Kelsey Street Press, a Berkeley-based press that publishes experimental feminist poetry, is distributed by SPD, and its books have included EXTRATRANSMISSION, a poetic critique of the U.S. “It was worth a Greyhound trip from Santa Cruz and a BART trip to the East Bay just to go see what books they were distributing.” - Owen Hill, a longtime buyer at Moe’s Books The nonprofit champions presses that might otherwise be considered too small for larger distributors to take a risk on. “We’re really establishing a way for a really small press to … have 21st century technology that they’ve never, ever had.”įounded in 1969, SPD is one of the only options for small presses to bring literature to bookstores and libraries nationwide. I need to get us to this next phase so we can help those presses that are struggling,” said Watson.
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