Building a community for trans* poets
Show notes
There's a saying that if you don't see the thing you wish existed, you should make it yourself. In 2023, this is what brooklyn baggett did with creating new words {press}, a "trans* and gender-expansive nonprofit poetry press."
brooklyn explains why she started the press out of a sense of activism while also creating space for trans* poets.
What's discussed in this episode:
- Why and how brooklyn founded a literary press
- Why literary presses can also be a hub of community building
- Why and how trans poets are shutout from the mainstream publishing opportunities
- What trans, queer, gender-expansive writing means and looks like.
- Why new words {press} is for every kind of reader
- Lots of book and author recommendations!
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