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We chat with Adrie Rose the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of the brand new NINE SYLLABLES PRESS.Nine Syllables Press:  as of the posting of this episode, we haven't got any links yet, but we will update this space once 9SP goes live online Adrie Rose is the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of Nine Syllables Press. Born and raised across the Southeast US coast, Adrie currently lives in western MA with her two children. She graduated from culinary school and owned a bakery for a decade, then returned to school to finish her bachelor's degree at Smith College as an Ada Comstock Scholar. She is currently attending Warren Wilson College for her MFA in Poetry.Her work has previously appeared in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more.  She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Her poem “The Anthropocene” was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and she has work forthcoming in anthologies with Anhinga Press and Porkbelly Press. She volunteers as a reader for Perugia Press, read manuscripts for the Juniper Prize at UMass Amherst in 2021, and was Editor-in-Chief of Emulate at Smith College in '21-22.Adrie Rose website: https://www.adrierose.com/aboutAdrie Rose twitter: https://twitter.com/AdrieLovesPie The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center/Smith College: https://www.smith.edu/academics/poetry-center Perugia Press: https://perugiapress.org/about/VIDA: https://www.vidaweb.org/ Paper and Stick Priscilla Wathington (Tram Editions):  https://trameditions.com/paper-and-stick-by-priscilla-wathington/ Broadside Books (Northampton): https://www.broadsidebooks.com/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook we'll be back in 2023 with season three!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In today's episode, we welcome the incredible Gaia Rajan to discuss her collection KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press). Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). Her work is published or forthcoming in the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, diode, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of the WOC Speak Reading Series, the Junior Journal Editor for Half Mystic, and the Web Manager for Honey Literary. She is the first place winner of the Princeton Leonard P. Milberg Poetry Prize, Sarah Mook Poetry Prize, and 1455 Literary Festival Contest, and a runner up for the Smith College Poetry Prize, Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, and Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize. Gaia is an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, studying computer science and creative writing. She lives in Pittsburgh. Gaia Rajan website: http://www.gaiarajan.com/ Gaia Rajan Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaiarajan Gaia Rajan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaiarajan/KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press): https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/killing-it/ K-Ming Chang: https://www.kmingchang.com/about Molasses Books (Bushwick): https://www.instagram.com/molassesbooks/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We've got the latest chapbook titles and chapbook submission deadlines in this month's NEWS YOU CAN USE!  NEW TITLESSomething Bright by Ryler Dustin (Green Linden Press):  https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/something-brightAt Night My Body Waits by Saúl Hernández' (Two Sylvias Press): https://www.twosylviaspress.com/at-night-my-body-waits.html The Stars With You by Stefani Cox (Cooper Dillon): https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/the-stars-with-you-by-stefani-cox Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone by Emily Pittinos (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press):  https://bullcitypress.com/product/animal-roadkill-ashes-gone-by-emily-pittinos/Figment by Leila Chatti (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/figment-by-leila-chatti-hardcover/SUBMISSIONSTHE FLORIDA REVIEW: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/submit/chapbook-contest/ THE MASTERS REVIEW: https://mastersreview.com/chapbook-contest/ SIXTH FINCH: https://sixthfinch.com/submitMINERVA RISING PRESS: https://minervarising.com/submissions/chapbook-submissions/DIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contestalso check out submission databases at:HEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunitiesCHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.comPODCASTSPOEMS ON AIR: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/podcasts/poems-on-airFIRST DRAFT: https://firstdraftwriters.com/aboutBETWEEN THE COVERS: https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Get a glimpse behind the scenes at Sundress Publications with our guest Tennison Black.Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies, which was selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Adrienne Su for UGA Press. Black received an MFA at Arizona State University. They are the Managing Editor at Sundress Publications and also at Best of the Net. They are grateful to have had their work supported by fellowships from Virginia G. Piper as both a global teaching fellow and also as a research fellow. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Queer Words, and New Mobility, among others. Though Sonoran born, Black resides in Washington State.Tennison Black website: https://tennisonblack.com/  Sundress Publications website: http://www.sundresspublications.com/ National Poetry Series Competition 2022 announcement: https://nationalpoetryseries.org/announcing-the-2022-national-poetry-series-competition-winners-finalists/Angela Narciso Torres podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e9105806 for the joy of it, anaïs peterson (free e-chap): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/forthejoyofit I Know the Origin of My Tremor, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara (free e-chap): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/tremor/ Liz Ahl podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/97710b88 Village Books & Paper Dreams (Bellingham):  https://www.villagebooks.com/ Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe): https://www.changinghands.com/ Powell's (Portland): https://www.powells.com/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress   

