Bottom Dog Press Books  [1984-2022]

                 A History of a Small Press’ Publishing in the Midwest
                                  36 years of publishing and 215 books.
                          We are a nonprofit, independent, literary publisher.
           Many people make this work happen for others: editors, artists, layout designers, and about 1,000 writers. We have received Ohio Arts Council support for many of these early projects. Here are our books & DVD:

1980’s

1984    Across These States: Journal Poems by Larry Smith [* First in our Ohio Writers Series]
*****
1985    Thirty-Six Spokes: The Bicycle Poems by Terry Hermsen [Ohio Writers Series]
1985    Better Things to Do by Milton Jordan & Lights and Shadows by Marci    Janas [Ohio Writers Series, dual  chapbook]
******
1986   Ohio Woman by Philip F. O’Connor (Ohio Writers Series, Fiction)
1986   Mike's Place, Every Monday by Michael E. Waldecki  & Raw Sienna by    Ronald E. Kittell [Wild Dog Series, dual book]
1986   Family Stories: The Grennans by Jim Gorman & Peter Desey’s The        Benoits  [Ohio Writers Series, Fiction dual book]
*****
1987   A Pencil to Write Your Name: Poems from the Nicaraguan Poetry            Workshops, translations by Diane Kendig & Photography and                  Introduction by Steve Cagan
1987   Bodies of Water by George Myers Jr. [Ohio Writers Series]
1987   Best Ohio Fiction, edited by Laura Smith and Larry Smith. Included      Philip F. O’Connor, Robert Flanagan, Robert Fox, Jack Matthews and             younger writers Brian Feil, Anne Flanagan, Amy Schildhouse, and John O’Connor [Ohio Writers Series; first perfect bound book]
*****
1988   Three by Three: Bloom Blood by Joe Napora, After Uelsmann by              Michael Cole, The Edge of Heaven by Roy Bentley  [* First in our Midwest Writers Series]
1988   The Discovery of Fire by David Shevin [Ohio Writers Series; won          Ohioana Best Book of Poetry Award]
1988   From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest, ed. Larry      Smith
1988   Ohio Zen Poems: All the Difference by d. steven conkle  & Inside the      Garden by Larry Smith [Ohio Writers Series dual book]
*****
1989    Ohio Women: Earthbound by Imogene Bolls, No Winter but this Cold    Rain by Gloria Regalbuto, Breastbone by Merry Speece, Barflies Stories by Karen St. John-Vincent [Ohio Writers Series]
1989  Mad National Geogery by David Canalos (posthumous) done with  Bloody Twin Press
*****
1990’s   

1990    Loving Power: Stories by Robert Flanagan [Midwest Writers Series]
1991    A Red Shadow of Steel Mills: Photos and Poems including chapbooks:  In Medias Res by Timothy Russell, Shaped Like a Heart by David  J.          Adams, The Weight of Smoke by Kip Knott, and Mill and Smoke Marrow    by Richard Hague [Midwest WritersSeries]
1991    Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen       edited by Larry Smith and Laura Smith (hard andsoft cover) with an              introduction by Larry Smith (Re-issued 2011)

