Experimental Feminist Poetics Since 1974
On Friday, September 24, 2021 we gathered virtually to celebrate the release of deposition | dispossession: Climate Change in the Sundarbans, the posthumously published work by Marthe Reed. This virtual event, viewable below, featured contributions from Laura Mullen, Angela Hume, Bhanu Kapil, Kimberly Alidio, Dana Teen Lomax, Mark Lamoureux, Anastacia-Reneé, and others.
Thank you to all who participated! deposition | dispossession is available for purchase here.
Mihee Kim, winner of the QTBIPOC Contest, will read with Aja Couchois Duncan, Truong Tran and Jean Day at Small Press Traffic on December 3, 2021 at 7pm PST. The reading is Celebrating the release of two new books by Bay Area poets Aja Couchois Duncan (Vestigial, Litmus Press) and Truong Tran (Book of the Other, Kaya Press).
To attend the event in person at The Lab, RSVP with Small Press Traffic. The event will be live streamed and then archived at SPT's YouTube channel.
Mihee Kim's Nomenclature has been selected as the winner of Kelsey Street Press's inaugural QTBIPOC Book Contest, a free contest open to QTBIPOC-identified poets. Mihee's winning manuscript was chosen by juror Metta Sáma, author of Swing at your own risk (Kelsey Street Press, 2019), out of a submission pool of 120 manuscripts.
Sáma says of Nomenclature: "the line holds power in these poems; the impulse is the story; the stylistic experiment is about the shape of story, the complicity of language in building story through shape, through prose."
The contest provides publication along with a $1,000 cash award. Ching-In Chen, winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Poetry for recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017), will serve as editor along with a Kelsey Street Press collective member.
Mihee Kim is a writer, visual artist, and cultural organizer. She works intuitively across disciplines and traditions, foraying between writing, multi-modal collage, painting, and craft forms. Her writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, a Pushcart Prize, and her manuscript Nomenclature was named a finalist for the Bergman Prize. She earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA at California College of the Arts, where she was awarded the Leslie Scalapino Award. Mihee is also managing director of Kearny Street Workshop, a longstanding arts nonprofit for Asian Pacific Americans. She creates on Chochenyo Ohlone land, also known as beloved Oakland, California. See more of Mihee’s work here: https://www.MiheeKim.art/
Thank you to all who submitted to the prize, and congratulations to the finalists: jayy dodd, Jai Dulani, Vuyelwa Malulek, Ansley Moon, Maggie Rhee, and Ximena Keogh Serrano.
Photo credit: Neha Deshmukh @whatthewatergivesme