Established in 1983 as an extension of the teaching mission of Pan American University, the Press serves both the academic community and the community at large. At present, the Press publishes and distributes RiverSedge, a semi-annual literary journal.

co•im•press (collaborative—cooperative—immediate) is a nonprofit literary micropress that publishes strange, transgressive, or “unpublishable” poetry, prose, and translations by unsung or under-sung authors and translators. We seek texts that meet the needs of an audience craving a precise combination of formal and linguistic rigor mixed with emotional complexity and dis-ease. The press obsesses over the visceral-mystical, a poetics in which authors explore the body's inherent excesses, strangenesses, pains, vices, traumas, possessions, leakings, effusions, preoccupations, losses, urges, and failings in the pursuit of hard-won discoveries and wisdom.

co•im•press has an unabashed favoritism toward underrepresented writers working in Chicago and the Midwest. It is Chicagoist.

co•im•presss seeks to keep its authors’ works available using emergent, state-of-the-art, and sustainable technologies.

co•im•press is dedicated to working with authors and translators who want to learn about the publishing process; are interested in collaborating on innovative fundraising, networking, and production solutions; and are eager to brainstorm ideas for marketing and promoting their own work through reading tours, events, word of mouth, grassroots initiatives, and ingenious publicity stunts.

co•im•press recognizes the following presses and journals, among others, as allies sharing in the micropress mission: Action Books, Anomalous Press, Birds LLC, Birds of Lace, Black Ocean, Bloof Books, dancing girl press, Entropy, Fence Books, Les Figues, Noemi Press, Octopus Books, [PANK]/Tiny Hardcore Press, PARAGRAPHITI, Radioactive Moat, smoking glue gun, Spork Press, Switchback Books, TENDE RLOIN, Ugly Duckling Presse. If you like their work, you'll probably like ours, too.

Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent compall dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.

Pusteblume, a journal of and about literary translation, is published in partnership between Pen & Anvil Press and the Boston University Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature. Pen & Anvil also publishes works in translation, in five categories: Pusteblume Books, for original works of contemporary literary prose or poetry in translation into English; World Theater in Translation, dramatic works in reading and performance formats; Nemi Books, an imprint publishing works of an esoteric, ritual, or scriptural nature, in translation into English; Botolph Books, scholarly and nonfiction specialist titles including those translated into English; and Pen & Anvil, for literary works, some of which may be translated from non-English languages of composition. The editorial staff of Pusteblume Journal receives and evaluates all submissions of work in translation for Pen & Anvil.

MERCURY HOUSE is a nonprofit press guided by a dedication to literary values and the free exchange of thought.

hallucinatory ... trance-inducing (Publishers Weekly "Best Summer Reads"); warped from one world to another (The Nation); beautifully startling and fucked and funny and tender and sad and putrid and glitter-covered all at once. (VICE); simultaneously metaphysical and visceral ... scary, sexual, and intellectually disarming (Huffington Post); only becomes more surreal (NPR Books); horrifying and humbling in their imaginative precision (The Rumpus); wholly new (Iowa Review); breakneck prose harnesses the throbbing pulse of language itself (Publishers Weekly); the opposite of boring....