1991    The Heartlands Today Vol. 1 Issue 1 edited by The Firelands Writing    Center
*****
1992    Inquiries: Poems by Jeff Gundy [Midwest Writers Series]
1992    Any One Man: Poems by Roy Bentley (hard and soft cover) [Ohio        Writers Series]
1992    The Heartlands Today: A Cultural Quilt edited by The Firelands Writing Center
*****
1993    Where We Came In: Poems by David Adams
1993    Human Anatomy: Three Fictions by Philip F. O’Connor, Annabel Thomas, and Jack Matthews
1993    Steam Dummy and Fragments from the Fire: Poems by Chris Llewellyn (soft cover and audio cassette)   [*First in our Working Lives Series]
1993   Needles and Needs: Poems by David Shevin (hard and soft cover)
*****
1994   In Buckeye Country: Photos and Essays of Ohio Life, eds. John Moore & Larry Smith [Ohio Writers Series]
1994    Beginning with And: New and Selected Poems by Albert T. Turner (Midwest Writers Series)
1994    Sidewinders and Accolades: Poems by Michael Waldecki
1994    Men and Women - Women and Men: A Poetry Chapbook Collection includes chapbooks: Child Aloft in Ohio Theatre by Terry
Hermsen, The House of a Woman by Joanne Lowery, In a Neighborhood of Dying Light by Brooke Horvath, Mothers, Daughters, & Dreams by Connie Willet Everett, News of Loss by Robert DeMott, Modern Love by Anne Townsend [Midwest Writes Series]
*****
1995    The Mama Stories by Lolette Kuby
1995    Murder in the Family: Poems by Richard Messer
1995    Tales along the Appalachian Plateau by Danny Fulks [*First in our Appalachian Writing Series]
1995    Beyond Rust: Stories by Larry Smith [Working Lives Series]
*****
1996    Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology: Poems-Photos-Statements, eds. Larry Smith, June King
1996    Getting By: Stories of Working Lives eds. David Shevin & Larry Smith [Working Lives Series]
*****
1997    Human Landscapes: 3 Books of Poems by Daniel Smith, Edwina Pendarvis, Philip St. Clair [Working Lives Series chapbooks]
1997    Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life by Richard Hague [Working Lives Series, nominated for National Book Award]
1997    Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Poems  by Maj Ragain
1997    Nature (pocket book) ed. Laura Smith
1997    Even the Broken Letters of the Heart Spell Earth by Daniel Thompson (book & CD of Thompson reading to jazz)
*****
1998    Food Poems (pocket book) eds. Terry Hermsen and David Garrison
1998    Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountain, translated by Mei       Hui Liu Huang & Larry Smith [* First in our Laughing Buddha Series]
1998   Brooding the Heartlands: Poets of the Midwest, ed. M.L.Liebler includes chapbooks by Jim Daniels, W. D. Ehrhart, Sean Thomas  Daugherty,  Aurora Harris, Faye Kicknosway, M. L. Liebler, Ed Sanders, Larry Smith, Tyrone Williams [Midwest Writers Series]
1998   The Road That Carried Me Here: Poems by Ray McNiece
1998   Writing Work: Writers on Working-Class Writing edited by David Shevin, Larry Smith, and Janet Zandy  [Working Lives Series Anthology]
1998   Dunbar: Suns and Dominions; includes chapbooks Galileo’s Suns by    Herbert Woodward Martin and Epicurus’ Dominion by Deborah  Ellen        Stokes [*First in our Paul Laurence Dunbar Series, dual chapbooks]
*****
1999    No Pets: Stories by Jim Roy Daniels [Working Lives Series]
1999    Advice for the Climb: Poems by Imogene Bolls [Midwest Writers Series and Appalachian Series]
******
2000's
2000    Haiku Poems (pocket book) eds. Yvonne Hardenbrook & Larry Smith
2000    Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith (hard and soft cover) [Published through A Consortium of Small Press Publishers;       revised in 2012]
2000    Moving to Find Work: Poems by Naton Leslie [Working Lives Series]
2000    The Neighborhood Years: Poems by David Kherdian [Working Lives Series]
2000    Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work edited by Bonnie Jo Campbell and Larry Smith  [Working Lives Anthology Series]
2000    Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems by Jeff Gundy
*****
2001    Two Midwest Voices: Mirror Lake by Jerry Roscoe  and The Weather in Athens by Robert DeMott [Midwest Writers Series; won the Ohioan Best Book of Poetry Award]
2001    The Ohio Trio: Fictions by Allen Frost
2001    The Marcy Stories: Fiction by Fran Zell
2001    Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story (Poems & Journals) by Maj Ragain (hard  and   soft cover) [Working Lives Series]
2001    Neon: Poems and Stories by Michael Salinger
*****
2002        Three Miles from Luckey: Poems by David Shevin (hard and soft cover) [Working Lives Series]
2002        Ripe: Poems by Todd Davis [Harmony Series]
2002        Working Hard for the Money: America's Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and   Photos, eds. Mary E. Weems and Larry Smith [Working Lives Anthology Series]
*****
2003        Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner [Working Lives Series and Appalachian Series]
2003        Throat: Poems by Mary Ann Wehler [Midwest Writers Series]
2003        Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan, trans. Mei Hui Liu Huang & Larry Smith, with flute by Monte Page (CD and booklet) [Laughing Buddha Series]
2003        When: Poems by Don Moyer [Harmony Series]
2003        O Taste and See: Food Poems eds. Terry Hermsen & David Garrison (Harmony Anthology Series)
2003        Alive in Hard Country: Poems by Richard Hague [Working Lives Series;  Won the Appalachian  Poetry Book of the Year Award]
2003        Heartlands: Our Natural World, Charter Issue, edited by The Firelands Writing Center
2003        Songs That Fathoms Home: Poems by Ray McNiece  [Working Lives Series]
*****
2004        Death by Renaissance: Poems by Paola Corso with, Photographs by George Thomas Mendel  [Working  Lives Series]   
2004        Emergency Stopping and Other Stories by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Fiction Series]
2004        Bowl of Water: Poems by Allen Frost [Harmony Series]
2004        Hymns and Songs of Purandaradasa, translated by Denish Hassan [Harmony Series]
2004        In Neck Deep: Stories from a Fisherman by Jay Zimmerman [Harmony Series]
2004        America Zen: A Gathering of Poets, edited by Ray McNiece and Larry Smith [Harmony Anthology Series and Laughing Buddha Series]
*****
2005        Escape to the Promised Land: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin [Paul Laurence Dunbar Series]
2005        Street: Poems by Jim Daniels, Photographs by Charlee Brodsky (hard and soft cover) [Working Lives Series; Won the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award]
2005        Family Matters: Poems of Our Families edited by Ann Smith and Larry Smith [Harmony Anthology Series]
*****
2006        The Search for the Reason Why: New and Selected Poems by Tom Kryss [Harmony Series]
2006        The Art of Country Grain Elevators Poems by Jon Volkmer, Photographs by Bruce Selyem [Working Lives Series]
2006        d.a. levy and the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution: A Double DVD
2006        120 Charles Street, the Village: Journals and Writings, 1949-1950 by Holly Beye [*First in our Bird Dog Publishing Books/ Memoir Series]