We are excited to welcome Raye Hendrix to the show this week with EVERY JOURNAL IS A PLAGUE JOURNAL from Bottlecap Press. Raye Hendrix (she/they) is a writer from Birmingham, Alabama. She is the poetry editor at Press Pause Press and the author of two poetry chapbooks, Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press) and Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press). Their work has also appeared in Poet Lore, 68 to 05, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, The Adroit Journal, Cimarron Review, and others. Raye is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature and Southern Indiana Review's Patricia Aakhus Award, and she has received scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Raye holds a BA and MA from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon, where she has been awarded fellowships and grants for her dissertation work on disability poetics.author website: https://www.rayehendrix.comauthor twitter: https://twitter.com/_rayehendrixEvery Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press): https://bottlecap.press/products/journalFrank O'Hara at Poets.Org: https://poets.org/poet/frank-oharaTsunami Books (Eugene, Oregon): http://www.tsunamibooks.org/ Thank You Books (Birmingham, Alabama): https://thankyoubookshop.com/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

In this episode, we welcome poet Angela Narciso Torres to discuss her collection TO THE BONE (Sundress).Angela Narciso Torres is the author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021) Blood Orange, winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, and the chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications 2020). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Poetry Northwest. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago's Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in San Diego. She serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry.Twitter: https://twitter.com/angela_n_torresAuthor site:  https://www.angelanarcisotorres.comTo The Bone (Sundress): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/totheboneWe All Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan by Naoko Fujimoto | author website: https://www.naokofujimoto.com Terrance Hayes: https://terrancehayes.com/about/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this episode, we welcome the remarkable I.S. Jones to discuss her collection SPELLS OF MY NAME (Newfound).I.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet, essayist, and music journalist. She is a Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer's Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. She is the co-editor of The Young African Poets Anthology: The Fire That Is Dreamed Of (Agbowó, 2020) and served as the inaugural nonfiction guest editor for Lolwe. She is an Editor at 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, freelanced for Complex, Revolt TV, NBC News THINK, and elsewhere. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Offing and elsewhere. Her poem “Vanity” was chosen by Khadijah Queen as a finalist for the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry. She received her MFA in Poetry at UW–Madison where she was the inaugural 2019­­–2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship and the 2021-2022 Hoffman Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient. From 2019 to 2022, she served as the Director of the Watershed Reading Series with Art + Literature Laboratory, a community-driven contemporary arts center in Madison, Wisconsin. Her chapbook Spells of My Name (2021) is out with Newfound. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Poetry.Twitter: https://twitter.com/isjonespoetryAuthor site:  https://www.isjones.comBrooklyn Poets: https://brooklynpoets.orgSpells of My Name (Newfound): https://newfound.org/shop/i-s-jones-spells-of-my-name-print-e-book/What We Are Not For by Tommye Blount: https://bullcitypress.com/product/what-are-we-not-for/ Bound by Claire Schwartz: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/bound/Aricka Foreman author website: https://www.arickaforeman.com A Room of One's Own (Madison): https://www.roomofonesown.comWomen & Children First (Chicago): https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.comThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Coming in right under the wire, we've got August 2022's NEWS YOU CAN USE! TitlesNERVOUS SYSTEM WITH DRAMAMINE by David Greenspan (The Offending Adam): https://theoffendingadam.com"Announcing the winners of the 2022 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships" https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-poetry-society-of-america-chapbook-fellowshipsMINESWEEPER by Judge Munson (Diagram): https://thediagram.com/contest.html LICHT by Dan Kraines (Seven Kitchens Press): https://sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker-chapbook-series/dan-kraines-licht/VISITING HER IN QUEENS IS MORE ENLIGHTENING THAN A MONTH IN A MONASTERY IN TIBET by Michael Mark (Rattle): https://www.rattle.com/chapbooks/c2022/GHOST APPLES by Grace MacNair (Inch, Bull City Press) forthcoming: https://bullcitypress.com/product-category/inch/ Submissions Tiny Fork Chapbook Series, The Hunger: https://www.thehungerjournal.com/tiny-fork-chapbooksPodcastsTPQ20 The Poetry Question: https://thepoetryquestion.com/category/tpq20/Of Poetry Podcast: https://ofpoetrypodcast.wordpress.comBreaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast: https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.comThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

