About
Birds, LLC is a small independent editor-run poetry press born out of friendship and a collective spirit of collaboration, possibility, and care, and in direct opposition to the Contest Industrial Complex of capital P poetry. Specializing in close author relationships, Birds, LLC believes that great books are a collaboration of editors and authors. Birds, LLC supports readings, events, audiobooks, videos, podcasts, and class visits for its authors, believing that poetry demands a human voice to read it and an audience to receive it.
Team
Founding Editors
- Dan Boehl
- Justin Marks
- Matt Rasmussen
- Sampson Starkweather
- Chris Tonelli
Book and Cover Designers
- Hobbes Ginsberg
- Karen Sofia Colón
- Eric Amling
- Matt Bollinger
- Joshua Elliott
- Cat Glennon
- Zoe Norvell
- Partner & Partners
Interior Layout Designers
- Hobbes Ginsberg
- Karen Sofia Colón
- Michael Newton
- Zoe Norvell
- Guy Pettit
- Partner & Partners
Web Design & Dev
- Doug Hahn
Cover & Interior Artists
- Liliana Porter
- Phillip Guston
- Mariana Isabel Ramos Ortiz
- Paul Thek
- Sommer Browning
- Bianca Stone
- Hobbes Ginsberg
- Karen Sofia Colón
- Matt Bollinger
- Kim Keever
- Dara Cerv
- Jonathan Marshall
- Eric Amling
- Emily Raw
- Monica McClure
Press
The press known for its devotion to putting out not just great books, but beautiful and inventive objects.
Birds, LLC are like the pinnacle of enthusiasm for contemporary young poet’s full-length books, and of reinventing self-publishing.
While essentially Birds, LLC is about the singular poet’s collection, they always emphasize a collaboration of editors and authors. I’ve never quite felt so warm and fuzzy about a press. Their gigantic spirit and love of poetry and poets is infectious.