Spork Press


Spork Press is a small press in Tucson, Arizona edited and constructed by Richard Siken, Drew Burk, Andrew Shuta, Joel Smith, and Jake Levine. Beginning in 2001, it began publishing a quarterly literary magazine called Spork, which is often bound hardback.

History

At one time they were a publisher specializing in hand-made literary magazines with the occasional book release. Nowadays, they are producing a huge output of books and cassette tapes while occasionally publishing the Spork literary magazine.
Spork Press also produces chapbooks and novels. Some of their old books they've published include Roderick Maclean's Tropic/of/Cubicle. Beth Toener's A La Recherche Du Petit Pseudo-Rockstars Perdu has been released in serial form.
In 2010 Richard and Drew decided to take a break from the regular publication of a literary magazine, choosing to instead publish issues of the journal when they had an idea they were excited about. In the absence of the regular magazine, they've been publishing a chapbook series, though the term "chapbook" is applied loosely: "This here, this mixtape? It's a chapbook. This novel? It's a chapbook. Everything we do is a chapbook." ←- Drew said that, and it's how things are done.
Most recently, Ariana Reines' THURSDAY, Joyelle McSweeney's the Necropastoral, Lara Glenum's All Hopped Up on Fleshy Dum Dums and Zach Schomburg's, From the Fjords have received buzz throughout the internet for their quirky design and the text itself.
The Spork team consists of , , Richard Siken, Joel Smith, Jake Levine, and numerous others that help out.

Writers

The Spork Mixtape series is, contrary to the current habit of referring to playlists and sometimes mixes on CD as 'mixtapes', a mix of music on a cassette. Highest-quality audio is sourced, sequenced and mixed, mastered at 32 bits and then recorded from the mastered source one at a time on a thrifted Sony dual-deck.