Sagging Meniscus
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
Independent publisher of nonconformist literature.
NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS is out, in paperback and hardcover. It's 90-year-old Mike Silverton's fourth collection, with not only poems, but 80+ photographs by Kevin Johnson of Mike's painting, sculpture, and assemblage. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
January 21, 2026 at 8:07 PM
NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS is out, in paperback and hardcover. It's 90-year-old Mike Silverton's fourth collection, with not only poems, but 80+ photographs by Kevin Johnson of Mike's painting, sculpture, and assemblage. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
In PopMatters, John Loonam on Devin Jacobsen's THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: “Every reader will find their favorites here while gaining a broad and complex view of how much humanity ... one writer can depict.” https://www.popmatters.com/summer-we-ate-off-the-china
January 15, 2026 at 11:06 PM
In PopMatters, John Loonam on Devin Jacobsen's THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: “Every reader will find their favorites here while gaining a broad and complex view of how much humanity ... one writer can depict.” https://www.popmatters.com/summer-we-ate-off-the-china
We're especially proud of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS. It's an expensive book to print and to buy, but we promise it's worth it, & there's a discount on preorders of the paperback edition at Asterism. https://asterismbooks.com/product/new-and-used-poems-and-objects-mike-silverton
December 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We're especially proud of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS. It's an expensive book to print and to buy, but we promise it's worth it, & there's a discount on preorders of the paperback edition at Asterism. https://asterismbooks.com/product/new-and-used-poems-and-objects-mike-silverton
Congratulations to Devin Jacobsen, whose THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA is the winner of the Southern Literary Review's Short Fiction of the Year award! https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/southern-literary-reviews-2025-books-of-the-year.htm
December 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Congratulations to Devin Jacobsen, whose THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA is the winner of the Southern Literary Review's Short Fiction of the Year award! https://southernlitreview.com/reviews/southern-literary-reviews-2025-books-of-the-year.htm
Happy Publication Day to Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES — an anthology of twenty poems by twenty poets, accompanied by essays and tribute poems by Kurt. @deborahkalb.bsky.social talks with him about the book here: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-with-kurt-luchs.html
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Publication Day to Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES — an anthology of twenty poems by twenty poets, accompanied by essays and tribute poems by Kurt. @deborahkalb.bsky.social talks with him about the book here: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-with-kurt-luchs.html
LONDONERS: this Thursday, Sagging Meniscus sails to @poetrysociety.org.uk with the able crew of @davidcollard.bsky.social, Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social, & Philip Terry — plus a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. It's free. RSVP bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
LONDONERS: this Thursday, Sagging Meniscus sails to @poetrysociety.org.uk with the able crew of @davidcollard.bsky.social, Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social, & Philip Terry — plus a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social. It's free. RSVP bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
Lee Upton on writing WRONGFUL: "while writing, like our readers we too have to develop an advanced tolerance for getting things wrong." https://bigindiebooks.com/2025/11/06/the-art-of-being-wrong-on-writing-a-literary-mystery/
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Lee Upton on writing WRONGFUL: "while writing, like our readers we too have to develop an advanced tolerance for getting things wrong." https://bigindiebooks.com/2025/11/06/the-art-of-being-wrong-on-writing-a-literary-mystery/
At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
At Sagging Central we've got a copy of Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS—and it's unbelievable. www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_... Preorder it for a special discount at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/new-...
