The Chapbook

We're taking a short break at the end of the year and dropped this brief message to express our thanks and encourage listeners to reach out with their chapbook news, questions, and comments. 

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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Ross & Noah welcome Stephanie Lane Sutton to the pod and go behind the scenes at THE POET IS IN a live-streaming poetry event weekly on Twitch.

Sutton's webpage: http://stephanielanesutton.com/read.html
Sutton on Twitch (as AthenaSleepsIn): https://www.twitch.tv/athenasleepsin
SHINY INSECT SEX: https://bullcitypress.com/product/shiny-insect-sex-inch-38/
Garden Door Press, publisher of THE CONNOISSEUR by Cat Ingrid Leeches (which at the time of this posting is sold out): http://www.garden-doorpress.com/store

Stephanie Lane Sutton was born in Detroit. Her short prose can be found in The Offing, Black Warrior Review and The Adroit Journal, as well as in the micro-chapbook Shiny Insect Sex (Bull City Press). Her poetry has appeared in Glass, Tinderbox, and THRUSH Poetry Journal, among others. In 2019, she received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Miami. Previously she lived in Chicago, where she taught performance poetry at Phoenix Military Academy.

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Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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October 2021 News You Can Use: excerpts from chaps, upcoming new releases, chapbook submissions, and a listener writes in to ask: what are some ways you've seen chapbook authors create connections within a collection?

links related to this episode:

• Gasher Journal & Press
• FACING THE MIRROR: AN ESSAY by Katherine Indermaur (COAST|noCOAST)
• Ursus Americanus Press 
• Hunger Journal & Press
• BREAKING POINTS by Chelsea Stickle (Black Lawrence Press)
• New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane) editors Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani (Akashic Books)
• VALLEY OF WANT by Ross White (Unicorn Press) 
• Sunken Garden Poetry Prize (Tupelo Press) 
• Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Beloit Poetry Journal)

send in your chapbook news, suggestions, and comments here: chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!

Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here.

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Noah & Ross sit down with poet Taylor Byas to talk about her chapbook BLOODWARM. 

Links of interest:

• Taylor Byas website
• BLOODWARM 
• Variant Literature 

Taylor Byas is a Black poet and essayist. Originally from Chicago, she moved to Alabama for six years, where she received both her Bachelor’s degree in English and her Master’s degree in English (Creative Writing concentration) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Taylor currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio where she is a third year PhD student and Albert C. Yates Scholar at the University of Cincinnati studying poetry. She is also an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. 

She has received five Pushcart and six Best of the Net nominations, and has won a Best Microfiction Award. She is also the 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway Contest, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets, the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2020 Frontier OPEN Prize, and an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Ninth Letter Literary Award in Poetry. Her chapbook, BLOODWARM, is out now from Variant Lit (2021). Her debut full-length poetry collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in the Spring of 2023.

She is represented by Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency.

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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 website

Jason 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.com
Instagram: jasonbcrawford
Twitter:  @jasonbcrawford
Facebook: By Jason B. Crawford

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Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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Submission season is heating up and so we spend this episode talking about cover letters: what our cover letters look like, suggestions about drafting your own, and how the cover letter impacts editors. 

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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Noah & Ross sit down with poet, translator, editor, & teacher Ruben Quesada to talk about his new substack PROMOTION FOR POETS.

Links of interest from this episode:

Ruben Quesada website

Be sure to sign up for Promotions for Poets (substack)

Revelations (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Ruben Quesada

Charles Olson essay on Projectice Verse

Headwaters (WW Norton) by Ellen Bryant Voigt

The Art of Syntax (Graywolf) by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Ruben Quesada is a neurodivergent, gay, Latinx poet. A native Angeleno, Ruben was raised by Costa Rican immigrant parents. He is the author of Revelations, Next Extinct Mammal, and translator of Exiled from the Throne of Night: Selected Translations of Luis Cernuda. He is a recipient of an Individual Artist grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events at the City of Chicago. He is producing a short documentary film on Latinx poetry.  

After receiving a PhD in English, Ruben moved to Illinois in 2012. Soon after, with the mentorship of founding members from Canto Mundo Poetry, Macondo, and the Institute of Latino Letters | Letras Latinas, Ruben founded the Latinx Caucus at the AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) Conference. Since 2015, the Latinx Caucus has been led by a leadership team of poets and writers who represent intersectional identities from the Americas.                 

In 2015, Ruben moved to Chicago to launch the Logan’s Run Readings series. This series was the nation’s only Latinx literary salon and featured poets and writers including Daniel Borzutzky, Erika L. Sanchez, David Campos, Wendy C. Ortiz, and Diego Báez. For the past 15 years, Ruben has taught literature and creative writing. He’s taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts, University of California-Riverside, The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, Northwestern University, and UCLA Writers’ Program. He teaches as an Associate Teaching Fellow at the Attic Institute. 

Ruben has written for Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, Cobalt, and Chicago Review of Books. Recently, he worked as poetry editor at AGNI and guest editor at PANK. In his spare time, he manages Mercy Street Readings, a live, literary broadcast. He is editing a special folio of LGBTQIA+ poetry for the spring 2022 issue of Pleiades magazine.

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Titles that appear in this episode:

• Scram Press
• Adjusting to the Lights by Tom C. Hunley (Rattle)
• Common Ancestors by Noa Covo (Thirty West Publishing House)
• Breaking Points by Chelsea Stickle (Black Lawrence Press)
• American Home by Sean Cho (Autumn House Press)
• Black Under by Ashanti Anderson (Black Lawrence Press)
• Fire Sermons by Raye Hendrix (Ghost City Press)

Submission opportunities in this episode:

• Seven Kitchens Press 
• Sixth Finch 
• Black Lawrence Press

Be sure to send questions, comments, and suggestions to: chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com 

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!

Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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Ross & Noah sit down with Anthony Frame, co-founding editor of Glass Poetry Press. Frame gives a glimpse behind the scenes at Glass, shares his commitment to their family of authors, and talks about the annual Glass Poetry chapbook series.

Anthony Frame, co-founding editor of Glass Poetry Press, is an exterminator from Toledo, Ohio, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of the book, A Generation of Insomniacs (Main Street Rag Press, 2014) and four chapbooks, the latest Where Wind Meets Wing is out now from Sibling Rivalry Press. His poems have appeared or will appear at Crab Creek Review and Third Coast, among many other journals. His work has been awarded Individual Excellence Grants from the Ohio Arts Council in 2014 and 2016. Find out more about Anthony at his website here.

Thank you for listening to The Chapbook!

Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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Noah & Ross welcome Ann Hudson to talk about her new chapbook GLOW—which looks at Marie Curie & the mysteries of radium—and they’re joined by GLOW publisher Laura Van Prooyen of Next Page Press!

Ann Hudson is the author of The Armillary Sphere (Ohio University Press), which was selected by Mary Kinzie as the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Ann is a senior editor for Rhino and teaches at a Montessori school in Evanston, Illinois. Find out more about Ann at her website here.

Publisher Laura Van Prooyen is a poet herself with a number of collections to her name. She has over 20 years experience teaching poetry and writing. Laura serves as the Managing Editor of The Cortland Review and is launching Next Page Press, with its first title Glow to be released October 2021.

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Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah
Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite
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