Ink & RibbonPress
Poetry · Crafted · Collected
A nonprofit literary publisher devoted to poets and their work — creating opportunities for discovery, recognition, and lasting connection between writer and reader.
The Lost Stations
A debut that moves through grief, ecology, and the fragile infrastructures that carry life forward.
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 draws on hybrid forms including centos, contrapuntals, and duplexes to hold private mourning and ecological loss in the same hands. It's the most formally ambitious debut we've published this year.
Books
Limited editions, carefully made & meant to last.
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.
Two distinct poetic voices, brought together in one curated collection — Sesquipedalian Rain Chant & My Name Is Swan.
Also Forthcoming
The Poetry Library
Guides, essays, and close readings for poets and readers — 97 pieces and growing every week.
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 in one place for seventy years still has to teach a small press about scale, patience, and refusal.
Read the Essay →
Books as Objects of Enduring Meaning
Hand-bound in collaboration with McCall Bindery — 3–5 archival volumes per title, gilt-stamped and given, not sold.
Our Fine Art Editions celebrate the enduring craft of bookbinding — collectible works that merge art, literature, and permanence. Each edition is bound by McCall Bindery in Poulsbo, Washington, and placed as gifts with the press's sustaining supporters rather than sold.
Winner Announced · 27 July 2026
The LemonLight Prize
Dawn McGuire wins the 2026 prize for her poem “Mule,” selected by Leila Chatti from 706 entries across eight countries. The anthology is sold out and mails in September.
Read the Winner Announcement“Every page we print is an act of devotion.”
Ink & Ribbon Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary publisher on Bainbridge Island, Washington. We advance poetry through craft, collaboration, and community — publishing unified works, not assembled collections.