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: collective brightness
0 SRP at the West Hollywood Book Fair
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 ALA takes Burnings and Collective Brightness OVER THE RAINBOW
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Bryan Borland, Publisher
PHONE: (870) 723-6008
EMAIL: siblingrivalrypress@gmail.com
SIBLING RIVALRY PRESS TITLES HONORED BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
The American Library Association has unveiled its 2012 “Over the Rainbow” list of noteworthy LGBT books published between July 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011, and of four poetry titles included, two were published by Sibling Rivalry Press.
From the ALA website:
The committee’s mission is to create a bibliography of books that exhibit commendable literary quality and significant authentic lgbt content and are recommended for adults over age 18. It is not meant to be all inclusive, but is intended as an annual core list for readers and librarians searching for recommendations of a cross-section of the year’s titles.
We proudly congratulate Ocean Vuong, author of Burnings, and Kevin Simmonds, editor of Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality, as well as the over 100 poets featured in Collective Brightness.
Burnings
Ocean Vuong
ISBN: 978-0578070599
Available in print or eBook
Poetry. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker a literal refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee from his own skin, burning with the heat of awakening eroticism. As two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard says: “Ocean manages to imbue the desperation of his being alive—with a savage beauty. It is not just that Ocean can render pain as a kind of loveliness, but that his poetic line will not let you forget the hurt or the garish brilliance of your triumph; will not let you look away. These poems shatter us detail by detail because Ocean leaves nothing unturned, because every lived thing in his poems demands to be fed by you; to nourish you in turn. You will not leave these poems dissatisfied. They will fill you utterly.”
Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality
Kevin Simmonds, Editor
ISBN: 978-0983293194
Available in print
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United Kingdom, India, Malaysia, Japan and elsewhere), COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS gathers over 100 established and emerging contemporary LGBTIQ poets writing from and about various faiths, religions and spiritual traditions. Says Rigoberto González of National Book Critics Circle, “COLLECTIVE BRIGHTNESS sheds a shining light on a journey that no longer takes place in the dark. The glory of holding Kevin Simmonds’s anthology in one’s hands is that it burns as the sacred text of our queer times: heavy with burden, luminous with hope.”
ABOUT THE PRESS:
Located just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, Sibling Rivalry Press develops, publishes, and promotes outlaw artistic talent. Our aim is to create literary and poetic rock stars. We are also home to Assaracus, the world’s only print journal devoted to contemporary gay poetry. Learn more at www.siblingrivalrypress.com.
Read the Announcement from ALA
0 Press Material for Seattle Collective Brightness Reading
Another successful event. Word on the street is that Seattle has one of the best poetry audiences. Thanks to the Seattle Gay Times for the publicity, and thanks to Kevin, Jeremy, and Crystal for the representation.
0 Photographic Evidence: The Collective Brightness Book Tour
0 Forthcoming Collective Brightness Events & Readings
10/07 Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, Raney Building, 3:30pm
10/13 Metropolitan Community Church New York, 446 West 36th St, 6:30pm
10/15 William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., Philadelphia, 3pm
10/15 Lit Crawl, Doc’s Clock, 2575 Mission St., San Francisco, 8:30pm
10/16 Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC, 5pm
10/17 Rutgers University, Department of English, Murray Hall, 7pm
10/19 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd., New York, 6pm
10/21 London Buddhist Centre, London, 7:30pm
10/26 University Baptist Church in Dinkytown, Minneapolis, 7pm
11/05 Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, 2pm
11/10 Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., 6pm
3/22-25, Split This Rock Poetry Festival, Washington, DC, TBA
