About Us

Welcome to Pilot Books, paper cousin of the online
magazine Pilot. Here, you will find chapbooks and
broadsides by certain poets featured in the magazine.  
You can read some of the work over at Pilot, but
doesn't that make you want to hold it in your hand?

We strive to publish innovative work, and believe that
innovative work demands innovative design. All of our
limited-edition poetry chapbooks and broadsides are
designed and printed in ways unique and luminous to
the manuscript itself. We use fine papers and construct
all books by hand. Someday, we will own our very
own Vandercook printing press and oh the fun we will
have then!  


Co-Pilots

Betsy Wheeler has worked as an editorial intern at
Graywolf Press, as an apprentice in letterpress book
arts with Sutton Hoo Press, as a founding editor at
FlatCity Press, and in different capacities at The
Journal and West Branch.  She earned her MFA at
Ohio State University and now lives and writes in a
little cottage in Lewisburg, PA. Her poems can be
found in Octopus, Pindeldyboz, GutCult, PBQ, No Tell
Motel, and elsewhere.

contact: betsy AT pilotpoetry DOT com


Dean Gorman lives in Portland, Oregon, where he
operates a burrito cart and plays in the band Gas
Lanyard. His writing has appeared in The Portland
Mercury, No Tell Motel, Oregon Humanities, Caffeine
Destiny, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Music Liberation
Project, and is forthcoming in the anthology Bedside
Guide to the No Tell Motel: Second Floor.

contact: dean AT pilotpoetry DOT com

* special thanks to Jeroen Vanderhoven for help
designing the books site.


Support/Donate

Pilot Books is funded solely and lovingly by the
editors. If you like to support poetry and small presses,
we would be absolutely thrilled to receive your
donation. Donors will receive mighty Pilot Care
Packages. Thanks for your continued support of small
press literary ventures.   




Another way to support Pilot Books is to become a
subscriber. Go here to find out how to subscribe


Submit

We do not read unsolicited chapbook manuscripts. If
you have a chap manuscript that you think Pilot
Books would be interested in, please submit 10
unpublished pages of it to Pilot during its submission
period. All poems will be considered for publication in
Pilot and if we really like what we read, we’ll ask to see
more.


Contact

We’d love to meet you. Especially if you are a
bookstore, reviewer, or potential patron. Write to us at
editors AT pilotpoetry DOT com.