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Day 1: jason b. crawford reads their poem “Untitled 1975-86.” We are honored to be the first publication of this poem. jason b. crawford is a writer born in Washington DC, raised in Lansing, MI. Their debut Full-Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. They are a 2023 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow. Their second collection, YEET! is forthcoming from Omnidawn Publishing in 2025.  Text of today's poem and more details about our program can be found at: deerfieldlibrary.org/queerpoemaday/ Find books from participating poets in our library's catalog.  Queer Poem-a-Day is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include adult language.  Queer Poem-a-Day is directed by poet and professor Lisa Hiton and Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library. Music for this fourth year of our series is from the second movement of the “Geistinger Sonata,” Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, by Ethel Smyth, performed by pianist Daniel Baer. Queer Poem-a-Day is supported by generous donations from the Friends of the Deerfield Public Library and the Deerfield Fine Arts Commission.   

Victoria Buitron is an award-winning writer who hails from Ecuador and resides in Connecticut. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Her debut memoir-in-essays, A Body Across Two Hemispheres, was the 2021 Fairfield Book Prize winner. A VONA fellow, her work has been selected for 2022's Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf's Top 50. In 2023, she received the Artistic Excellence Award from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. She is currently the Competitions Editor for Harbor Review. She had the joy and privilege of selecting the nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the 2023 Connecticut Literary Anthology and will be returning in 2024 as the project's nonfiction editor. In winter 2024, she will be working with Tin House to complete her poetry book and will later attend a writing residency by Sundress Publications in Knoxville, Tennessee. Because she embraces creative chaos, she is also working on a novel about love, violence, and betrayal. We discussed her creative life between Spanish and English, her memoir, and how her mood sometimes dictates which language she will reading and writing in.   Music by Oleksi Holubiev & Monument Music          

Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. She has attended Tin House's Summer Writing Workshop (2014), Sundress Publications' SAFTA Residency in (2021), and was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2022). Her first chapbook, Once Read as Ruin, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her first full-length collection, Fool in a Blue House, won the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She lives and teaches in Champaign, Illinois. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies (winner of the National Poetry Series, UGA Press 2023). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Wordgathering, and New Mobility, among others. Black received their MFA at Arizona State University. They are the Managing Editor at Sundress Publications and Best of the Net and are the editor of the anthology on contemporary disability, A Body You Talk To. Though Sonoran born, Black resides in Washington state. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/viewlesswings/support

Katherine Gaffney completed her MFA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently working on her PhD at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, jubilat, Harpur Palate, Mississippi Review, Meridian, Harpur Palate, and elsewhere. She has attended Tin House's Summer Writing Workshop (2014), Sundress Publications' SAFTA Residency in (2021), and was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2022). Her first chapbook, Once Read as Ruin, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her first full-length collection, Fool in a Blue House, won the 2022 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She lives and teaches in Champaign, Illinois. Fool in a Blue House (U Tampa Press, 2023) crafts carefully appointed rooms, both interior and exterior, alongside familial and romantic love, loss and near loss of beloveds, selves, and even neighborhood rabbits. Dwelling in contradictions-strength and fragility, humor and heartbreak, safety and threat-this book ponders impossibilities as solutions to its own predicaments, "Perhaps it would be easier to write in a chorus." But these poems know that this is not the cure. These impossibilities are simply "a whole herring" dropped down a throat, a momentary pause before we dare "to defy what the sky tells us" and instead begin to tell "ourselves that we can will the sky to give." You can find out more about Katherine here. You can find her chapbook Once Read as Ruin here. You can follow Katherine on Instagram and on Twitter. You can learn more about Megan Wildhood at meganwildhood.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

