Pre-orders for our forthcoming chapbooks are available now! Order “Oscar the Misanthropist” by Judith Skillman and “A Quiet Day with the West on Fire” by Margot Kahn for a discounted price before the official release day on December 5th! Visit our shop to find these and other great deals from some of Washington State’s most…
October 21 at 3 pm | Reading at Elliott Bay Book Company
“This afternoon, in what has become a fall tradition for us, we help celebrate new work published by Floating Bridge Press. Poet and prose writer Natasha Kochicheril Moni will read from A Nation (Imagined), the winner of this year’s Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award. Her previous books include The Cardiologist’s Daughter. Rena Priest, whose first book, Patriarchy Blues,…
Chapbook Release Reading at Elliott Bay Book Co.
This past Sunday we had the honor of hosting our release reading at Elliott Bay Book Company. We loved getting to see so many people from the community come out to support our amazing poets! New Floating Bridge Press President, Michael Schmeltzer, (more on that soon) got things started. …
Books in the Wild!
We love getting to see our books out in the world, where they belong. This week we spotted Claudia Castro Luna’s This City at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Get on over there and catch one in the wild while you can!
Student & Teacher Discounts
The editors of Floating Bridge Press believe poetry engages individuals, enriches communities, and enlivens the arts. We want to make sure poetry reaches as many people as possible, so we’ve made it easier for students and teachers to get our books. Students get 25% off their entire order with the code ‘READUP’ at checkout. Teachers and professors…
Read what helps you live. | Buy 2, Get 1
It’s Monday, and we know for many of you it has been a long week already. We are an independent publisher of poetry and sometimes (at least for this writer/editor) we have doubts about what poetry can do. But then we read your submissions, we read poets old and new. We think of poets like…
Pontoon Poetry: Issue 12
With the release of our newest chapbooks (Grist, The Ark and The Bear, and Land of Lists) comes the new issue of Pontoon Poetry. Every Tuesday and Thursday we will release new poems from Issue 12. All the poems were selected from manuscripts submitted to our annual chapbook competition. Check out Issue 12 here. And…
October Readings
October is an exciting month for Floating Bridge Press. We have 3 new chapbooks coming out to join the recently published This City. Here is where you can catch our poetry in October: This Thursday, October 6th Claudia Castro Luna will be reading for her book launch at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle at…