Bottom Dog Press Books [1984-2011]
|
A History of a
Small Press’s
Publishing in the
Midwest
[Founder and editor in chief, Larry Smith, is writing a detailed history of the press.
Till then, we have this to document 25 years of publishing and 130 books.
We are a not-for-profit, independent, literary publisher.
Many people make this work happen for others: editors, artists, layout designers, and about 1000 writers.
We have received support from the Ohio Arts Council for many of these projects. ]
1980’
s
1984 Across
These States:
Journal Poems
by Larry Smith [*
First in our Ohio
Writers Series
chapbook]
1985
Thirty-Six
Spokes: The
Bicycle Poems by
Terry Hermsen
[Ohio Writers
Series chapbook]
1985 Better Things
to Do by Milton Jordan
& Lights and Shadows
by Marci Janas [Ohio
Writers Series,
dual
chapbook]
1986 Ohio
Woman by
Philip F. O’
Connor (Ohio
Writers
Series, Fiction)
1986 Mike's Place,
Every Monday by
Michael E. Waldecki &
Raw Sienna by Ronald
E. Kittell [Wild
Dog
Series, dual book]
1986 Family
Stories: The
Grennans by Jim
Gorman & Peter
Desey’s The
Benoits [Ohio
Writers Series,
Fiction dual
book]
1987 A Pencil to Write
Your Name: Poems from
the Nicaraguan Poetry
Workshops, translations by
Diane Kendig &
Photography and
Introduction by Steve Cagan
1987
Bodies of
Water by
George
Myers Jr.
[Ohio
Writers
Series]
1987 Best Ohio Fiction, edited by Laura Smith and Larry Smith. Included Philip F. O’Connor, Robert
Flanagan, Robert Fox, Jack Matthews and younger writers Brian Feil, Anne Flanagan, Amy Schildhouse, and
John O’Connor [Ohio Writers Series; first perfect bound book]
1988 Three by
Three: Bloom
Blood by Joe
Napora, After
Uelsmann by
Michael Cole,
The Edge of
Heaven
by Roy
Bentley [* First
in our Midwest
Writers Series]
1988 The
Discovery of
Fire by David
Shevin [Ohio
Writers Series;
won Ohioana
Best Book of
Poetry Award]
1988 From the
Heartlands:
Photos and
Essays from the
Midwest, ed. Larry
Smith
1988 Ohio Zen
Poems: All the
Difference by d.
steven conkle &
Inside the
Garden by Larry
Smith
[Ohio
Writers
Series dual
book]
1989 Ohio
Women:
Earthbound by
Imogene Bolls, No
Winter but this Cold
Rain by Gloria
Regalbuto,
Breastbone by
Merry Speece,
Barflies Stories by
Karen St.
John-Vincent [Ohio
Writers Series]
1989 Mad
National Geogery
by David Canalos
(posthumous) done
with Bloody Twin
Press
1990’
s
1990 Loving
Power: Stories
by Robert
Flanagan
[Midwest Writers
Series]
1991 A Red Shadow of
Steel Mills: Photos and
Poems including
chapbooks: In Medias
Res by Timothy
Russell, Shaped
Like a Heart by David J.
Adams, The Weight of
Smoke by Kip Knott, and
Mill and
Smoke
Marrow by Richard Hague
[Midwest Writers Series]
1991 Awash with
Roses: The Collected
Love Poems of
Kenneth Patchen
edited by Larry Smith
and Laura
Smith (hard cover and
soft cover) with an
introduction by Larry
Smith (Re-issued 2011)
1991 The
Heartlands
Today Vol. 1
Issue 1 edited by
The Firelands
Writing Center
1992
Inquiries:
Poems by Jeff
Gundy [Midwest
Writers Series]
1992 Any
One Man:
Poems by
Roy Bentley
(hard and
soft cover)
[Ohio
Writers
Series]
1992 The
Heartlands
Today: A
Cultural Quilt
edited by The
Firelands Writing
Center
1993
Where We
Came In:
Poems by
David
Adams
1993 Human
Anatomy: Three
Fictions by Philip
F. O’Connor,
Annabel Thomas,
and Jack Matthews
1993 Steam
Dummy and
Fragments from
the Fire: Poems
by Chris Llewellyn
(soft cover and
audio cassette)
[*First in
our Working
Lives Series]
1993
Needles and
Needs: Poems
by David
Shevin (hard
and soft cover)
1994 In Buckeye
Country: Photos and
Essays of Ohio Life, eds.