*Bird Dog Publishing is created as an imprint of Bottom Dog Press
2006        Best of Heartlands: A Magazine of Midwest Art and Life edited by The Firelands Writing Center
2006        Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality edited by Gerry Lafemina and Chad Prevost  [Harmony Anthology Series]
2006        Depression Days on Appalachian Farm: Poems by Robert Tener [Bird Dog Publishing book #2]
2006        Faces and Voices: Tales by Larry Smith [Bird Dog Publishing book #3]
2006        Lake Effect: Poems by Laura Bentley [Bird Dog Publishing book #4]
*****
2007        The Lecture on Dust: Poems by Brooke Horvath [Harmony Series]
2007        d.a.levy and the Mimeograph Revolution edited by Ingrid Swanberg and Larry Smith (Includes dvd “if i scratch, if i write") [Harmony Anthology Series]
2007        Winter Apples: Poems by Paul Piper [Bird Dog Publishing book #5]
2007        Bar Stories, ed Nan Byrne [Working Lives Anthology]
2007        Another Life: Poems by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing book #6]
2007        Hunger Artist: A Midwest Childhood by Joanne Jacobson [Harmony Series/ Memoir Series]
2007        Second Story Woman: A Memoir of Second Chances by Carole Calladine [Bird Dog Publishing/ Memoir Series]
2007        Our Way of Life: Poems by Ray McNiece [Working Lives Series]
2007        A Life in Poems by William Wright, with and introduction and biography by Larry Smith [Bird Dog Publishing book #8]
*****
2008        257 Zones of Gray: Poems by Rob Smith[Bird Dog Publishing book]
2008        Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology, eds by Nina Freedlander Gibans, Mary E. Weems, and Larry Smith [Harmony Anthology Series]
2008        Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles by Mary E. Weems [Harmony Series]
2008        Ascent from Cleveland Wild Heart/ Steel Phoenix by Russell Salamon [A Fredonia Press Project]
2008        River's Daughter: Poems by Terry Hermsen [Harmony Series, won Ohio Poetry Award]
2008        Awake at the End—edited by John Panza and Mary E. Weems and includes poet laureates from Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Loren Weiss, Meredith Holmes, and Mary E. Weems [publishing with the Cleveland Heights Arts Organization]
2008        Come Together: Imagine Peace edited by Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and Larry Smith [Harmony Anthology Series]
*****
2009        Landscape with Fragmented Figures: A Novel by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Fiction Series]
2009        Home Recordings by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing book # 10]
2009        Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan, trans. by Mei Hui Liu Huang & Larry Smith [Laughing Buddha Series]
2009        Daily Bread:  A Portrait of Homeless Men and Women by Jennifer Burd, Photographs by Lad Strayer [Working Lives Series]
2009        Heart Murmurs: Poems by John Vanek [Bird Dog Publishing book]
2009        Reply to an Eviction Notice: New and Selected Poems by Robert Flanagan [Working Lives Series]
2009        The Long River Home: A Novel by Larry Smith (hard and soft cover ) [Working Lives Fiction Series and Appalachian Series]
2009        Beautiful Rust: Poems by Ken Meisel [Working Lives Series]
2009        Rushlight: Poems by Chris Green [Appalachian Writing Series]
*****
2010's   

