is a small press established in 1978 by poet and editor Judith Kerman. We specialize in contemporary literature, especially poetry and works that straddle conventional categories: Great Lakes, women, Caribbean, translations, science fiction poetry, recent immigrant experience, Judaica. Publications are in both chapbook and trade paperback formats.

from Mothering

by Judith Kerman


she sees him walking toward her across the sea floor, slow-motion . the light is blue and shifting it falls in curtains and rays . there are fish all around, swimming between them like stars, blue and striped and shiny . he walks like a robot, if he holds her she will hear his engine running, she can feel nuts and bolts holding his elbows together she says, Deep Sea Diver I love you with your silence with your dark blue movements with the world floating away with birth and death in one place


Judith Kerman is the editor/publisher of Mayapple Press. Her prose poem book, Mothering (Uroboros Books/Allegany Mountain Press, 1978) received Honorable Mention in the 1978 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award competition; it has been reissued with a companion play in Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996) and as a Storyspace (tm) hypertxt in Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 2.2.


Judith Kerman
Mothering & Dream of Rain

Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp 
$12 plus s&h 
1996, Ridgeway Press
ISBN 0-932412-22-X

Mothering is also available in a computer-based hypertext, published in Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext #2.2