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Left Fork is a small press. Flowstone Press is an imprint of Left Fork. Left Fork is a small press making books and things by hand and/or print on demand.

While not limiting ourselves to publishing regional work, one of our main goals is to create work celebrating the people, places, and history of Oregon's Illinois Valley. Why Left Fork? For one, our international headquarters is situated overlooking the West Fork of the Illinois River in southwestern Oregon. And West is Left. Also, we are an unashamedly progressive press and do not shrink from peo

ple calling us Lefty. Finally, we think forks, be they in roads or rivers (or salads), provide opportunity for conscious choices. As a press, we are conscious of what and how we create, as well as what we leave behind. Many of our books can be purchased at https://bookshop.org/shop/leftforkbooks

26/04/2025

Many of you know that Jazmine and I sat down with Eliot at our local radio station KXCJ, to talk about Michael Spring and his poetry, on Eliot's show "Behind the Fence." If you missed hearing it live, you can hear the full episode here:

Behind the Fence hosted by Eliot Feenstra Featuring interviews with Cave Junction folks.

11/04/2025

Hi friends. This weekend are our 2 events honoring the life and art of Michael Spring. Tomorrow, April 12, is the Celebration of Life at the Takilma Community Building. More details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/628153220034908
And Sunday, April 13, is the book release for his final book of poetry, at the Southern Oregon Guild in Kerby. We will also have a poetry Open Mic event. Details here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1188071579498176

If you are in the Illinois Valley this weekend, please join us. Thank you.

25/09/2024

We want to recognize an amazing poet and human on the release of her second Flowstone collection. According to Amy Miller, Barbara Parchim's new book 'Muscle Tree' "...moves us from celebration to elegy with a startling depth of knowledge—and a love for what we’re losing and what we still have.” It's now available! Please visit https://leftforkbooks.com/books/muscletree/ to learn more and find link(s) to where to purchase (one link now but we'll add more). Congrats, Barbara!

21/11/2023

Flowstone Press has just released a book of poems by Rodger Moody, Carol Durak, and John Harn. Each contributed a chapbook-sized collection. Together they constitute a full-length book, thus the title, "Three Chapbooks / Three Poets."

"Like a jazz trio, each of these superbly-crafted chapbooks is a distinct instrument, unique but in sync with the others, and the beat is never lost."

You can learn more about the book--and purchase a copy--by visiting this link:
https://leftforkbooks.com/books/threechapbooks/
(Click "20% discount" to save $4 off the $20 cover price)

Congrats Rodger, Carol, and John!!

07/06/2023

It's tomorrow! Poetry reading with Flowstone's very own Barbara Parchim. Forecastle Books in Brookings --check the flyer for all the details!

03/05/2023

“In a witty and searching voice, Arcana writes of resistance and revolutionary compassion, past, present, and future. Here is fiction rooted in the actual history of the Chicago underground abortion service known as JANE, which operated in the days before a woman’s right to the procedure was legalized..." -Kate Manning

This is one of those "Has it really already been 3 full years since this came out?" and also "Has it *only* been 3 years since this came out (at the height of Covid-ness)" things. Three years ago we released Judith Arcana's "Hello. This is Jane." --notably on the anniversary of her arrest (on May 3, 1972) as part of the "Abortion 7" for providing abortions pre-Roe. Learn more here:
https://leftforkbooks.com/jane

13/02/2023

Review of Ken Letko's "Chopping Wood in the Moonlight" in Mid-American Review. According to Christopher McCormick, "In these tightly crafted poems, the author utilizes his years of traveling and collected wisdom to celebrate a life lived authentically."

Read the full review here:
https://casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/poetry-review-chopping-wood-in-the-moonlight-by-ken-letko/
or learn more, with link to purchase, right here:
https://leftforkbooks.com/books/chopping-wood/

Congrats, Ken!

“When most of us retreated from the outside world in 2020, we had time to step back, to contemplate, to mourn, and to hope. Ken Letko’s poems explore the range of this experience, filtering the external world through interior contemplation. From the candor of loneliness in “My Shield of Shadow...

07/12/2022

Yes, you can get the first 6 issues of Cobra Lily in one fell swoop! If you just swoop into the Southern Oregon Guild of Artists and Artisans in Kerby and support their holiday sale, going on now!

Have you heard of Cobra Lily? This annually published literary and art book features written and visual pieces from creatives all over Southern Oregon AND is produced locally by Left Fork & Flowstone Press! Grab yourself a set of the first 6 issues which has been donated to our 2022 holiday fundraiser.

Stop by the Guild Gallery & Art Center to see this set in-person and our other selected art items for sale. 100% of the proceeds go to the Guild, helping us meet our year-end fundraising goals. We’re open 10am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday 🎄👋 🎁

06/12/2022

If you're in Eugene next Sunday, check out the STUDIO 7 POETRY READING, featuring Flowstone Press Editor-in-Chief Michael Spring, along with other great poets.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1:00PM
Studio 7 Art Gallery
87230 Central Rd. Eugene, OR

The esteemed readers will be
Michael Spring,
Anita Sullivan, and
DM Wallace.

With cameo poems by Rodger Moody and Tim Shiner.
Hot drinks will be served after the event.

11/11/2022

Flowstone Press is excited to announce our latest release, "Not Only the Extraordinary are Entering the Dream World" by Martin Willitts Jr. Learn more about the book and find a link to purchase right here: https://leftforkbooks.com/books/not-only/

Congrats, Martin!

Martin Willitts Jr, winner of the 2016 Turtle Island Quarterly Editor’s Choice Chapbook Award for his Flowstone Collection The Wire Fence Holding Back the World, returns with another great collection.

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What is Left Fork?

Left Fork is a small press in Southwest Oregon, and our primary focus is books celebrating the people and culture here (and here is defined loosely–maybe let’s say we span the full Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion of SW Oregon and NW California). If you’re a local author or your work focuses on this region, Left Fork might be a good fit. That said, we also seek to publish the best possible writing, particularly the highest quality poetry through our Flowstone imprint. If that brings us strong authors and artists from elsewhere, we’re excited to meet you and share your work with the world. We work closely with authors to create a book they can be proud of. We also have a strong focus on supporting young writers, by publishing their work alongside that of more seasoned writers (the literary journal Cobra Lily being one such place).

Why Left Fork? For one, our international headquarters is presently situated overlooking the West Fork of Oregon’s Illinois River, and West is Left. Also, we are an unashamedly progressive press and do not shrink from people calling us Lefty. Finally, we think forks, whether in roads or rivers, provide opportunity for conscious choices. As a press, we are conscious of what and how we create, as well as what we leave behind. As one example of this mission, we utilize print-on-demand technology, to hopefully minimize the number of unwanted books in the world.