Tag: Sundress Publication

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Secure Your Own Mask by Shaindel Beers

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this selection comes from Shaindel Beers’s book, Secure Your Own Mask available from White Pine Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Nilsa Rivera.

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems (Salt, 2013), and Secure Your Own Mask (White Pine Press, 2018). Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently an instructor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, in eastern Oregon’s desert, and serves as poetry editor of Contrary. 

Nilsa Rivera writes about gender and diversity issues (including domestic violence, child neglect, homelessness, and sexual abuse). She’s also the Managing Editor of The Wardrobe for Sundress Publications. Nilsa’s work appears in the Huffington Post, 50 GS Magazine, Six Hens Literary Journal, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Selkie Literary Magazine. It’s also been featured at Miami Book Fair’s LipService True Stories out Loud Miami, the Writing Class Radio podcast, and at the “Muses and Music” multidisciplinary event of the Cream Literary Alliance.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved by Kai Naima Williams

This selection comes from Kai Naima Williams’s chapbook, He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved available from Hyacinth Girl Press .  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Kai Naima Williams is a poet, spoken word performer and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in Mask Magazine, DRØME Magazine, For The Sonorous, The AmerAsia Journal, and Literary Manhattan. She has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the New York Times. She is also a co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization Eat At The Table Theatre Company.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved by Kai Naima Williams

This selection comes from Kai Naima Williams’s chapbook, He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved available from Hyacinth Girl Press .  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Kai Naima Williams is a poet, spoken word performer and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in Mask Magazine, DRØME Magazine, For The Sonorous, The AmerAsia Journal, and Literary Manhattan. She has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the New York Times. She is also a co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization Eat At The Table Theatre Company.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved by Kai Naima Williams

This selection comes from Kai Naima Williams’s chapbook, He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved available from Hyacinth Girl Press .  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Kai Naima Williams is a poet, spoken word performer and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in Mask Magazine, DRØME Magazine, For The Sonorous, The AmerAsia Journal, and Literary Manhattan. She has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the New York Times. She is also a co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization Eat At The Table Theatre Company.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved by Kai Naima Williams

This selection comes from Kai Naima Williams’s chapbook, He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved available from Hyacinth Girl Press .  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Kai Naima Williams is a poet, spoken word performer and fiction writer based in New York City. Her work has been featured in Mask Magazine, DRØME Magazine, For The Sonorous, The AmerAsia Journal, and Literary Manhattan. She has been honored by the National YoungArts Foundation, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival and the New York Times. She is also a co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization Eat At The Table Theatre Company.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Blue Hallelujas by Cynthia Manick

This selection comes from Cynthia Manick‘s Collection of Poetry, Blue Hallelujahs, available from Black Lawrence Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Manick was also awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue; and her poem “Things I Carry Into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and most recently the Brooklyn Museum, Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Blue Hallelujas by Cynthia Manick

This selection comes from Cynthia Manick‘s Collection of Poetry, Blue Hallelujahs, available from Black Lawrence Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Manick was also awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue; and her poem “Things I Carry Into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and most recently the Brooklyn Museum, Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Blue Hallelujas by Cynthia Manick

 

This selection comes from Cynthia Manick‘s Collection of Poetry, Blue Hallelujahs, available from Black Lawrence Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Manick was also awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue; and her poem “Things I Carry Into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and most recently the Brooklyn Museum, Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Blue Hallelujas by Cynthia Manick

Ethel September

Your rocking chair sways by itself now,
a phantom southern belle of floral cotton

the snapping of peas nipping at tips. In your
youth, twirling in taffeta and silk, a pastel fan,

a curve of lip, you’re a debutante. Feet bare
of cloth, you run through fields, ants on ankles—

belly moving to the sound of bullfrogs. Holding
your hand and a strand of poppies, your brother

leads you to a tree where peaches fly. And there
you sit, stuffing pits of cherries into the side

of your cheeks and nose. Have you seen Mr. Nat?
They placed him in a wicker chair, brown toes

cocked up towards the Carolinas. The cancer flies
gathered in his pockets, death followed and settled.

Is he there yet? Now you are on the porch. That house
of white shutters and long-necked bottles of coke.

My father lies on your lap, head lolled to crickets, and
you begin to sing, “mah honey, mah honey, mah honey.”

This selection comes from Cynthia Manick‘s Collection of Poetry, Blue Hallelujahs, available from Black Lawrence Press.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Kristin LaTour.

Cynthia Manick is the author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Manick was also awarded Honorable Mention for the 2019 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. She is Founder and Curator of the reading series Soul Sister Revue; and her poem “Things I Carry Into the World” was made into a film by Motionpoems, a organization dedicated to video poetry, and has debuted on Tidal for National Poetry Month. A performer at literary festivals, libraries, universities, and most recently the Brooklyn Museum, Manick’s work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Kweli Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Kristin LaTour’s poems are found in the ful-llength What Will Keep Us Alive (Sundress 2015), and four chapbooks including Mend (Sundress 2018 online). Her poems have been published by Tinderbox, Massachusetts Review, Rhino, and other journals. She is shopping her second manuscript and writing a third while teaching composition courses and living life to the fullest as a feminist.

The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed: Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy

 

Go Anywhere

A Phoenix park ranger discovered a petroglyph

had been excised. She followed the trail rut

to the McMansion of a man who answered

his door dressed in a towel, the stolen rock

well-lit above his mantel. And what is there

to say? I’m certain there are topics about which

I know nothing. I moved from Ohio to this desert

with two suitcases and a poorly laid plan. The first

week I was here I called the landlord to complain

about dust and he explained monsoons to me.

I’m still bitching my way through triple digits.

If you could go anywhere, where would you go?

You and I can, now that all four of our parents died.

I thought I’d move to France, maybe lose too much

weight. But I fell in love with you and here we are.

So now what? Will we go to the Costco, maybe Home

Depot? I don’t know. I don’t know if we’ll have time.

Should we go to the park, help ourselves to free wall art?

Since living here already feels like stealing?

 

  —

This selection comes from Patricia Colleen Murphy’s Collection of Poetry, Bully Love, available from Press 53.  Purchase your copy here! Our curator for this selection is Danielle Hanson.

Patricia Colleen Murphy founded Superstition Review at Arizona State University, where she teaches creative writing and magazine production. She won the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry with her collection Bully Love, published as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.  Her collection Hemming Flames (Utah State University Press) won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award, judged by Stephen Dunn, and the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Award. A chapter from her memoir-in-progress was published as a chapbook by New Orleans Review. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Danielle Hanson is the author of Fraying Edge of Sky (Codhill Press Poetry Prize, 2018) and Ambushing Water (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2017).  Her work has appeared in over 70 journals, won the Vi Gale Award from Hubbub, was Finalist for 2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award and was nominated for several Pushcarts and Best of the Nets.  She is Poetry Editor for Doubleback Books, and is on the staff of the Atlanta Review. Her poetry has been the basis for visual art included in the exhibit EVERLASTING BLOOM at the Hambidge Center Art Gallery, and Haunting the Wrong House, a puppet show at the Center for Puppetry Arts. More about her at daniellejhanson.com.