Team Plume is reanimating, dusting off the last year, and sharing our first podcast in a while. In today's episode, we bring you a ghosty story circle with writing that taps into the otherworldly… just in time for Halloween and the Samhain season!Featuring writing from (in order of appearance): Danielle Hanson – “Ghosts and Mirrors,” poetry Melanie Unruh – “Altar Me,” poetryDawn Sperber – “Ghost Sisters,” story, with music by HediaSarah Mina Osman – “The Djinn,” story excerpt, originally published in Lunaris, issue 17, 2023Elsa Valmidiano – “Marmarna,” story, originally published in Mythos, Issue #7: Something Spooky, 2022Lisa Chavéz – “The Customary Kiss,” storyAuthor Bios (in order of appearance):Danielle Hanson strives to create and facilitate wonder. She is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky and Ambushing Water. Her poetry was the basis for a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. She is Marketing Director for Sundress Publications, and serves on their Editorial Board & as Managing Editor for their imprint Doubleback Books. Previously, she has been Artist-in-Residence at Arts Beacon, Writer-in-Residence for Georgia Writers, and Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books. She teaches poetry at UC Irvine. You can read more about her at daniellejhanson.com.Melanie Unruh has an MFA in fiction from UNM. Her writing has appeared in The Meadow, The Boiler, New Ohio Review, Post Road, Philadelphia Stories, Cutthroat, and elsewhere. She's working on a YA novel, a short story collection, and more weird poems about bones. https://melanieunruhwriter.wordpress.com/Dawn Sperber is the author of two new books: a poetry collection, My Bones Are Love Gifts (Shanti Arts, 2022), and a flash fiction chapbook, Now, That's a Trick (Finishing Line Press, 2022). Her work has appeared in PANK, Daily Science Fiction, Bourbon Penn, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. You can follow her at dawnsperber.com.Music included in “Ghost Sisters” is by Hedia (Bryce Hample). https://hedia.bandcamp.com/Sarah Mina Osman's work has appeared in the Lunaris Review, Punt Volat, The Huffington Post, and SheKnows among several other publications. She likes sloths and tacos. sarahminaosmanwrites.wordpress.comElsa Valmidiano, an Ilocana-American essayist and poet, is the author of We Are No Longer Babaylan, her award-winning debut essay collection from New Rivers Press, which was an Editors' Choice selection from their Many Voices Project competition in Prose. Her second essay collection, The Beginning of Leaving, is from Querencia Press. Through the examination of folklore and ritual, she blends memoir and myth, & dreams and reality, where folkloric beings reflect our defiant ancestors and ourselves. For more information, please visit her website slicingtomatoes.com.Lisa D. Chavéz has published two books of poetry, Destruction Bay and In An Angry Season, and her poems have also appeared in Camino del Sol:  Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and other anthologies. Her essays have appeared in Arts and Letters, The Fourth Genre & other magazines, and she has had essays included in several anthologies, including The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity and An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on their Poor and Working Class Roots.

Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves. Set mostly over the span of a single year encompassing the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, their love story unfolds via correspondence, capturing the letters the speaker sends to Naomi—and occasionally Naomi's responses, as filtered through the speaker's retelling. These letter-poems form a braid, first from the use of found texts, next from the speaker's personal observations about her bisexuality, Judaism, and mental illness, and lastly from her testimonies of past experiences. As the speaker discovers she has fallen in love with Naomi, her letters reveal the struggles, joys, and erasures she endures as she becomes reacquainted with her own body following a long period of anxiety and suicidal ideation, working to recover both physically and emotionally as she grows to understand this long-distance love and its stakes—a love held by a woman for a woman, forever at a short, but precarious distance. Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award. Her poetry has appeared, or will soon, at Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Believer, and elsewhere. She is the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and serves as assistant poetry editor and reviews editor for AGNI. With Ruth Awad, she edited the anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry for Sundress Publications. Anna Zumbahlen lives in Albuquerque and works in book marketing and publicity at the University of Chicago Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves. Set mostly over the span of a single year encompassing the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, their love story unfolds via correspondence, capturing the letters the speaker sends to Naomi—and occasionally Naomi's responses, as filtered through the speaker's retelling. These letter-poems form a braid, first from the use of found texts, next from the speaker's personal observations about her bisexuality, Judaism, and mental illness, and lastly from her testimonies of past experiences. As the speaker discovers she has fallen in love with Naomi, her letters reveal the struggles, joys, and erasures she endures as she becomes reacquainted with her own body following a long period of anxiety and suicidal ideation, working to recover both physically and emotionally as she grows to understand this long-distance love and its stakes—a love held by a woman for a woman, forever at a short, but precarious distance. Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award. Her poetry has appeared, or will soon, at Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Believer, and elsewhere. She is the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and serves as assistant poetry editor and reviews editor for AGNI. With Ruth Awad, she edited the anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry for Sundress Publications. Anna Zumbahlen lives in Albuquerque and works in book marketing and publicity at the University of Chicago Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves. Set mostly over the span of a single year encompassing the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, their love story unfolds via correspondence, capturing the letters the speaker sends to Naomi—and occasionally Naomi's responses, as filtered through the speaker's retelling. These letter-poems form a braid, first from the use of found texts, next from the speaker's personal observations about her bisexuality, Judaism, and mental illness, and lastly from her testimonies of past experiences. As the speaker discovers she has fallen in love with Naomi, her letters reveal the struggles, joys, and erasures she endures as she becomes reacquainted with her own body following a long period of anxiety and suicidal ideation, working to recover both physically and emotionally as she grows to understand this long-distance love and its stakes—a love held by a woman for a woman, forever at a short, but precarious distance. Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award. Her poetry has appeared, or will soon, at Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Believer, and elsewhere. She is the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and serves as assistant poetry editor and reviews editor for AGNI. With Ruth Awad, she edited the anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry for Sundress Publications. Anna Zumbahlen lives in Albuquerque and works in book marketing and publicity at the University of Chicago Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