In the Sundress Blog, Tassneem Abdulwahab calls Kat Meads' WHILE VISITING BABETTE "a surreal magnifying glass.... enchanting ... feeding the reader just enough input to be tantalizing, a delicate balance in the space between repetitive and perplexing". https://bit.ly/3JFXgrv
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In the Sundress Blog, Tassneem Abdulwahab calls Kat Meads' WHILE VISITING BABETTE "a surreal magnifying glass.... enchanting ... feeding the reader just enough input to be tantalizing, a delicate balance in the space between repetitive and perplexing". https://bit.ly/3JFXgrv
Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
October 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Come hear Sagging Meniscus in London at The Poetry Society: @davidcollard.bsky.social , Melissa McCarthy, Rufo Quintavalle, @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social , and Philip Terry. 20 November! RSVP at http://bit.ly/3Jl0JLN
Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Coming January 20th: Mike Silverton's NEW AND USED POEMS AND OBJECTS, including 70+ color photographs of this poet's fabulously imaginative art. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/new_and_used_poems_and_objects/
We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We're tickled to annonuce that Lee Upton's TABITHA, GET UP has been selected as a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing! https://www.thurberhouse.org/2026-thurber-prize-in-writing-semifinalists
In Heavy Feather, Jason K. Friedman on Devin Jacobsen's "beautiful and wide-ranging" story collection, THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: "[Jacobsen] eschews a fashionable cool in favor of big language and deep feeling." https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/29/we-ate-off-the-china/
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In Heavy Feather, Jason K. Friedman on Devin Jacobsen's "beautiful and wide-ranging" story collection, THE SUMMER WE ATE OFF THE CHINA: "[Jacobsen] eschews a fashionable cool in favor of big language and deep feeling." https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/09/29/we-ate-off-the-china/
The original PDF of this poster describing last year's giveaway, which we'll repeat this year, has gone missing. Perhaps we should print this photo, and next year print a photo of that, in its worn crumpled state, and continue in this lossy way until we forget why, thereby achieving sanctity.
September 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The original PDF of this poster describing last year's giveaway, which we'll repeat this year, has gone missing. Perhaps we should print this photo, and next year print a photo of that, in its worn crumpled state, and continue in this lossy way until we forget why, thereby achieving sanctity.
New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
New Yorkers: please come say hello tomorrow (Sunday, Sep. 20) at the Brooklyn Book Festival. We'll be at Booth 333 with books old, new and forthcoming, and we'll have a video giveaway: read an excerpt on camera, get a book. @bkbookfest.bsky.social
Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...
September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Cover reveal: Joseph D. Reich's monumental SCENES FROM THE PLANET EARTH, a book-length poem, coming in October. Preorders at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: asterismbooks.com/product/scen...
Coming in December: Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES, an anthology of favorite poems with accompanying essays and poems written in response. Preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: https://asterismbooks.com/product/tributaries-essays-verses-flowing-from-celebrating-favorite-poems-kurt-luchs
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Coming in December: Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES, an anthology of favorite poems with accompanying essays and poems written in response. Preorder at @asterismbooks.bsky.social: https://asterismbooks.com/product/tributaries-essays-verses-flowing-from-celebrating-favorite-poems-kurt-luchs
Vick Mickunas on John Patrick Higgins' "brutally hilarious" SPINE in the Dayton Daily News: "Fortunately after a few pages I recognized the author has a warped somewhat gallows sense of humor." https://bit.ly/42oIdsg
September 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Vick Mickunas on John Patrick Higgins' "brutally hilarious" SPINE in the Dayton Daily News: "Fortunately after a few pages I recognized the author has a warped somewhat gallows sense of humor." https://bit.ly/42oIdsg
Published today: Jake Goldsmith's IN EXTREMIS: brilliant essays on cultural decline and what may sustain us through it, and even on the pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_extremis/
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Published today: Jake Goldsmith's IN EXTREMIS: brilliant essays on cultural decline and what may sustain us through it, and even on the pleasures of annoyance and the tendency to judge bookshelves. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_extremis/
The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor
September 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The long-awaited second novel by Guillermo Stitch, coming this Bloomsday. Available now for preorder at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything. "A timeless, extraordinary work.”—Nuala O’Connor
Trailer for the astonishing new novel from Guillermo Stitch, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming Bloomsday 2026! Preorders are live at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything.
September 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trailer for the astonishing new novel from Guillermo Stitch, THE COAST OF EVERYTHING, coming Bloomsday 2026! Preorders are live at https://thecoastofeverything.com and https://saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_coast_of_everything.
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