Green Linden Press is a nonprofit poetry publisher committed to fostering excellent poetry and giving a portion of proceeds to reforestation. In collaboration with the National Forest Foundation and the Arbor Day Foundation, we have planted over 700 trees. Our publications include the Green Linden Chapbook Series, the Essential Voices Anthology Series, a broadside series, and two annual book contests: The Wishing Jewel Prize, awarded for poetic innovation, and the Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize, each awarding $1000 and publication.
Our recent books include Kristi Maxwell’s Goners, Pierre Alferi’s And the Street (translated by Cole Swensen), Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (translated by Philip Metres), Dennis Hinrichsen’s Flesh-plastique, and Hilde Domin’s selected poems, The Wandering Radiance (translated by Mark S. Burrows). In addition to our website, our books are also available through Small Press Distribution.
In February of 2024, we will publish Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, introduced by Jack Halberstam and containing work from 100 of the best living LGBTQ poets in the country. Also forthcoming in 2024 are Vivian Faith Prescott’s Fat for Our Stories, Dennis Hinrichsen’s Dominion + Selected Poems, and Lunette, a collaboration between Bruce Bond and his photographer brother, Walter Cochran-Bond.
Launched in 2008, Under a Warm Green Linden is our biannual digital poetry journal published each solstice. The title alludes to an image from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s "The Day of My Death," chosen for its balancing the terrors of being with the promise of renewal. Our winter 2023–24 issue (December 21, 2023, publication date), guest edited by Simeon Berry, includes work by Diane Seuss, Kevin Prufer, David Kirby, Maureen Seaton, Aaron Smith, and many others.
Our interview and review series, with over 100 publications, aims to deepen, illuminate, and complicate an understanding of poets’ work. (The entire progeny of the Press grew out of a few interviews with poets I put up as a blog nearly twenty years ago.) In addition to work for the digital journal, we are currently accepting submissions for our chapbook open-reading period, through March 21st.
People often express surprise at the range of styles in our journal and catalog. Our tastes are eclectic, from visual poetry to traditional lyrics about love and death. What excites us is excellence in craft and vision. Check it out!
Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021) and four chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America Fellowship. The recipient of the 2023–24 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, he is the founding editor of Under a Warm Green Linden and Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetic excellence and reforestation. His anthology Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora received a Midwest Book Award and was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Entropy Magazine.