2010        Bottom Dog Press Anthology, 25th Year edited by Laura Smith, Allen Frost, and Larry Smith
2010        Riders on the Storm: A Novel by Susan Streeter Carpenter [Working Lives Series]
2010        Strangers in America: A Novel by [Working Lives Series]
2010        Church of the Backyard Fire by Vladimir Swyrinsky [Bird Dog Publishing: Working Lives Series]
2010        On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work, eds. Jeff Vande Zande and Josh Maday  [Working Lives Series]
2010        Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia, eds. Charles Dodd White and Page Seay [Working Lives Series; Appalachian Series]
2010        The Mermaid Translations: Fiction by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing]
*****
2011        The Big Book of Daniel: Collected Poems of Daniel Thompson, edited with foreword by Maj Ragain
2011        DVD James Wright's Ohio (28 mins)/  Kenneth Patchen: An Art of Engagement (40 mins)
2011        Dogs & Other Poems by Paul Piper [Bird Dog Publishing]
2011        Poetic Journey by Robert Reynolds [Bird Dog Publishing]
*****
2012        Learning How: Stories by Richard Hague {Appalachian Writing Series]
2012        Sinners of Sanction County: Stories by Charles Dodd White [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012        The Way-Back Room by Mary Minock [Memoir Series]
2012        The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012        The Pattern Maker's Daughter: Poems by Sandra Gertz Umbach [Working Lives Series]
2012        American Poet: A Novel by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Series];  *Winner Notable Michigan Book Award]
2012        Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen, ed. Allen Frost
2012        Broken Collar: A Novel by Ron Mitchell [Working Lives Series]
2012        Maggot: A Novel by Robert Flanagan [Revised edition, Working Lives Series]
2012        Homegoing: A Novel by Michael Olin-Hitt [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012        Smoke: Poems by Jeanne Bryner [Working Lives Series; Winner American Journal of Nursing Award]
2012        Each Moment: Poems by Larry Smith [Laughing Buddha Series]
2012        Breathing West: Poems by Liane Ellison Norman [Harmony Series]
2012        She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of the Frontier Nursing Service by Karen Kotrba [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012        Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith [revised and expanded edition]
*****
2013        The Curve of the World: A Journey into the Spiritual of Yoga by Andy Douglas [Memoir Series]
2013        Ariadne & Other Poems by Ingrid Swanberg (Harmony Series)
2013        The Wonderful Stupid Man by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing, fiction]
2013        Painting Bridges: A Novel by Patricia Averbach [Harmony Series]
2013        Sky Under the Roof: Poems by Hilda Downer [Appalachian Writing Series]
2013        Words Walk: Poems by Ronald M. Ruble [Bird Dog Publishing]
2013        Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems by Shari Wagner (Harmony Series)
2013        The Canary: A Novel by Michael Loyd Gray (Harmony Series)
2013        On the Flyleaf: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin (Harmony & Dunbar Series)
2013        Stolen Child: A Novel by Suzanne Kelly (Harmony Series)
*****
2014        Story Hour and Other Stories by Robert Flanagan (Working Lives Series)
2014        An Act of Courage: Selected Poems of Mort Krahling, eds. Brooke Horvath and Judy Platz (Harmony Series)
2014        Waiting at the Dead End Diner: Poems by Rebecca Scumejda (Working Lives Series)
2014        Echo: Poems by Christina Lovin (Harmony Series)
2014        Lake Winds: Poems by Larry Smith (Harmony Series)
2014        Gifted and Talented: A Novel by Julia Watts (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014        And You Bird Can Sing: Fiction by Robert Miltner (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014        Daughters of the Grasslands: A Memoir by Mary Woster Haug (Memoir Series)
2014        Jack's Memoirs: A Novel by Kurt Landefeld (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014        Wanted: Good Family, A Novel by Joseph G. Anthony (Appalachian Writing Series)
*****
2015        Salvatore and Maria: Finding Paradise by Paul L. Gentile (Harmony Memoir Series)
2015        Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places by Timothy Kenny (Harmony Memoir Series)
2015        Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia, eds. Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith
            (Appalachian Fiction Series)
2015        Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields: Found Poems by Mike and Ruth Yarrow, photographs by Douglas Yarrow.
            (Appalachian Writing Series; winner of Tillie Olson Creative Writing Award)
2015        Drone String: Poems by Sherry Cook Stanforth (Appalachian Writing Series)
2015        Abandoned Homeland: Poems by Jeff Gundy (Ohio Poet of the Year 2015; Harmony Series)
2015        Brown Bottle: A Novel by Sheldon Compton (Appalachian Writing Series)
*****
2016        Both Shoes Off: Poems  by Jeanne Bryner (Harmony Series)
2016        And Waking…Poems by Kevin Casey (Harmony Series)
2016        Waiting to Begin: Memoir by Pat O'Donnell (Harmony Memoir Series)
2016        Flesh and Stones: Field Notes from a Finite World by Jan Shoemaker (Harmony Memoir Series)
*****
2017        Cold Air Return: A Novel by Patrick Lawrence O'Keeffe (Harmony Series)
2017        The Thick of Thin: Memoirs of a Working-Class Writer by Larry Smith (Harmony Memoir Series)
2017        Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and Writing by Lori Jakiela (Harmony Memoir Series)
2017        Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South eds. Julia Watts and Larry Smith (Appalachia Series)
2017        A House for Last Year's Summer: Poems by Terry Hermsen (Harmony Poetry Series)
2017        Crows in the Jukebox: Poems by Mike James (Pocket Poetry Series 1)
2017        Pieces: A Composite Novel by Mary Ann McGuigan (Harmony Fiction Series)
2017        Records of Kosho the Toad: Poems by Robert Tremmel (Laughing Buddha Series)
*****
2018        Earnest Occupations: Teaching, Writing, Gardening, & Other Local Work by Richard Hague (Harmony Series)
2018        Thoreau's Lost Journal: Poems by Larry Smith (Enlarged 2nd Edition)
2018        Taking a Walk with My Animal Hat: Poems by Charlene Fix (Harmony Series)
2018        A Wounded Snake: A Novel by Joseph G. Anthony (Appalachian Fiction Series)
2018        What Burden Do Those Trains Bear Away: A Memoir in Poems by Kathleen S. Burgess (Harmony Series)
2018        Tu Fu Comes to America: A Story in Poems by Larry Smith (Laughing Buddha Series; Enlarged 2nd. Edition)
2018        Old Brown: Poems by Craig Paulenich (Appalachian Writing Series)
*****
2019        The Pears: Poems by Larry Smith (Harmony Series)
2019        Fissures, And Other Stories by Timothy Dodd (Appalachian Writing Series)
2019        Mama's Song: A Novel by P. Shaun Neal (Appalachian Writing Series)
2019        I Reckon: Haiku and Haiban by Francis Wesley Alexander (Paul Laurence Dunbar Series)
*****
2020's

