Founded by Roland and Lori Pease in 1987, Zoland Books published more than 125 titles of fiction, nonfiction, art criticism, and poetry. During its fifteen-year run the press brought into print a diverse range of authors, including award-winning poets Anne Porter, Kevin Young, Ange Mlinko, Beatrice Hawley, Michael O’Brien, Sam Cornish, Bill Berkson, and Patricia Smith. 

 

After a hiatus, Zoland returned in 2007 as Zoland Poetry: An Annual of Poems, Translations & Interviews. Zoland Poetry ran for five issues through 2011, edited by Roland Pease, Christopher Mattison, and Chloe Garcia Roberts.

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Zoland Editions is Pease’s latest literary venture and his second collaboration with Zephyr Press editor Christopher Mattison. The focus this time is on contemporary poetry in translation produced as letterpress broadsides and other limited editions in collaboration with interrobang letterpress in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 

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The first two broadsides in winter 2023 were designed for the T. S. Eliot Memorial reading by Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi through the Harvard Poetry Room, and ko ko thett’s series of lectures and readings at Yale University and The Grolier Poetry bookstore in Cambridge.