military role in the War on Terror, and and recombinant by Ching-In Chen, the 2018 winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Poetry.Ītelos, a publishing project from Bay Area poets Lyn Hejinian and Travis Ortiz, is also distributed by SPD, and has issued books like WORK by Brandon Brown, a book described as a “sustained lyric study of all that happens in between the poet leaving their office at 4:30 in the afternoon on Midwinter’s Day, 2018, and returning to it at 7:45 the next morning.”įor generations, SPD has also been a resource for Berkeley booksellers like Moe’s and Pegasus looking to offer customers avant garde and experimental literature that would be hard or impossible to find in chain stores. Kelsey Street Press, a Berkeley-based press that publishes experimental feminist poetry, is distributed by SPD, and its books have included EXTRATRANSMISSION, a poetic critique of the U.S. “It was worth a Greyhound trip from Santa Cruz and a BART trip to the East Bay just to go see what books they were distributing.” - Owen Hill, a longtime buyer at Moe’s Books The nonprofit champions presses that might otherwise be considered too small for larger distributors to take a risk on. “We’re really establishing a way for a really small press to … have 21st century technology that they’ve never, ever had.”įounded in 1969, SPD is one of the only options for small presses to bring literature to bookstores and libraries nationwide. I need to get us to this next phase so we can help those presses that are struggling,” said Watson.
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