Brass Tacks Press, based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, has published over 50 books of poetry, prose, and comics since it was founded in 2002 by poets Robert Campbell, Pablo Capra, and Richard McDowell.

A focus of Brass Tacks Press has been to publish books about the "Lower Topanga" artists community (bulldozed to make way for a State Park in 2006), Malibu, and downtown LA.

Poetry

• The Life as a Poet series, with contributors like Ern Malley
  Ern Malley
  Ernest Lalor "Ern" Malley was a fictitious poet and the central figure in Australia's most celebrated literary hoax. The poet, and his entire body of work, were created in one day in 1944 by writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart as a hoax on Max Harris, Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine he...
  
  , Robert Kelly
  Robert Kelly
  -Media:* Robert Kelker-Kelly , American soap opera actor* Robert Kelly , American standup comedian* Robert Kelly , American poet...
  
  , and Ariel Pink
  Ariel Pink
  Ariel Pink is a Los Angeles-based recording artist who is sometimes associated with the freak folk scene.-Biography:...
  
   (2002-5)
• Idlers of the Bamboo Grove: Poetry from Lower Topanga Canyon by Pablo Capra (ed.) (2002)
• Eight Years by Paul Roessler
  Paul Roessler
  Paul Roessler was a prominent member of the L.A. punk scene during the late 1970s and '80s. He played keyboards in bands such as The Screamers, Twisted Roots, 45 Grave, Nervous Gender, SAUPG, Geza X and the Mommymen, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, Nina Hagen and The Deadbeats...
  
   (2006)
• Little Nuts by Alden Marin
  Alden Marin
  Alden Marin is a poet and painter based in Pacific Palisades, California. He has written more than a dozen books, including Let's Face It!: Selected Poems 1974-2009.-Early life:...
  
   (2008)
• Camp Bell: Selected Poems by Robert Campbell & Pablo Capra (ed.) (2008)

Prose

• Thirty Days on Spring by Richard McDowell (2003)
• Rat Tales by Baretta (2005)
• Omelet Shark by Michael Lynch (2005)
• The Snake Pit by Baretta (2006)
• Tool's Snake Pit by Tool (2006)
• How to Get Respect on the Beaches of Malibu by Baretta (2009)
• Topanga Beach Experience: 1960s-70s by Paul Lovas & Pablo Capra (ed.) (2011)

Comics

• The Children's Guide to Astral Projection by J. A. Homes (2003)
• Floating by Robert Campbell & Pablo Capra (ed.) (2004-5)
• Prevenge of the Androgynous Cyborg Pyrates from the Future by Toylit (2006)

Miscellaneous

• The Lower Topanga Photo Archive by Pablo Capra (ed.) (2005-present)
• Malibu Song by Natalie Lettner & Werner Hanak (2006)