Sarah Marcus: What roles does feminism and the idea of inclusive feminism play in your life and in your writing? Anne Lesley Selcer: Feminism is one tool thru which I understand the constant misidentification of my power. Its theories then help me understand the cumulative effects of those constant misidentifications (or obstructions, oppositions) and the structures which support, enforce and dictate them. I am interested deciphering the material relations which enclose my bo

We've always been proud of the exceptional quality of writing we receive from our submitters, and of the selections we have been able to highlight as winners and runners-up in our annual chapbook contest. During our first three years publishing chaps, we've had the privilege of working with incredibly talented writers, and we'd like to take a moment to let you know about the incredible stream of book publications that this crew has coming down the pipes this year. If you enjo

Khadijah Queen I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013 Digital Chapbook, $3.00 18 pages Khadijah Queen, author of the full-length collections Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008) and Black Peculiar (Noemi 2010), has a new digital chapbook available for download from Sibling Rivalry Press: I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On. The chap opens with the following directive: “This is a work of fiction.” More specifically, it is a

This week, take a listen to a wonderful podcast from the Poetry Foundation called "What does gender have to do with it?" In it, poets TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson discuss their excellent new anthology, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). Our favorite part occurs at 5:20, when Tolbert reads Laura Neuman's poem, "Everybody," from hir 2012 Gazing Grain chapbook, The Busy Life. Enjoy! #Authors #LauraNeuman