John Moore & Larry Smith
[Ohio
Writers
Series]
1994
Beginning
with And:
New and
Selected
Poems by
Albert T. Turner
(Midwest
Writers Series)
1994 Sidewinders
and Accolades: Poems
by Michael Waldecki
1994 Men and Women - Women
and Men: A Poetry Chapbook
collection includes chapbooks: Chile
Aloft in Ohio Theatre
by Terry Hermsen, The House of a
Woman by Joanne Lowery, In a
Neighborhood of
Dying Light by Brooke Horvath,
Mothers, Daughters, & Dreams by
Connie Willet Everett, News of
Loss by Robert DeMott,
Modern Love by Anne Townsend
[Midwest Writes Series]
1995 The
Mama
Stories by
Lolette Kuby
1995 Murder
in the Family:
Poems by
Richard
Messer
1995 Tales along
the Appalachian
Plateau by Danny
Fulks [*First in our
Appalachian
Writers Series]
1995
Beyond Rust:
Stories by
Larry Smith
[Working Lives
Series]
1996 Coffeehouse Poetry
Anthology:
Poems-Photos-Statements, eds. Larry
Smith, June King
1996 Getting
By: Stories of
Working Lives
eds. David
Shevin & Larry
Smith [Working
Lives Series]
1997 Human
Landscapes: 3 Books
of Poems by Daniel
Smith, Edwina
Pendarvis, Philip St.
Clair [Working
Lives Series
chapbooks]
1997 Milltown
Natural: Essays
and Stories form a
Life by Richard
Hague [Working
Lives Series,
nominated
for National
Book Award]
1997
Burley One
Dark Sucker
Fired:
Poems by
Maj Ragain
1997
Nature
(pocket book)
ed. Laura
Smith
1997 Even the
Broken Letters of the
Heart Spell Earth by
Daniel Thompson (book
& CD of Thompson
reading to jazz)
1998 Food
Poems
(pocket
book) eds.
Terry
Hermsen and
David
Garrison
1998 Chinese Zen
Poems: What Hold
Has This Mountain,
translated by Mei Hui
Liu Huang & Larry
Smith [*
First in our Laughing
Buddha Series]
1998 Brooding the
Heartlands: Poets of the
Midwest, ed. M.L.Liebler
includes chapbooks by
Jim Daniels, W. D.
Ehrhart, Sean Thomas
Daugherty, Aurora Harris,
Faye Kicknosway, M. L.
Liebler, Ed Sanders,
Larry Smith,
Tyrone Williams [Midwest
Writers Series]
1998 The
Road That
Carried Me
Here: Poems
by Ray
McNiece
1998 Writing Work:
Writers on
Working-Class Writing
edited by David Shevin,
Larry Smith, and Janet
Zandy
[Working Lives Series
Anthology]
1998 Dunbar:
Suns and
Dominions; includes
chapbooks Galileo’
s Suns by Herbert
Woodward Martin
and
Epicurus’
Dominion by
Deborah Ellen
Stokes
[*First in
our Paul
Laurence
Dunbar Series,
dual poetry
chapbooks]
1999 No
Pets: Stories
by Jim Roy
Daniels
[Working Lives
Series]
1999 Advice
for the Climb:
Poems by
Imogene Bolls
[Midwest
Writers Series]
1999 Blind
Horse: Poems by
Jeanne Bryner
[Working Lives
Series; and
Appalachian
Series]
2000's
2000 Haiku
Poems (pocket
book) eds. Yvonne
Hardenbrook &
Larry Smith
2000 Kenneth Patchen:
Rebel Poet in America by
Larry Smith (hard and soft
cover) [Published through
A
Consortium of Small Press
Publishers]
2000
Moving to
Find Work:
Poems by
Naton Leslie
[Working Lives
Series]
2000 The
Neighborhood
Years: Poems by
David Kherdian
[Working Lives
Series]
2000 Our Working
Lives: Short Stories of
People and Work edited
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
and Larry
Smith
[Working Lives
Anthology Series]
2000
Rhapsody with
Dark Matter:
Poems by Jeff
Gundy
2001 Two
Midwest Voices:
Mirror Lake by
Jerry Roscoe and
The Weather in
Athens by Robert
DeMott
[Midwest Writers
Series; Won the
Ohioan Best Book
of Poetry Award]
2001 The
Ohio Trio:
Fictions by
Allen Frost
2001 The
Marcy
Stories by
Fran Zell
2001 Twist the
Axe: A
Horseplayer's
Story (Poems &
Journals) by Maj
Ragain (hard and
soft cover)
[Working Lives
Series]
2001 Neon:
Poems and
Stories by
Michael
Salinger
2002 Three
Miles from
Luckey:
Poems by
David Shevin
(hard and soft
cover)
[Working Lives
Series]
2002 Ripe:
Poems by Todd
Davis [Harmony
Series]
2002 Working Hard
for the Money:
America's Working
Poor in Stories, Poems,
and Photos, eds.
