Ink & RibbonPress
A nonprofit poetry press · Bainbridge Island
Publishing poetry the way it deserves: in books made with care, in editions small enough to matter. Each year the $3,000 LemonLight Prize carries a new voice into print.
Open reading is open. We are choosing three or four more poets for the 2027 list. Read the guidelines →
The Lost Stations
Grief and ecological loss, written along a railway that no longer runs.
Cara Waterfall's The Lost Stations takes its title from the decommissioned rail stops along Toronto's Beltline Trail, places where the speaker once walked with her father, now overgrown or nearly erased. Structured in three movements, Traces, Vessel, and Tracks, the collection uses centos, contrapuntals, and duplexes to hold private mourning and ecological loss in the same hands. Publishing in November, in a hand-numbered edition of 250.
Books
Small-run poetry editions, made to be kept.
A meditative collection rooted in Oregon’s wet seasons and shaped by spiritual and poetic tradition.
A modern poetic epic in three movements (river, city, underworld), drawn from film, theatre, radio, and recording.
My Name Is Swan and The Lost Stations, together. Save $2.95 on the pair.
Also Forthcoming
The Poetry Library
Guides, essays, and close readings for poets and readers. More than 100 pieces.
Wendell Berry and the Discipline of Staying Put
Wendell Berry died on August 31 at 92, on the farm his family had worked for seven generations. What a poet who stayed on one farm for seventy years can teach a small press.
Read the Essay →
Three to five copies of each book, bound by hand
Archival volumes, gilt-stamped, made with McCall Bindery in Poulsbo.
Fine Art Editions are not for sale. Each volume is bound by McCall Bindery in Poulsbo, Washington, and given to a sustaining supporter of the press. Become one →
Winner Announced · 27 July 2026
The LemonLight Prize
Dawn McGuire won the 2026 prize for her poem “Mule,” chosen by Leila Chatti from 706 entries across eight countries. The anthology has sold out.
Read the Winner Announcement“To publish a poem beautifully is to honor it.”
Ink & Ribbon Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Every dollar we earn goes back into poets and the making of books.