This issue of RCEI focuses on the importance of small presses in the late 20th century and, particularly, their publication of poetry usually disregarded by Academia or corporate markets. An analysis of their efforts in publishing innovative American literature reveals how they face diverse forms of exclusion that go from material poverty to cultural deprivation. Articles show the concern of these editors with the political implications in literature which are further extended to philosophical schools and literary theoreticians. Thus, it is evidenced the participation of poetry in the discursive representation of social reality.