Rachel Mennies embraces the public/private duality of writing letters in her latest collection of poems. Told through a time-honored epistolary narrative, The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) chronicles the relationship between a woman speaker and Naomi, the woman she loves. Set mostly over the span of a single year encompassing the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, their love story unfolds via correspondence, capturing the letters the speaker sends to Naomi—and occasionally Naomi's responses, as filtered through the speaker's retelling. These letter-poems form a braid, first from the use of found texts, next from the speaker's personal observations about her bisexuality, Judaism, and mental illness, and lastly from her testimonies of past experiences. As the speaker discovers she has fallen in love with Naomi, her letters reveal the struggles, joys, and erasures she endures as she becomes reacquainted with her own body following a long period of anxiety and suicidal ideation, working to recover both physically and emotionally as she grows to understand this long-distance love and its stakes—a love held by a woman for a woman, forever at a short, but precarious distance. Rachel Mennies is the author of the poetry collections The Naomi Letters (BOA Editions, 2021) and The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards, winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry at Texas Tech University Press and finalist for a 2015 National Jewish Book Award. Her poetry has appeared, or will soon, at Poetry Magazine, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Believer, and elsewhere. She is the series editor, since 2016, of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry and serves as assistant poetry editor and reviews editor for AGNI. With Ruth Awad, she edited the anthology The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry for Sundress Publications. Anna Zumbahlen lives in Albuquerque and works in book marketing and publicity at the University of Chicago Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Executive Director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her third full-length poetry collection, Down, was released in 2020 by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is now a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Links:Read "Alice Gives Advice to Dorothy"Read "February in Knoxville" and other poems at Menacing HedgeErin Elizabeth Smith's page at Sundress PublicationsTwo poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Los Angeles ReviewThree poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Superstition Review"Plating the Poem, Reclaiming the Story: A Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith"Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Executive Director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. Her third full-length poetry collection, Down, was released in 2020 by Stephen F. Austin State University Press. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She earned her PhD in Creative Writing from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and is now a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Links:Read "Alice Gives Advice to Dorothy"Read "February in Knoxville" and other poems by Smith at Menacing HedgeErin Elizabeth Smith's page at Sundress PublicationsTwo poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Los Angeles ReviewThree poems by Erin Elizabeth Smith at The Superstition Review"Plating the Poem, Reclaiming the Story: A Conversation with Erin Elizabeth Smith"Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser

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   

Listen: On Apple, Spotify, Google and elsewhereRead: "Unicorn Kidz Dance Under the Moonlight, Too" at SplitLipjason b. crawford (They/Them) 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 out from Neon Hemlock press. Their debut Full Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz will be out in 2022 from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and is the co-founder of The Knight's Library Magazine. crawford is the winner of the Courtney Valentine Prize for Outstanding Work by a Millennial Artist, Vella Chapbook Contest, and Variant Lit Chapbook Contest. They were a finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid 2021 Poetry Contest and the 2021 OutWrite chapbook contest winner in poetry. Their work can be found in Split Lip Magazine, Glass Poetry, Four Way Review, Voicemail poems, FreezeRay Poetry, HAD, among others. They are a current poetry MFA candidate at The New School.Purchase: Year of the Unicorn Kidz(Sundress Publications, 2022)

