About Us

Limberlost Press is dedicated to publishing finely printed books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction by both established and emerging writers. We feel that fine work deserves to be presented and preserved on fine papers.Our poetry chapbooks are letterpress printed on archival-quality papers and sewn by hand into limited editions for collectors and other discerning readers. We want our readers to collect these books as heirlooms to pass along to the next generation.

Occasionally, however, we publish books of longer length (stories, memoirs, and novels) via offset methods, and in 1999, we issued our first CD.

Limberlost Press began in the spring of 1976 with the publication of The Limberlost Review, No. 1, a magazine of poetry. The first issues of the magazine were quick-printed, collated, folded, and stapled and distributed like many other small press magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1986, we winched a couple of Chandler & Price platen presses into our garage and began to set and print the books on our own.

Over the years, the press has published books and broadsides by such writers as Allen Ginsberg, Sherman Alexie, Anne Waldman, Ed Dorn, Gary Snyder, John Haines, Gary Gildner, Robert Creeley, Keith Wilson, Hayden Carruth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and others. We’ve made a commitment to writers from the Intermountain West by publishing works by William Studebaker, Sandy Anderson, Margaret Aho, Ray Obermayr, Chris Dempsey, Nancy Stringfellow, John Rember, Gerald Grimmett, David Beisley-Guiotto, Greg Keeler, Joy Passanante, Alex Kuo, Gino Sky, and others.

Media Coverage

• Idaho Public Television’s Idaho Experience: “Limberlost Press Profile”

• Boise State Public Radio: “The Limberlost Review Returns With Voices Of The Mountain West”

• The Boise Weekly: “Reviving the Limberlost Review”

• Atticus Review: “This was back in the typewriter days”: An Interview with Rick Ardinger