Are Poets Press books sold in bookstores?
A. Very seldom. The Poet’s Press is a private press, which means that it prints only limited editions. Since we share proceeds with our authors generously (usually 50/50), it is not our business to make bookstores and distributors rich. A few of our books are sold through Amazon, but frankly, we lose money every time we sell a book through Amazon. We would rather keep books affordable by selling them directly through the mail. Q. Does The Poet’s Press accept submissions from poets? A. Not very often, but we are prepared to be astonished by the next Rimbaud or Poe. We are committed for the next several years. Even when we are caught up with our publishing activities, 99% of the new authors we have taken on are people we discovered performing their works at readings. Q. Is The Poets Press a vanity publisher (i.e., do you publish books if the authors pay for them)? A. We are not vanity publishers. In our early days some thirty years ago, we were a print shop and publisher, and we sometime
