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–– Nathan Leslie, The Pedestal Magazine

Thanks for Alan Squire Publishing. Keep the beautiful books coming.

– E. Ethelbert Miller, Poet & Activist

Elizabeth Hazen’s dazzling first collection, Chaos Theories, seamlessly merges science with lyricism.

– Charlotte Pence, The Kenyon Review

The Last Girl by Rose Solari casts the spell of a held piano note on a dark key.

– Jim Daniels, Rowing Inland

In Roughnecks, Patterson paints an unforgettable picture of characters wrestling with their own gruff but complicated souls.

– James Mathews, Last Known Position

Grace Cavalieri’s Other Voices, Other Lives is an important and necessary collection.

– Linda Pastan, Insomia

Billy Christmas is a book destined to be battered, much thumbed, read and read again until its pages come loose. Pritchard is here to stay.

— James Clark, former Sunday Times journalist

A Secret Woman is sneaky serious in a way I particularly like. A very promising fiction debut.

– Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner

Like a good absinthe, That Paris Year surrounds the reader in a cloud of voluptuous recollection.

– Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Dead Love

Bermuda Shorts is about life — the whimsy of it, the losses that come with it. It’s a vision that deserves to be shared.

– Greg Wyshynski, ESPN.com

It is our belief at ASP that you should be able to lend a good book to a friend, who could lend it to another friend, and, should it ever be returned, you should bloody well be able to read it yet again.

–James J. Patterson, co-founder of ASP

The Latest

Featured Poetry: “Winter Funeral” by Elizabeth Hazen

January 15, 2019

Fully embracing what the lyric mode does best, Hazen provides the readers with brief, intense poems that preserve a suspended moment in time, attempting to record the thought processes and emotions of the speaker much like tree rings reveal drought, heat, and age. With astonishing clarity and concision, Hazen explores the mysteries of our realities—which are ultimately beholden to entropy.

Grace Cavalieri on the Kojo Nnamdi Show Jan 23rd

January 14, 2019

Recently Governor Larry Hogan announced that Grace Cavlieri, poet, playwright, and long time host of NPR’s The Poet and The Poem, would become Maryland’s next Poet Laureate, succeeding the great Stanley Plumly. Now that she has been inaugurated, one of her first stops is The Kojo Nnamdi show. Kojo Nnamdi has been hosting his show on WAMU for 20 years, so he and Grace are kindred spirits in that regard–Grace has hosted The Poet and The Poem for over 40 years.

Featured Audio: The 2019 Maryland Poet Laureate Reads her Poem “Work is my Secret Lover”

December 18, 2018

Governor Hogan recently announced Maryland’s ninth Poet Laureate to be the incomparable Grace Cavalieri. In his press conference regarding the announcement he touched on her “lifelong” dedication to poetry, and this precisely is one of those defining characteristics of a great artist. ASP celebrated this aspect of Grace in her Legacy Book, Other Voices, Other Lives which is an atemporal sampling of her entire career to now, from poetry to prose, from plays to interviews with US Poets Laureate. It should come as no surprise to Mr. Hogan nor the careful reader of her works then that she has an almost religious dedication and inescapable fascination with her art and its many ingredients. As you we shall hear, in her poem “Work is my Secret Lover,” Poetry is the muse.

ASP Author’s Gift Guide for Book-Lovers (PART 3)

December 14, 2018

ASP Author’s Gift Guide for Book-Lovers Part 3: The Scholar, The Teacher, and The Godfather A Sampling of Music, Mythology, and Books that Touch the Heart Reuben Jackson Poet Reuben Jackson is also an acclaimed jazz scholar, and an expert in all things musical. We asked him to list 5 great books for music […]

Book releases fall 2019

Linda Watanabe McFerrin

Joanna Biggar

Reuben Jackson

ASP Podcast

ASP Podcast w/ Reuben Jackson

ASP Podcast w/Linda Watanabe McFerrin

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A little about us...

Alan Squire Publishing is an independent literary press founded in 2010 to publish books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry that are beautifully written and beautifully made, with the avid reader and book-lover in mind. We are committed to bringing to the public books of great merit that deserve a wide readership, and to forging a new model of collaboration with other independent presses here and abroad.

Our collaborators on various projects include Left Coast Writers in San Francisco, California, Chris Andrews Publications, Ltd., in Oxford, England, and the Santa Fe Writers Project, now based in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2014, ASP officially became an imprint of SFWP.

All ASP titles are distributed internationally by Independent Publishers Group (IPG), the original independent book distributor in the United States. For bulk orders, visit them here: http://www.ipgbook.com/

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