Spout Press

Announcing CICADA WHEEL, now available for pre-order! Cicada Wheel documents the grinding resistance of a poet insisting on dignity in poor, Midwestern America....This book is one assertion of poetry’s effectiveness in warding off America’s spiritual desolation. spoutpress.org/product/cica...

Spout Press is proud to announce the release of 𝘊𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭 by @Jesse Kuhn, a brand new book of poems. Release event Thursday 10/22 at House of Balls, featuring the author, Ed Bok Lee, Liz Draper, and @venusdemars.bsky.social . Come thru!!

Don't miss the grown-up book fair! This Saturday from 11am to 7pm, we'll be selling our books and connecting with Spout readers old and new at Booth 709. Can't wait to see you there!

Spout Press's first poetry titles, THE BOOK OF ARCANA: TOMORROW'S STONE AGE COSMOLOGY TODAY and THE HOTEL STERNO by Jeffrey Little are both on sale for National Poetry Month, 30% off with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 (link in bio). Get these weird surreal books!

We're looking for publicity interns for this summer and fall! Especially looking for people who are in Minnesota. Send us your resume at cover letter at Duosuma! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

Poetry titles from our "Out of Pocket" series, SWEET NOTHING by Kazim Ali and WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP by J. Otis Powell!? are 30% off all National Poetry Month with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 ! Get them at spoutpress.org

All Spout poetry books are 30% off with the code SPOUTPOETRYMONTH26 for the month of April at spoutpress.org. Plus, we're still accepting submissions of poetry (and fiction, thought, and translation) for Spout Magazine all month and into May

Our sale expires TONIGHT!! Use code FULLPOCKETS26 to get 30% off all books at spoutpress.org

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for highlighting our book Locker Room Talk for #WomensHistoryMonth!! You can get it from our store for 30% off right now with the code FULLPOCKETS26 spoutpress.org/product/lock...

Spout Press books are on sale! We got t-shirts! We have an event tomorrow! Magazine submissions are open! Read all about it here: spoutpress.substack.com/p/magazine-s...

Come to see editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich talk about Minnesota Book Award-winning LOCKER ROOM TALK: WOMEN IN PRIVATE SPACES and sign books! This Saturday at 2pm! Register here carverlib.libcal.com/event/15542696

For the first time since 2015, Spout Magazine is open for submissions! Share your work with us @duosuma.com by May 30th spoutpress.org/submissions/

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Come join us at AWP!! We'll have open-mics at our bookfair booth, and our editor @xandergershberg.bsky.social will be moderating a panel with editors from @juneroadpress.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @perugiapress.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @clmporg.bsky.social !!

So exciting!! Loved working on this project! 🩷

Our new website is up!! Beautifully designed by @hadleyhendrix.bsky.social our site bridges our 90's DIY punk roots with contemporary style, including a store where you can buy our books and merch, direct from us. Take a look at our new digs!! 20% of all sales go to MN mutual aid spoutpress.org

Celebrate the reissue of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭𝘴 (@wsupress) with author Maureen Aitken and Mona Susan Power – author of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 – who will share new work from her novel-in-progress! Hosted by Michelle Filkins from the collective on Feb. 21, 2026 at 2pm.

One of our editors @xandergershberg.bsky.social wrote this stunning dispatch on life in Minnesota as the people resist fascism. Please read!

Two exciting updates!: 1. We're fundraising to relaunch Spout Magazine, our historic literary magazine that originally ran from 1989-2015. Plus, we're giving thank-you gifts to donors. Donate here www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef 2. We're on Substack now! Subscribe here: spoutpress.substack.com

We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

Alum @alisonmcghee.bsky.social reads along with former English writer in residence Kao Kalia Yang this Wed--as contributors to Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces, winner of the 2025 Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology! @spoutpress.bsky.social

Join us the Aug 27th @ Hook & Ladder Lounge for a night of readings from Kao Kalia Yang, Alison McGhee, Casey Jarrin and music from @squinnysquinny.bsky.social, Whispered the Rabbit, and Kith + Kin Chorus to celebrate our MN Book Award winning Locker Room Talk app.opendate.io/e/locker-roo...

Did you love the Scholastic Book Fair? We got you covered! Tomorrow I'll be with @spoutpress.bsky.social tabling at the Book Fair for Grown Ups! Stop by! inboundbrew.co/book-fair-fo...

We're excited to see you at the Book Fair! inboundbrew.co/book-fair-fo...

This Saturday! We hope to see you there!

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage, @slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Join us in St. Paul for a reading with co-editor Michelle Filkins and contributors Sha Cage, @slipfast.bsky.social, @maureenaitken.bsky.social, and Pat Cumbie at the East Side Freedom Library May 15th, 7pm! Register here eastsidefreedomlibrary.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/e...

Last night, editors Michelle Filkins and Margret Aldrich accepted the MN Book Award for Best Anthology for “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.” Here is a clip of their lovely acceptance speech. Thank you and congratulations to the 30+ wonderful contributors!

Editor Michelle Filkins and contributor Shá Cage spoke about Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces for KAXE's What We're Reading Series! Read the full feature "New anthology celebrates epic and ordinary moments between women" by Tammy Bobrowsky here: www.kaxe.org/show/what-we...

Spout editor Xander with a brilliant interview of @santisugi.bsky.social about erasure poetry, documentary and visual poetics, writing against colonial legacies, and his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

We are delighted and humbled to have our book LOCKER ROOM TALK nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology!! It feels too appropriate to have this collection protesting Trump's misogyny to be recognized now at the onset of another Trump term. Buy @asterismbooks.bsky.social

@asterismbooks.bsky.social Included our title Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces in their new blog post of books to look out for 😀 asterismbooks.com/blog/post/a-...

This Sat Feb 1, we're co-presenting MFA student Chaun Webster, a two-time Minnesota Book Award Poetry winner, talking with poet and Third World Press founder Dr. Haki Madhubuti about self-determination in Black writing, publishing, and distribution: www.eventbrite.com/e/embracing-...

We are extremely grateful to be named a grant recipient for the CLMP Small Press Future Fund! We are delighted to be named along with other presses that we admire. Please check out their books and support small presses.