We're excited to share this wonderful episode with poet Chloe Martinez as she discusses her book CORNER SHRINE (Backbone Press)Chloe Martinez is a poet and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works) and the chapbook Corner Shrine (Backbone Press). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal and elsewhere. She works at Claremont McKenna College. Twitter: https://twitter.com/chloepoetSee more at www.chloeAVmartinez.com: https://www.chloeavmartinez.com Corner Shrine (Backbone Press): https://backbonepress.org/2020/11/corner-shrine/ Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works): https://wordworksbooks.org/product/ten-thousand-selves/ Another & Another: The Grind Anthology (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/another-another/ I exit the hallway and turn right (Above Ground Press), Genevieve Kaplan; the author's website: https://genevievekaplan.com  Grolier Poetry Book Shop: https://www.grolierpoetrybookshop.org Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Welcome to the jungle! We're back with Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko discussing their Diode Editions chapbook SLASH / SLASH (part 2 of 2)Amorak Huey's fourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.  website: http://amorakhuey.netW. Todd Kaneko is the author of the poetry books This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press 2021). He is co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. A Kundiman Fellow, he teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  website: https://toddkaneko.comSLASH / SLASH by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/slash-slash-by-amorak-huey-w-todd-kanekoPOETRY: A Writer's Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poetry-9781350020153/LOW BUDGET MOVIE by Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills* (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/low-budget-movie-by-kendra-decolo-tyler-mills*DeColo & Mills appeared on episode 7 of THE CHAPBOOK, listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/715c6e1fEQUILIBRIUM by Tiana Clark (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/equilibrium/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We go down to Paradise City with Amorak Huey & Todd Kaneko discussing their Diode Editions chapbook SLASH / SLASH (part 1 of 2).Amorak Huey's fourth book of poems is Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021). Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the chapbook Slash/Slash (Diode, 2021), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.  website: http://amorakhuey.netW. Todd Kaneko is the author of the poetry books This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press 2021). He is co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers' Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Prize. A Kundiman Fellow, he teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  website: https://toddkaneko.comSLASH / SLASH by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/slash-slash-by-amorak-huey-w-todd-kanekoPOETRY: A Writer's Guide and Anthology  (Bloomsbury): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/poetry-9781350020153/LOW BUDGET MOVIE by Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills* (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/low-budget-movie-by-kendra-decolo-tyler-mills*DeColo & Mills appeared on episode 7 of THE CHAPBOOK, listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/715c6e1fEQUILIBRIUM by Tiana Clark (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/equilibrium/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We're back with new releases and submission opportunities in this July NEWS YOU CAN USE episode! Dive into these new titles and send out work to these upcoming submission deadlines!Titles/PressesBODYELECTRIC: Poems by Aerik Francis (Trouble Department): https://troubledepartment.com/?product=bodyelectronic-poems-by-aerik-francis-paperback-preorderBlanket Sea Press: http://blanketsea.com(title from episode--NEW & PERMANENT, Frances Klein)Dancing Girl Press: http://www.dancinggirlpress.com(title from episode--AGAIN THE GRASS AGAIN THE WIND, Sam Killmeyer)Ethel: https://www.ethelzine.com(title from episode--FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY, Joshua Burton)Sundress Publications: http://www.sundresspublications.com(title from episode--FOR THE JOY OF IT, Anais Peterson)Cutbank: http://www.cutbankonline.org(titles from episode--TEACHING ENGLISH LIT..., Craig Beaven; EACH LIE THAT POLLUTES..., Kevin West)THE WALL WHERE YOU LEAVE ME by Martina Litty (Inch #51, Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/the-wall-where-you-leave-me-inch-51/SubmissionsDIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contestRIVER GLASS BOOKS: https://riverglassbooks.com/submit/GASHER: https://www.gasherjournal.com/submissionYELLOW ARROW PUBLISHING: https://www.yellowarrowpublishing.com/cbsubmissionsRINKY DINK PRESS: https://rinkydinkpress.com/submission-guidelines/Places that have submission databasesHEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunitiesCHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.comThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.comBull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Robin Miura, Senior Editor & Associate Publisher, from BLAIR PUBLISHING joins us to help answer a listener question about publishing material that's already been shared on the internet. Robin Miura is Senior Editor and Associate Publisher at Blair and has worked in publishing for more than 20 years. She has worked with all types of books, but her passion is literary fiction and creative nonfiction. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine South Writ Large.Blair Publishing: https://www.blairpub.comBlair Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blairpub/Blair Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlairPublisherSouth Writ Large: https://southwritlarge.comThe Last Bookstore: https://www.lastbookstorela.com Marie Manila author of THE PATRON SAINT OF UGLY: https://www.mariemanilla.comUpcoming Blair titles (Fall 2022):A GIRLHOOD: Letter to My Transgender Daughter ATOMIC FAMILY, Ciera Horton McElroy (I don't find links for these at the Blair site yet, so follow Blair on social media & keep an eye out for both!)Ciera Horton McElroy website: https://www.cieramcelroy.com Robin Miura twitter: https://twitter.com/robin_miuraThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We get into all kinds of chapbook love with poet and educator Liz Ahl! Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), Home Economics(Seven Kitchens Press, 2016), Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012), Luck(Pecan Grove Press, 2010), and A Thirst That's Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Measure, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review. Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Books, 2020), Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press, 2018) and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017), among others. She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. She teaches writing at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.Liz Ahl website: https://lizahl.com Liz Ahl facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Liz-Ahl-220024568036054Liz Ahl twitter:  https://twitter.com/SurlyAcresYoung Writer's Workshop/UVA: https://www.theyoungwriters.orgEthel Chapbooks: https://www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-minibooksThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

It's the May NEWS YOU CAN USE episode with new releases, author & title recommendations, and calls for chapbook submissions! BOOKS & AUTHORSMia Ayumi Malhotra's chapbook, Notes from the Birth Year: https://bateaupress.org/index.php/chapbooks/notes-from-the-birth-year/  Joan Kwan Glass, website: https://joankwonglass.com"What We Don't Say," at Rust+Moth: https://rustandmoth.com/work/what-we-dont-say/If Rust Can Grow On The Moon, coming in June from Milk & Cake Press: https://milkandcakepress.comSteve Henn, Guilty Prayer and American Male, from Main Street Rag: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/?s=hennCaroline M Mar, Dream of the Lake, from Bull City Press: https://bullcitypress.com/product/dream-of-the-lake-by-caroline-m-mar/Benjamin Niespodziany, Pickpocket the Big Top, from Dark Hour Books:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/darkhourbooks Niespodziany interview at Touch The Donkey: http://touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2022/05/ttd-supplement-214-seven-questions-for.htmlNiespodziany online reading at David Has Zoom Pro Reading Series: https://twitter.com/DavidHasZoomProDavid Wojo, poet: https://twitter.com/MrWojoRisingAe Hee Lee wins the Tupelo Dorset prize: https://www.tupelopress.org/2022/05/09/tupelo-press-announces-the-results-of-the-2022-dorset-prize/SUBMISSIONSGasher https://www.gasherjournal.com/submissionSeven Kitchen Press https://sevenkitchenspress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-allison-joseph-series/Cutbank  http://www.cutbankonline.org/submissions-calendarThe Poetry Question https://thepoetryquestion.com/pamphlet-series-submission-guidelines/Slapering Hol https://www.writerscenter.org/contest/Bull City https://bullcitypress.com/submissions-top/chapbook-open-reading-period/Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Second time's a charm! In this episode, Hananah Zaheer--author of the flash collection LOVEBIRDS--chats flash fiction, reveals a secret about her chapbook, and offers timeless parenting advice. Hananah is a writer, editor, improvisor and photographer. She is the author of a flash chapbook Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). Other writing has appeared or is forthcoming in places such as The Cut, Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Waxwing,  AGNI, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong (Pushcart nomination), Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, South West Review, Alaska Quarterly Review (with a Notable Story mention in Best American Short Stories 2019) and Michigan Quarterly Review, where she won the Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction. She was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference for 2019,  was  a finalist for the Smoke Long Fellowship 2019, the Doris Betts' Fiction prize 2014 and a recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Rivendell Writers' Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart prize. She serves as a Fiction Editor for Los Angeles Review, and as senior editor for SAAG: a dissident literary anthology—a project that seeks to make space for radical and experimental South Asian art and writing. She is the founder of the Dubai Literary Salon, an international prose-reading series and a guest editor for SmokeLong Quarterly for Winter 2021-22. Currently, she is working on a novel.Hananah is represented by Kent D. Wolf of Neon Literary. You can reach him at kent (at) neonliterary (dot) com. Website: http://www.hananahzaheer.