Nomadic Coffee Serves Up Poetry with Every Bag of Beans

What could be better than a cup of coffee? A cup of coffee AND poetry of course! The Nomadic Ground Poets-in-the-Coffee series, edited by Virginia Barrett, ensures that an awakened, enlightened poem is inside every bag of beans. Check it out!

Nomadic Ground Press is an organic and fair trade coffee company that puts a poem in every heidelberg-letterpressed bag. The back of the poem is ink-stamped with the NG logo. The poems are then folded and used as a seal in the fold-down of the bag or put in the coffee. Beans leave an antique patina and customers put the collectable poems on their fridge.

Well known contemporary poets (see below) have written poems for Nomadic Ground, emerging talented poets have sent poems, dangerous and scary poets have contributed, and out-of-copyright freaky poets of yore have graced the beans. [...]

SUBMISSIONS: Email your poem to: [email protected]. Please be sure to include a short bio. You also have the option of including your email at the end of the Bio if you would like NG coffee drinkers to email you.

Here's more detail: Please put the title of your poem in the subject line. Poem should be no more than 350 words or, when formatted, poems should be no more than 4" x17" using arial narrow, size TEN font. Please, copy your poem into the body of your email AND also include as a Word Doc attachment to your email. Include your mailing address; selected poets receive 2 pounds of coffee and a $20 honoraria.

Selected poems are printed in black and white (on my home printer) and stamped on the back with the Nomadic Ground logo (see pic above!) The single column poem will go in five hundred to a thousand, or so, pounds of coffee and distributed to stores in San Francisco and throughout the bay area.

CHAPBOOKS: If you have a small (no bigger than 4"x7", no staples) chapbook you would like to be considered, please email: [email protected]. I would need 500 or more, and, unfortunately, at this time I cannot remunerate production costs. Any questions, please email or click the Tumblr symbol.

How refreshing! Learn more at Nomadic or take a peek at Nomadic's Tumblr, and send 'em your poems to go inside!