Join Chris and Courtney in a sitdown with Jason B. Crawford, author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz (Sundress Publications), about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry! jason b. crawford (They/Them) 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. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and is the co-founder of The Knight's Library Magazine. crawford is the winner of the Courtney Valentine Prize for Outstanding Work by a Millennial Artist, Vella Chapbook Contest, and Variant Lit Chapbook Contest. They are the 2021 OutWrite chapbook contest winner in poetry. Their work can be found in Split Lip Magazine, Glass Poetry, Four Way Review, Voicemail poems, FreezeRay Poetry, HAD, among others. They are a current poetry MFA candidate at The New School. Website: JasonBCrawford.com Instagram: jasonbcrawford Twitter: @jasonbcrawford Facebook: By Jason B. Crawford --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Donna Vorreyer is the author of To Everything There Is (2020), Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (2016) and A House of Many Windows (2013), all from Sundress Publications. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, Poet Lore, Cherry Tree, Salamander, Harpur Palate, and other journals. She lives in the suburbs of Chicago where she serves as an associate editor for Rhino Poetry and hosts the monthly online reading series A Hundred Pitchers of Honey.Purchase: To Everything There Is (Sundress Publications, 2020) and Donna's other full-lengths at Sundress Publications.Also Donna's visually collaborative chapbook Encantado, which we talk about on the episode, from Red Bird Press.Check out Christine Shank's art as well as Claire Morgan's art, featured on Donna's first and third full-length covers)

Chris and Courtney sit down with Ashley Elizabeth, author of You Were Supposed to be a Friend (Nightengale & Sparrow), for a conversation about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry! Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a writing consultant, teacher, and poet. Her works have appeared in SWWIM, Rigorous, and Kahini Quarterly, among others. Her chapbook, you were supposed to be a friend, is available from Nightingale & Sparrow. When Ashley isn't serving as assistant editor at Sundress Publications or working as a member of the Estuary Collective, she habitually posts on Twitter and Instagram (@ae_thepoet). She lives in Baltimore, MD with her partner and their cat. The Poetry Question Website The Poetry Question Merchandise --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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 

Three YA authors from Mississippi create memorable young characters who tackle weighty topics--from cult recruitment and teen parenthood to the social struggles of living with Tourette's--in clever, humorous, and heartfelt ways.Panelists:Angie Thomas was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. A former teen rapper, she holds a BFA in creative writing from Belhaven University. Her award-winning, acclaimed debut novel, The Hate U Give, is a #1 New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Fox 2000, starring Amandla Stenberg and directed by George Tillman, Jr. Angie's second novel, ON THE COME UP, is a #1 New York Times bestseller as well, and a film is in development with Paramount Pictures with Angie acting as a producer and Sanaa Lathan directing. In 2020, Angie released FIND YOUR VOICE: A Guided Journal to Writing Your Truth as a tool to help aspiring writers tell their stories. In 2021, Angie returned to the world of Garden Heights with CONCRETE ROSE, a prequel to THE HATE U GIVE focused on seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter that debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.Heather Truett is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Memphis and serves as the Development Director for The Pinch literary journal. She is #actuallyautistic and passionate about bringing more neurodivergent voices to the publishing table. Heather was born in Kentucky, sharing a hometown with Loretta Lynn, and grew up in South Carolina. She moved from there to Alabama and now resides in Mississippi with her husband, teenage sons, and three cats. She works as a copywriter and as a writing consultant for University students. Kiss and Repeat is her debut novel.Jennifer Moffett is the author of the novel Those Who Prey (a 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Youth Literature nominee) and a forthcoming novel (2022) published by Atheneum/Simon & Schuster. After working in New York for several animated television series, which included Arthur and Disney's Doug, she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and wrote for regional publications, including Jackson Free Press. Her short stories and poems have appeared in various literary journals, including New Orleans Review and descant, where she is an Associate Fiction Editor. She won the Gary Wilson Short Story Award and published work in Sundress Publications' Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place. She teaches creative writing at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where she is their 2021 Mississippi Humanities Council Instructor of the Year. Learn more at jbmoffett.com. Moderator:Sami Thomason-Fyke (she/her) is a Youth Services Specialist at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library. She was formerly a bookseller, events coordinator, and social media coordinator at Square Books in Oxford, MS. You can keep up with her reading recommendations at samisaysread.com. @SamiSaysRead See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Karen Craigo is the Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri. She is the author of two full-length collections (Passing Through Humansville, 2018, and No More Milk, 2016, both from Sundress Publications), as well as three chapbooks. She hails from Gallipolis, Ohio, and now lives and works in Springfield, Missouri.