2020        40 Patchtown: A Novel by Damian Dressick (Appalachian Writing Series)
2020        Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems by James Owens (Harmony Series)
2020        Quilt Life: Poems by Cindy Bosley (Harmony Series)
2020        The Yeoman's Work: Poems by Garrett Stark
2020        How to See the World: Poems by Paula J. Lambert (Harmony Series)
2020        Mingo Town & Memories by Larry R. Smith (Bird Dog Publications)
*****
2021        The Long Way Home: Stories by Ron Lands (Appalachian Writing Series)

2021        Running for Home: A Novel by Ed McClelland (Working Lives Series)

2021         Labor Days/ Labor Nights: More Stories by Larry D. Thacker

2021         The Country Doctor’s Wife: Memoir by Cornelia Cattell Thompson

2021          Inside the Flow: Poems by Nancy Dunham (Bird Dog Publishing)

2021         Lost and Found in Alaska: Memoir by Joel D. Rudinger  (Bird Dog Publishing)

2021          Road Kill: Mystery Novel by R. J. Norgard (Bird Dog Publishing)

*****

2022         Cycling Through Columbine: Memoir by JRW Case
2022         Pottery Town Blues: Short Stories by Karen Kotrba (Appalachian Writing)

2022         Choices: Three Novellas by Annabel Thomas (Appalachian Writing Series)

2022       Travis, Texas: Novel by Gary Harmon

2022       Connections: Morning Dew: Tanka by Larry Smith and  core &                         all: haiku by Barbara Sabol

2022       Baltic Amber in Chest: Poems by Clarissa Jakobsons

2023       In Plena Vita - The Full Life: The Collected Poems of Timothy                           Russell

2023       Hope As a Construction: New and Selected Poems of David J.                          Adams

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