Welcome
to Wings Press! We currently offer over 100 titles. Come on inside to discover
the real corazón of American small press publishing.
Wings Press attempts to produce multicultural books, chapbooks, CDs, DVDs and broadsides that, we hope, enlighten the human spirit and enliven the mind. Everyone ever associated with Wings has been or is a writer, and we know well that writing is a transformational art form capable of changing the world, primarily by allowing us to glimpse something of each other's souls. Good writing is innovative, insightful, and interesting. But most of all it is honest.
Likewise, Wings Press is committed to treating the planet itself as a partner. Thus the press uses as much recycled material as possible, from the paper on which the books are printed to the boxes in which they are shipped.
NEWS
Carmen Tafolla's The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans has won the 2009 Tomás Rivera Award for Mexican American young adult literature. The prize will be given in late October.
Winner of the 2009 Whitebird Chapbook Series competition: Marian Aitches Fishing For Light,
Upcoming Events
- May 2. Saturday, from 4 to 7 p.m., at StoneMetal Press Printmaking Center & Gallery. A reception and reading for Marian Aitches, winner of the 2009 Whitebird Chapbook Series competition. Marian's new book, Fishing For Light, is a limited edition — 500 numbered and signed copies — printed on linen/recycled paper, with a hand-sewn spine. Only $15. Join us for refreshments, music and poetry.
- May 5. Tuesday, starting at 6 p.m., at The Twig Book Shop. Victoria Garcia-Zapata Klein will read from her new chapbook, Another Water Bug Is Murdered While It Rains In Texas ($10). Victoria is joined by Robert Bonazzi, Bryce Milligan and several other area poets for this post-Poetry Month reading.
- May 7. Thursday, from 5 to 7 p.m., at The Twig Book Shop. A very special evening with Robert Burns specialist and interpreter Arnold Johnston, author of The Witching Voice: A Novel From the Life of Robert Burns ($18.95). The novel is illustrated with period engravings, and features an extensive glossary of Scottish terms. January 25, 2009, marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Burns, one of the most beloved poets in all of English literature. Arnold Johnston’s The Witching Voice brings to life the crucial years from 1784 to 1788, when Burns rose from poverty and obscurity as an Ayrshire farmer to nationwide acclaim and lionization by the aristocracy of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital and a bastion of the European Enlightenment. Written in the same Scots-English that Burns made so familiar to the world, The Witching Voice is based on extensive research. It pulls no punches, offering a clear picture of the gifts, demons, and shortcomings of this poet who continues to charm us. As Richard Katrovas puts it, The Witching Voice conjures "the sexy soul of an angelic rogue."
- May 7. Barnes & Noble, San Pedro at 410. Saint Luke’s Episcopal School Library's spring bookfair is being held at Barnes & Noble. Carmen Tafolla will read and sign books at 4:30 p.m. Wings Press’s newest poet, Annie Parker, will read from her new chapbook, Remembrance of Rain, at 6 p.m.. Ms. Parker, a graduating senior at TMI, was the youngest finalist in the history of the Whitebird Chapbook Series competition, so Wings Press is publishing a special chapbook to recognize this fine young poet.
- May 14. Thursday, from 5 to 7 p.m. at The Twig Book Shop. Jay Brandon will sign copies of his latest book, Milagro Lane. Many San Antonians will have read a portion of this one when it was serialized several years ago in the San Antonio Express-News. Now in book form for the first time, Milagro Lane features many real persons and real situations, including some scandals too hot to report at the time it first appeared! Former columnist Rick Casey has provided an insightful Foreword. Special thanks to the City of San Antonio, Department of Cultural Affairs, for a grant supporting this publication.
New and Forthcoming Titles
- Cecilia Urbina: A Tuesday Like Today
- Ann Fisher-Wirth: Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts
- Pam Uschuk: Crazy Love
- María Espinosa: Dying Unfinished
- Marian Aitches: Fishing For Light
- Robert Bonazzi: In These Latitudes: Ten Contemporary Poets
- Jay Brandon: Milagro Lane
- Annie Parker: Remembrance of Rain
- Carmen Tafolla: The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans
- Arnold Johnston: The Witching Voice: A Novel from the Life of Robert Burns
- Margaret Randall: Their Backs to the Sea: Poems and Photographs
- James Hoggard: Triangles of Light: The Edward Hopper Poems
- Brenda Webster: Vienna Triangle