Experimental Feminist Poetics Since 1974
This book contest is open to QTBIPOC-identified, feminist, innovative writers/poets. The prize winner will receive publication along with a $1,000.00 cash award to help aid in book promotion, travel, event attendance, and a general contribution to the hopes of thriving as an artist.This prize continues Kelsey Street’s commitment to publishing a poetics of inclusion.
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The winning manuscript will be chosen by Andrea Abi-Karam, author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019).
Please joing us for:
an underground hum
an awp offsite reading @ Vault Art Gallery DTLA
205 w 7th st, los angeles, 90014
Fri, March 28, 6-8pm
Hosted by Airlie Press, Deep Vellum, Kelsey Street Press & University of Washington Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics
Featuring Woogee Bae, Daneen Bergland, LM Brimmer, Steffi Drewes, Emgee Dufresne, Noor Alnaaz Islam, Samodh Porawagamage, Christopher Rose, Ricardo Ruiz, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
free & open to community!
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Please join us for Making & Breaking the Lyric featuring Kelsey Street Press poet Denise Newman as well as Sarah Rosenthal, Dean Rader, and Rolando André López.
City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave in San Francisco or register for online attendance.
Denise won’t be able to join us as she is mending from severe injuries incurred when she, her husband Steven, and their beloved daughter Eva were hit head-on by another car. Eva, 22 years old and a jewel of a being, died upon arrival at the hospital. This reading (including excerpts from The Redesignation of Paradise) is dedicated to Eva's memory.