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Publishing Genius (b. 2006) was founded in Baltimore and now works in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. We just want to sell hard-to-describe poetry and short stories and that sort of thing. Did you read Easter Rabbit yet?
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Bigger. Faster. Reader.
Publishing Genius (b. 2006) was founded in Baltimore and now works in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. We just want to sell hard-to-describe poetry and short stories and that sort of thing. Did you read Easter Rabbit yet?
“In poems both elegiac and celebratory, Taylor maps the daily duties that define not just existing but living. On one hand, we interact with Mike Johnson, Chuck Knoblauch, and Rainer Maria Rilke and on the other we mourn the loss of a pet, we celebrate the growth of a child, we grieve the vulnerabilities of democracy, we feel the reassurance of tenderness.” —Dean Rader, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize
Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
Fiction and drawings by Edward Mullany
Haunting flashes of prose and evocative line art on heavy duty paper.
The Thing I Was Trying to Tell You
Fiction by Joseph Young
Garielle Lutz called the microfiction in this collection “deep-souled and uncannily precise.”
Rocks: What Are They Doing
Children's Book by Christine Sajecki and Michael Mäke
Publishing Genius’s first children’s book! Bright, colorful, deluze hardcover with paintings and jokes for all.
Fudge
Poetry by Andrew Weatherhead
In these striking minimalist poems, Andrew Weatherhead finds the holy in life’s tedium and chaos.
Dreams Are My Social Life
Poetry by Rupert Wondolowski
These are funny, piercing, and observant poems, a heartful new introduction to the legendary Rupert Wondolowski.
Modern Massacres
Short Stories by Timothy Willis Sanders
Sanders’s keen, humorous stories explore contemporary life and the search for kindness.
Subtexts
Poetry by Dan Brady
Dan Brady’s Subtexts explores urgent issues through innovative, layered erasure poetry. It’s a winning, readable experiment and lapidary reading experience.
The Comedown
Poetry by Justin Marks
This is an 80-page poetic journey into Justin Marks’s anxieties, hopes, and search for self.
Steep in the Boil
Poetry by Megan McShea
Steep in the Boil is a deeply felt prose poetry memoir of tonal, sometimes fragmented text fortified by the mysterious consolations of language.
Nobody Dancing
Poetry by Cheryl Quimba
Here is a language world of gorgeous sound and perception, poems of intimacy and estrangement, lyric tenderness.
Sprezzatura
Poetry by Mike Young
Mike Young’s book unpacks love, fear, and life’s quirks with wry humor, indie je ne sais quoi, and vibes for the beautifully lost.
The Well-Dressed Bear Will Never Be Found
Graphic Novel by Jarod Roselló
There is a bear loose in the city. Do not approach him.
Don’t Mind If You Do
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A note from Adam
Publishing Genius needs help as we step up our game for the future. If you’d like to work (in a rewarding but) unpaid volunteer position with an increasingly active literary publisher, please email me.
Read Online
Here are some complete books from our catalog, designed to read in full right here, gratis.
A Mountain City of Toad Splendor by Megan McShea
Originally published in 2013. This is an intricate and wowing collection of poetry and prose that asks “how is it out there with you?” “Approaching greatness sideways like ants without eyes?” Or “just beckoning horrors?” No matter the weight of your spirit or whether you have feelings for “a toffee, a tart, perfect bedlam,” Megan McShea bids you welcome to hike with her (keep your buggy fingers out of her special blend rutabaga trail mix, though) into A Mountain City of Toad Splendor.
Orange Juice by Timothy Willis Sanders
Originally published in 2010. “Though it is playful and experimental, it should be taken seriously. Because when it’s good, it’s very good, and bears rereading.” —[PANK]
A Jello Horse by Matthew Simmons
Originally published in 2009.
When his new roommate’s brother dies tragically, the unnamed narrator of A Jello Horse offers to drive him home to the Midwest. Feeling anxious and displaced, he embarks on another roadtrip to visit the bizarre attractions and quirky museums in America’s heartland.
“This writing feels real.” —The Believer
Under/Standing with WNDR Museum
Originally produced in 2023. “Under/Standing” is an audio installation on exhibit at WNDR Museum in San Diego. The installation uses “audio projectors” to create a sound cone, from inside which a visitor to the museum can hear a poem performed by one of ten writers: Stephanie Barber, Amelia Gray, Kate Greenstreet, Gabino Iglesias, Dorothea Lasky, Ada Limón, Jamie Mortara, Jae Nichelle, Mary Oliver, and Bud Smith. It’s as if the listener is enveloped by their voices.
Although the effect isn’t the same, here you can listen to all the readings.
