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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 40 titles and counting by some of the best the small press has to offer.

Our books, pictured below, are available through magicaljeep.com, Amazon, Ingram and most online book retailers. You can also request it at your favorite bookstore or library.

 

THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE by Nicholas Claro reviewed by Alan Catlin

first published in Misfit Magazine, Editor Alan Catlin Nicholas Claro, This Is Where You Are, Roadside Press, www.roadsidefam.com distributed by www.magicaljeep.com, 2025, 155 pages, $18 Claro’s first book comes burdened with a blurb , “reminiscent of Raymond Carver’s classic story collections” and “In the tradition of Carver and Dubus.”  I say burdened as those two guys are the masters of …

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THE SCREW CITY POEMS by Richard Vargas reviewed by Alan Catlin

Richard Vargas, The Screw City Poems, 2025, 136 pages, $18 If you were expecting heavily charged erotica here due to the title, Screw City you will likely be disappointed. Not that there isn’t sex, there is some, married, break up sex, hook up sex but “Screw City” refers to  a small midwestern city (Rockford, IL) that was once known …

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LITTLE GRAVEYARDS by Aleathia Drehmer reviewed by Alan Catlin

first published in misfit magazine, Editor Alan Catlin Aleathia Drehmer, Little Graveyards, 2025, 66 pages, $15 Little Graveyards is a small, easily transportable book that will easily fit into your purse or back pocket. I highly recommend taking the poems with you, reading a couple at a time, and saving the rest for later. Aleathia works in health care, …

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Michele McDannold’s Collected Poems: 2005–2025 — Twenty Years in ink

Roadside Press is proud to announce Collected Poems: 2005–2025 by Michele McDannold, releasing December 6, 2025—on the poet’s 51st birthday. This 300-page collection gathers two decades of McDannold’s poetry, including complete sections from Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days and By Plane, Train or Coincidence, along with nearly seventy-five pages of previously uncollected …

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