OK, so we’re a little late. Although we’re almost four months into the new year, we’re pleased to announce our 2021 catalog. We hope you’ll agree that it was worth the wait.
Our 2021 lineup includes two full-length poetry collections, a bilingual anthology of poems and narratives from the Mexico-U.S. border, the 2021 Wallace Award winning chapbook, and the continuation of our Strays series with two new packs, featuring seven fantastic poets.
Additionally, for the first time, Foundlings is offering a tiered subscription model for book and merch purchases. While books, chapbooks, zines, and more will still be available directly on our website, friends and fans can subscribe through our Patreon page and automatically receive new titles as we release them: https://www.patreon.com/foundlingspress.
Full-length releases: Andrew Grace’s Sancta and Marta Del Pozo’s Hunger of Images
Our year kicks off in earnest in June with the release a new edition of Sancta by Andrew Grace, originally published in 2012 by Ahsahta Press, which ended its run last year. The book will feature a new cover design by our own Darren Canham, which we’re pleased to reveal today. Sancta is available now for pre-order and scheduled for shipment in June.
In August Foundlings will publish Hunger of Images by Marta del Pozo. The collection was originally published in 2016 a Spanish-language edition as Hambre de imágenes by Alhulia Press, and received the Antonio Gala poetry prize. Foundlings will publish a new bilingual edition of the book, featuring translations by the author. The book will also feature a new cover with original art by Claudio Abate, the late Italian photographer. Hunger of Images is available now for pre-order and scheduled to ship in August.
2021 Wallace Award Winner: Rachel Stempel’s Interiors
Foundlings Press has selected poet Rachel Stempel’s chapbook Interiors as the winner of the 2021 Wallace Award. Guest artist Julie Molloy will design original cover art for the manuscript, which will be out in winter 2021. We’ll be sharing more information about Rachel and their winning manuscript soon.
Anthology: Border poems and narratives
In December Foundlings will release a bilingual anthology of poems and narratives from the Mexico-U.S. border, edited by Gabriela Zavela and Peter Temes. Zavela is the Executive Director at Resource Center Matamoros and President and CEO of Asylum Seeker Network of Support. Temes the founder and president of the Institute for Innovation in Large Organizations (ILO) and the author of several books, including, with Gerry Crinnin, the poetry collection I Know You Know, and with Florin Rotar, We The People: Human Purpose in a Digital Age: A Guide to Digital Ethics for Individuals, Organizations and Robots of All Kinds. Together, Zavela and Temes have worked with migrant writers predominantly from the refugee camp at Matamoros, Mexico to collect poetry and personal narratives spanning over five years of migrant experiences.
Strays returns: two packs, seven poets
Strays, our scrappy series of hand-bound micro-publications, will also continue, thanks to the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts and its DEC Grant program, administered locally by Arts Services Initiative (ASI). Pack 4, out this summer, will feature original “stray” collections by Mary Ruefle, Julianne Neely, and Rachelle Toarmino. Pack 5, available for pre-order in December, will feature original poems by Derrick Austin and Jessica Fjeld along with Nicholas Rattner’s translations of the Spanish poet Juan Andrés García Román.
Strays Pack 4 is available now for pre-order.
Foundlings Press Subscription Service
All the titles mentioned above will be available for pre-order in our online store soon. Now, readers also have the option of subscribing to receive new titles automatically.
Since our beginnings as a magazine in 2015, Foundlings has been on an uneven journey toward a sustainable publishing model. As a small, volunteer-run operation without institutional backing or foundational grant support, we discovered that traditional small press publishing and distribution models would inevitably lead us to insolvency. We have been lucky, though, to welcome and grow a base of dedicated and supportive readers readers. To stay close to those readers, reach an even wider audience, and keep our book prices affordable, we’re now going to offer our titles via monthly subscriptions.
We’re debuting the following patron tiers through Patreon:
Fans - Chip in $2/month for our eternal gratitude and recognition on a new patrons and supporters page of our website (under construction).
Friends - For only $4/month, subscribe to our Strays series. That means you’ll get two packs a year - totaling six limited-edition original works by a wide variety of poets and writers.
First Readers - For $8/month, subscribe to the Strays series, all of our full-length poetry releases, and our chapbooks - and get free digital downloads of all the hard copies we send you.
Constant Strangers - For only $10/month, you won’t miss a thing* - we’ll send you every full-length title, chapbook, zine, limited edition release, Strays pack, and anthology or collection that we publish.
*Almost. This doesn’t include hardcovers or coffee table books. We’ve never published a hardcover edition or a coffee table book, but we might in the future.
Learn more and sign up to support at our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/foundlingspress.
Praise for Andrew Grace and Sancta
In Sancta, divinity irradiates. The afterlife approaches nuclear, dangerous and fascinating, a mysterium tremendum fascinans that can kill you with overexposure.
—Kascha Semonovitch in The Rumpus
Sancta dismantles the weighty abstractions of God, loss, redemption, and loneliness. And there, Grace finds himself standing in the middle of a wilderness. This is the book’s thrilling core—a space that does not dissipate after study, that is steadfastly interior and exterior, self and circumstance.
—Daniel Moysaenko in The Volta
Praise for Marta del Pozo and Hunger of Images
It is a collection that rewards multiple rounds of reading, lingering, holding lines in suspension, dipping. The effect of moving through the poems is like watching Marker’s San Soleil. There’s a mesmerizing drift into and out of stages of consciousness, and rich philosophical ruminations on the ravenousness of the eye, along with the vexed desire to represent, to seize and ingest the flux of experience as image(s).
—Jenny Xie
The Foundlings Press 2021 Lineup
Click through to learn more about Derrick Austin, Jessica Fjeld, Andrew Grace, Julianne Neely, Marta del Pozo, Nick Rattner, Juan Andrés García Román, Mary Ruefle, Rachel Stempel, Peter Temes, Rachelle Toarmino, and Gabriela Zavela.
About Foundlings Press
Foundlings Press is a literary publishing partnership based in Buffalo, New York. Foundlings earned a reputation as a pint-sized poetry powerhouse with the publication of the feted Constant Stranger: After Frank Stanford (2018), a seminal anthology with over 30 contributors; and for Strays, an ongoing series of micro-publications that brings together work in packs featuring three poets twice annually. The press has also developed a robust catalog of full-length books of poetry and chapbooks. Foundlings holds a biennial chapbook contest that pairs the winning poet with a guest artist and book designer, and also facilitates the annual Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, honoring one poem with a limited edition broadside publication.
Strays Packs 4 and 5 are possible through the generous support of NYSCA and ASI.
