Simultaneously, another Ivan, a blustery building superintendent who has been browbeating the inventor, finds himself on the Tsar’s throne. A cowardly and petty opportunist, he soon shows his own hunger for power.
Melkon Charchoglyan’s translation is the first to appear in English in over 40 years.
Pre-order at staircasebooks.org (Domestic orders) and asterismbooks.com/publisher/… (International orders)
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David Means holding a copy of Duck 1. Means has 3 poems forthcoming in Duck 2.
Thank you to Ploughshares for running a Duck ad in their latest issue and thank you to DeWitt Henry for recommending Life Drawing and Other Stories by Louis Harnett O’Meara, forthcoming from Staircase Books later this year @louishomeara
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Kit Schluter holding a copy of Duck 1. Schluter designed Duck’s logo and he has a couple of poems forthcoming in Duck 2. @dedreytnien
Benjamin Bellet will read his poems alongside other 2026 Mass Book Awards longlist honorees on September 16, 2026, at 7 p.m.
Join Grub Street and the Mass Center for the Book for a special reading featuring the 2026 Mass Book Awards longlist honorees. grubstreet.org/event/mass-bo…
Jack Saebyok Jung holding our first book, Ex Machina by Joan Naviyuk Kane, and our most recent publication, Duck.
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Damion Searls holding his book of translations Norway Poems And Three from England by Kurt Schwitters (Staircase Books)
October 19, 2025
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Yongyu Chen holding a copy of Duck 1 which features 2 of their poems, including the final poem from their debut collection “Perennial Counterpart” (Nightboat Books, 2026). Duck 2 will feature 2 more unpublished Chen poems.
Thank you to Poetry Daily for featuring “Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England” by Danielle Legros Georges on May 9th, 2026. The poem was featured in the eponymous collection (Staircase Books, 2025).
Today's Feature:
"Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England" by Danielle Legros Georges from Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England published by @staircase_books
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