is a small press established in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. We specialize in contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats.

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Greenhouse: The First 5 Years of the Rustbelt Roethke Writers' Workshop

Edited by Judith Kerman & Amee Schmidt

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The Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Workshop/Retreat was inspired by the work and life of Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), who was born and brought up in Saginaw, Michigan. The Workshop has met each July since 2002, providing experienced writers with a comfortable, egalitarian atmosphere of peer (teacherless) workshops and public readings. This anthology was published during the centennial year of Roethke’s birth as part of the year-long Roethke Centennial celebration. It showcases the work of all participants in the first 5 years of workshops who came from as far as Texas, Massachusetts, New York and the Caribbean to work together in Roethke’s home landscape.

Poetry, short fiction, flash-fiction, experimental fiction and creative non-fiction from

Elinor Benedict
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Gene Doty
Katherine Fishburn
Patricia Harkins-Pierre
Diane Kendig
Judith Kerman
Adrienne Lewis
Beverly Matherne
Robert E. Mc Donough
Carol Novack
Beatrice O’Brien
John Palen
Jane Piirto
Nancy Pulley
Helen Ruggieri
C. Vincent Samarco
Diane Sautter
Amee Schmidt
Melissa Seitz
Li C. Tien.

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Judith Kerman & Amee Schmidt, eds.
Greenhouse: The First 5 Years of the Rustbelt Roethke Writers' Workshop

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-683

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