Cacti Fur Collective Book Launch and Reading Saturday, April 4 : 3:30—5:00 PM ~ Craft Room Thomas Branigan Memorial Library ~ 200 E. Picacho Ave., Las Cruces, NM, 88001 Celebrating National Poetry Month with a new series from The Cacti Fur Collective from downstate New Mexico. 4 chapbooks : 4 captivating poets : Bound for your […]

word up poetry fans, Cacti Fur and its parent organization Grandma Moses Press will be making a guest appearance with a few of our authors in corroboration with Slippery Elm Press at the AWP book fair in Baltimore. Look for us at table 839 on Friday, March 6 from 11 AM to noon. If you’re in Baltimore […]

CACTI FUR COLLECTIVE Volume 1 ~~~~~ AVAILABLE NOW from Grandma Moses Press! We are SO excited about the release of this fabulous new split, the first of its kind for our press. 4 great Southern New Mexico poets are included in one book: HEATHER FRANKLAND, SUSAN MELINDA MORÉE, BEATE SIGRIDDAUGHTER, and ELISE STUART. Get your […]

Grandma Moses Press is excited to announce our newest perfect-bound publication: ACROSS A FIELD OF STARS by ELISE STUART. Here’s a Book Review of Across A Field of Stars by Elise Stuart “It was always this way, when you walked the paths slowly, gathered by the muddy rivers to wash, looked into each others’ eyes, […]

Thanks to Susan Morée at The Las Cruces Bulletin for taking the time to write an article highlighting the work Grandma Moses Press has done since 1992. One of the oldest micro presses in the USA, we continue to make waves. Read full article here.

We are pleased to present our next Poet to Notice: Ivan Ndoma-EgbaWe hope you enjoy these 5 poems as much as we did. When the tap runs brown you learn to boil silenceyou learn to stretch fireyou learn that brown waterstill holds reflectionand even your shadowneeds to drinkyour mother names each bucketlike saintsthis one for washingthis one […]

SO MUCH MORE: Abstracts, Unfinished Sequences, and Political Poems(Small Harbor, 2024)by Darren C. Demaree Flailing Load Stones Catching LightA Book Review by Tim Staley In the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1969 collection City Without Walls, Auden lays out the “dire poetics” which would topically drive American poetry for the next 55 years: environmental concerns, […]

We are pleased to present our next Poet To Notice: Connie Johnson Connie Johnson is based in Los Angeles, California. We are so thrilled to share her jazz poetry. As a poetry fan it’s fun to read Johnson’s poems; as a jazz fan it’s transcendent, reaffirming and informative to read her poems. For example, in […]

THE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE ~ By Joseph Somoza ~ $15.00 This perfect bound, full-length collection contains 71 poems. Dimensions: 6 inches by 9 inches