Mary E.
Weems and Larry Smith
[Working Lives
Anthology Series]
2003 Eclipse:
Stories by Jeanne
Bryner [Working
Lives Series and
Appalachian
Series]
2003 Throat:
Poems by
Mary Ann
Wehler
[Midwest
Writers Series]
Songs of the
Woodcutter: Zen
Poems of Wang
Wei and Taigu
Ryokan, translated
by Mei Hui Liu
Huang and Larry
Smith, with flute by
Monte Page (CD
and booklet)
[Laughing Buddha
Series]
2003 When:
Poems by Don
Moyer
[Harmony
Series]
2003 O Taste
and See: Food
Poems eds. Terry
Hermsen & David
Garrison (Harmony
Anthology Series)
2003 Alive in Hard
Country: Poems by Richard
Hague [Working Lives Series;
Won the Appalachian
Poetry Book of
the Year Award]
2003
Heartlands: Our
Natural World,
Charter Issue, edited
by The Firelands
Writing Center
2003 Songs
That Fathoms
Home: Poems by
Ray McNiece
[Working Lives
Series]
2004 Death by
Renaissance:
Poems by Paola
Corso with,
Photographs by
George Thomas
Mendel
[Working
Lives Series]
2004 Emergency
Stopping and
Other Stories by
Jeff Vande Zande
[Working Lives
Fiction Series]
2004 Bowl
of Water:
Poems by Allen
Frost [Harmony
Series]
2004 Hymns and
Songs of
Purandaradasa,
translated by Denish
Hassan [Harmony
Series]
2004 In Neck
Deep: Stories from
a Fisherman by Jay
Zimmerman
[Harmony Series]
2004 America
Zen: A Gathering
of Poets, edited by
Ray McNiece and
Larry Smith
[Harmony
Anthology Series
and
Laughing
Buddha Series]
2005 Escape to
the Promised
Land: Poems by
Herbert
Woodward
Martin [Paul
Laurence Dunbar
Series]
2005 Street: Poems
by Jim Daniels,
Photographs by
Charlee Brodsky (hard
and soft cover) [Working
Lives Series;
Won the Tillie Olsen
Creative Writing Award]
2005 Family
Matters: Poems of
Our Families
edited by Ann
Smith and Larry
Smith [Harmony
Anthology Series]
2006 The
Search for the
Reason Why:
New and
Selected
Poems by Tom
Kryss
[Harmony
Series]
2006 The Art of
Country Grain
Elevators Poems by
Jon Volkmer,
Photographs by
Bruce Selyem
[Working Lives
Series]
2006 d.a. levy and
the Cleveland
Mimeograph
Revolution: A Double
DVD
2006 120
Charles Street,
the Village:
Journals and
Writings, 1949-
1950 – Holly Beye
[*First
in our Bird
Dog
Publishing
Books]
Bird Dog
Publishing is
created
as an imprint
of Bottom
Dog Press
2006 Best of
Heartlands: A
Magazine of
Midwest Art and
Life edited by The
Firelands Writing
Center
2006 Evensong:
Contemporary American
Poets on Spirituality
edited by Gerry Lafemina
and Chad
Prevost
[Harmony Anthology
Series]
2006 Depression
Days on
Appalachian
Farm: Poems –
Robert Tener [Bird
Dog Publishing
book #2]
2006 Faces
and Voices:
Tales by Larry
Smith [Bird
Dog Publishing
book #3]
2006 Lake
Effect: Poems
by Laura
Bentley [Bird
Dog Publishing
book #4]
2007 The
Lecture on
Dust: Poems by
Brooke Horvath
[Harmony Series]
2007 d.a.levy and
the Mimeograph
Revolution edited by
Ingrid Swanberg and
Larry Smith (Iincludes
dvd “if i
scratch, if i write")
[Harmony Anthology
Series]
2007
Winter
Apples:
Poems by
Paul Piper
[Bird Dog
Publishing
book #5]
2007 Bar Stories
