Sagging Meniscus publishes nonconformist fiction, poetry and literary nonfiction by American and other originals. More about us.

Fall 2023

☞ Marvin Cohen’s How, Upon Reflection, To Be Amorous—in celebration of Cohen’s 92nd year, an anthology of his writings about love, many previously unpublished, edited by intrepid Marvinologist Colin Myers.

☞ Tomoé Hill’s Songs for Olympia.

☞ Melissa McCarthy’s Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro.

☞ Essays by Merrill Joan Gerber: Revelation at the Food Bank.

Winter/Spring 2024

☞ Poetry by Ian Monk (translated by Philip Terry): 14 x 14 (February).

☞ Sagging Shorts return with Aaron Anstett’s What Now (March) and John Patrick Higgins’ Teeth (April).

☞ Aug Stone: Sporting Moustaches (April).

☞ A new novel by M.J. Nicholls: The Fall and Fall of Derek Haffman (May).

☞ A comic novel by Lee Upton: Tabitha, Get Up (May).

☞ Essays by Jake Goldsmith: In Hospital Environments (May).

Summer 2024

☞ New poetry by Mike Silverton: Yoga for Pickpockets (June).

☞ A Lee Klein novel for Bloomsday: Like It Matters (June).

☞ P.J. Blumenthal: Winston Hewlett’s Impotence (June).

☞ C.J. Spataro: More Strange Than True (June).

☞ New poetry by Kurt Luchs: Death Row Row Row Your Boat (July).

☞ A “politically pornographic tale” by Harry Miller: Meet Me at the RASCAL (July).

☞ New stories by Charles Holdefer: Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic (August).

Fall/Winter 2024 & Beyond

☞ David Collard: A Crumpled Swan: Fifty Essays about Abigail Parry’s ‘In the Dream of the Cold Restaurant’ (October).

☞ Stories by John Patrick Higgins: Fine (November).

☞ A picaresque novel by James Damis: Zeke Borshellac (December).

☞ Dan Tremaglio: The Only Wolf Is Time (February 2025).

☞ Thomas Walton: Unsavory Thoughts.

☞ Lee Upton: Wrongful.

☞ Jon Curtiss: All My Darlings.