Plan B Press

Beginning Dec. 4, 2009 at the Soundry in Vienna, VA Plan B Press will be lending its expertise in curating and hosting a new poetry series - "The Poetry Lab". The Poetry Lab will be a poetic "Black Box" in the coolest space I have yet since moving to Northern Virginia in 2004!...

A little while ago, Jason, the owner of Wolfgang Books in Phoenixville, PA posted something on Facebook asking people if they recognized the bookstore in a trailer, the trailer above, for a new movie coming out called "99 percent sure"...

I forget the sequence of events but sometime after moving the DC area from Philly, I became aware of Kim Roberts and her Beltway online poetry journal. She began to link our events and contests on her vast resource pages...

New Anthology! Full Moon On K Street: Poems About Washington, DCPlan B Press will release a new print anthology in January 2010, edited by Kim Roberts...

The reading at Wolfgang Books on Sept. 19 was great. Chris Bullard presented his work extremely well, considering the motorcycles and teen aged LOUD girls outside. C L Bledsoe read some terrific pieces, including one that I can foresee being the title of a new collection...

Plan B Press is returning to Wolfgang Books in Phoenixville, PA, I got interviewed briefly about the reading and a bit of history HERE. The photo credit goes to 3 year old Julia Jean May, her first...

we are relocating to a house in the section of "Alexandria", VA just south of Rt. 395 (it's like calling Roxborough "Philly", ya know?)we are moving in on Sept. 15,2009 and will be opening a PO Box around the same time. Once we have it, we will let you know our new Plan B Press address. thanks

Author Karla Kuskin diesNew York TimesPosted: 08/22/2009 07:06:07 PM PDTUpdated: 08/22/2009 08:50:36 PM PDTKarla Kuskin, a noted children's author and illustrator whose work combined sly wit and propulsive vitality with deep thoughtfulness about the essential natures of people, animals and things,...

we are happy to announce our Fall 2009 releases : Opening Up the Trees by Jason Venner Wolf Spider by Michael FisherBy a Different Ocean by Katy Whittinghamwe are very excited about these books and more details will be following in short order.

We want to congratulate Elizabeth Bodien for winner the first annual Lehigh Valley Literary Award in poetry recently in Easton, PA. She won for her chapbook, Plumb Lines. So how does "award winning chapbook" and "award winning poet" sound?

MONDAY, AUG 10Want to Feel Better About Yourself? Read a Book!According to the results of a survey from the Pepsi Optimism Project, Americans are optimistic—more optimistic, in fact, than they were back in November 2008. ...

While we are, for the most part, on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, we have been having sporadic bursts of activity; an email announcement here, a book release there. But in addition to that, Mr...