power of community, self-love, and faith in a grand design.

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Working hard right now on the cover design for Angel C. Dye’s debut collection of poems, BREATHE. It’s taking a little b...
07/02/2021

Working hard right now on the cover design for Angel C. Dye’s debut collection of poems, BREATHE. It’s taking a little bit longer to find the right cover art and when you read the description below you’ll discover why. We cannot wait to get this book into your hands this summer. Stay tuned 🙏🏾❤️.
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“Breathe is a timely offering and a catalogue of sharp inhales and deep exhales punctuated by the shifting air around us. Ancestral wounds and present-day pain unwind on these pages, but even in the darkest depths of their undercurrents, there is hope and joy to be found. These poems roar with the truths of the body and its breaks, and sigh with its jagged sutures. In this powerful debut collection, Angel C. Dye bears witness to the sacredness of scars and to the power of community, self-love, and faith in a grand design.”

We are making our way back after a year of being away and are extremely excited to bring you the incredible gems we have...
06/17/2021

We are making our way back after a year of being away and are extremely excited to bring you the incredible gems we have been accustomed to publishing, starting with BREATHE, the incredible debut chapbook of Angel C. Dye due out this summer from Central Square Press ❤️. More information coming very soon.
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Angel C. Dye is a poet and scholar of African American Literature from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas/Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A graduate of Howard University, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky, where she was a Nikky Finney fellow, and is currently a PhD in English student at Rutgers University. Angel has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Furious Flower Poetry Center and her work has appeared in About Place Journal, The Pierian Journal, African Voices Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and A Gathering Together Journal among other places.
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She writes in the tradition of Lucille Clifton, Amiri Baraka, and Sterling A. Brown, striving to carry on their legacies of unapologetic blackness in the face of oppression, radical self-love, and artistic activism. She aims to discover, as Audre Lorde explains, “the words [she does] not yet have.”

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