"Isn't it strange how people never form a whole?" POETRY PENDING REVOLUTION: a reading and discussion March 20, 7:00 pm Artists Space Books and Talks 55 Walker Street New York, New York 10013 a reading and a conversation about poetry and … [Read more]
Band of Communizers east coast tour 2016
Brazilian Is Not a Race
Brazilian Is Not a Race, by Wendy Trevino, is now available for download Wendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers … [Read more]
Free PDFs of Commune Books
We are beginning to upload free PDFs of our books, in line with our hatred of commodities and our desire to make these books widely available to those who want to read them. Joshua Clover's Red Epic can be downloaded here. Jasper Bernes's We … [Read more]
The Victorious Ones
The Victorious Ones by Christopher Nealon is now available for download Christopher Nealon, teaches American literature, the history and theory of poetry, and the history of sexuality at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: … [Read more]
News Roundup (Commune Editions’ First Year)
About or by the Press Publisher's Weekly, "Indie Poetry Gets Political" Huck Magazine, "Where Are All the Radical Poets" Rob McLennan, "12 or 20 Small Press Questions" The Recluse 11, "Dear Simone," Jacket 2, "Interview with Commune … [Read more]
THAT WINTER THE WOLF CAME (JULIANA SPAHR)
Our third release, That Winter the Wolf Came, is written for this era of global struggle. It finds its ferment at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe such as the carbon disasters of Deepwater Horizon and the burning Kuwaiti … [Read more]
Contract between Commune Editions and Forthcoming Authors
We have some new books forthcoming next year by people other than us. So we had to make a contract. Here is our contract. AGREEMENT between Commune Editions (“Publisher”) and [_____________] ("Author"). The two parties agree as … [Read more]
WE ARE NOTHING AND SO CAN YOU (Jasper Bernes)
WE ARE NOTHING AND SO CAN YOU by Jasper Bernes published by Commune Editions & AK Press June 14th 2015 Our second release, We Are Nothing and So Can You is a book-length poem for the long 21st century to come, a poem of revolts past, … [Read more]
RED EPIC (Joshua Clover)
RED EPIC by Joshua Clover published by Commune Editions & AK Press April 7th, 2015 Our first release, Red Epic invents a volatile poetry for a world on fire, written to illuminate the wreckage of the most recent gilded age. Leaping levels … [Read more]
Beauty Is Our Spiritual Guernica
Beauty Is Our Spiritual Guernica, a chapbook-length selection of poems by Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, is now available for download. Mario Santiago Papasquiaro is the pen name of José Alfredo Zendejas Pineda (Mexico City, December 25, 1953 – … [Read more]