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Roof Books and Segue Books are published by the Segue Foundation. Over 120 titles of contemporary poetry and criticism are now in print.

In the late 1970s, Segue published the poetry journal ROOF and distributed the critical journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, two of the seminal publications of the language writing movement. Today, Roof brings diverse, innovative works to print in four handsome, perfect-bound editions each year. Roof Books are available online at roofbooks.com or through our distributor Small Press Distribution (SPD) at spdbooks.org or +1.800.869-7553.

Marie Buck is the author of Life & Style (Patrick Lovelace Editions, 2009), PORTRAIT OF DOOM (Krupskaya, 2015), and Goodnight, Marie, May God Have Mercy on Your Soul (Roof Books, 2017). She curates the online literary section of Social Text, where she is also managing editor, and recently completed a doctoral dissertation on newspapers, pamphlets, and other writing of the Black Power and Women’s Liberation movements. You can find some of her recent poems and essays in Theme Can and Prelude. She grew up in South Carolina, spent time in western Massachusetts and Detroit, and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Anna Vitale is a writer and performer interested in poetry, psychoanalysis, music, and improvisation. Her work has appeared in places like The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, Gauss PDF, Jacket2, and P-Queue. Her chapbooks include Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems (OMG!, 2010) and Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers, 2013). She earned an MFA from Bard and is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Brooklyn. [via spdbooks.org [via spdbooks.org

David Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Publications include SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015), AN ARMY OF LOVERS, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013), and THE SHUNT (Palm Press, 2009). Writing and performance work is available via davidbuuck.com. [via sdpbooks.org]