Moon Pie Press is a small Maine press started in 2003 which publishes quality poetry chapbooks. Please check out our books page to see all of our titles.

Please note that we are not affiliated in any way with the legendary southern Moon Pie cookie treat, made for more than 75 years by the Chattanooga Bakery. When we came to name our press, we liked the dreaminess and poetic associations of the moon and pie. If you'd like to know more about Moon Pies themselves, check out the website at www.moonpie.com. You can order these treats online, if by an unfortunate accident of birth or employment you live north of the Mason-Dixon Line and can't find them at your corner grocery. Did you know that there's a country music song commemorating that classic Southern two-course meal, "Moon Pie and an RC Cola" ?

Alice Persons is the editor and publisher of Moon Pie Press.

See Our Poets/Artists tab for more about the press and our group.

Check out the ART tab for some of our artist friends' work.

We also some have interesting LINKS to other websites.

George the Maine coon cat is our official Moon Pie Press office shredder.

THE STORY OF NOMAR, our mascot

Okay, we admit it - we are fools for cats (and other animals). Nomar was rescued about four years ago by our friend Meris from a Maine country road - she almost ran over him - he was tiny, dirty, flea-ridden and starving. She was on her way to work when she saved him. The staff in her office, Red Sox fans all, named him Nomar because he has huge extra-toed paws like baseball mitts. Alice adopted him when he was pretty small, a few months old, having no idea that he would grow to be a twenty-five pound behemoth. Her poem "To My Cat With An Eating Disorder" is about Nomar. He's one lucky feline, living large (literally), and oblivious to his increasing fame. Garrison Keillor read the Nomar poem on May 20, 2005 on The Writer's Almanac. (And before you ask, no, we are not changing his name just because the two-legged Nomar got traded from the Sox. Nor is the cat moving to Chicago.) Below is baby Nomar and Nomar super-sized. He's a gentle pacifist who gets out-wrestled regularly by George, our alpha animal. Nomar will answer all fan mail and if you need any feline-related advice, do ask him.

 

Web site maintenance by John Brooking.

Book Design and chapbook printing help from Nancy Violette of Violette Printing & Graphics. Perfect bound books are printed by Walch Publishers of Portland.