A Line Around Your Thoughts Podcast - Interview with Publisher Greg Bem
A Line Around Your Thoughts, a local Spokane podcast that is focused on the arts, has a new episode centering Carbonation Press. Many thanks to E.J. Iannelli for conducting the thoughtful interview with publisher Greg Bem.
Listen to the podcast and watch a video version of it on the ALAYT website.
Down River, Deep Root - Launch Party Recording
The recording is now available to listen to at the Carbonation Bandcamp. The quality is fairly low due to the acoustics in the room and technology limitations. Thanks for listening!
Announcing the Launch of We Are Axolotls / Somos Ajolotes!
We’re excited that today marks the launch day of We Are Axolotls / Somos Ajolotes! This bilingual poetry collection features the original Spanish and translated English of many different Chican@/Latin@ poets. This book was edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (who is also involved with the Winter in America anthologies). It is a milestone work at over 300 pages. You can learn more in our catalog and order a copy via Lulu.
Down River, Deep Root in The Spokesman-Review
A write-up about the book, featuring interviewed material via multiple participating editors was published on Sunday!
Thank you to Megan Dhein for this piece. Read the full thing on the paper’s website.
Down River, Deep Root: A Spokane Poetry Anthology is now live!
I am incredibly excited for the third anthology, Down River, Deep Root. It’s now available for $15 on Lulu. Check out the book page for more information.
London Grip Poetry reviews Diane Sahms
We are excited to announce the first formal review of –of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words by Diane Sahms.
Read the review at London Grip Poetry Review.
Check out the book in our catalog.
And consider ordering a copy!
Down River, Deep Root: A Spokane Poetry Anthology - Launch and Release Party
Today I’m very excited to announce the release of the newest Carbonation Press anthology: Down River, Deep Root: A Spokane Poetry Anthology. With over 60 contributors who are currently living or have previously lived in Spokane, this is a truly local anthology. The various themes of this book include home and liminality. The anthology was guest edited by local poets Margaret Albaugh, Asyia Gover, Dorian Karahalios, Sarah Rooney, and Jessi Vasquez. The book features original artwork and was designed by Kate J. Reed (Party Krill).
We are aiming for the launch date to be between now and February 21, which is when the release party will take place: 4-7pm at Patera Temperance Lounge in East Central, Spokane. More info forthcoming!
Rhea Melina’s found confetti reviewed
We are excited to announce that Rhea’s book found confetti has been reviewed in the literary underground. Many thanks to Michele McDannold for the generous write up!
Announcing —of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words by Diane Sahms
Today is the publication date for —of an octopus: an archite|x|tural awareness of words by Diane Sahms! This book is now available on Lulu to purchase. We invite you to learn more about Diane’s exquisite experimental poetry collection on its catalog page.
A SAGA Grant has emerged!
An update about a new grant!
It is with great pleasure and honor that I get to announce Carbonation Press as a recipient of a 2025 SAGA Grant from Spokane Arts!
Funding from the SAGA Grant will help grow Carbonation Press in a few key areas of support:
The press’s identity, including marketing costs
Book projects, including author titles and anthologies
A larger Spokane event in 2026
More details are forthcoming! We are forever grateful to be elevated and cherished by the local Spokane artistic community.
Greg
Announcing Divining the Stone
Carbonation 015: Divining the Stone by Scott Lawrance and Gregg Simpson is now released. You can learn more about the book and here.
Announcing By Foot and Wing
The new book by Jeremy Springsteed is now out! Visit our catalog page to learn more about this poetry collection and to order a copy.
Call for Submissions: Winter in America (Still
Consider contributing to the follow-up to 2025’s Winter in America (Again. The new anthology submission guidelines can be found on the Winter in America website. Find the submission form here.
Call for Submissions: Spokane Poetry Anthology
Call for Submissions: Forthcoming Spokane Poetry Anthology from Carbonation Press
Carbonation Press invites you to submit to its first Spokane Poetry Anthology, to be printed December 2025.
This new anthology will celebrate Spokane poetry and the first issue suggested theme is: Home, Roots, or Liminal.
We invite various forms of poetry and hold a loose definition as to what may be considered poetry but for printing limitations, there will be a word limit.
The guest editors for this first anthology are: Margaret Albaugh, Asyia Gover, Dorian Karahalios, Sarah Rooney, and Jessi Vasquez.
Submissions are due September 26, 2025. Please see submission form for more details. Email Carbonation Press publisher Greg Bem (gregbem@gmail.com) with questions or comments.
Access the submission link here.
Announcing Young Stars of the Bubble by Andrew K. Peterson
Today the latest Carbonation release, 014, arrives. Poet Andrew K. Peterson’s new collection, Young Stars of the Bubble, can be found on its catalog page, and we look forward to hearing how you like it!