The portal for submissions is only open from May 1st through May 31st. Poetry proposals should include the complete manuscript, a cover letter (including a brief summary of the work), and a current resume or curriculum vitae.
Project Po毛tica/Bridwell Press - Forthcoming Releases
Rebecca Gayle Howell, Erase Genesis (Forthcoming in 2026)
In Erase Genesis, critically acclaimed Kentucky poet and translator, Rebecca Gayle Howell, transforms the King James creation story for the climate change age. Devoted to the same three chapters, Howell’s erasures raise a new myth—a story of the Earth’s intimacy with us. Here, man is not given dominion. Instead, the trees and the waters keep eternity, and the Lord Woman seeds tenderness as the only way forward.
A book-length poem with its roots in art, ecopoetry, progressive spirituality, and literary translation, Erase Genesis dismantles centuries of hurt as we bare our beginning anew, in abundance with Earth’s divine call, “Be light and / let be.”
Louis Armand and Michel Delville, Erasurism (Forthcoming in 2026)
Erasurism traces how erasure shapes art and thought across history, exposing the political and poetic forces behind creative acts.
The book explores erasure as a radical aesthetic and philosophical force shaping avant-garde, modernist, and postmodern practices across literature, art, media, and theory. From ancient cave marks to biopoetry, the volume traces a history of erasure that challenges authorship, ideology, and representation鈥攗ncovering the hidden politics and poetics beneath every act of writing.
Jonathan Weinert and H. L. Hix, Ghost Smoke (Forthcoming in 2026)
“Every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” wrote Walt Whitman. Poets H. L. Hix and Jonathan Weinert adopted Whitman’s declaration as a guiding principle for Ghost Smoke. In this “Song of Themself,” Hix and Weinert merge their voices to create a spirited book-length hybrid poem that meditates on distance, listening, finitude, and different kinds of love. Fabricated of material collected from over two decades of correspondence and collaboration, Ghost Smoke borrows the structure of a crown of sonnets, completing a circuit that seeks to defeat the standard distinctions between question and answer, presence and absence, self and other. Is it possible to find a language that can allow us to become more porous to one another, to listen more deeply to one another and to respond in kind? Can we become each other’s ghosts, open to and inhabited by one another? What happens to us, and what happens between us, if we do? Ghost Smoke poses and explores these questions, and invites other voices, including the reader’s, to engage in the conversation.
Conor Bracken, All-American Dad (Forthcoming in 2026)
In these endearing and satirical poems, a mixed-race, white-passing father attempts to locate an alternative masculinity to model for his children in a neoimperial hellscape burned to the ground by鈥攁mong other late-capitalist absurdities鈥攁 billionaire鈥檚 gender reveal gone awry.
If the list, as Umberto Eco once claimed, is the basis of culture, then the poems in this collection are a soil sample of all the rotted fauna and toxic waste that make up the loam contemporary white fatherhood plants its monoculture in鈥攇irldad fighterjets, midwestern vanity license plates, Clark Griswold prodding a caged ape, Fabio bleeding in the bathroom as reckless gender reveals incinerate a blasted landscape. In a world that is more poison than paradise, that is as much microplastic as it is polycrisis, a world that has been hacked into nations and stitched back together by oily supply chains and fuzzy diasporic memory, these poems wonder what a father is, can be, and should teach to their offspring when all they鈥檝e been taught has been how to blend into a country intent on transforming difference and dissent into knickknacks. Knuckled like a crayfish and sieving the trash-clogged streams of our era, Conor Bracken鈥檚 poetry is bent鈥攊n self-defense? in prayer? supplication?鈥攐n bringing the contradictions of creating life in a necrophagous era into the kind of tension necessary to strike a chord or fire an arrow.
Stephanie Burt, Dream as Big as You Please: Game Theory, the Loud Family, and Me! (Forthcoming in 2027)
Game Theory might be the best 1980s band you've never heard. Led by the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Scott Miller, the poly-melodic, hyper-lexical, painfully self-aware indie combo could almost have been the next REM. Instead, with Game Theory and their 21st century successor the Loud Family, Miller created pop and rock music too sweet for the hipsters, too strange for the charts, and too good for the rest of the world to understand.
Combining music appreciation, literary analysis, memoir and cultural history, this book tries to give the songs themselves their due. Those songs invoke the limits of reason, and the frustrations as well as the triumphs of Autistic art and artists, of science fiction and engineering nerds. They ask-- the book asks-- what it means to feel like a girl, when nobody else knows you are one.
Publication Lines
Single-authored collections by poets who previously published a poetry collection, by invitation only.
Collaborative poetry collections written by more than one authors. Creativity often arises when poets work together, not in isolation. This line celebrates the possibilities of these poetic collaborations. Proposals might feature the work of poets working with each other or with visual artists.
Creative or scholarly works about poetics. We define "poetics" broadly and seek to publish books that engage with the art of poetry. Proposals might include original works (whether creative or scholarly) or new editions of historical works worthy of reexamination.