The Chapbook

We chat with Adrie Rose the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of the brand new NINE SYLLABLES PRESS.

UPDATE: Nine Syllables Press twitter: https://twitter.com/9SyllablesPress 

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/about

Adrie 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!

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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/

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We've got the latest chapbook titles and chapbook submission deadlines in this month's NEWS YOU CAN USE! 

NEW TITLES

Something Bright by Ryler Dustin (Green Linden Press):  https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/something-bright

At 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/

SUBMISSIONS

THE FLORIDA REVIEW: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/submit/chapbook-contest/

THE MASTERS REVIEW: https://mastersreview.com/chapbook-contest/

SIXTH FINCH: https://sixthfinch.com/submit

MINERVA RISING PRESS: https://minervarising.com/submissions/chapbook-submissions/

DIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contest

also check out submission databases at:

HEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/

DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunities

CHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.com

PODCASTS

POEMS ON AIR: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/podcasts/poems-on-air

FIRST DRAFT: https://firstdraftwriters.com/about

BETWEEN THE COVERS: https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/

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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/

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Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite 

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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.com

author twitter: https://twitter.com/_rayehendrix

Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press): https://bottlecap.press/products/journal

Frank O'Hara at Poets.Org: https://poets.org/poet/frank-ohara

Tsunami Books (Eugene, Oregon): http://www.tsunamibooks.org/ 

Thank You Books (Birmingham, Alabama): https://thankyoubookshop.com/

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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_torres

Author site:  https://www.angelanarcisotorres.com

To The Bone (Sundress): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/tothebone

We All Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan by Naoko Fujimoto | author website: https://www.naokofujimoto.com

Terrance Hayes: https://terrancehayes.com/about/

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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/isjonespoetry

Author site:  https://www.isjones.com

Brooklyn Poets: https://brooklynpoets.org

Spells 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.com

Women & Children First (Chicago): https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah

Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite 

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Coming in right under the wire, we've got August 2022's NEWS YOU CAN USE!

Titles

NERVOUS 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-fellowships

MINESWEEPER 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-chapbooks

Podcasts

TPQ20 The Poetry Question: https://thepoetryquestion.com/category/tpq20/

Of Poetry Podcast: https://ofpoetrypodcast.wordpress.com

Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast: https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com

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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/chloepoet

See 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

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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.net

W. 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.com

SLASH / SLASH by Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko (Diode Editions): https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/slash-slash-by-amorak-huey-w-todd-kaneko

POETRY: 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/715c6e1f

EQUILIBRIUM by Tiana Clark (Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/equilibrium/

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