Milk & Cake Press

We are now open for chapbook and full-length manuscript submissions.

Filled with clever, tender, insightful poems, Marcus Whalbring writes through the lens of family relationships–as a father, as a son, as a husband, and is rooted in the everyday, yet he also reflects on the larger issues. Love and death, presence and abandonment, the “why are we here” questions of children all work together alongside skillful use of syntax and breath to create a memorable, lovely book that will remind readers of a quiet afternoon at home.

We are thrilled to share this innovative love story with you!

Burn Down Your House is a series of white-out poetry leveraging Madeleine L’Engle’s Two-Part Invention: the Story of a Marriage, which specifically explores L’Engle’s marriage to Hugh Franklin, a life inevitably marked by love and death. This white-out chapbook creates a new thing, yet is still a reflection of love and of marriage in the midst of life and death. Two individuals joined in marriage are nothing but texts of the past, creating something new and different from something old. Have a look at it! https://milkandcakepress.com/product/burn-down-your-house-by-angelique-zobitz/

Milk & Cake Press is now accepting submissions for our annual anthology, Dead of Winter, to be published in February 2022. We are looking for poems that deal with the supernatural, the mythological, the mysterious, the uncanny. 

To submit, please submit 1-3 poems in a Word document and your bio to Duosuma. There is no submission fee. Payment will be a copy of the anthology. 

Submissions close October 31, 2021.

Susana H. Case & Margo Taft Stever, editors, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe. This anthology of poems on Marilyn Monroe, one of the all-time greatest iconic figures of beauty and femininity, addresses questions about gender roles and their enactment, and the ways in which women attempt to negotiate the differences between their private and public personae. The ninety who are represented include Sylvia Plath, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Denise Duhamel, Nin Andrews, Delmore Schwartz, Ernesto Cardenal, David Trinidad, and Frank Baez. The introduction is by Lois Banner, the founder of the women’s history movement and author of ten books, including Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox (Bloomsbury, 2012). 

Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her poetry is also translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Poems by Case have appeared in literary journals including CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, and upstreet. Case recently retired as Professor from the New York Institute of Technology in New York City where she taught for thirty-eight years. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. Her new book, THE DAMAGE DONE, is forthcoming fromBroadstone Books in 2022. For more information, please see: susanahcase.com/.

Margo Taft Stever’s latest of six poetry collections include Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019) which was shortlisted and received honorable mention for 2021 the Eric Hoffer Award, and the chapbook, Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in journals including Verse Daily, Prairie Schooner; Rattapallax, Connecticut Review; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Cincinnati Review; upstreet; Plume; West Branch, and Salamander. She is the founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and the founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press. As 2021 Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, she taught a poetry workshop on poetry and bioethics. She also teaches poetry at Children’s Village, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her new book, THE END OF HORSES, is forthcoming from Broadstone Books in 2022. For more information, please see: margotaftstever.com.