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Roadside Press is a leading publisher dedicated to preserving and celebrating the legacy of the literary underground. With a diverse catalog spanning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, Roadside Press is committed to honoring the voices that shape our cultural landscape. Founded on 2/22/22 by Michele McDannold, Roadside Press has since published 65 titles and counting by some of the best the small press has to offer.

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Charles Rammelkamp reviews ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE: A ROADSIDE PRESS READER in the London Grip

It begins: “One of the bright spots of small press publishing during the decade of the 2020s has been Roadside Press and its consistently impressive offerings. While in the Introduction to Roadside Assistance the editors insist that the anthology is not meant as a “best of” or “greatest hits” collection, the prose and poetry pieces included in …

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Poetically Yours Extended Podcast – Richard Vargas on Northern Public Radio

This podcast is an extension of WNIJ’s Poetically Yours weekly segment. Richard Vargas is featured in this segment. Vargas’s Rockford-inspired poetry collection, “The Screw City Poems,” was released on July 11. In this episode, he talks about his writing style, his early years in Compton, California, and what led him to Rockford. TO LISTEN, VISIT: …

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On Having No Head: Johnny Cordova’s The Broken Buddha reviewed by Richard Collins

first published in Rat’s Ass Review https://ratsassreview.net/?page_id=4452 ON HAVING NO HEAD: JOHNNY CORDOVA’S THE BROKEN BUDDHA ( ROADSIDE PRESS, 2026 ). One of the best books on Buddhism I ever read is Douglas Harding’s On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious. I was reminded of this when reading Johnny Cordova’s forthcoming first book of poetry, …

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Collected Poems 2005-2025 by Michele McDannold reviewed by Dan Denton

Collected Poems 2005 – 2025 by Michele McDannold: a sort of review by Dan Denton About halfway through Michele McDannold’s Collected Poems, I stopped and went back to the beginning. I’d noticed such a wide range of topics and issues confronted by her poetry that I wanted to start over and write them all down. …

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