Help Poetry Endure

Ink & Ribbon Press is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetry as a made thing — crafted, printed, and preserved with care.

Your donation helps us:

  • Print and bind new fine-edition poetry books.

  • Support poets through the $3,000 LemonLight Prize.

  • Keep our readings and programs accessible to all.

  • Sustain a press dedicated to craft, not convenience.

Your donation doesn’t disappear into overhead. It becomes paper, ink, binding, and time — the quiet labor required to make poetry last. Each gift helps transform words into something held, shared, and cherished for decades.

Ink & Ribbon Press is a registered 501(c)(3). All donations are tax-deductible

Every poem leaves a mark — but some marks endure longer than others.

ink & Ribbon Fine Editions

Open book with marbled endpapers and aged pages against a plain background.
Close-up of a black leather-bound book with gold and blue accents, showing the top edge of the pages.
An open decorative box revealing intricately patterned black and gold packaging inside.
Two hardcover books, one upright and one lying flat, both with blue and black covers, featuring gold embossed lettering and design. The upright book is titled "Story of Ida" and the lying book is titled "The Store of Ida Moshier 1899."

Our Fine Editions series celebrates the enduring craft of bookbinding through a limited run of three to five handmade volumes for each publication - these collectible works that merge art, literature, and permanence.

Each edition will be bound in collaboration by Nate McCall of McCall Co. Bindery, an award-winning artisan whose bindings unite traditional craftsmanship with modern design. Working exclusively with Ink & Ribbon, McCall will create bespoke bindings for our Fine Editions — each one stitched, pressed, and gilded by hand in the Pacific Northwest.