Roving Eye Press

Roving Eye Press, initially founded in the late 1920's by Bob Brown and co-managed by his wife Rose, was part of a larger literary and artistic movement of small presses that served the modernist avant-garde. Those presses included Hogarth Press, Ovid Press, Shakespeare & Company, Black Sun Press, Hours Press, and Contact Press, among others.  Roving Eye boasted an impressive circle of readers that included Kay Boyle, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and Langston Hughes.  The press was mobile in both geography (moving with Brown from the spa town Bad-Ems, Germany, to Cagnes-sur-mer, France, and much later, in the 1950’s, to New York City) and scope (publishing art, poetry, political pamphlets and even cookbooks).

In 2014, a small group of some of Bob Brown’s (Robert Carlton Brown II) great grandchildren together with a group of scholars re-launched Roving Eye Press. The group has, in turn, commissioned editor-scholars, artist-designers, printers, and production supervisors to start republishing the most important books from Roving Eye Press.

Website:  http://www.rovingeyepress.com/

Taking advantage of new opportunities offered by digital technology and new insights from contemporary creative practice that take us from abstract theory back to literature itself, Beyond Criticism explores radical new forms that literary criticism might take in the 21st century.

The series is supported by an online community site for students, scholars and creative practitioners at http://thebee.buzz/, with responses and reactions to published books and shorter works of criticism posted on a monthly basis.

Websites:  http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/beyond-criticism/
                  http://thebee.buzz/  

Beyond Criticism is part of a wider collaboration between the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Institute of English Studies (IES) on the creative critical. Created in partnership with New Writing, it features spaces for original creative-critical writing, teaching resources related to creative-critical pedagogy, and a growing bibliography of creative-critical anthologies, publishers, journals and web resources.

In 2019, the website and the book series, moved to Boiler House Press. The series explores the radical new forms that literary criticism might take in the 21st century. Each book will be accompanied by an online ‘expansion’, featuring additional materials (responses, drafts, photographs, drawings, music, video and more) which will be published on the website.

Websites:  
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/beyond-criticism/ https://beyondcriticism.net/

Calypso Editions

Calypso Editions is a cooperative, artist-run, 501(c)(3) non-profit press dedicated to publishing quality literary books of poetry and fiction with a global perspective.  We believe that literature is essential to building an international community of readers and writers and that books can serve as a physical artifact of beauty and wonder in a world of digital saturation.

Calypso’s mission is to publish books that will endure in both content and form.  We are committed to unearthing literary gems from previous generations, translating foreign writers into English with integrity, and providing a space for talented, new voices. Click here for Calypso Editions' latest catalog.

Website:  http://calypsoeditions.org/