Parlor Press

Join us for a live reading on April 9, 2026 at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City. Get ready for an exciting evening as Jean Gallagher and Tracy Zeman share insights and inspirations behind their latest works and celebrate the legacy of fellow poet Lewis Meyers. This in-person event is a perfect chance to dive into great conversations and meet fellow poetry lovers. With special guest Ellen Doré Watson. Register at EventBrite.

The journal Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine will devote a special section to a forthcoming issue to Steven B. Katz's Plato's Nightmare and invites submissions no later than July 1, 2026. The journal invites diverse voices (scholars, poets, artists) celebrating, interrogating, expanding, and transforming Katz's work in this complex and remarkable book. Read more >>

This story about Judith Chernaik's forty-year "Poems on the Underground" program in London ran in the New York Times this morning: How a New Yorker Put Poetry on the London Underground  [Free Article]. Sara Chernaik contacted Parlor Press last year to ask permission to display Jeongyre Choi's "Forest" from her collection Instances (2011). We said yes, of course. It's a beautiful poem. The ingredients of perfection are there from the start, waiting for the right moment, a light, or a shadow.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the New Measure Poetry Prize and the newest titles accepted for publication by Free Verse Editions in late 2026.