Apogee Press publishes the work of innovative and experimental poets. Culturally and formally diverse, our poets share an original use of language.

Among the Names Apostrophe Apprehend Also Known As bk of (h)rs The Cellar Dreamer cloudlife Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling dust and conscience Edge and Fold Equinox fine Follow-haswed four letter words Gorgeous Mourning Human Forest In the Absent Everyday Marybones My Rice Tastes Like The Lake Oh open book passing world pictures placing the accents The Pleasures of C Plunge Rules of the House Speed of Life Table Alphabetical of Hard Words The Turning Verso Wild Goods within the margin Maxine Chernoff Valerie Coulton Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Kathleen Fraser Paul Hoover Alice Jones Stefanie Marlis Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes Pattie McCarthy Denise Newman Elizabeth Robinson Edward Smallfield Cole Swensen Truong Tran Laura Walker

Plunge by Alice Jones "brilliant and with beautiful tact" —Donald Revell dust and conscience by Truong Tran "Something extremely important is going on, something wonderful." —Lyn Hejinian open book by Valerie Coulton "It's unusual to read a manuscript so delightful that you feel physically and emotionally transformed by it, and open book is one of them." —Paul Hoover My Rice Tastes Like The Lake by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa "A terrific poet, on any terms" —Ron Silliman Equinox by Edward Smallfield "Never has the sonnet seemed more supple and alive." —Denise Newman Among the Names by Maxine Chernoff "It's a collection that makes things spring to sight."—Cole Swensen     Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling by Kathleen Fraser "Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling is a consummate masterwork by a singularly perceptive and articulate poet."—Robert Creeley Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover "Here are poems keeping perfect time because our time flows through them."—Donald Revell     cloudlife by Stefanie Marlis "Aphoristic, enigmatic, and startling Stefanie Marlis' newest collection cloudlife evinces her gift for pressing absence into presence."—C.D. Wright Speed of Life by Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes "These poems are at the harsh center of things."—Eavan Boland     Table Alphabetical of Hard Words by Pattie McCarthy "Pattie McCarthy sifts with nervy precision through the debris of spoken English as rendered in definitions and on public platforms from the Middle Ages to something like now."—Anselm Berrigan Wild Goods by Denise Newman "A once-in-a-lifetime journey."—C.D. Wright     Also Known As by Elizabeth Robinson "This beautiful book manages to be very much of its time and also, somehow, ahead of it"—Rae Armantrout Oh by Cole Swensen "Oh is opera cool"—Marjorie Perloff     Follow-Haswed by Laura Walker "Quote"—Author