We are a small, independent press in New York City run by a group of poets seeking to promote high-quality verse in print through limited runs of chapbooks.

While our tastes tend toward more "formal" verse (that is, verse employing traditional metrical devices), we are hardly dogmatic on the matter. We do, however, insist on poetry informed by a keen sense of prosody in its structure, whether "traditional" or not. We like poetry crafted for the ear as well as the page, poetry that bears successive readings, and poetry that avoids the too-common contemporary tendencies toward drab confessionalism or a hermeticism that glosses banal content.

As we are a very small press, we are not, at present, able to accept unsolicited manuscripts.

Please have a look at our current titles and events. If you have any questions, drop us a line at modernmetrics@yahoo.com

Quincy Lehr and R. Nemo Hill, editors.

Sample Poetry