Lisa Donovan was a finalist in the 2014 FIRSTS! Contest with her manuscript Red of Split Water, a burial rite. This long hybrid text uses fractured memoir and elliptical address to make meaning from loss while refusing to impose reconciliation. From Red of Split Water, a burial …
Marjorie Stein’s first book An Atlas of Lost Causes was published by Kelsey Street Press in 2011. This week, she’s shared new writing with us from an ongoing project. In her own words: I’m currently working on a project which uses Herman Melville’s Moby Dick to generate the poems. Each …
Reading Period: August 15–September 15, 2014 2015 Judge: Myung Mi Kim In this series of first books by emerging writers, Kelsey Street Press continues to link its editorial policy of addressing the marginalization of women writers to a poetics of allowance that encourages women to write directly from their own …