A Midsummer Night's Press was founded in New Haven, CT in 1991. Hand-printing on a letterpress, it published broadsides of poems by Nancy Willard, Joe Haldeman, and Jane Yolen, among others, in signed, limited editions of 126 copies, numbered 1-100 and lettered A-Z. One of the broadsides--"Will" by Jane Yolen--won a Rhysling Award. In 1993, the publisher moved to New York and the press went on hiatus until 2007, when it began publishing perfect-bound, commercially-printed chapbooks under three imprints:
Fabula Rasa: devoted to works inspired by mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. The first title from this imprint is Fairy Tales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel.
Funny Bones: devoted to works of humor and light verse. The first title from this imprint will be The Good-Neighbor Policy, a murder mystery told in double dactyls by Edgar Award-winner Charles Ardai.
Body Language: devoted to texts exploring questions of gender and sexual identity. The first title from this imprint will be This Is what Happened in Our Other Life, the first collection of poems by Lambda Literary Award-winner Achy Obejas, author of Days of Awe (Ballantine), Memory Mambo (Cleis), and We Came All the Way From Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? (Cleis).
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