Small Press Distribution

Coolidge & Cherkovski: In Conversation, edited by Kyle Harvey (Lithic Press) is a swapping of personal anecdotes about the Berkeley Poetry Conference, David Meltzer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Charles Olson, Gertrude Stein, and more. Includes lengthy appendices where each poet presents some thoughts on poetics and their approaches to writing poems. 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

The New World by Kelly Schirmann (Black Ocean) "tells the story of escapism and arrival, growth and decay, and despair and optimism as they occur, often simultaneously, within the mind of our narrator." #SPDhandpicked 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

The Life & Times of Steve Orth by Steve Orth (Dogpark Collective) "is capable of quickly transforming a wake into a quest, a grocery store into hell, or trash TV into a holy text." #SPDhandpicked 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anaïs Duplan (Black Ocean) focuses on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technologyluminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackeyoffering three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. #SPDhandpicked 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

Join us in ONE WEEK for our next and final workshop in our SPD Summer School series. This hour long event will shed light on what our process for bringing in new publishers is, our new publisher fellowship program, and some basic information on our financial reporting! Remember to register through our eventbrite page here: ow.ly/Yvki50BSBeM to get access to the event!

#SPDHANDPICKED on FREEDOM - Coolidge & Cherkovski: In Conversation by Clark Coolidge & Neeli Cherkovski, edited by Kyle Harvey (Lithic Press) is a transcribed conversation between two prolific American poets. Swapping personal stories and anecdotes, ideologies and treatises on liberation, Coolidge and Cherkovski offer insight into a wide range of topics including: the New York School, the San Francisco poetry scene of the 60s/70s/80s, the Language School, the Vancouver Poetry Conference, the Berkeley Poetry Conference and more. 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

#SPDHANDPICKED on FREEDOM - The New World by Kelly Schirmann (Black Ocean) follows the attempts, failures, and re-attempts at understanding and articulating an era of immense social upheaval, political corruption, and environmental consequence. In five distinct sections, the book refracts, explores and investigates these global themes through the realm of the personal and private. 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED ... http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

#SPDHANDPICKED on FREEDOM - Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture by Anaïs Duplan (Black Ocean) deconstructs how creative people frame their relationships to the word, "liberation." With a focus on creatives who use digital media and language-as-technology-luminaries like Actress, Juliana Huxtable, Lawrence Andrews, Tony Cokes, Sondra Perry, and Nathaniel Mackey-Duplan offers three lenses for thinking about liberation: the personal, the social, and the existential. 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

#SPDHANDPICKED on FREEDOM - The Life & Times of Steve Orth by Steve Orth (Dogpark Collective) taps into generational disgust with an American status quo that has failed to deliver any meaningful accommodations to working people on its descent into the gig-economy. This debut addresses the political and existential demands of the present moment with a searching lust for life and a lot of humor. 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED http://spdbooks.org/handpicked

In October's SPD Publisher Spotlight is Dorothy, a publishing project, whose authors include Renee Gladman, Nell Zink, Leonora Carrington, & many more. Get 20% off Dorothy’s Nathalie Léger titles (Exposition, The White Dress, & Suite for Barbara Loden) w/code SPOTLIGHT all month long. Follow the link for more info! https://www.spdbooks.org//59983/Publisher-Spotlight-Octobe

SAVE THE DATE: Bay Area Book Festival has been busy cooking up something extraordinary: Berkeley #UNBOUND, a one-day virtual mini-fest of literary, cultural, and political heavy hitters. It'll be coming to you on Sunday, October 4, and features influential thinkers, writers, and trailblazers. Check out the teaser video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieckSYh_ysc

IT’S YOUR NEW SPD POETRY AND NONFICTION BESTSELLERS!!! Featuring Birds, LLC, Kenning Editions, Action Books, Noemi Press, Fiction Advocate, Kelson Books, & more! <3

OCTOBER'S #SPDHANDPICKED is on TRUE FREEDOM - is this even possible? Or is it a fantasy that can become a trap? What bearing does it have on the way we live our present? These books tap into the perils and possibilities of imagining something better than what we know. 20% off all month w/ code HANDPICKED feat. The Life & Times of Steve Orth (Dogpark Collective)... http://spdbooks.org/handpicked