When Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won the DIAGRAM chapbook contest for a project that was “generated” using chatGPT, there was enormous backlash from the writing community. I wrote about the controversy for the AI issue of reason

reason.com/2024/05/07/ai-…

'I decided that every time I perform my poems about Palestine at readings, I will also incorporate my love poems... so the audience will see me as a full person.'

Read 'My Love Poems Are the Most Palestinian Thing About Me' by Mandy Shunnarah (they/them/habibi) FREE 🇵🇸

theoffingmag.com/insight/my-lov…

Did you miss Alvina Chamberland's interview with Vogue Magazine?

vogue.com/article/alvina…

Congratulations 💫 Poetry Essays Fiction 💫! You can buy her Vermont Book Award-winning ASSIA here: noemipress.org/catalog/prose/…

Hi! I won the Vermont Book Award in Fiction Noemi Press thank you for believing in this book.

Thanks in part to grants and generous rates we've been given by our new distributor, we have been able to reduce our need from $25,000 to $20,000. Noemi is now almost 85% to our new goal, and there is still time for you to help us get there!

gofundme.com/f/support-noem…

With the recent SPD closure, independent presses need our help more than ever. Vivienne Germain and Willem Marx put together a list of small presses you can support right now.

Please feel free to tag other presses/post fundraiser links in the replies! buff.ly/3QkjCPj

Less thank one week left to submit your full-length poetry manuscript to our annual book award!

noemipress.submittable.com/submit

We look forward to reading your work!

June Jordan, from A Place of Rage, 1991.

ATTN: Nonprofit Small Presses affected by SPD’s closure— as a current Poetry Foundation grantee, we were one of the presses mentioned in the announcement that received expedited support (it’s listed as an offline donation in our GoFundMe). Apply if you have unexpected costs!

National Poetry Month may be ending next week but we celebrate poetry all year! We recommend adding MOUTHS by Claire Marie Stancek to your reading list.

noemipress.org/catalog/poetry…

Our next Brown Bag Lit event is in two weeks from today! We look forward to welcoming Nicole Haroutunian, author of Choose this Now (Noemi Press), in conversation with Helen Georgas.
brownbaglit.com/events

and by craft i mean unruly interiority, a flirty gay deity, conversations with friends, arguments with institutions, inventories within restless, an Idea here & there, what's in my bag, a glue stick, an eyelash, painterly detours, björk, and thirst

Been admiring the work of the poetry editors at The Rumpus for years, hyped to share new work as part of NaPoMo, from my *gulp* new project.

This poem circles around displacement, data, and finding my late grandfather in a certain monolith’s “mapview.”

therumpus.net/2024/04/15/nat…

More small press news coverage.
'Why the shut-down of a book distributor caused chaos for bookstores and publishers'

Read the story on Los Angeles Daily News
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#SmallPress #IndiePress

Interns at VT English learn, like we all do, 'How to Pivot'. In addition to our extensive editorial work, we teach students about small press publishing & give them opportunities to participate. We are still raising money due to losses from SPD's closure: gofundme.com/f/support-noem…

Love the World or Get Killed Trying, by my brilliant friend Alvina Chamberland, is out now with Noemi Press and 100% lives up to its fabulous cover (Irish book sellers, stock this book plz!)

In 2014, I entered the Noemi contest while pregnant. Carmen took a chance on me for the Akrilica series. For me, a debut poet, they gave my book space for visual experiments and full color photos. This is why indie presses matter. Support Noemi Press: gofundme.com/f/support-noem…

Yay! Whatever happens, this is a win for everyone who has built a literary career with small presses...(many are struggling now with what happened to SPD). Please donate to Noemi if you can.

We are so thrilled that ASSIA by 💫 Poetry Essays Fiction 💫 is a finalist for the Vermont Book Award! vermontpublic.org/local-news/202…