Map the territory of trauma and survival with poet H. K. Hummel. On this episode, we speak with Hummel about her 2020 collection Lessons in Breathing Underwater, published by Sundress Publications. Faced with her own battle for survival after childbirth, these poems attempt to understand personal catastrophe by sharing memories of her own recovery in parallel with historical and mythological women who have faced insurmountable challenges. "Everything Goes Deeper Than You Expect" You find yourself on life support, and you have no recollection of how you got here. Strangers have fallen in love with you, fought for you, while you slept. People look you in the eyes and say, Do you recognize me? You want to, good God, you want to. They rescued you, bathed you, waited for you. Come back. Become yourself again. Stay still while they remove the ventilator, the oxygen, the feeding tube, the catheter and the PICC line. If you’re lucky, your father holds your hand, your mother brushes your hair,

In this bonus episode of the podcast, we answer some questions posed by friends and listeners. We discuss writing techniques, routines, and pro-tips for getting started. We also attempt to tackle the age-old question: are you a Luna or an Earl?    Some names we drop and things we reference in this episode: Paige Lewis’ book Space Struck, Kaveh Akbar, Tiana Clark, Sharon Olds’ poem “Sex Without Love”, Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones”, Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, The Upside of Being Down, McWho: An American Podcast for McFly, Sliding Doors, Katie Culligan, Rax King, Sam Edmonds, Spotify’s Deep Focus playlist.   Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---   Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Jane tells us all about her tricks for drafting poems from fragments, how her cut/paste crew has overloaded gmail’s email thread capabilities, and fruit-based fashion. You can find Jane’s spider poem in print here and read “Dream of the Lopsided Crown” in its entirety at The Volta. You can also follow her other projects on her website and give her a follow on Instagram! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Shane jokes with Brynn and Stephanie about Kansas vs Missouri, writing his pieces backwards in his journals, and how a kid once flipped him off from a school bus window. Shane’s story “The Gospel According to Charlotte Atwater” can be found in Midwestern Gothic: Summer 2015 Issue 18. You can find more of Shane’s work online, most recently at Bull: Men’s Fiction.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Meg Zinky, joins Brynn and Stephanie to discuss the appeal of experiential theater, #adulting, horse camp, and avoiding the cringe-factor of call-in radio shows.  Listen for a discussion of tapenade by three people who have never eaten or even seen tapenade!  Know that we had to cut a 10-minute long discussion of American Girl Dolls and for that, we are deeply sorry. Check out Meg’s website for a one-stop shop to check out her work. You can also find her on Instagram.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

What do hip hop, Frank Miller Comics, and Jermiane Jackson all have in common? Our guest this episode: Black Atticus. We sing, we dance (in our chairs), we poem. It’s a goddamned delight! Have a listen and then tell all your friends!  Find Black Atticus on Twitter and Instagram. Check out his bandcamp to hear the original recording of “The Heartline” and “Security Systems”. Shoutouts to the Woods family, the journalers, the 5th Woman, Good Guy Collective, Daje, and all the folks Black Atticus loves.  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Surprise! We have another super special BONUS episode for you as a New Year’s treat. This time, SFD host Stephanie is in the hot seat reading poems and talking about her obsessive high school journaling, her almost-career as a photojournalist, and how poetry became her side chick. Live, Laugh, LOVE MACHINE. Stephanie wants more followers on Twitter @stephaknees (and instagram!) and her work (fiction, this time!) can be found over at Entropy Magazine. PLEASE check out our fundraiser on Facebook and share it if you can! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

For this very special episode we interview our own Brynn Martin about her work and get to know ½ of the SFD hosts. We talk about the elementary school poetry unit that rocked her little world, how she was forever changed by LOTR (though she wasn’t allowed to watch it), and how writing poetry has always helped her work through her personal problems. Shoutout to our guest co-host for this episode, Erin Elizabeth Smith (@sundresserin, SFD episode 5)! Extra shoutouts to Mr. Carter, Emilia Phillips, and Barb Martin, who taught, mentored, and birthed Brynn, respectively.  You can follow Brynn on Twitter @brynnsie and find her poem, “My Mother’s Nipples” at Crab Orchard Review. You can read the original (yikes-y) Robert Hass poem at Michigan Quarterly Review. You can also read more of Brynn’s recent work at Five:2:One’s #thesideshow. Find our fundraiser on Facebook and share it if you can! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

