We just received the below press release from Joshua Lew McDermott, who recently moved to Pittsburgh and is launching a poetry press with his twin sister Jessica Colleen McDermott!
In addition to the press, McDermott mentioned that they’re “also seeking submissions for our website, where we feature a different poet every week (lineriderpress.com). We’d love to get some Pittsburgh poetry published there!”
You can learn more about Line Rider Press on their website and connect with them on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for updates.
A Love Letter to Underground Publishing: Line Rider Press Seeks Poetry Submissions and Announces First Book
Twins Joshua Lew and Jessica Colleen McDermott are proud to announce the launch of Line Rider Press, a poetry press and poetry/culture website. The press aims to shake up the publishing landscape by providing an outlet for poetry which challenges the sterility and apolitical nature of the literary mainstream today. The press aims to publish working-class writing that emphasizes accessibility and radical social critiques of contemporary capitalist society.
The press will feature weekly poems, music and film reviews, cultural commentary, and publish poetry books annually. If you think great art is often controversial and always central to change, submit your work today. For more information on Line Rider Press and to submit your work, visit lineriderpress.com.
Line Rider’s first book publication will be the selected works of the late M. Tyler Esplin, a legend and “shepherd” of the unlikely Logan, Utah, poetry scene of the early 2010s.
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