Mission
Plan B Press encourages, preserves and presents contemporary poetry by publishing and showcasing emerging poets. Please Note: We only work with people living in the United States due to global postage increases and other factors.
Plan B Press encourages, preserves and presents contemporary poetry by publishing and showcasing emerging poets. Please Note: We only work with people living in the United States due to global postage increases and other factors.
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Who We Are
Plan B Press is a small independent publishing company that produces high-quality, limited-run poetry chapbooks. Our primary focus is to publish authors at the beginning of their careers (first through third books - any type of book) and to create books that are visually appealing, combining imagery and words, and packaging the collections as a completed thought. Plan B Press also emphasizes the plastic nature of poetry by encouraging collaboration with artists from other mediums beyond traditional form. The Press was begun in 1999 along with Bardfest, a 30-day poetry festival in Berks County, PA to bring out work by those participating in that festival. While the Press has evolved from this original intent, the focus remains that art happens everywhere and that books can be works of art themselves, both in the quality of the language and the beauty of the presentation. We used to hold chapbook contests but ended them in 2013. Plan B Press encourages anyone submitting manuscripts to review some of the books that we have already published. IMPORTANT NOTE : Our Poets MUST be able and willing to promote their books! |
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Quotes we live by
The book must be the unified work of the author and the designer. As long as this is not the case, splendid exteriors will constantly be produced for unimportant contents, and visa-versa.
- El Lissitzky - from Do Not Separate Form from Content! (1931)
..however, the way in which words are used, both verbal and written, is frustrating to me. They are too easily manipulated. That is one of the reasons why I avoid using them in my books.
- Stella Waitzkin
The book must be the unified work of the author and the designer. As long as this is not the case, splendid exteriors will constantly be produced for unimportant contents, and visa-versa.
- El Lissitzky - from Do Not Separate Form from Content! (1931)
..however, the way in which words are used, both verbal and written, is frustrating to me. They are too easily manipulated. That is one of the reasons why I avoid using them in my books.
- Stella Waitzkin