Holy Cow! Press is an independent publisher based in

Duluth, Minnesota , settlement_type = City , nicknames = Twin Ports (with Superior), Zenith City , motto = , image_skyline = , image_caption = Clockwise from top: urban Duluth skyline; Minnesota ...

. Founded in 1977, they have published more than 125 books. The press publishes between three and five new books each year, in genres including

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

, fiction,

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiog ...

, and

biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...

. Their focus is on writers from the American Midwest, a "territory traditionally ignored by larger indie publishers," according to founder and publisher Jim Perlman, who runs the press out of his home. He also focuses on publishing Native American authors and thematic anthologies.

Selected publications

Poetry

Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg (born January 4, 1948) is an American popular author and speaker. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen Zen ( zh, t=禪, p=Chán; ja, text= 禅, translit=zen; ko, text=선, translit=Seon; v ...

(1980), ''Chicken & In Love'' * Joyce Sutphen (2004), ''Naming the Stars'' *

Jane Yolen Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is ''The Devil's Arithmetic'', a Holocaust novella. He ...

(2011), ''Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After'' * Gary Boelhower (2017), ''Naming Rites'' * Crystal Spring Gibbins (2017), ''Now/Here'' *

Kimberly Blaeser Kimberly M. Blaeser (born 1955) is a Native American poet and writer enrolled in the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She was the Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015–16. Background Kimberly Blaeser was born in 1955 in Billings, Mont ...

(2019), ''Copper Yearning'' *

Warren Woessner Warren Woessner (born 1944), poet and lawyer, studied creative writing with James McConkey and A. R. Ammons at Cornell University. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1966 and co-founded ''Abraxas Magazine'' with poet James Bertolino in 1968. He ...

(2019), ''Exit-Sky'' *

Richard Terrill Richard Terrill is an American author and jazz musician who plays with the Larry McDonough Quartet. Career Terrill's work as a writer includes three collections of poems: ''What Falls Away Is Always: Poems and Conversations'', ''Almost Dark'' ...

(2020), ''What Falls Away Is Always'' *

(2021), ''Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After'' * Ingrid Andersson (2022), ''Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife'' * Gordon Henry (2022), ''Spirit Matters: White Clay, Red Exits, Distant Others''

Fiction

* Joan Henrik (2017), ''Winds & Currents: Native American Stories, Told and Retold'' *

Miriam Karmel Miriam Karmel is an American writer. Her first novel, '' Being Esther'' (2013), is one of only a few involving characters in their eighties. Karmel's writing has appeared in numerous publications including Bellevue Literary Review, ''The Talking ...

(2017), ''Subtle Variations and Other Stories'' * Thomas D. Peacock (2020), ''The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves'' * Jim Heynen (2021), ''The Youngest Boy: Stories''

Memoir

* Brenda Ueland (1996), ''ME: A Memoir'' * Amy Lou Jenkins (2010), ''Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting'' * Fred Amram (2016), ''We're in America Now: A Survivor's Stories'' * Michael Fedo (2018), ''Don't Quit Your Day Job: The Adventures of a Midlist Author''

Biography

* Daniel Lancaster (2008), ''John Beargrease: The Legend of Minnesota's North Shore''

Anthologies

* ''Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song, 3rd edition'' (2019), edited by Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, Dan Campion.

Other

* Patricia Hoolihan (2000), ''Teen Girls Only! Daily Meditations for Teenage Girls'' * Sara Balbin, Thelma Nayquonabe, and James R. Bailey (2012), ''Spirit of the Ojibwe: Images of Lac Courte Oreilles Elders'' * Sarah M. Brokke (2015), ''Portrait of an Artist: Paintings'' * Patricia Hoolihan (2021), ''Hands and Heart Together: Daily Meditations for Caregivers''

References

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External links

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