Teachers
"SPD is a vital source for those wanting to read books that do not conform to the tastes of the conventional, the corporate, the mass-marketed, the expected"s—Dorothy Wang, Northwestern University
"For those who teach contemporary writing, there is no better source of course materials than SPD"—Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
SPD will provide desk copies for books already adopted for a course. Just contact us with the name of the school, the course name and number, and the title of the book. SPD will cover the cost of shipping by Media Mail. For faster delivery, please call us with a credit card number to pay for additional shipping charges.
SPD does not typically provide examination copies before a book has been adopted. If you would like an examination copy, please contact our publishers directly.
Small and independently published books respond immediately to changing experiences, illuminating the full range and diversity of both American and world culture. These books teach students that they can be DIRECTLY involved with literature, empowering the student to think of himself or herself as a participant in culture, rather than just a consumer of it.
- 20th Century American Poetry (Myung Mi Kim, State University of New York at Buffalo)
- Graduate Writing Workshop (Susan Schultz, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
- Poetry Writing Workshop (Janet Holmes, Boise State University)
- Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the Striated (Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo)
- American Confessional Poetry (Susan Rosenbaum, University of Georgia)
- Advanced Poetry Workshop (Juliana Spahr, Mills College)
- Poetics (Joshua Clover, UC Davis)
- Graduate Poetry Workshop (Juliana Spahr, Mills College)
- Contemporary Arab Women Writers (Khalil Barhoum, Stanford University)
- Gaps of Time and Space (Ayse Agis, University of California Berkeley)
- Realism & the Abracadabrant Word: Lit Productions of Lower Manhattan, Jennifer Scappetone
Duration
Duration offers out-of-print small press titles in PDF archival format, as well as international authors' profiles for a cross-cultural and multilingual study of contemporary poetry.
Eclipse
Housed at the University of Utah, Eclipse features archival editions of influential small press titles from mid- to late-20th century American poetry.
Electronic Poetry Center
SUNY-Buffalo's Poetics Program was among the first to gather, in this critically acclaimed site, pedagogical and other resources covering a wide range of recent poetries.
Women's Studies Resources
A compendium of links and resources compiled by Karla Tonella at the University of Iowa.
PennSound
PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.