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We Can't Read This

We Can't Read This

by Meg Day

Ephemera

Ephemera

Miniatures

from A Book of Poems on Beauty

from A Book of Poems on Beauty

by Anne Lesley Selcer

We Can't Read This

We Can't Read This

by Meg Day

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A Conversation with Rion Amilcar Scott

A Conversation with Rion Amilcar Scott

Jamie Klingensmith: Many of your stories, such as “Checkmates” and “Good Times,” which appear in your collection Insurrections, explore the question of masculinity. Since Gazing Grain Press is an inclusive feminist press, how do you think this question of masculinity, or what it means to be a man, a son, or a father, relates to inclusive feminism? Rion Amilcar Scott: So many of the men in Insurrections suffer from their own mistaken assumptions about what masculinity is. For

An Interview with Melissa Studdard

Sarah Marcus: Cate Marvin wrote of your stunning debut poetry collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast (Saint Julian Press), “In so many ways the poems in this book read like paintings, touching and absorbing the light of the known world while fingering the soul until it lifts, trembling.” Which is exactly how these poems made me feel, but I also had the sense that the “known world” was also somehow secret. The poem “In Another Dimension, We Are Making Love” ends with: “Eve

Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Review: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ann Leckie Ancillary Justice Orbit Books, 2013 Paperback, $15.00 416 pages Space opera. A place where you can easily slip into writing more male heroes with maybe one female tag-along who ends up being cool. In her multiple award-winning debut novel Ancillary Justice, first of a planned trilogy, Ann Leckie shows readers that she isn’t interested in the easy way. Her narrator Breq, later revealed to be a “segment” of a larger AI consciousness that was destroyed twenty years

Come #femsummer with Gazing Grain Press!

Earlier this #femsummer, the editors at Gazing Grain Press tweeted and shared on Facebook their top picks for a feminist summer reading list—and a few of our friends and followers chimed in with theirs as well! Here’s the list; curl up in your favorite shady spot and read on, because there’s still time this summer to make it a #femsummer! The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, recommended by GGP co-editor Liz Women’s rights evaporate in this dystopia, where women able to bea

Adrienne Celt Talks About Her First Novel, Comics, and Feminism

Adrienne Celt Talks About Her First Novel, Comics, and Feminism

Sarah Marcus: As you are aware, I am an avid follower of your comics blog, loveamongthelampreys.com, where animals have very rich inner lives and thoughts about the world. Of course, one of my all time favorite posts is bear related. How do you come up with the dialogue for your comics? What's your "process?" (I know, sorry to ask that.) What do you hope that hybrid forms might argue or accomplish? Adrienne Celt: I'm delighted you picked that particular doleful polar bear – h

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