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Why it’s bad when a bookstore’s biggest competitor—Amazon—breaks a sales embargo. Most of the time, Porter Square Books gets books with a Tuesday release on the preceding Friday. If we did not honor strict on-sale dates or embargoes, that would give us a significant sales advant…

Summer trip idea: Stop by Book Mark Ludington, pick up our newly released issue 9 and take it to that beautiful beach ☀️

Big Sable Point Lighthouse, Ludington State Park, Lake Michigan Ludington's Big Sable Point Lighthouse is in the Ludington State Park along Lake Michigan

Fresh off the press! We're so thrilled about this issue which features local heart throbs including: Gabrielle Diandra, Colleen Alles, Keith Moul, Cassandra Caverhill, Andrew McIver, Alan Harris, Katherine Roth.

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Happy Birthday to this pioneer 💜🌈

It's here! Nathan C. Lipp's chapbook, the body as passage, is now available

New Poetry by Indigenous Women In my Mojave culture, many of our songs are maps, but not in the sense of an American map. Mojave song-maps do not draw borders or boundaries, do not say this is knowable, or defined, or mine. Inst…

"Twenty-eight million American adults read poetry this year — the highest percentage of poetry readership in more than 15 years, according to a survey of arts participation conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau."

How young writers are leading a poetry comeback Twenty-eight million American adults read poetry this year -- the highest percentage of poetry readership in more than 15 years.

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Here it be! The 2017 VIDA: Women in Literary Arts reports on the gender disparities in publishing, holding some of the most prominent names in publishing accountable and ensuring women that the "sloped playing field is not going unnoticed".

The 2017 VIDA Count

Being Bad: 10 Books Featuring Subversive Women In my noir novel, Sunset City, p**n star Danielle Reeves is murdered, and her best friend Charlotte reels, heartbroken, in the aftermath of her death. Charlotte, Danielle, and others in the book ar…

Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston The following is excerpted from Literary Witches, an illustrated celebration of the radical creativity, originality, and empowerment of beloved witchy writers. · Angela Carter · · Eileen Chang · · …