I thought I’d start a new series of blog posts that address questions I often hear asked in writing classes and workshops. Many of the same questions come up over and over because, I think, there are a lot of unwritten processes and norms in the literary publishing world. From talking to many writers over… Read More Finding Literary Journals to Publish Your Poetry
Writer, storyteller, and educator Kate O’Brien Wooddell recently published her first collection, Beasts, through Florida’s Happy Tapir Press. Beasts is a compendium of poems, flash memoir, and even a couple of pieces that verge into surrealism and magic. Beasts covers familial, often politicized themes like motherhood and daughterhood, sexual abuse, travel, memory, and reconciliation, all… Read More “My True Story”: An Interview with Kate O’Brien Wooddell
Okay, so we’re almost two months into 2019. What’s been going on in the world of this blog? 2019: What’s happening? Savoring new publications written by friends If you like fairy tales, philosophy, and the fantastic, Jonathan Duckworth’s chapbook Book of Never is well worth your time. Copies of other friends’ books are on their way: Chloe… Read More What, Oh What to Read and Write in 2019
We’ve gotten several questions about our call for poetry submissions for the zine “The Politics of Shelter.” These questions include “What the heck is this?” and “What the heck is a zine?” Eventually, our new micropublishing project Brackish Daughters will have its own website, but until then, I’m putting this Q&A up here on my… Read More “What the heck is a zine?” & Other Questions
Shelter (noun): A shielded or safe condition, protection. A place giving temporary protection from weather or danger. Shelter (verb): To protect or shield from something harmful. To prevent someone from having to do something difficult or unpleasant. 45 has been in power for over a year and a half. Why? What kinds of shelters have… Read More Call for Poetry Submissions: Shelter
I have no hesitancy in bragging on my publisher, Headmistress Press, especially because of all their really incredible associated poets. I first became really acquainted with Headmistress when I wrote a review of Lesléa Newman’s I Carry My Mother in 2016. I have a soft spot for queer narratives about family, and that book really… Read More Processes of Becoming: Joy Ladin Speaks in South Beach
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