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WCP's 2025 Best Gift Book Letter’s to Boulders  is a lithospheric ekphrastic hybrid masterpiece. Merging elements of the field guide with imaginative prose poems, and gorgeous color photographs, the book is already finding wide appeal among earthlings of all kinds. [Look for a feature in Orion Magazine in early December, and look at our WCP book shop page to see more. We recently talked with Karen to learn more about the book’s origins and influences. “When I was g

In WCP’s recent New Constructions Hybrid Book Contest several entries stood out for their originality and power.  Finalist Ben Miller’s work was among our favorites. He graciously agreed to share a small sample of his timely graphic brilliance here. Enjoy. BR   Miller writes: “I employ varying approaches to developing hybrid texts, but one element unites all: the aim of offering readers a transformational experience, just as each expression makes me, in some sense, a new kin

by Barbara Roether _________________ Munich was full of pale ochre buildings flowing out in long angular avenues, calm and uniform in a...

Congratulations to Michelle Murphy and Tony Wallin-Sato!

Chengru He's WCP book, I Would Vanish Into Its Stronger Existence is a finalist for the 2024 Big Other Award for Nonfiction

Looking forward to the New Orleans Poetry Festival, which begins tonight. Drop by the WCP table on Saturday or Sunday if you're around....

Wet Cement Press will be attending the AWP book fair for the first time, March 27-29, at the Los Angeles Convention Center, booth 654....

Barbara Roether [A the foot of our road at noon, September 27th] Notes from the Flood: On September 20-21st Wet Cement press was...

b. July 7th 1947 d. December 23, 2023 printer, publisher, poet, friend “Turtle Island books were imagined with no less modest an idea...