For over 50 years every title published by the press has been kept in print.

Good literature
stays good.

For more than half a century, Hanging Loose has championed the work of authors marginalized by mainstream publishing—work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class or socioeconomic status. We continue today, in pursuit of this mission, to look for ways of broadening our creative and cultural scope.

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the other steve schrader
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The Becoming Game
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well you neednt
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Sea of Broken Mirrors
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witness of nina mvungi
the other steve schrader
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The Becoming Game
portable city
well you neednt
seer
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Sea of Broken Mirrors
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unveiling
Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman
Jam Session and other Poems
I Used To Be Korean
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Catching Up With Steven Schrader

Steven Schrader is a lifelong New Yorker. Born in Washington Heights in 1935, he moved with his family to the Upper West Side at the age of fourteen, and never left. Over the years, he has been a public-school teacher, a city employee (the Welfare Department, the New...

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Dudes, find us at 504 on Sunday, September 21st for Brooklyn Book Festival big fest day! We'll have books, mags, more books, more mags, some editors and lots of good vibes!  ...

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Hanging Loose Magazine

Hanging Loose has published well over 10,000 pages of poetry, prose, and art in our magazine spanning for more than half a century.

Hanging Loose Press Issue 117