Collapse Press | Letters for the End Times
Collapse Press is a small literary publisher specializing in poetry and prose
by authors, established and new, whose work addresses the current social
atmosphere of a society in turmoil and on the verge of transformation.
Collapse Press includes:
Collapse Press- [East] and [West]
Letters for the End Times Anthology – Annual
Chapbooks
Events- The Friday Collapse Reading, and more
Limited art, broadsides, zines, and paper-ganda
Who We Are:
Paul Corman Roberts
Co-Founder
Managing Editor
Distribution/Sales, Curation, Events,
Anthologies and Special Projects
West Coast, USA (Events and Distro)
Co-Host, The Friday Collapse
E. Lynn Alexander
Co-Founder
Associate Editor
Art/Graphics, Social Media, Chapbooks,
Anthologies and Special Projects
East Coast, USA (Events and Distro)
Co-Host, The Friday Collapse
Producer, Arsenic Press Chapbooks/Limited/Handmade
“Leave your ego at the door and enter with every bit of your vulnerable
heart. The writing found here seeks to undermine consolidated power,
market share, corporate assimilation, entrenched paradigms and Goop.
Our mission is to look the darkness and stark reality of the human
condition in the eye, and chronicle the ways we can and must survive and
thrive in the face of that very real horror which seeks to dehumanize
everyone for the sake of god money and power.”
-Paul Corman Roberts
“Does the world need another press? Another cluster of writers, more art, more…?
What does the world need? Some say that the world needs inspiration, hope, and positivity. Some say the world needs anger, action, noise… now. How do we make noise? How can this noise matter, in a world where noise can be bought? We talk about being silenced but we need to talk about being drowned out as well. Noise can be bought. Money owns messages and messengers. So where do you go?
A “press” can be about far more than books. A “press” can be about space. It can be about space for the noise that we need, want, believe in.
“Noise” can take many forms. It can be shaped by many tools.
In our case, the point is simple: If words are your tools, we’re here for that. “
-E. Lynn Alexander
