Please join Switchback in our hometown of Chicago as we debut Mónica de la Torre's FOUR, a collection of four risograph-printed chapbooks...

Let Us Pour the Drinks Switchback Books invites our Chicago friends and neighbors to let us pour the drinks this Thursday night! Our...

Jennifer Tamayo may be coming to a city near you! Check out her spring tour schedule for a chance to hear her read from Red Missed Aches...

Switchback Books is pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Gatewood Prize, chosen by Harryette Mullen: Manifest by Cynthia...

Thanks to Lily Ladewig, Steven Karl, and Daniela Olszewska, who picked Jennifer Tamayo's Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes...

Please support our friends at Belladonna* by buying a (CHEAP!) ticket to their performance & auction: Tuesday, December 13, 2011,...

Curious about the the woman after whom the Gatewood Prize was named? Learn more here.

Sunday, October 30 6:00pm - 9:00pm West Village, NYC A parade of poets through the West Village, on the eve of All Hallows' Eve. ...

For about the past five years or more, I’ve been mostly writing about ideas of separation or loss. Not really in terms of grief, but more...

We have a fantastic group of women behind the scenes at Switchback Books, and our Assistant Managing Editor, Colleen O'Connor, is a...