Dispatches Blog

Wet Cement Press is excited to announce the first annual New Constructions Book Contest. We are interested in work that expands the forms...

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...

Editor's Note: What is the role of a writer in times of conflict? In this piece Merle Bachman the author of "Thank You for Being: A...

Wet Cement author Susan Schultz exercises her attention to the world with a shifting depth of field, that brings into brilliant focus...

Barbara Roether I Among the wandering monks that populate traditional Zen stories and paintings, the motif of two friends often appears....

(Translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) This graphic novel emerged from the tumult of emotions that I felt in confronting...

(Translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) This graphic novel emerged from the tumult of emotions that I felt in confronting...

The house still asleep. On a pillow, her black hair Tangled as seaweed. How will you know when others Rise to shadow the sidewalk?

(Translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra) The Big Pause began as an act of catharsis in a time of crisis. Working on The Big Pause...

In the week leading up to Easter 2020, I began making sketches for a graphic short story about the corona crisis.

Setting up a show of pre-Columbian art at the Esther Robles Gallery A Brief History of the Esther Robles Gallery in LA by Jaime Robles...

Garbage in Garbage Out by Thoreau Lovell 1. We board the plane a little after 6pm for the short flight home to San Francisco from...

Mori Art Tower at Roppongi: Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life: How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow: What is true affluence?...