Established in 1988, Pecan Grove Press is sponsored by The Louis J. Blume Library of St. Mary's University.   The Press was established by the English Department at St. Mary's University to publish a few of its students whom they believed exhibited exemplary talent as undergraduate students, students who deserved an audience beyond the classroom.

Shortly after its establishment, the Press began to publish fine poets from in and around the San Antonio area.  A few years later, it began to publish poets from elsewhere in the State of Texas and,a year later, from all over the United States, Canada and Mexico.  Its poets have been featured on Poetry Daily, reviewd in national reviewing media, written about in various newspapers and journals, become poets laureate of two different states, and, in general, have shown that the establishment of the press was a worthwhile venture.  Now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, Pecan Grove Press is looking forward to its third decade of introducing new, emerging and established poets to readers.

Pecan Grove Press will be exhibiting in Chicago at the 2009 meeting of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).  Do visit our table.

The press publishes books and chapbooks of fine poetry and, very rarely, short works of prose. PGP also publishes a regular chapbook series for students at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.

Pecan Grove Press will resume reading manuscripts in November 2008.

Recent Books from Pecan Grove Press

2008 has begun with five excellent new books from Pecan Grove Press and two new chapbooks. 

The new books are Paul Willis's Visiting Home, David Taylor's Praying Up the Sun, Jo Lecouer's Medicine Woods, Joel B. Peckham, Jr.'s the heat of what comes and Suzanne Roberts's Nothing to You.

The chapbooks are Tim Myers's (That Mass at Which the Tongue Is Celebrant) and Anthony Russell White 's (These Bones Remember),

All PGP books are available on Amazon.com and BN.com and through PayPal or you may order directly by check with a form from our web site.

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Introducing a new PGP page:  News of our writers. We invite all PGP writers to keep us up-to-date on new books, prizes, and scheduled reading events.  Email the news to Louie Cortez, business manager of the press.

Nothing to You by Suzanne Roberts ISBN: 978-1-931247-46-7 $15	Medicine Woods by Jo LeCoeur ISBN: 978-1-931247-45-0 $8	the heat of what comes by Joel Peckham ISBN: 978-1-931247-49-8 $15

Pecan Grove Press originated as a press dedicated to publishing work by promising young poets from St. Mary's University.  You can visit some of our student books by clicking on "Student Writers" in the area below.

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