Not Just Another Poetry Press

What distinguishes Toadlily Press from other fine literary presses that also focus on poetry and strive for the highest quality in writing craft and book design? Toadlily Press’s books juxtapose multiple voices in dialogue with one another and the reader.

Every book in The Quartet Series presents four poets—emerging, rediscovered, or celebrated—in one handsome, perfect-bound volume.  The chapbook size of each poet’s section will allow that writer to pursue other venues for a book-length manuscript.

As Ilya Kaminsky comments in his introduction to The Fifth Voice:

It is a brilliant idea to put together a festival of four different lyric voices.

The mission of Toadlily Press is to develop a community of poets and readers. Through the arrangement of multiple poetic voices in chapbook anthologies, collaborations, readings, panel discussions, and through our interactive web site, we hope to create a gathering place where conversation can occur.

See the submissions page for details.

our books

The Editors:

Myrna Goodman is an award-winning ceramic artist. Her clay constructions and poems are narrative responses to the complexities of language and life. Her poems have been published in Confrontation, The Cortland Review, Karamu and other literary journals and anthologies. She designs Toadlily’s book covers and promotional materials.  mgoodman@toadlilypress.com

Meredith Trede has had poems published in numerous journals and anthologies including The Paris Review, Barrow Street, and Gargoyle. Her book, Field Theory, will be published by SFA Press on September 15, 2011. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has been awarded residency fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, Ragdale, Saltonstall and VCCA. She and her husband are partners in a management consulting firm. mtrede@toadlilypress.com

Director of Marketing:

A freelance writer for more than two decades, Catherine Wald is the author of a chapbook, Distant, burned-out stars (Finishing Line Press, May 2011), and The Resilient Writer: 23 Tales of Rejection and Triumph (Persea, 2004). She is the translator of Valery Larbaud’s 1912 short stories, Childish Things (Sun & Moon, 1994, from the French). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Reader’s Digest, Writers Digest, Journal of Creative Nonfiction and Westchester Review.  Her poetry recently received honorable mention in the Sarah Lawrence College Gurfein Fellowship competition. She is Book Review Editor for Friends Journal and a member of the board of trustees of the John C. Hart Memorial Library in Shrub Oak, NY.

Director of Special Projects:

Katherine Hyde is a freelance writer, editor and marketing consultant. She holds a JD from New York University and practiced corporate law in New York and New Jersey for a number of years. klhyde@toadlilypress.com

***

Toadlily Press is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Toadlily Press must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law. To contribute, mail your check payable to Fractured Atlas to Toadlily Press, PO Box 2, Chappaqua, NY 10514; or to contribute online, click here or visit fracturedatlas.org.