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/HananahZaheerInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/hananahzaheerLovebirds (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/lovebirds-by-hananah-zaheer/Sayaka Murata wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayaka_MurataThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this second of two episodes, we round out our conversation about the dollars & cents of chapbook publishing.PART ONE:Glass Poetry Press CLMP submission managerSubmittable submission manager Unicorn Press Bookmobile PART TWO:Small Press DistributionPirateShip.comThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this first of two episodes, we get into the dollars & cents of making and selling chapbooks.Glass Poetry Press CLMP submission managerSubmittable submission manager Unicorn Press Bookmobile Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We got you all set with April 2022's NEWS YOU CAN USE!Links to items mentioned in this podcast:SHUTTER by Taylor Byas from Madhouse Press Host Publications LOONEY by Dave Housley from HADInterview with Dave Housley Glass Poetry chapbooks Tram Editions WHY I MISREAD A CLOUD by Emily Carlson Tupelo Press 2022 Sunken Garden Chapbook Poetry AwardSubmissions:/tƐmz/ ReviewTwo Sylvias PressSlapering Hol PressHomebound Publications Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this episode we welcome Sara Moore Wagner to discuss her chapbook Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks). Sara Moore Wagner is the author of two full length books of poetry, Swan Wife (winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize) and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript prize winner), a recipient of a 2022 Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. She is the author of the chapbooks Tumbling After (Redbird, 2022) and Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press, 2017). Her poetry has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Sixth Finch, Waxwing, Nimrod, Western Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, and The Cincinnati Review, among others, and she has been nominated for multiple times for a Pushcart prize, for Best of the Net, and for Best New Poets. Her poetry has also been supported by a SAFTA residency, a merit scholarship from the Juniper Institute, and a scholarship to the Palm Beach Poetry Festival as a finalist for the Thomas Lux prize. She holds a BFA from BGSU, and an MA in literature from NKU, where she currently teaches Intro to Creative Writing. She lives in West Chester, OH with her filmmaker husband Jon and their children, Daisy, Vivienne, and Cohen.Sara Moore Wagner (website)Sara Moore Wagner (twitter) Tumbling After (Redbird Chapbooks)"Her Kind" by Anne Sexton Angela Carter William Butler Yeats Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We sit down with Tommy Dean author of the flash collection COVENANTS from ELJ Editions!  Tommy Dean lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. He is the author of a flash fiction chapbook entitled Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. He is the Editor at Fractured Lit. He has been previously published in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead Chapel, and New Flash Fiction Review. His story “You've Stopped” was chosen by Dan Chaon to be included in Best Microfiction 2019. It will also be included in Best Small Fiction 2019. His interviews have been previously published in New Flash Fiction Review, The Rumpus, CRAFT Literary, and The Town Crier (The Puritan). Find him @TommyDeanWriter on Twitter.Tommy Dean websiteTommy Dean twitter Tommy Dean substack COVENANTS Tommy Dean (ELJ Editions)SPECIAL LIKE THE PEOPLE ON TV Tommy Dean (Red Bird Chapbooks)HOLLOWS Tommy Dean (Alternating Current Press)"...class in May about metaphors not just for poets..."  I couldn't find a link for this class, yet, but I'm pretty confident it will be offered through this site where Dean has another offering: https://writingworkshops.com  "Wave" by Tommy Dean (Matter Press: Journal of Compressed Creative Arts) Indy Reads A Novel Idea (Philadelphia)Kathy Fish Fractured Lit journal Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Episode 29 NEWS YOU CAN USE for March 2022!  All the places you can go mentioned in this episode:SOMETHING KINDRED Nicole TallmanLillet Press: the two titles we mention are HIGHLY NOTED & OTHER POEMS and STAR FLOWER STRANGE LIGHT  RADIO STATIC James Hoch (Green Linden Press)Variant Lit: the two titles from this episode are THE WATER CYCLE and NOT FLOWERSNOTES FROM THE BIRTH YEAR Mia Ayumi Malhotra (Bateau Press)Submissions:DIODE EDITIONSOUTWRITE 2022THIRTY WEST PUBLISHINGSPLIT LIP PRESSSEVEN KITCHENS PRESSThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

In this episode, Ross & Noah sit down with chapbook author Claudia Putnam to discuss DOUBLE NEGATIVE, winner of the 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest from SPLIT LIP PRESS. Claudia Putnam is a writer living in Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley. She's too busy finishing a novel to blog, but you are welcome to scan the greatest hits below. Her poetry and fiction can be found in dozens of literary magazines; she has received major fellowships in support of her work; she gives readings.​Claudia Putnam websiteClaudia Putnam twitterDOUBLE NEGATIVE (Split Lip Press)THE LAND OF STONE AND RIVER (Moon City Press)Scrivener softwareBREATH: the new science of a lost art | James Nestor Ursula LeGuin BROKEN VESSELS Andre DuBus UNDERLAND Robert McFarlaneWater Street Books Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

