For over 50 years every title published by the press has been kept in print.

Good literature
stays good.

For more than half a century, Hanging Loose has championed the work of authors marginalized by mainstream publishing—work frequently less visible, whether because of gender, race, age, class or socioeconomic status. We continue today, in pursuit of this mission, to look for ways of broadening our creative and cultural scope.

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Sea of Broken Mirrors
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Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman

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Sea of Broken Mirrors
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Sundry Abductions by Maria Dylan Himmelman
Jam Session and other Poems
I Used To Be Korean
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Catching Up With Mark Pawlak

Mark Pawlak is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently Away Away (2024) and  Reconnaissance: New and Selected Poems and Poetic Journals(2016). He is the  editor of six anthologies and has published a book length memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise...

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Hanging Loose has published well over 10,000 pages of poetry, prose, and art in our magazine spanning for more than half a century.

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