@juneroadpress.bsky.social
Tiny, friendly poetry press based in Pennsylvania. Just two great books a year for now. More at juneroadpress.com and linktr.ee/juneroadpress
Five people standing behind a table lined with books at the AWP Bookfair, each holding books and smiling at the camera
“We think of our books as artisanal products in an increasingly mechanized world—things to keep, share, and revisit.” @juneroadpress.bsky.social is an award-winning micropress based in Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on emerging writers and women’s voices. Find them at bookfair table 849!
23.01.2026 17:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New publisher listing for: June Road Press Anthology @juneroadpress.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying). #WritingCommunity
16.01.2026 23:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We’re open for submissions until March 15! This winter’s extended reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!
15.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1This issue of the Eco-Update also has a review of @hilaratzabi.bsky.social's eco-poetry collection, "There Are Still Woods" from @juneroadpress.bsky.social
20.12.2025 15:31 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
What has 464 poetry collections, chapbooks, and anthologies? Our Poetry of 2025 roundup, featuring an incredible wealth of poetry published by independent literary presses this year! www.clmp.org/news/poetry-...
07.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 23 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 6
June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
04.12.2025 22:26 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
We’re open for submissions! This winter’s reading period is for individual poems for our first anthology rather than full-length manuscripts. Details at www.juneroadpress.com/submissions!
02.12.2025 15:45 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social is open to submissions for Poetry Anthology (Volume 1). #CallforSubmissions
02.12.2025 05:06 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful evening at Mac’s last week celebrating the debut from local poet Mary Simmons 🐦⬛ Our very own Olivia Mirmohamed opened the night with a reading from her thesis 💫
Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh...
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It’s pub day for MOTHER, DAUGHTER, AUGUR by Mary Simmons! This book is lush and dark, full of omens and wolves and women transforming. Think of it as a Victorian naturalist’s collection gathered from folklore and myth and ballet and fables. More at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur! 🍂✨
28.10.2025 13:24 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So glad to be spending time with Level Watch by Mary Ardery, by June Road Press, a woman-owned boutique press publishing some gorgeous books.
In this chapbook, she weaves recovery and nature, threads that resonate deeply with my own writing interests, together with such clarity and depth.
Congrats, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social !
09.10.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...
09.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Congratulations to our Book Award finalists!!
08.10.2025 00:56 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 8
"Ardery’s debut is both a memoir of survival and a meditation on what it means to carry weight — literal and metaphorical — and to keep walking anyway."
@sara-eastler.bsky.social reviews LEVEL WATCH by Mary Ardery. @juneroadpress.bsky.social
Perugia out here doing such good and beautiful work 🙏🎉🎉🎉 We are big fans. (We are POETRY BARN-SIZED FANS, haha 😉)
@rholanderpoet.bsky.social
New #poetry #books from Carcanet Press, Grid Books, Nightboat Books, Brick Books, @juneroadpress.bsky.social, Copper Canyon Press, @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social, W. W. Norton, Red Hen Press, University of Nevada Press & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
23.09.2025 20:05 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Liz Cunningham holding a copy of Field Notes in a soft pastel light
Jameela Dallis sitting at a desk, shelves behind her, in a pink and silver dress, Encounters propped in the foreground
Happiest of joint publication days to FIELD NOTES by E.G. Cunningham and ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD by Jameela F. Dallis! 🎉🎉🎉
We could not be prouder of our fall titles and their authors. Congratulations, Liz and Jameela!
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@egcunningham.bsky.social
We are also SO happy to share a publication day today with @juneroadpress.bsky.social, another incredible small press with a tremendous editor in Sara Arnold.
Mary Ardery’s Level Watch is out today! 🎉🎉🎉
www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch
@mardery.bsky.social 🥳
23.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s pub day for Level Watch! If you appreciate narrative poetry with a strong sense of place that deeply engages with the wilderness, this book will move you, whether you’re familiar with the Blue Ridge backdrop or want to let these pages transport you there. More at juneroadpress.com/level-watch!✨
23.09.2025 13:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1🥰 Back at you!
19.09.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@abbiekiefer.bsky.social @mardery.bsky.social
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Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨
09.09.2025 21:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️
15.08.2025 20:20 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...
29.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
✨Cover reveal!✨ Our second fall title, Mother, Daughter, Augur, comes out the week of Halloween. It’s a lush, dark, dreamlike book about women and love and bodies and stories and time. Ways to preorder, blurbs, audio clips, pictures, a playlist, and more at juneroadpress.com/mother-daughter-augur!
16.07.2025 22:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jami Macarty reviews 'Songs for the Land-Bound' by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, poems that navigate motherhood, marriage, and aging through contrasting forms.
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/booksongs-for-the-land-bound-by-violeta-garcia-mendoza/
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Cover of Songs for the Landbound shows a detail of J. B. Kidd's copy of J.J. Audubon's Rose-Breasted Grosbeak: partial view of two mostly black and white birds, one with open wings, the other just the head, both about to pick a red berry from a conifer (probably American Yew), against a grayish-white background
Naming Absence The ache at the incision, ghost stitch sewn illuminant over the scar; loss hemmed and let down and re-hemmed. The hollow its won throat. Rot's petal curl, collapse, pressed scent; the fog's uneven dissipation; fall's specific dusk. Shades of eggshell; an unbroken breath. The boomerang released for its returning; the mateless mourning dove. A still life: pavement with evaporating rain.
"The boomerang released / for its returning"
I so love the images, the sounds, the line-breaks &&& in this & so many other poems from @violetagm.bsky.social's SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024)!
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So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch
15.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