This week we talk about some ways to tackle the 2022 AWP conference & of course we have some tips especially if you'r looking for chapbook-related events.   AWP 2022 Google map -- Penna Convention Center  F172. How to Win a Book or Chapbook Contest F211. Concise Punches of Reality: Readings from Five Chapbook Memoirists (virtual) F235B. Bound, Stitched, & Pressed: On Chapbooks & Community  F238. Women of Color Zinesters: DIY Culture as Counter-Storytelling (virtual) SMOL Fair is an alternative, virtual book fair from March 19-26, 2022. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We had a great time chatting with the fantastic Nick Rossi & Eric Benick from URSUS AMRICANUS!  Ursus Americanus website  Ursus Americanus/Twitter  Ursus Americanus/Facebook  Ursus Americanus/Instagram  Dark Matter (Nashville) Molasses Books  Quimby's (Chicago) Uncharted Books (Chicago) Tye Liddel -- listeners, this proved too difficult for me; as our guests pointed out, this person is hard to find Chad Morgan  Meekling Press  Long Day Press Zach Hobbs  Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Today our guest is Crystal Simone Smith from BACKBONE PRESS!  Backbone Press Backbone/Twitter  Backbone/Facebook  Crystal Simone Smith Down to Earth by Crystal Simone Smith (Longleaf) Carolina African American Writers Collective Amy Sherald artist  Smithsonian Open Access Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Sea Island Blues by Tyree Day (Backbone) Salt in the Sugar Bowl by Angela Belcher Epps (Main Street Rag) Tupelo Press  Coffeehouse Press Finishing Line Press Longleaf Press  In Your Absence by Lindsay Young (Backbone) Who All Gon' Be There? by Danielle P. Williams (Backbone) Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Today we welcome chapbook makers Kelly Dulaney & Todd Seabrook from THE CUPBOARD. The Cupboard The Cupboard/Twitter The Cupboard/Instagram  Kelly Dulaney/Twitter   Todd Seabrook/Twitter   Flat Stanley Reports to His Third Grader by Jennifer A. Howard  Geoff Bouvier Colin Winnette  Rose Metal Press AWP 2022  Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

News You Can Use: February 2022 Orison Books Margaret Wack  Eggtooth Editions Red Bird Chapbooks  The Cupboard Diagram chapbooks  Black Lawrence Press  Year of the Unicorn Kidz by jason b. crawford (Sundress)  Green Linden Press  Cooper Dillon  Newfound Prose Prize Throwback Books (After recording this episode, we noticed that Throwback may be on a break right now. We recommend getting in touch with these good folks before submitting your work.) Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We're back, back, back again! In today's episode we get into nuts and bolts about submission formatting. Just some basics on sending out your manuscripts -- we're thrilled to be back! Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

We're taking a short break at the end of the year and dropped this brief message to express our thanks and encourage listeners to reach out with their chapbook news, questions, and comments.  Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https: https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypressand Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Ross & Noah welcome Stephanie Lane Sutton to the pod and go behind the scenes at THE POET IS IN a live-streaming poetry event weekly on Twitch. Sutton's webpage: http://stephanielanesutton.com/read.html Sutton on Twitch (as AthenaSleepsIn): https://www.twitch.tv/athenasleepsinSHINY INSECT SEX: https://bullcitypress.com/product/shiny-insect-sex-inch-38/Garden Door Press, publisher of THE CONNOISSEUR by Cat Ingrid Leeches (which at the time of this posting is sold out): http://www.garden-doorpress.com/store Stephanie Lane Sutton was born in Detroit. Her short prose can be found in The Offing, Black Warrior Review and The Adroit Journal, as well as in the micro-chapbook Shiny Insect Sex (Bull City Press). Her poetry has appeared in Glass, Tinderbox, and THRUSH Poetry Journal, among others. In 2019, she received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Miami. Previously she lived in Chicago, where she taught performance poetry at Phoenix Military Academy.Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

October 2021 News You Can Use: excerpts from chaps, upcoming new releases, chapbook submissions, and a listener writes in to ask: what are some ways you've seen chapbook authors create connections within a collection?links related to this episode: Gasher Journal & Press FACING THE MIRROR: AN ESSAY by Katherine Indermaur (COAST|noCOAST) Ursus Americanus Press  Hunger Journal & Press BREAKING POINTS by Chelsea Stickle (Black Lawrence Press) New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane) editors Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (Akashic Books) VALLEY OF WANT by Ross White (Unicorn Press)  Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Tupelo Press)  Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Beloit Poetry Journal) send in your chapbook news, suggestions, and comments here: chapbook [at] bullcitypress.comThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress  

