Stenen Press at PSNY Poetry Holiday Market
Dec 14, 2024, Sat 2–9 pm ET
3 Dollar Bill, Brooklyn, NY
Stenen Press, alongside Pamenar Press, is a vendor at PSNY Poetry Holiday Market!
Articles, Events & Book Releases
Global Reading for Freedom of Expression and Solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon (The Second Iteration)
Beginning at 17:00 Palestinian time (EET) | 10:00 am EST on Nov 29 and streaming continuously for 24 hours
Streaming live at youtube.com/@pamenarpress
We invite supporters and allies to join us beginning at 17:00 Palestinian time (EET) to renew the call for global solidarity through poetry, language, and collective resistance.
Stenen Press at MISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival
Oct 11–13, 2024, Fri 5–9 pm, Sat & Sun 12–7 pm CEST
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Stenen Press, alongside Pamenar Press, is exhibiting at Miss Read 2024!
A London Reading by Editor Carolina Gómez-Montoya from The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow
Oct 4, 2024, 6:00–8:00 pm BST
Event hosted by Pamenar Press
Forest Hill Community Library, Dartmouth Road, London, United Kingdom
Join us on Friday, October 4, at 6 pm BST for Pamenar Press’s Voices of Change: A Feminist Collective Book Launch, featuring The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra.
Stenen Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival!
Sep 29, 2024, 10am–6pm EST
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Come see us at Booth 125! We’re so excited to meet the writing community as we exhibit during the Brooklyn Book Festival!
IBPA Member Spotlight
IBPA is an association of independent book publishers dedicated to professionalism and excellence. In July, IBPA Member Spotlight featured Stenen Press and their inaugural anthology in celebration of its IBPA Silver award recognition.
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow is the 2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Winner!
Stenen Press is thrilled to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra won a bronze medal at the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) for the Poetry-Specialty category. Special congratulations to our editors and contributors for
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow is the 2024 IBPA Book Award Silver Winner!
Stenen Press is proud to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra has been recognized as the Silver Winner in the Poetry category of the 36th annual IBPA Book Award. Special congratulations to our editors and
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow is the 2024 IBPA Book Award Finalist!
We have a finalist once more! Stenen Press is overjoyed to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra is the IBPA Book Award Finalist in the Poetry category. We are immensely proud of everyone involved who
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra is the 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist!
Stenen Press is delighted to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra is the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist in the Anthologies category. Our book was chosen by the award’s editorial team from
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra Wins 2023 PubWest Book Design Silver Award!
Stenen Press is thrilled to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra won a silver award in the Short Stories/Poetry/Anthologies category of the 2023 PubWest Book Design Awards. Special congratulations to our book designer Virginia Chow
Stenen Press at AWP 2024 in Kansas City!
Feb 8–10, 2024, 9 am–5 pm CST
Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO
We’re so excited to meet the writing community this week at our very first book festival! Visit Stenen Press at Table 1123 as we exhibit during the 2024 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair.
Reading by the Authors of The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra
Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 pm ET
Book Culture, 536 W 112th St, New York, NY 10025
Join Book Culture, Stenen Press, and Sundial House on Thursday, October 19th at 7pm for a reading and conversation in celebration of the recent release of The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra.
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow: A Book Celebration
May 27, 2023, 2:00–3:00 pm EDT
Online event, please register for link
Stenen Press is proud to present The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra—a book that rethinks language itself, and embraces the power, innovation, and diversity of poetic voices from around the globe. Join us for a celebration and panel discussion about poetry, translation & art.
The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow /
El alma se mueve en la sombra Press Release
Original poetry, resplendent imagery, mutual translation, and collaborative essays on the topic of translation itself. Our groundbreaking inaugural anthology The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra reflects deeply creative friendships that situate translation as equitable, intimate, and ongoing.
Artist Studio Tour: the fantastical world of buttons & Heather Cox’s So…
March 25, 2022, 6:00–7:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link
Exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Heather Cox’s workshop! Explore the world of her new book, So…
Laura Dolp performs Book of Hours
March 23, 2022, 7:00–8:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link
Breathing new life into the form of the devotional text, Book of Hours is a powerful meditation on the conditions of place, gaze, and being.
New directions in publishing & translation, a conversation with Stenen Press
March 21, 2022, 6:00–7:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link
Join the conversation! Stenen Press was founded in 2020—a year of great change and isolation—with a mission to publish literature that rethinks artistic, cultural, political, geographic, and literary borders.
Letters from Cairo: A Roundtable Discussion
March 12, 2022, 11:00 am–12:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link
On the release of our third book in the Blueprint Series, Letters from Cairo, join Joel Beinin, Annie DeVries, Alia Mossallam, and the editor, Laura Dolp, for a wide-ranging conversation about the complex riches of urban experience in Cairo during the mid-twentieth century.
So… Press Release
Adventure. Transformation. Friendship. Dive into the quirky, seductive world of So…, where a simple circle spins a yarn about encountering the unknown. So… is a wordless illustrated book that follows the journey of a simple circle traveling through vibrant landscapes. Told through lush batik fabric
Book of Hours Press Release
Breathing new life into the form of the devotional text, Book of Hours is a powerful meditation on the conditions of place, gaze, and being. This pocket-sized collection of original drawings and poems in English animates visual and textual poetics around the mythology of place.
Letters from Cairo Press Release
Letters from Cairo is a vivid memoir of American experience of Nasser’s Egypt, seen through the eyes of two expat academics who navigate the epiphanies, adventures, and paradoxes of a country at a critical turning point. On the eve of the Six-Day War, a young
JAKE GOLDWASSER on the Alchemy of Translation
As far as endeavors go, translation has all of the perils one might fear for and virtually none of the guardrails one might hope for. Reasonable activities—baking a blueberry pie, say—have achievable success criteria and known dangers. You know a good final product when you
BIANCA STONE on Poetry, Dark Matter & Psychotherapy
For the poem to fully exist on the page, it takes full involvement with another’s psyche. The breath of the poem embodies the original writer, in air and nerve. Poetry is a medium of participation, what is called a dyad. It highlights our embedded unconscious
Why “Stenen” Press?
The other day a member of our hardworking staff turned to me and said “You really should write something about the name of the Press. People are curious. Why ‘stenen’?” She said this with a glint in her eye because she knew it would send