Do you want to know what irrational fears Brynn and Stephanie had as kids and/or which eyeshadow colors properly expressed a young Chloe Hanson’s rebellion from The Man? Listen to this episode! We also happen to discuss two of Chloe’s poems, and the different approach she has taken with her writing while working through her PhD dissertation.  You can follow Chloe on Twitter @mschanson. You can read her published poem, “Collected” on The Rumpus. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

CW: In this episode, suicide is mentioned and is part of the poem we discuss. Please don’t ruin your day for us. We’ll catch you on the next one! Krista Cox almost went to law school, but instead became a poet and came on our podcast. Thank goodness! We discuss spreadsheets, only writing poems when you’re sad, and how to be the chillest muthafucka.  Find Krista on her website and be sure to check out Doubleback Review!  Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention! --- Proud member of the Sundress Publications family.  Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney. Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

We were off for a week because life got in the way, but we're back with a sparkly new episode for you, featuring the one and only Rax King alongside your faithful host Brian Birnbaum and our Priest Vallon, Devin Kelly. Rax King is a dog-loving, hedgehog-mothering, beer-swilling, gay and disabled sumbitch who occasionally writes and works as assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She is the author of the collection 'The People's Elbow: Thirty Recitatives on Rape and Wrestling' (Ursus Americanus, 2018). Her work can also be found in Catapult, Electric Literature, and Autostraddle, and she is most recently a columnist for Catapult with her ongoing series "Store Bought Is Fine". In this episode, we're talking all things Guy Fieri, Bruce Springsteen and authenticity in writing.  The transcript for this episode can be found on our website.

Jeremy Michael Reed joins us to talk about having a secret blog in college, birds, and the “M” word. You can find Jeremy at jeremymichaelreed.com. His poem “Hand-Stitched” is at http://www.whaleroadreview.com/reed/. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @sfdpodcast! Send us an email at sfdpodcast@gmail.com. We love attention!   ---Proud member of the Sundress Publications family. Logo design by Carolyn Pokorney.Song by Rameses B on Soundcloud.

LinksPen 15https://www.npr.org/2019/02/11/691694798/looking-at-middle-school-through-grown-up-glasses-in-pen15Chen Chen's Twitter handle @chenchenwritesWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities at Bloodaxe Bookshttps://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-list-of-further-possibilities-1211Philip Pullman's Golden Compasshttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/136447/the-golden-compass-his-dark-materials-by-philip-pullman/9780375823459/Sundress Publications (who published Chen’s craft chap)http://www.sundresspublications.com/Book: When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilitieshttps://www.boaeditions.org/products/when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-list-of-further-possibilitiesKnott Poetry Prizehttp://www.bu.edu/clarion/knott-poetry-prize/Blue Flower Arts: A Literary Speakers Agencyhttps://blueflowerarts.com/Bloodaxe Bookshttps://www.bloodaxebooks.com/Chen Chen’s Chapbookshttps://www.chenchenwrites.com/chapbooksQueer Eye season threehttps://www.vulture.com/2019/03/queer-eye-season-3-netflix-review.htmlBRULEY, the Queer Eye Doghttps://www.bustle.com/p/queer-eye-dog-bruley-is-the-breakout-star-of-season-3-hes-about-to-become-your-instagram-obsession-16964641Powell’s Book Storehttps://www.powells.com/Mel B interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0knNNRTHqyk

Kristy Bowen, the founder and editor of  dancing girl press & studios has been a pivotal vehicle for promoting women poets and writers in her e-zine "Wicked Alice" and chapbook series at "dancing girl press".  Listen to us discuss how she started the venture, how she chose the name of dancing girl press, how she grew the press and studio, and her influences and creative processes as a poet and an artist in the book arts. http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes Kristy Bowen is a writer and book artist working in both text and image. She is the author of  a number of chapbooks, zines, and artist book projects, as well as several full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including SALVAGE  (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and MAJOR CHARACTERS IN MINOR FILMS (Sundress Publications, 2015). Based in Chicago, she runs dancing girl press & studio and spends much of her time writing, making papery things, and editing a chapbook series devoted to women authors.  You can download and read her chapbook: "the science of impossible objects"   To see more her insights, influences and processes follow her blog: https://kristybowen.blogspot.com/

Amber Flame is a writer, composer and performer, whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame's original work has been published in diverse arenas, including Winter Tangerine, The Dialogist, Split This Rock, Black Heart Magazine, Sundress Publications, FreezeRay, Redivider Journal and more. A 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee, Jack Straw Writer and recipient of the CityArtist grant from Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, Amber Flame's first full-length poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was recently published through Write Bloody Press. Flame joins the Hugo House in Seattle as the 2017 poetry Writer-in-Residence, and is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn.

