Ahadada books is not Random House, Scribner’s, HarperCollins, Vintage, Penguin LTD., nor is Ekleksographia the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Southern Review. What we are is a cooperative press that hangs by a thread; asymmetrical publishing via an internet gizmo that actually gets things done, and gets some very fine experimental and new work into the hands of the right people. We ask anyone who publishes with us to be prepared to help in some fashion, especially–especially!– with the distribution and publicity connected with their own books. Why? Take one look at the history of small press and you’ll understand.

As Jerry Rothenberg says “we are all geniuses.” No one here is above carrying a box of books, or shelling out for postage for review copies, or pitching the work of other ahadada authors to their fellow writers and friends.

Ahadada Books is not a money-making operation. In fact, since its beginning it’s been a financial loss. Still, for almost ten years now, we’ve actually been making beautiful books of experimental poetry and prose and finding the right audience for them. That’s pretty close to a miracle.