MadHat Press

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MadHat Press is an American and international book-publishing company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MadHat was founded in 2010 by poets Carol Novack and Marc Vincenz as a platform for new American and international writing. At first, MadHat published a poetry magazine, MadHatters' Review that has later grown into a poetry press. Writing about MadHatters' Review in PiF Magazine, poet Kristina Marie Darling noted that it "provides a unique forum for writers to experiment with form, narrative, and the relationship between text and other mediums." [1]

After Carol Novack's death that occurred in December 2011, [2] Marc Vincenz has become editor-in-chief.

In an interview with American Book Review, he outlined the magazine's editorial policy:

MadHat publishes work that stretches imaginative and structural boundaries. We lean toward passionate, lyrical and explosive work, well-crafted and somewhat cerebral [3]

The press had an imprint, Plume Editions edited by the poet Daniel Lawless. [4] This imprint is now defunct. More recently, the press has also started publishing fiction and criticism.

Notable writers published by the press

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References

  1. Kristina Marie Darling. The Mad Hatters’ Review Reviewed PiF Magazine, Issue No. 122, July 2007
  2. Carol Novack – A life remembered. Rochford Street Review, February 2012
  3. American Book Review, Volume 37, Number 5, July/August 2016
  4. Alex Cigale. MadHat Press: the Plume, Cardinal Points, In Like Company journals/anthologies. The Best American Poetry, July 17, 2015