Building a community for trans* poets

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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