Fitler Press collects the writing of Thomas Jay Rush — poems, essays, stories, travel pieces, songs, and cartoons. The list is wide and intentionally uneven, gathered over decades rather than curated by season. The name comes from Fitler Square, the small West Center City park where Rush and his wife first met. The press is simply the shelf where that long, miscellaneous body of work finally stands together.
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Rowhouse Press is our home for other writers. The name is Philadelphia’s signature architecture — side-by-side houses, each with its own door and roofline, the variation along the block making the street. Rowhouse is small and new, and we’re partial to finished manuscripts, clear voices, and writers who already know what they’re trying to say. If you’ve written something you think belongs here, the door is open.
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Old City Press is our archive line — reprints, public-domain editions, and old material brought back into circulation. The name comes from Old City itself, a few blocks of central Philadelphia rebuilt and reused for three centuries without ever being abandoned. We reset the type, clean the OCR, and choose the paper with the goal of a book worth keeping on the shelf. Our first two titles are from 1877 and 1920.
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Jacquard Press publishes work where AI is named openly as a co-author. The name comes from the punched-card Jacquard looms that ran Philadelphia’s textile mills between 1880 and 1920 — the first programmable machines, and ancestors of every computer that has ever helped a writer write. Naming the machine seems like the honest move rather than the embarrassed one. Books here carry the byline “Claude Jay Rush.”
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