海角直播 Project Po毛tica/Bridwell Press
Single-authored collections by poets who previously published a poetry collection, by invitation only.
Collaborative poetry collections written by more than one authors. Creativity often arises when poets work together, not in isolation. This line celebrates the possibilities of these poetic collaborations. Proposals might feature the work of poets working with each other or with visual artists.
Creative or scholarly works about poetics. We define "poetics" broadly and seek to publish books that engage with the art of poetry. Proposals might include original works (whether creative or scholarly) or new editions of historical works worthy of reexamination.
The portal for submissions is only open from May 1st through May 31st. Poetry proposals should include the complete manuscript, a cover letter (including a brief summary of the work), and a current resume or curriculum vitae.
Rebecca Gayle Howell, Erase Genesis (Forthcoming in 2026)
In Erase Genesis, critically acclaimed Kentucky poet and translator, Rebecca Gayle Howell, transforms the King James creation story for the climate change age. Devoted to the same three chapters, Howell’s erasures raise a new myth—a story of the Earth’s intimacy with us. Here, man is not given dominion. Instead, the trees and the waters keep eternity, and the Lord Woman seeds tenderness as the only way forward.
A book-length poem with its roots in art, ecopoetry, progressive spirituality, and literary translation, Erase Genesis dismantles centuries of hurt as we bare our beginning anew, in abundance with Earth’s divine call, "Be light and / let be.”
Allan Peterson, Amid This, (Forthcoming in 2026)
The title of Allan Peterson’s seventh full-length book, Amid This, vividly describes the astonishments of being alive and surrounded by a world in which there is no ordinary. Nature intersects thought and language in surprising and revealing observations. The fact that life has term limits invests everything with poignancy. Using illuminating language, poems often arise from the physics of perception. Whether domestic, ecological, or galactic, the poems are like being spoken to privately in a thoughtful voice.
The poems follow multiple intuitive leads, combining evocative language with equally evocative observations, discovering ideas of order as easily as putting a glove on the wrong hand. ”Wisteria close to hysteria in its gorgeous profusion” (from the poem Realization). For the reader, there is a full immersion in a poem’s clear delivery. As the poems speak among themselves the reader participates in the reflections of a curious mind. With influences from the Florida Gulf Coast to the mountains of Oregon, landscape and its creature inhabitants, each with its own expressive power, are always primary advisors, not just metaphors, but participants. These are the celebratory insights of a natural philosopher with a parallel life as a visual artist.
Louis Armand and Michel Delville, Erasurism (Forthcoming in 2026)
Erasurism traces how erasure shapes art and thought across history, exposing the political and poetic forces behind creative acts.
The book explores erasure as a radical aesthetic and philosophical force shaping avant-garde, modernist, and postmodern practices across literature, art, media, and theory. From ancient cave marks to biopoetry, the volume traces a history of erasure that challenges authorship, ideology, and representation—uncovering the hidden politics and poetics beneath every act of writing.
Jonathan Weinert and H. L. Hix, Ghost Smoke (Forthcoming in 2026)
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” wrote Walt Whitman. Poets H. L. Hix and Jonathan Weinert adopted Whitman’s declaration as a guiding principle for Ghost Smoke. In this “Song of Themself,” Hix and Weinert merge their voices to create a spirited book-length hybrid poem that meditates on distance, listening, finitude, and different kinds of love. Fabricated of material collected from over two decades of correspondence and collaboration, Ghost Smoke borrows the structure of a crown of sonnets, completing a circuit that seeks to defeat the standard distinctions between question and answer, presence and absence, self and other. Is it possible to find a language that can allow us to become more porous to one another, to listen more deeply to one another and to respond in kind? Can we become each other’s ghosts, open to and inhabited by one another? What happens to us, and what happens between us, if we do? Ghost Smoke poses and explores these questions, and invites other voices, including the reader’s, to engage in the conversation.
Stephanie Burt, Dream as Big as You Please: Game Theory, the Loud Family, and Me!, (Forthcoming in 2027)
Game Theory might be the best 1980s band you've never heard. Led by the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Scott Miller, the poly-melodic, hyper-lexical, painfully self-aware indie combo could almost have been the next REM. Instead, with Game Theory and their 21st century successor the Loud Family,Miller created pop and rock music too sweet for the hipsters, too strange for the charts, and too good for the rest of the world to understand.
Combining music appreciation, literary analysis, memoir and cultural history, this book tries to give the songs themselves their due. Those songs invoke the limits of reason, and the frustrations as well as the triumphs of Autistic art and artists, of science fiction and engineering nerds. They ask-- the book asks-- what it means to feel like a girl, when nobody else knows you are one.
Luisa Muradyan, I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated, March 2025
I Make Jokes When I鈥檓 Devastated evokes love, grief, hope and longing across generations, continents, and devastation in Ukraine. Midwest grocery stores, Tony Soprano, murderous internet moms, Soviet scientists, and the Cheesecake Factory populate these poems, as Muradyan brilliantly uses humor to contend with what it means to mother one鈥檚 children in the midst of immense loss. I Make Jokes When I鈥檓 Devastated is at once a sidesplitting comedy special and a reverent poetry of witness. In this remarkable second collection, Muradyan renders humor an amplifier, obliging us to hear laughter as clearly as we hear an entire world鈥檚 weeping.
Aaron Smith and Maureen Seaton, Beautiful People (two-books-in-one), August 2025
Beautiful People was written back and forth over the course of several months by poets Maureen Seaton and Aaron Smith. Bold and inventive, it moves from sonnets and sestinas to prose poems and so much more. While its center is a love for poetry and art and laughter, the poets also grapple with mortality, sadness, and what it means to be alive on a broken but beautiful planet. Through their literary friendship, they put a mirror to all our lovely faces.
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, Tilt (two-books-in-one), August 2025
In Tilt, Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton (1947-2023) write through climate change, Maureen’s illness, and the pandemic with their signature wit and poignancy. Their feminist curiosity leads them to poems about gender identity, marriage equality, and the complexities of national politics. Assembled shortly before Maureen’s death, the poems in Tilt tell the story of a friendship rooted in collaborative artistic play. The title of the book gives a nod to the earth’s tilt, which gives us seasons, but also hints that the poems were written at full tilt, these poets hyperaware they only had so much time left to write with one another.
Mag Gabbert, Chen Chen, Tarfia Faizullah, Leila Chatti and Carly Joy Miller, Spotted Ponies: The Collected Zines, September 2025
Here, within these collected zines, you’ll find enough spotted ponies to fill at least three large stables to the brim. Although, of course, you wouldn’t have much luck coaxing them in there. No, instead, it’s likely because of the free rein they’ve been given, because they’ve been cut loose, that so many spotted ponies seem to have chosen these poems as their breeding ground. We’ve never offered them much scrutiny; never subjected them to any polishing or meticulous adjustments. Each of our spotted ponies simply exists in its natural state, as a product of our own wild abandon.