– Nan Byrne
[Working Lives
Anthology]
2007
Another Life
Poems by
Allen Frost
[Bird Dog
Publishing
book #6]
2007 Hunger
Artist: A Midwest
Childhood by
Joanne Jacobson
[Harmony Series]
2007 Second
Story Woman: A
Memoir of
Second Chances
by Carole
Calladine [Bird
Dog Publishing
book #7]
2007 Our Way
of Life: Poems
by Ray McNiece
[Working Lives
Series]
2007 A Life in
Poems by William
Wright, with and
introduction and
biography by Larry
Smith [Bird Dog
Publishing
book #8]
2008 257 Zones
of Gray: Poems by
Rob Smith[Bird
Dog Publishing
book #9]
2008 Cleveland
Poetry Scenes: A
Panorama and
Anthology, edited by
Nina Freedlander
Gibans, Mary
E.
Weems, and Larry
Smith [Harmony
Anthology Series]
2008
Unmistakable
Shade of Red and
the Obama
Chronicles by
Mary E. Weems
[Harmony Series]
2008 Ascent
from Cleveland
Wild Heart/
Steel Phoenix
by Russell
Salamon [A
Fredonia Press
Project]
2008 River’s
Daughter by
Terry Hermsen
[Harmony Series,
won Ohio Poetry
Award]
2008 Awake at the End—
edited by John Panza and
Mary E. Weems and
includes poet laureates from
Cleveland
Heights, Ohio: Loren Weiss,
Meredith Holmes, and Mary
E. Weems [publishing with
the Cleveland Heights
Arts Organization]
2008 Come Together:
Imagine Peace edited by
Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and
Larry Smith [Harmony
Anthology Series]
2009 Landscape
with Fragmented
Figures: A Novel by
Jeff Vande Zande
[Working Lives Fiction
Series]
2009 Home
Recordings by
Allen Frost [Bird
Dog Publishing
book # 10]
2009 Kanshi
Poems of Taigu
Ryokan, trans.
by Mei Hui Liu
Huang & Larry
Smith [Laughing
Buddha Series]
2009 Daily Bread: A
Portrait of Homeless Men and
Women by Jennifer Burd,
Photographs by Lad
Strayer [Working
Lives Series]
2009 Heart
Murmurs:
Poems by John
Vanek [Bird Dog
Publishing book
#11]
2009 Reply to an
Eviction
Notice:Poems by
Robert Flanagan
[Working Lives Series]
2009 The Long River
Home: A Novel by
Larry Smith (hard and
soft cover ) [Working
Lives Fiction Series
and
Appalachian Series]
2009
Beautiful
Rust: Poems by
Ken Meisel
[Working Lives
Series]
2009 Rushlight:
Poems by Chris
Green [Working
Lives Series&
Appalachian Series]
2010 Bottom
Dog Press
Anthology, 25th
Year edited by
Laura Smith, Allen
Frost, and Larry
Smith 2010
Riders on the
Storm: A Novel by
Susan Streeter
Carpenter
[Working Lives
Series]
2010 Strangers
in America: A
Novel by
[Working Lives
Series]
2010 Church of
the Backyard Fire
by Vladimir
Swyrinsky [Bird
Dog Publishing:
Working Lives
Series]
2010 On the Clock:
Contemporary Short
Stories of Work, eds. Jeff
Vande Zande and Josh
Maday
[Working Lives
Series]
2010 Degrees of
Elevation: Short Stories
of Contemporary
Appalachia, eds. Charles
Dodd White and
Page Seay
[Working Lives Series;
Appalachian Series]
2010 The
Mermaid
Translations: Fiction
by Allen Frost [Bird
Dog Publishing]
2011 The Big
Book of Daniel:
Collected Poems of
Daniel Thompson,
edited with
foreword by Maj
Ragain
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