Guest Info/Bio: This week we cap off our series on religious pluralism with our guest, Saumya Arya Haas. Saumya is the Digital Outreach Coordinator for Agape Editions, an imprint of Sundress Publications. She was an early adopter of Social Media for interfaith and social outreach and has been nominated as a Twin Cities Titan in Social Media. While pursuing her Religious Studies degree at Harvard University, she founded Headwaters/Delta Interfaith, which facilitated interfaith/intergroup dialogue and advised organizations on diversity, inclusiveness, and intergroup cooperation; she worked extensively in New Orleans but this work has taken her everywhere from West Africa to the White House. She worked with the Parliament of World Religions, The UN World Council of Religious Leaders, and The UN Peace Initiative. Guest Publications: Saumya writes regularly for The Huffington Post, State of Formation, and The Good Men Project as well as various other websites and print media. Guest Website/Social Media: https://goodmenproject.com/author/saumya-arya-haas https://www.stateofformation.org/author/saumya-arya-haas https://www.huffingtonpost.com/saumya-arya-haas www.nsomniasaum.blogspot.com Twitter: @nsomniasaum Facebook: @saumyaaryahaas Special guest music on this episode provided by: Verite www.veriteofficial.com Facebook: @veritemusic https://soundcloud.com/veritemusic Twitter: @verite Instagram: @verite Enjoy the songs? Songs featured on this episode were: “Rest & Living” from the EP Living. “Phase Me Out & Bout You” off of the forthcoming album “Somewhere In Between” available everywhere good music is sold on June 23, 2017! Go grab that album and tell her we sent ya! Verite’s music is available on iTunes, Spotify, Pandora, YouTube, Soundcloud, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, & Apple Music. The Deconstructionist’s Podcast is mixed and edited by Nicholas Rowe at National Audio Preservation Society: A full service recording studio and creative habitat, located in Heath, Ohio. Find them on Facebook and Twitter or visit their website for more information. www.nationalaudiopreservationsociety.weebly.com www.facebook.com/nationalaudiopreservationsociety Twitter: @napsrecording Donation: If you’re digging what we’re doing here consider making a small donation. Maintaining a podcast isn’t cheap and every dollar donated helps us to keep this thing going. Money donated goes to helping to purchase research materials, maintenance of the website, storage of episodes, etc. Click the link below to donate: https://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Brand new T-Shirts now available! An original design by Joseph Ernst (@joernst1 on Instagram), this limited edition uni-sex t-shirt is soft and durable poly/cotton in charcoal grey with white screen printed graphic. Grab one to support your favorite podcast and remember when you embraced the beauty of your deconstruction. https://squareup.com/store/thedeconstructionists Find us on social media! www.thedeconstructionists.com Twitter: @deconstructcast Facebook: deconstructionistsanonymous Instagram: deconstructionistspodcast Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Readers gather around: Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity (Sundress Publications, 2016) is an anthology for a new era. As Cathy Park Hong states at the end of her New Republic essay, “There’s a New Movement in American Poetry and it is Not Kenneth Goldsmith”: “poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice. The era of Conceptual Poetry’s ahistorical nihilism is over and we have entered a new era, the poetry of social engagement.” This anthology stands with a significant few who are helping to usher in or marking this renewed time of social engagement through poetry. Up and coming poets are balking at the instruction to stay away from the political, the politicized, and the instigative. We are writing about the body as we have come to understand it, not a version sanitized for comfortable consumption. With two editors–Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth Smith–at the helm who were fully present in their responsibility to broadly represent the politics of identity, this anthology is unafraid. It refuses to apologize and instead insists that it is owed some genuflection. Unified in their disparate realities, these 65 poets sing, perform, and present their versions of life, love, and loss across spectrums and time lines. Listen here for four of these exceptional poets to share their work. This anthology, these poets, and these editors understand that literature has a responsibility to reinforce or establish empathy; it is not merely a mirror or means of self-appraisal, it has a responsibility to act as connective tissue. Pick up a copy of this anthology today. Share it, give it as a gift, teach it–let these poems flex and stretch throughout the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices