A letter from Ink & Ribbon Press
Poetry, sent to your door and your inbox.
The Ink Well is the reading list behind Ink & Ribbon Press — new poems, the craft thinking behind our hand-bound editions, and first word on every book before anyone else hears about it. Free, and it stays that way.
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New poems and the essays behind them
Original work from poets we publish, alongside short essays on craft — how a line earned its place, why a book took the shape it did.
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Every Ink & Ribbon edition is limited to 250 hand-bound copies. Subscribers get word — and the chance to pre-order — before a title is announced anywhere else.
Subscriber pricing
A standing discount on limited editions and press titles, as our way of saying thank you for reading along before the book existed.
How the books get made
Notes from inside the process — printing, hand-binding, editing decisions — for anyone curious what it actually takes to make 250 copies of something well.
Ink & Ribbon Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit poetry publisher on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The Ink Well is how we share the work — no cost, no catch.