According to Michelle Tea, SALVE by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier contains “intimate, gutsy, heartbreaking stories—stories about having bodies and having histories, having desire and having had desire.”
From @NomadicPressOak, @BlackLawrence & our #APAHM list: https://t.co/Blum1tAGYY
Here’s Kevin Madrigal Galindo’s (@kmadgalindo) list poem from Issue 12: anxiety, SpongeBob, and a fruiting nopal among other striking images. Issue 12 is available from https://t.co/B8gTdI8B0k and Kevin’s Hell/a Mexican pamphlet is available from @NomadicPressOak!
❤️🌵🍋🟩
Welcome our judge (1 of 2) for the Marin #YouthPoetLaureate program, Ryan Nakano, an Okinawan/Japanese American #poet and author of debut #chapbook I Am Minor (Feb 2023) by @NomadicPressOak / @BlackLawrence.
Register for YPL event April 23 @millvalleylib: https://t.co/y9LH3Bh0MP
'The Town' anthology is a "love letter" to Oakland, edited by @wordslanger and J.K. Fowler @NomadicPressOak and featuring 65 Oakland poets. https://t.co/ntElc0N0F4
Hey Tribe!!! TGIF!! Here’s our book rec list for this weekend paying homage to the canon of writers from The Watering Hole and beyond.
This week lineup features :
Daniel B. Summerhill (@bennysummerhill )
Divine Divine Divine (@NomadicPressOak )
I am thrilled to be part of this love letter to Oakland with a wealth of amazing poets.
Thank you to J. K. Fowler @JKFow, and to Ayodele Nzinga @wordslanger, Oakland’s first and treasured poet laureate.
Read now: https://t.co/kKeAG1Zu7A @NomadicPressOak#OaklandWriters
Angela Siew, Peter Taylor Fellow, recommends “All of Us Are Cleaved” (@NomadicPressOak) by Karen Llagas.
Angela offers this passage: “Your name / which means sunlight opened mine, / which means wound," and praises its ability to “challenge [her] to question what endures."
The @FranklinParkBK Reading Series Summer Finale was a blast! Huge thanks to mesmerizing authors @blgtylr, @msjennyxie, @DanielMagariel, @rachelcantor, @BlackFlaneur, and @lezzdoothis, and lots of love to our amazing audience, who packed the house!
MONDAY, 8PM: Can’t wait for @FranklinParkBK Reading Series Summer Finale w/superstars @blgtylr, @msjennyxie, @DanielMagariel, @rachelcantor, @BlackFlaneur & @lezzdoothis! We’ll be raffling off these amazing books & @UnnameableB will have copies for sale. https://t.co/dTHCHqn2hE
Monday, August 14: We’re super excited for the next installment of the @FranklinParkBK Reading Series, featuring outstanding authors @blgtylr, @msjennyxie, @DanielMagariel, @rachelcantor, @BlackFlaneur, and @lezzdoothis sharing newly released work! #Free https://t.co/V14VsjGjer
My 2020 chapbook XV is now available over at @BlackLawrence's website. So excited to be joining all my @NomadicPressOak friends!
https://t.co/JPzqry8wqx
My book In Between Places is available from @BlackLawrence in a bundle just in time for #TheSealeyChallenge: read a book of poetry every day in August!
Get ready.