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  • Vocalises – Poems by Jenny Husk

    “In the poems of Jenny Husk the world is a membrane words bounce against and poke into, skating on the scrim then delving below in quick sharp digs of fragment, image, and gut-punch. This work is “river dialogue” and “glare on the surface” all at once, achieving experiment, a sustained...

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  • Halal Pork & Other Stories By Cihan Kaan

    In Halal Pork and Other Stories, Kaan projects an avant garde, post 9/11 world, from the perspective of a young Muslim New Yorker. It’s a place...

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  • Born Palestinian, Born Black: The Gaza Suite

    UpSet Press has restored to print Suheir Hammad’s first book of poems, Born Palestinian, Born Black, originally published by Harlem River Press in 1996. The new edition is augmented with a new author’s preface, and new poems, under the heading, The Gaza Suite, as well as a new publisher’s...

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  • The Comeback’s Exoskeleton, by Matthew Rotando

    “Incorporating the density of Spanish surrealism and a sprawling Whitmanesque line, this amazing first book finds Rotando engaged in a poetic biathlon which draws equally from maximal and minimal traditions. There are tight, economical poems, free verse forms derived from the sonnet, poems leaping...

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UpSet Press is an independent, not-for-profit, tax-exempt (501c3) small press based in Brooklyn, New York. The mission of the press is to support and showcase innovative and progressive work by emerging writers (first/second books), as well as to restore to print rare and out-of-print works (again with a special focus on first/second books). Founded in 2000 by a group of Brooklyn-based poets, the press intends to publish one to two books annually. In addition to its publishing endeavors, the press conducts regular poetry workshops and readings around New York City. For more information regarding the press, submissions, queries, internships, book purchases, etc., please contact us.

News

  • Halal Pork & Other Stories, Get your early review copy - January 18th, 2011

    UpSet Press is glad to announce that Cihan Kaan's Halal Pork & Other Stories is now available for early birds. Slated for a Spring 2011 release we can offer the book for reviews. Review copies of HP are now available through the UpSet Catalog, to obtain your copy ...

    BPBB Has Gone To Press - July 7th, 2010

    It's taken longer than expected, but Born Palestinian, Born Black is just weeks away from being back in print. We are excited, and grateful to Ms. Hammad for the opportunity to reprint this title. It will be available for purchase via SPD Books, Amazon, and directly from us. Thanks to all ...

    Forthcoming Spring 2011 - April 2nd, 2010

    Halal Pork & Other Stories, by Cihan Kaan Cihan Kaan is a Texas-born, Brooklyn-raised writer and filmmaker. A multi-talented artist, his first work of video-art premiered as part of an ensemble show at MOMA at age 17. By 21 he had directed several music videos in rotation on MTV. His short ...

    NYSCA Regrant Award - March 1st, 2010

    <h1>UpSet Press receives CLMP grant!</h1> UpSet Press is proud to announce that it recently received a regrant award of $2,000 from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, supported by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The grant will be applied to marketing ...

 

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