Biotic Portal at Strawberry Creek is a project by poets Denise Newman and Hazel White based out of the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, where they held open studio hours from October 2015 through June of 2016. During this time, they worked toward building an Index, a book-length catalog of conversations …
Last month we were proud to release Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow, the first full-length book of poetry by Steffi Drewes. Praise from Brian Teare for this new title: This is one of the most exuberant debuts I’ve ever read. Precious few poets go so undaunted by the extravagant …
We are pleased to announce the release of Deus Ex Machina: A Melodrama by Jennifer Pilch, the winner of the 2015 Kelsey Street Press Firsts! Contest, selected by contest judge Myung Mi Kim. The book is now available for immediate shipment and can be purchased directly through our website. Booksellers may order the title through our distributor. from the …
This month, we are proud to release Rings by Jasmine Dreame Wagner, the winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press Firsts! Contest. Praise for Rings from contest judge Elizabeth Robinson: Jasmine Dreame Wagner’s Rings spirals through the alphabet with both velocity and precision. To read this poetry is to feel your pulse …
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 …
A few words in retrospect about the “Embodiment, Gender and Experimental Writing” panel held Tuesday April 8th at 5:30 in the Rare Book room of the library at Mills College—One of many events held to mark Kelsey St Press’s Fortieth anniversary year The casual and formal feeling returns along with …
Thanks to Laura Sydell, Digital Culture Correspondent for NPR (National Public Radio), for her thoughtful remarks: Etel Adnan’s aptly named Premonition is a wizened work that finds simple beauty in “a beloved face” and more than words can say “in another tempest, this one in me.” The poem is like waking from …
For our 40th anniversary, six of our eight press members traveled to the AWP Conference in Seattle, including press co-founders Patricia Dienstfrey and Rena Rosenwasser and press members Steffi Drewes, Anna Morrison, MG Roberts, and Hazel White. We were excited to have an anniversary reading planned as part of the …
Premonition by Etel Adnan Etel Adnan has enjoyed a distinguished career as a poet, playwright and visual artist. Her rich body of work documents an unblinking witness to beauty in nature, human beings and art; to cruelty, especially as enacted in the mindless violence of war; and to the power …