Jon Leon - Uncollected Poems 2012-2021

We are beyond thrilled to announce our first full-length poetry title, Jon Leon’s Uncollected Poems 2012-2021, now available for pre-order in both limited (26 copies with exclusive broadside) and standard editions.

Leon’s first proper book in over a decade, Uncollected Poems brings this criminally under-circulated poet back into the mix, gathering work previously only issued in scarce rogue editions. Look for them, it’s a dead end. This is the only record of the most compelling vapor trail in contemporary poetry.

The work of a singular, fugitive mind, Leon’s poetry betrays a poetic vision few have dared to indulge.


Sacred and profane, anguished and arch, and above all else achingly chic—Jon Leon’s poetry helped to make me serious about glamour as a subject. A Frederick Seidel for the so-called indie sleaze revival.

—Philippa Snow, author of Trophy Lives

These beautiful pieces emerged from a decade wracked by the explosion of social media, the spread of right-wing populism, and a tech culture set on burying the old ways—novels, albums, movies, subcultures—a whirlwind which these poems both mourn and celebrate, in an affecting synthesis of the sacred and the profane.

—Seth Price, author of F*ck Seth Price

As an independent writer and critic Jon Leon has generated a significant body of creative and critical texts, paratexts, and poetics that form an undifferentiated genre mix within the media imagination. His literary work has appeared globally in Night Papers, Spike Art Magazine, Oyster, The Brooklyn Rail, Novembre, Art in America, Soft Targets and other magazines and journals. His books have been featured in The Quietus, Punk Planet, Vice, Frieze, Bomb, and Bidoun among others. He is the author of Uncollected Poems: 2012-2021 (blush, 2025), Nathalie (If a Leaf Falls, 2020), Sheets of Mist (Karma, 2015), The Arrivistes (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2015), The Malady of the Century (Futurepoem, 2012), Elizabeth Zoë Lindsay Drink Fanta (Content, 2011), The Hot Tub (Mal-O-Mar, 2009), Hit Wave (Kitchen Press, 2008) and Alexandra (Cosa Nostra Editions, 2008) as well as a number of privately issued titles and special editions. Public talks include presentations at Art Center College of Design, Midway Contemporary Art, The Poetry Foundation, The CUNY Graduate Center and other distinguished venues. A solo exhibition, The Coral, ran through the summer of 2013 at The Finley Gallery, Los Angeles. Leon's works are represented in numerous public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Yale University Beinecke Library, New Haven; The British Library, London; The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives; The Art Institute of Chicago; Qatar National Library; and The Smithsonian Institution among others. Leon is the recipient of a Philip Whalen Memorial Grant. His writing is available in German, Spanish, and Italian translations.

You can order the book here.


With much admiration and thanks,
b l u s h

 

Open Reading Period Selections

Thank you to all who submitted to our full-length manuscript open reading period. We received a dazzling amount of truly excellent manuscripts. We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to read and consider the work of so many wonderful poets. We are thrilled to announce that we have chosen the following manuscripts for publication:

We would also like to acknowledge the following finalists whose work received additional consideration:

We appreciate your readership. Online Workshops are open and enrolling for March.

With much admiration and thanks,
b l u s h

 
 

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