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.

Featured Books

Affidavit by Starr Davis
mosby, population
witness of nina mvungi
the other steve schrader
girlfriend copy
The Becoming Game
portable city
well you neednt
seer
iiaid

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Affidavit by Starr Davis
mosby, population
witness of nina mvungi
the other steve schrader
girlfriend copy
The Becoming Game
portable city
well you neednt
seer
iiaid
Sea of Broken Mirrors
mother opt
unveiling
Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman
Jam Session and other Poems
I Used To Be Korean
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CBH + HLP = Poetry in the Oral Archive

We kicked off HLP 60 and National Poetry Month at the Center for Brooklyn History on April 20th! Jiwon Choi, Miguel Coronado, Kimiko Hahn, D. Nurkse, and Rebecca Suzuki drew inspiration from CBH’s rich oral history archives, offering an original poem in response....

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CBH + HLP = Poetry in the Oral Archive

We kicked off HLP 60 and National Poetry Month at the Center for Brooklyn History on April 20th! Jiwon Choi, Miguel Coronado, Kimiko Hahn, D. Nurkse, and Rebecca Suzuki drew inspiration from CBH’s...

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Send Us Your Good Words

Send Us Your Good Words

In 2026, for the first time in Hanging Loose Press's 60 year history, we will welcome your poems, short stories and flash fiction via email. One of the few presses who still asks for paper...

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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.

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