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Main Street Rag Publishing Company

Publisher of poetry and literary fiction since 1996. Among its features are poetry, short fiction, photography, essays, interviews, reviews, and commentary.

Main Street Rag Publishing Company has been publishing our print magazine, The Main Street Rag, uninterrupted since 1996. Subscription information is available on the Submissions page and can be placed online at: Subscriptions. Current and back issue information–including who appears in each issue–can now be found at The MSR Online Bookstore on the back and current issues page. Our magazine is fin

anced through subscriptions, direct sales and shelf sales. We receive no money in the form of grants or public funds. Reader support is important and necessary.

06/01/2026

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲: The Authors’ Advance Sale Page password was spotted on the dark web. Rather than risk a breach, the password has been changed.
This 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 those who have books that are 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 on the Coming Soon page. Please contact Scott for the new password.
Moving forward, new titles/authors will be provided the new password in their Marketing Instructions email.

05/29/2026

"Gardening, Not Farming. As in, most of us are writing not as our day-jobs or to maximize saleable output, but to put something new into the world via creative process...If you wanted to write formulaically for maximum sales, you’d be doing it all differently, but that’s never what most of us set out to do." - Dave Essinger
Dave's book: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/this-world-and-the-next-dave-essinger/

05/28/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Beware the Chinese Inch" by Susan J. Hudson
Full story in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/27/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Abandoned" by Karen George
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/26/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Sarah" by Adam Coulter
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/25/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Stop & Go" by John Paul Caponigro
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/22/2026

"We live in a wondrous, exuberant, vibrant, alive world that just blows my mind how it is even here. For me, there seems no end as to how it wants to tell its story, but I am here - listening, aware, sifting, pondering, astonished - to humbly
act as chronicler." - Michael Drummy
Michael's book: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/perdido-m-f-drummy/

05/21/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Swan Song" by Alan Elyshevitz
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/20/2026

(Just curious, can you guess who/what the speaker of this poem is 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚? 🧐If so, what gave it away?)
The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "The Truthful Moon" by David Dragone
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

05/19/2026

The Main Street Rag | Summer 2026 |
excerpt from "Emily as a More Hatchets" by Darren C. Demaree
Full poem in the issue: https://tinyurl.com/MSRSummer2026

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12180 Skyview Drive
Mint Hill, NC
16412

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http://www.mainstreetrag.com/, https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/, https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/north-coa

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