One of our six Pushcart nominations, Ocean Vuong’s “Self-Portrait with Exit Wounds,” has won a Pushcart Prize and will be featured in the next Pushcart anthology. The poem first appeared in ASSARACUS ISSUE 08. Congratulations, Ocean!
Category: Assaracus
1 ASSARACUS GETS MAKEOVER WITH ISSUE 09
Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry debuts its new look with January’s Issue 09, which features cover art by Phillip Wade and includes poems by Douglas Ray, Jason Roush, and other emerging and established gay poets.
0 PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE No. 2: A SPELL FOR TYLER CLEMENTI by ANTHONY LIOI
We’re pleased to announce the second of our six Pushcart Prize nominees: “A Spell for Tyler Clementi” by Anthony Lioi from Assaracus: Issue 07. Congratulations, Anthony! Click HERE to read “A Spell for Tyler Clementi.”
2 Photos from the First-Ever Assaracus Reading (March 23, CUNY in NYC)
1 SRP Takes New York (Again)
It’s shaping up to be a big weekend for Sibling Rivalry Press. It all starts Friday night with ASSARACUS: A CELEBRATION OF GAY POETRY:
Sponsored by the Rainbow Book Fair, Belhue Press,
Sibling Rivalry Press, and CLAGS (Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies)
at The City University of New York Graduate Center
Room C198, Concourse Level
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10016
7:30 - 9:30 PM
On March 23, 2012, the night before the Rainbow Book Fair, CLAGS (The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies) and Sibling Rivalry Press present Assaracus: A Celebration of Gay Poetry. For the first time, poets from the first six issues of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry will read together, legend alongside rising, established next to emerging. Assaracus was created in the spirit of community and brotherhood. Assaracus: A Celebration of Gay Poetry will showcase those themes through the collective voices some of gay poetry’s brightest contemporary writers – in one place, at one time.
The night will also feature the launch of Assaracus: Issue 06 (featuring cover art by Seth Ruggles Hiler), and include remarks on gay publishing and poetry from Ian Young, groundbreaking founder of Catalyst Press and editor of The Male Muse, an early, daring, and important anthology of gay poets.
Come kick off Rainbow Book Fair weekend with the Assaracus poets. Free & open to the public.
Confirmed readers: Christopher Hennessy, Matthew Hittinger, Frank J Miles, Stephen Scott Mills, Eric Norris, Philip F. Clark, Collin Kelley, Michael Klein, Evan J. Peterson, Steven Riel, Robert Siek, Bryan Borland, Steven Cordova, Chuck Willman, Philip (No F.) Clark, Joseph Harker, Emanuel Xavier, Isaiah Vianese, David-Glen Smith, Christopher Gaskins, Perry Brass, Guillermo Filice Castro, Nicolas Destino, D. Gilson, Glenn Phillips, Patrick Stevens, and remarks by Ian Young.
THEN, on Saturday, March 24, don’t miss SRP at the Rainbow Book Fair, happening at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street in NYC. We’ll be at Table A3 next to Belhue Press. Collin Kelley will be at our table at 2:00, and Stephen S. Mills will being reading from He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices at 3:00. We’ll have special book fair prices on all our titles, including the not-yet released Assaracus Issue 06, and we’ll give away a couple of subscriptions to Assaracus.
The Rainbow Book Fair is where Sibling Rivalry Press began. It’s the only largest LGBT book fair in the world and every year it gets better and better. You don’t want to miss this, folks.
0 SRP at AWP
We’re stealing the following from our Facebook status update for convenience – not for lack of creativity! SRP at AWP? Yup. In true outlaw fashion, we’ll be with the PEOPLE. Or at least carrying around a backpack full of books going from reading to reading and event to event. Bryan’s at the BLOOM presents DIVINING DIVAS reading Thursday night. Matthew Hittinger, Stephen Mills, Kevin Simmonds, Virginia Bell, Brad Richard, Michael Klein, Tyler Gillespie, and Saeed Jones will also be at various events and readings. See us. Love us. Say hello.
But there is one update. We’ll be hanging out with Lawrence Schimel a bit on Thursday and Friday – Table O17, so if you visit the always-worthwhile Midsummer Night’s Press table (and you if you dig SRP, you should!), you might catch some combination of us there.
If you send us an email in the next few days, you probably won’t hear back until Monday, but we’ll still compulsively check our inbox while we’re gone. (That means to those who are sending poetry manuscript submissions, we’ll acknowledge receipt when we return – so don’t worry if you don’t get something back immediately.)
To everyone traveling, have a safe trip!
1 The Women of Assaracus: Lady Business
Announcing the featured poets for the first issue of Assaracus: Lady Business – coming in August from SRP:
Sally Bellerose
Brit Blalock
Cassandra Christenson
Marty Correia
Teresa De La Cruz
Julie Enszer
Gina Evers
Andy Izenson
Ronna Magy
Mary Meriam
Maureen Seaton
Jan Steckel
0 SALE!
Through Wednesday, November 30, use code SHOPINDIE at checkout from the SRP store and get an extra 20% off! We can accommodate any gift-giving secrecy, mail to any address, even add a holiday card to your order. Just email us at siblingrivalrypress@gmail.com following your purchase with any special instructions. Thank you for supporting SRP! We love you! (Yes – you!)
0 Assaracus – The Masthead Expands
I am pleased to announce that Kevin Simmonds is joining the Assaracus team as Associate Editor. Kevin is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His writing appears in journals such as Asia Literary Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Kyoto Journal and Poetry. His music and performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3, PBS and Japan’s NHK Television and at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Japan’s Nakano Sun Plaza and the National Black Theatre Festival. feti(sh)ame, his genre-defying short film, based entirely on his poetry, has screened internationally and been hailed by Los Angeles film critic Ernest Hardy as “an elegantly profane meditation on desire.” Mad for Meat, his debut collection, is on its way soon from Salmon Poetry. In short, Kevin gets things done.
My relationship with Kevin is another connection made possible by the late John Stahle. I met Kevin while editing Ganymede Unfinished, and from that interaction, Kevin pitched me Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality. I’ve been consistently impressed by Kevin’s approach to the project, from his strict adherence to the poets’ formatting desires to his successful campaign to schedule Collective Brightness readings worldwide. But most importantly, Kevin and I share an appreciation for the art and possibility of poetry. Sibling Rivalry Press and Assaracus are lucky to have him.
Look for his first contributions to the journal in January’s issue.
- Bryan
