Temporary Press

Our mission at Temporary Press is to seek out and publish poetry, fiction and non-fiction informed by the traditions/history of art and literature, while also challenging and driving the genres forward through a fresh and innovative lens. Basically, we’re intrigued by and happy to read ANY type or genre of literature.

Another Book

Another Book: A Collection of Fiction and Poetry from the Faculty and Students of UMASS-Boston

What motivated Temporary Press to publish this particular volume was to get to know a little better the community in which it grows. It’s a pretty cool community. If you’re reading this, you might know some of them. Every author in this anthology has made room in their life for writing. They put their time to it when there were other places to put their time. I like that they’ve done that; I like knowing people who’ve made the choice to write; it makes it easier for us to make that choice.

If this book is celebrating that choice, then maybe it’s a little bit like a party. We like parties, both with people we know and don’t know. These are people we think you as our reader would like to know. And if this book is a party the likes of which we attend, I’m sorry to say you’ll rarely get to know any particular individual too deeply on initial contact—there’s just too much else happening simultaneously. But as you circulate, you’ll get the larger feel of the room in a way that focusing on one person just doesn’t allow for. And the room grows. You discover new friends/artists. And my, what a room! It’s a room we’re proud to invite you into.

Available May 2009

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About the Editors

Jeffrey Taylor, originally from the Salt Lake City area, now lives and works in Boston. He is in the MFA poetry program at the University of Massachusetts, where he teaches creative writing. In 2007-2008 he worked as poetry editor for The Watermark, Prick of the Spindle, and A Small Good Thing. His work has appeared in Enormous Rooms, Centrifugal Eye, and Subtle Tea. His chapbook of poems, don’t put it in your mouth, was published by Elik Press in 2008. Forthcoming work will appear in the Breakwater Review. To purchase a limited copy of don't put it in your mouth, click on the paypal link to the right.






Alex Gang is enrolled in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts—Boston. His Collected Works are scattered in the basement.