Noah & Ross sit down with poet Taylor Byas to talk about her chapbook BLOODWARM. Links of interest: Taylor Byas website BLOODWARM  Variant Literature  Taylor Byas is a Black poet and essayist. Originally from Chicago, she moved to Alabama for six years, where she received both her Bachelor's degree in English and her Master's degree in English (Creative Writing concentration) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she is a third year PhD student and Albert C. Yates Scholar at the University of Cincinnati studying poetry. She is also an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She has received five Pushcart and six Best of the Net nominations, and has won a Best Microfiction Award. She is also the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2020 Frontier OPEN Prize, and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry. Her chapbook, BLOODWARM, is out now from Variant Lit (2021). Her debut full-length poetry collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in the Spring of 2023.She is represented by Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Noah & Ross sit down with Jason B Crawford to talk about their chapbook SUMMERTIME FINE. links of interest:-- Jason B. Crawford author's website-- SUMMERTIME FINE book website -- Variant Literature press websiteJason B. Crawford is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut chapbook collection Summertime Fine is out through Variant Lit. Their second chapbook Twerkable Moments is out from Paper Nautilus Press. Their third chapbook, Good Boi, is forthcoming from Neon Hemlock press in fall 2021. Their debut full-length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress Publications. Website: JasonBCrawford.comInstagram: jasonbcrawfordTwitter:  @jasonbcrawfordFacebook: By Jason B. CrawfordThank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Submission season is heating up and so we spend this episode talking about cover letters: what our cover letters look like, suggestions about drafting your own, and how the cover letter impacts editors.  Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Noah & Ross sit down with poet, translator, editor, & teacher Ruben Quesada to talk about his new substack PROMOTION FOR POETS. Links of interest from this episode:Ruben Quesada website Be sure to sign up for Promotions for Poets (substack)Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Ruben Quesada Charles Olson essay on Projectice VerseHeadwaters (WW Norton) by Ellen Bryant Voigt The Art of Syntax (Graywolf) by Ellen Bryant VoigtRuben Quesada is a neurodivergent, gay, Latinx poet. A native Angeleno, Ruben was raised by Costa Rican immigrant parents. He is the author of Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal, and translator of Exiled from the Throne of Night: Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda. He is a recipient of an Individual Artist grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events at the City of Chicago. He is producing a short documentary film on Latinx poetry.  After receiving a PhD in English, Ruben moved to Illinois in 2012. Soon after, with the mentorship of founding members from Canto Mundo Poetry, Macondo, and the Institute of Latino Letters | Letras Latinas, Ruben founded the Latinx Caucus at the AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) Conference. Since 2015, the Latinx Caucus has been led by a leadership team of poets and writers who represent intersectional identities from the Americas.                 In 2015, Ruben moved to Chicago to launch the Logan's Run Readings series. This series was the nation's only Latinx literary salon and featured poets and writers including Daniel Borzutzky, Erika L. Sanchez, David Campos, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Diego Báez. For the past 15 years, Ruben has taught literature and creative writing. He's taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of California-Riverside, The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and UCLA Writers' Program. He teaches as an Associate Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute. Ruben has written for Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Cobalt, and Chicago Review of Books. Recently, he worked as poetry editor at AGNI and guest editor at PANK. In his spare time, he manages Mercy Street Readings, a live, literary broadcast. He is editing a special folio of LGBTQIA+ poetry for the spring 2022 issue of Pleiades magazine. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Titles that appear in this episode: Scram Press Adjusting to the Lights by Tom C. Hunley (Rattle) Common Ancestors by Noa Covo (Thirty West Publishing House) Breaking Points by Chelsea Stickle (Black Lawrence Press) American Home by Sean Cho (Autumn House Press) Black Under by Ashanti Anderson (Black Lawrence Press) Fire Sermons by Raye Hendrix (Ghost City Press) Submission opportunities in this episode: Seven Kitchens Press  Sixth Finch  Black Lawrence Press Be sure to send questions, comments, and suggestions to: chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Ross & Noah sit down with Anthony Frame, co-founding editor of Glass Poetry Press. Frame gives a glimpse behind the scenes at Glass, shares his commitment to their family of authors, and talks about the annual Glass Poetry chapbook series. Anthony Frame, co-founding editor of Glass Poetry Press, is an exterminator from Toledo, Ohio, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of the book, A Generation of Insomniacs (Main Street Rag Press, 2014) and four chapbooks, the latest Where Wind Meets Wing is out now from Sibling Rivalry Press. His poems have appeared or will appear at Crab Creek Review and Third Coast, among many other journals. His work has been awarded Individual Excellence Grants from the Ohio Arts Council in 2014 and 2016. Find out more about Anthony at his website here. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Noah & Ross welcome Ann Hudson to talk about her new chapbook GLOW—which looks at Marie Curie & the mysteries of radium—and they're joined by GLOW publisher Laura Van Prooyen of Next Page Press!Ann Hudson is the author of The Armillary Sphere (Ohio University Press), which was selected by Mary Kinzie as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Ann is a senior editor for Rhino and teaches at a Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois. Find out more about Ann at her website here. Publisher Laura Van Prooyen is a poet herself with a number of collections to her name. She has over 20 years experience teaching poetry and writing. Laura serves as the Managing Editor of The Cortland Review and is launching Next Page Press, with its first title Glow to be released October 2021. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Ross & Noah sit down with poet Kerrin McCadden [in this two-episode conversation] to talk about the intersections between her chapbook Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry) and her full-length collection American Wake (Black Sparrow Press). Keep This to Yourself is the 2018 winner of the Button Poetry Prize. American Wake is McCadden's second full-length collection. Her debut, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (New Issues Poetry & Prose), won the inaugural Vermont Book Award in 2015. A recent National Endowment for the Arts fellowship awardee, McCadden's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and recently in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. McCadden teaches at Montpelier High School, serves as the Associate Director of the Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place, and is associate poetry editor at Persea Books. She lives with her family in Vermont. Visit McCadden's website here. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

PART ONE OF TWO: Kerrin McCadden, author of KEEP THIS TO YOURSELF, makes a compelling case for the chapbook, even when many of the poems are headed into a full-length collection.Ross & Noah sit down with poet Kerrin McCadden to talk about the intersections between her chapbook Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry) and her full-length collection American Wake (Black Sparrow Press). Keep This to Yourself is the 2018 winner of the Button Poetry Prize. American Wake is McCadden's second full-length collection. Her debut, Landscape with Plywood Silhouettes (New Issues Poetry & Prose), won the inaugural Vermont Book Award in 2015. A recent National Endowment for the Arts fellowship awardee, McCadden's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and recently in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner. McCadden teaches at Montpelier High School, serves as the Associate Director of the Conference on Poetry and Teaching at The Frost Place, and is associate poetry editor at Persea Books. She lives with her family in Vermont. Visit McCadden's website here. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Chapbooks in this episode: Ashley Cline: & watch how easily the jaw sings of god (Glass Poetry, 2021) Simone Minch and Jackie K. White: Hex & Howl (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) Caitlin Scarano: How He Loved the Bones (Lillet Press, 2021) Nick Earhart: Four Places (Lillet Press, 2021)  Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Noah & Ross share five steps you might take to help with the editing and launch of your new chapbook.Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Noah & Ross go behind the scenes of the creative collaboration between Kendra DeColo & Tyler Mills and their chapbook LOW BUDGET MOVIE (Diode Editions).Get Low-Budget Movie (Diode Editions, 2021) here.  Kendra DeColo is the author of three books including I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World (BOA Editions, 2021). She is a recipient of a 2019 Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received a number of awards and fellowships. Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Tin House Magazine, Waxwing, and elsewhere. She teaches at Hugo House and she lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Find out more about Kendra at her website here. Tyler Mills' latest poetry book is Hawk Parable, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press 2019). A poet and essayist, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She teaches for Sarah Lawrence College's Writing Institute and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center's 24PearlStreet, edits The Account, and lives in Brooklyn. Find out more at Tyler's website here. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Nandi Comer drops by to chat with Noah & Ross about chapbooks, their lineage, and the projects they can inspire, and read from her chapbook AMERICAN FAMILY: A SYNDROME.Nandi Comer is the author of Tapping Out (Northwestern University Press, 2020), which was a co-winner of the Julie Suk Award and the 2021 Winner in the Poetry category of the Society of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award, and the chapbook American Family: A Syndrome (Finishing Line Press, 2018). A Cave Canem fellow, a Callaloo fellow, and the Director of the Allied Media Projects Speakers Bureau, she lives in Detroit, Michigan. Visit her website here.Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Mag Gabbert, Discovery Award winner and author of MINML POEMS, drops by to talk with Noah & Ross about you may find when you take time to play, the power of collaboration, and publishing a project that may be considered unconventional. Mag Gabbert holds a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University and an MFA from The University of California at Riverside. Her essays and poems can be found in 32 Poems, Pleiades, The Rumpus, Thrush, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, The Pinch, and many other journals. Mag is the author of Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books, 2020), a chapbook of visual poetry and nonfiction. She currently teaches creative writing at Southern Methodist University and for Writing Workshops Dallas. She also serves as the interviews editor for Underblong Journal, and recently won the Discovery Prize. Find out more about Mag at her website here. Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress 

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoahRoss White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here. Follow Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress