https://staircasebooks.org Staircase Books Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:25:06 +0000 https://staircasebooks.org en https://staircasebooks.org/Index Wed, 01 Nov 2023 22:55:20 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Index https://staircasebooks.org/Duck-1-22 Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:18:53 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Duck-1-22 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3617bbb19de639af5fb42f5a4c6b6928e788032c432ea5fc336361e9d499270e/Duck1-front.png" data-mid="245770793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3617bbb19de639af5fb42f5a4c6b6928e788032c432ea5fc336361e9d499270e/Duck1-front.png" /><img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f70910bcba8ed056e0012a5933b4d30929a3256156fc2115a23d4cedb0ce3603/Duck1-back.png" data-mid="245770795" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f70910bcba8ed056e0012a5933b4d30929a3256156fc2115a23d4cedb0ce3603/Duck1-back.png" /> Duck 1$22 Duck&nbsp;1&nbsp;features previously unpublished work by Jonathan Franzen, Mary Ruefle, Sebastian Castillo, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jeannette L. Clariond, Forrest Gander, Christina Davis, Adam Judah Krasnoff, Sherman Alexie, D. A. Powell, Garrett Caples, Garielle Lutz, Ariane Koch, Damion Searls, Yongyu Chen, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Zoe Brezsny, Tawanda Mulalu, Randall Mann, S. Proski, Vincent Katz, Bianca Stone, Andrew Koenig, Thomas Bennett, Andrea Cohen, Robert Glück, Anne Waldman and Louis Harnett O’Meara. 168 pages, perfect bound paperback, 2026. https://staircasebooks.org/Duck-Annual-Subscription-40 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:25:06 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Duck-Annual-Subscription-40 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d9bdaa7ddf996bd3cc910ecc97af91bf75afa0a51030e9c1c521cae31f6fbc1/Duck-subscription.png" data-mid="246014584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d9bdaa7ddf996bd3cc910ecc97af91bf75afa0a51030e9c1c521cae31f6fbc1/Duck-subscription.png" /><img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9b9d97ee3e1ad0c1138ca6ad84e0844b1be347e3db77ca0b25f4a9b6a666a40/Duck1-frontback.png" data-mid="246014585" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9b9d97ee3e1ad0c1138ca6ad84e0844b1be347e3db77ca0b25f4a9b6a666a40/Duck1-frontback.png" /> Duck Annual Subscription$40 Duck is released biannually. Subscribers receive two issues per year.&nbsp; https://staircasebooks.org/Mark-2-12 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:01:34 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Mark-2-12 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8eb3c4abeed4695da638dea5336aae188ba10443798b2fd8cfe93ad61c540841/Mark2.png" data-mid="241396237" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8eb3c4abeed4695da638dea5336aae188ba10443798b2fd8cfe93ad61c540841/Mark2.png" /> Mark 2$12 Mark is a devotional poetry journal edited by Sam Bailey and Emma De Lisle. Mark 2 features poems by Josh Bell, Chris Crowder, Carissa Chen, Josh Gregory, and G.C. Waldrep, and interviews with Kimberly Johnson and Fanny Howe. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025. https://staircasebooks.org/1968-16 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:38:46 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/1968-16 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20d8a0a1035b3499e048de4575874c8b57611c3fbc688f74dd367a579dec72d9/1968.png" data-mid="241396222" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20d8a0a1035b3499e048de4575874c8b57611c3fbc688f74dd367a579dec72d9/1968.png" /> 1968$16 Poems by Anthony Walton. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025.&nbsp;Recalling an era as tumultuous as our own, the poems in 1968 describe a childhood haunted by assassinations and other forms of American violence and a young boy’s yearning for love born, in part, out of that chrysalis of fear.&nbsp; In poems about history, family, music, and love, Walton writes of African American experience—which is to say American experience—one bookended by MLK’s murder (and memories of a deeper past) and 21st century backsliding. His vox humana is attuned to our hope—and our predicament. Press: Poetose with Meia Geddes “These history-haunted poems are passionate and poised, witty and blue, made out of a lifetime facing—and loving—the ‘killing machine’ of the world. Anthony Walton welcomes you in them like a friend. His artistry, so casual and elegant, reminds me why I read.”— Langdon Hammer “Gravitas, candor, melodicism -- by turns obdurate and becalmed, Anthony Walton writes about what matters with authority and style. His poems are grounded and they make you feel that history and pain can be talked about meaningfully, that we can understand others and ourselves better.” — Vidyan Ravinthiran “1968 is real.&nbsp; As in authentic. As in resonant. As in grounded in the ordinary wonders and woes of human dailiness. At the same time, Walton’s poems are rooted in the Black male experience, shining their light on the internal and external worlds of that specific subjectivity. From their soundtrack of the blues and the noise of the streets, from their engagement with the personal and familial as well as the political and cultural, these poems invite readers to lean in, to listen to the stories they have to tell, and soak the wisdom they so generously offer.”— Lauren K. Alleyne https://staircasebooks.org/Cadet-18 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:33:05 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Cadet-18 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f67288aa0ade9004693fc6ef3c135a0830f7c03e7f1bd9546c42496a14e6260/Cadet.png" data-mid="241396220" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f67288aa0ade9004693fc6ef3c135a0830f7c03e7f1bd9546c42496a14e6260/Cadet.png" /> Cadet$18 Poems by Benjamin Bellet.&nbsp;Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025.&nbsp;Cadet opens in the freezing cold of Ranger School, the US Army’s most difficult combat leadership course. The poems proceed through the intricate wreckage of deployment and return, family and erotic life, masculine performance and intrapsychic reality, dreaming and waking. A graduate of West Point, veteran of two combat deployments, and Harvard-trained clinical psychologist, Benjamin Bellet sheds new light on the veteran experience in the post-9/11 era with language that integrates psychoanalytic nuance, lyrical pathos, and the graffiti of the barracks latrine. Press:Harvard Griffin GSAS News with Paul Massari&nbsp; “An exemplary collection with very remarkable capture of time and tone. The fear of an ineluctable doom through training and deployment and deployment. Worst two words in the American language: ‘overseas levy.’ Do you recall the cartoon ads, someone obliviously facing an inescapable horror? And someone else asks ‘Who’s your insurance company?’ ‘Why . . . New York Life, of course . . . Why do you ask?’ I was sorry there were not more poems to read in this all too short book and I look forward to a non-chapbook sized edition.” — Michael Casey “These are poems of strange intimacies, of the tight knot of pleasure, dread, and shame, of the ‘blank moan,’ the thrust and burst, of nights when the bruise feels right because it means that something happened. Benjamin Bellet shows the way the hot fist of violence clutches inside itself the ‘unbearable softnesses.’ He is attuned to the emptiness at the center of things and with tenderness and rigor he reaches toward this place. Cadet is a work of force and grace. I want to read Benjamin Bellet for a long time to come.” — Nina MacLaughlin “Benjamin Bellet’s Cadet explores the layered interiority of a life, with a lyric eye attuned to tenderness, the unspoken moments that glimmer in a life, as well as the invisible tethers that bind and unravel between lovers, family, and fellow comrades in arms. Bellet’s poems are crafted with a deft hand, a mature touch, and a deep respect for the reader’s intellect. It’s a collection that adds to the literature and it’s one that will gather no dust on the shelf—as I’ll return to Bellet’s poems often in the years ahead.” — Brian Turner https://staircasebooks.org/Norway-Poems-And-Three-From-England-16 Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:32:54 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Norway-Poems-And-Three-From-England-16 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03a8ebfa127444fe00106e29fc813ac21410c24df3b6a905a4d11988db016999/NorwayPoems.png" data-mid="239081899" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03a8ebfa127444fe00106e29fc813ac21410c24df3b6a905a4d11988db016999/NorwayPoems.png" /> Norway Poems And Three From England$16 Poems by Kurt Schwitters. Translated from German, Norwegian, sneezes, coughs, and English by Damion Searls. Press:New England Literary News (by Nina MacLaughlin) https://staircasebooks.org/Acts-of-Resistance-to-New-England-Slavery-by-Africans-Themselves-in Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:25:22 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Acts-of-Resistance-to-New-England-Slavery-by-Africans-Themselves-in <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7dea8faef440c2312ef64c5eff5cac713c8f32fc16473867e6de74b1262ab7a9/ActsofResistance.png" data-mid="229447369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7dea8faef440c2312ef64c5eff5cac713c8f32fc16473867e6de74b1262ab7a9/ActsofResistance.png" /> Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England$16 Poems by Danielle Legros Georges. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025.Press:A Local Struggle: On Danielle Legros Georges’s Last Chapbook (by Michael McGillicuddy)New England Literary News (by Nina MacLaughlin) Remembering Danielle Legros Georges and the History of the Dark Room Collective (by Fallon Murphy) WBZ (by Carl Stevens) You Should Be Called Beacon: Remembering Danielle Legros Georges (by Jennifer Jean) “In Danielle Legros Georges’ work, the dead dance across the page in light. Using found text and the voice of ‘Africans Themselves in New England’ Legros Georges crafts lyrics in ode to resistance. She weaves defiance with the poetics and does not shy from the truth and horror of slavery. Afterall, Danielle Legros Georges makes it clear: this body of work is not about the inhumane but rather, it is the lyrical documentation of overt resistance and the declaration of life from Black and African folks who were enslaved. In couplets enriched in imagery, Legros Georges beckons us to remember. In each poem, breath is offered and suspended. My god—these poems—this poet.” — Porsha Olayiwola https://staircasebooks.org/Archivist-Scissors-20 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 19:47:49 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/Archivist-Scissors-20 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24471d395e975fa0c3360ca42ea88be2b3e8900bf30eadff6bc887b1f327f2df/ArchivistScissors.png" data-mid="229284510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24471d395e975fa0c3360ca42ea88be2b3e8900bf30eadff6bc887b1f327f2df/ArchivistScissors.png" /> Archivist Scissors$20 Full-length collection of poems by Anne Waldman. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025.Press: The Columbia Review (by Al Sherbatov)Commonplace Review (by Katherine Beaman) Los Angeles Review of Books (by Kate Millar)New England Literary News (by Nina MacLaughlin)Ocean State Review (by Michael McGillicuddy) “Anne Waldman has been a force for the good all her poetry life. This collection is such a lyrically beautiful and meaningful demonstration of her unwavering commitment to both acknowledging and being a part of an inspired community. These poems are powered by love and a belief system alive with friendship and true reciprocity. As in all her work, the address in Archivist Scissors is both deeply public and outwardly personal. Her vital work has been a touchstone for so many all these years. I love this book.”— Peter Gizzi “I love these fragments and memories, the poet collecting shards of story, life, close to her. This is Waldman in a tone we don’t frequently hear her in, but one all hers. Here she is, the seer gathering all the threads of news in her hands — what weaving to make of these explosive tidbits? What if all the fuses were snipped with her archivist scissors, so the news is not of destruction but of bombs that never go off? Of a community of poets, artists, and other beloveds? Here the poet sings ‘the sutra of … our human solidarity.’”&nbsp; — Eleni Sikelianos https://staircasebooks.org/From-the-Distances-of-Sleep-12 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:00:13 +0000 Staircase Books https://staircasebooks.org/From-the-Distances-of-Sleep-12 <img width="5000" height="3500" width_o="5000" height_o="3500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48eb8f219e297b534ef48e0eba4d210114218b5b4679347192cb922c62a70b87/Distances.png" data-mid="227598707" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48eb8f219e297b534ef48e0eba4d210114218b5b4679347192cb922c62a70b87/Distances.png" /> From the Distances of Sleep$12 Poems by Daniel Tobin. Volume 1 of the GLOSS Arias series. Perfect bound paperback. First edition, 2025.Press:Harvard Review (by Michael McGillicuddy) “In his epitaph ‘On Elizabeth L.H.’ Ben Jonson wrote: ‘Wouldst thou hear what Man can say / in a little? Reader, stay.’ Reading these lapidary and glinting poems I'm reminded of masters of the short form—not only Jonson but also that other great Romantic poet, Walter Savage Landor. Daniel Tobin’s From the Distances of Sleep shows just how far a poet can travel in the space of a few lines. ‘After the first world / another brightens’ writes Tobin in one of the shimmering couplets assembled here. That hopeful note is not unmixed with darkness, as last things shadow these felicitous and shining poems. Do not be deceived by their brevity. The finest epigrams conceal an explosive power: ‘as though I could flower / inside myself, a bomb / locked inside a fist.’” — Askold Melnyczuk