Tram Editions

12/07/2024

Tram Editions is absolutely delighted to see Nicola Andrews work acknowledged! Andrews' poem "Whenua" is poem of the month at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review!
Celebrate with us and read this reflective poem Andrews chose to close their chapbook with.

Read the featured Chapbook Poem of the Month for July 2024, “Whenua” from Māori Maid Difficult by Nicola Andrews, along with a few words from the poet.

20/06/2024

TODAY at 6:30 pm Basket Books & Art , catch Tram Editions cofounding editor Glenn Shaheen as he moderates a conversation between much beloved artists and poets, Iliana Rocha and Stalina Villarreal!

Rocha will read from her work, THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ (Tupelo Press ), and Stalina Villarreal will read from WATCHA (Deep Vellum Publishing). Glenn Shaheen might even read a poem or two from one of his works!

We know this will be a phenomenal conversation--bring a friend! Basket Books always provides refreshments, and this will be a very fine evening!

17/06/2024

This Thursday the 20th, 6:30 pm Basket Books & Art , catch Tram Editions cofounding editor Glenn Shaheen as he moderates a conversation between much beloved artists and poets, Iliana Rocha and Stalina Villarreal!

Rocha will read from her work, THE MANY DEATHS OF INOCENCIO RODRIGUEZ (Tupelo Press), and Stalina Villarreal will read from WATCHA (Deep Vellum Publishing). Glenn Shaheen might even read a poem or two from one of his works!

We know this will be a phenomenal conversation--bring a friend! Basket Books always provides refreshments, and this will be a very fine evening!

31/05/2024

Tram Editions' author Priscilla Wathington reads this Sunday, June 2ed, for the Bay Area Book Festival! She'll read alongside Sam Sax & others on Sunday at 11:30am on the Allston stage!

We also want to congratulate Priscilla Wathington who is a The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University Mazza Writer in Residence! We are always so proud of Priscilla, and today is no exception. Congratulation!

23/05/2024

We're elated to learn that scholar and poet Emily Perez is presenting at The American Literature Association Conference TODAY on the work of Tram Editions author Aliah Lavonne Tigh and poet John Murillo!

Featured as part of conversation around Elizabeth Bishop and Otherness, her presentation is titled, "Shame as Captor & Catalyst in Bishop and her Descendants."

Catch Pérez & colleagues presenting at 11:30am today! You can find more details in the photo.

Tram Editions is cheering Pérez on from a distance, and we're so grateful to her and others who lift up and study the work of our authors.

04/05/2024

Come visit us BIPOC Book Fest if you’re in Houston! Tram Editions is tabling with RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers)!

Stop by and say hello to Glenn Shaheen or Aliah Lavonne Tigh! The fest is at the Asia Society Texas Center! We’re on the second floor!

18/04/2024

Join Tram Editions this Saturday, April 20ths, at 1pm, for the New Orleans Poetry Festival!

Our event, "Margins that Matter: A Celebration of Tram Editions Poets," features the work of Cynthia Hogue, Priscilla Wathington, Lauren Brazeal Garza, Nicola Andrews, and Aliah Lavonne Tigh!

Our cofounding editors Glenn Shaheen and Elizabyth Hiscox will be there too. Maybe we can peer-pressure them into reading a poem. 😏

If you cannot catch us there, visit our table at the bookfair.

20/03/2024

Writers, we’re open! Submit your poetry and hybrid chapbooks to Tram Editions! We publish amazing work, we do NOT charge sub fees, and our editors Elizabyth Hiscox and Glenn Shaheen would love to read your manuscripts! Please share this news!

Check out our site for submission instructions! 📖

09/02/2024

friends, tonight, 5pm, we are so proud to have cofounding editor Elizabyth Hiscox reading among this list of fantastic writers reading for A Dozen Nothing poetry!

02/02/2024

Join Adi Magazine for a free virtual reading on Feb. 2, 2024 at 7 PM EST from our Palestinian Perspectives!

Featuring contributors Priscilla Wathington, Alia Yunis, Michael Jabareen, Liane Al Ghusain, Summer Awad, and Hasheemah Afaneh!

Register here: http://tinyurl.com/mv5wja3a

02/02/2024

Tonight! 7pm est! Register and join virtually to hear Tram Editions’ poet Priscilla Wathington read alongside other phenomenal writers for Adi Magazine !

PAPER AND STICK is an excellent chapbook, and we’re grateful for the support of this work which discusses the systemic (and ongoing) oppression of Palestinian people.

24/01/2024

We’re so proud & elated for the launch of our newest chapbook, Nicola Andrews' MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT! Thank you Green Apple Books on the Park ! Congratulations, Nicola Andrews! You did so beautifully!

We loved&enjoyed readings by
Yeva Johnson , Billy Gong, Anastasia Le & Edward Gunawan !

16/01/2024

This Thursday, Jan 18th, join us in celebrating the launch of our next chapbook, Nicola Andrews' MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT! Thurs, 7pm at Green Apple Books on the Park !
If you're not in the Bay Area, watch the reading live on Green Apple Books and Music 's Youtube!

Andrews will read w/ Yeva Johnson , Billy Gong, Anastasia Le, and
Edward Gunawan!

04/01/2024

Join us Thursday Jan 18th in celebrating the launch of our next chapbook, Nicola Andrews' MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT! Thurs, Jan 18th 7pm at Green Apple Books on the Park!

If you're not in the Bay Area, watch the reading live on Green Apple Books and Music 's Youtube!

Andrews will read w/ Yeva Johnson, Billy Gong, Anastasia Le, and
Edward Gunawan !

04/01/2024

Join Tram Editions ' author Cynthia Hogue Friday, Jan the 12th, in Los Angeles at Chevalier's Books!

At 6pm, Hugue will read with her Red Hen Pressmate William Archila, Tennison Black (University of Georgia Press ), & Sarah Maclay ( What Books Press).

Los Angeles friends, join them!

28/12/2023

We’re proud of Aliah Lavonne Tigh's work—check out this poem “Pastoral/State:Us” featured in the latest issue of Mizna and find their chapbook, WEREN’T WE NATURAL SWIMMERS, on our Tram Editions site!

Also, we know our author shared this poem recently with an invitation to those who have donated to humanitarian orgs and who are looking for artistic orgs to support. Tram Editions has partnered w/ Mizna & RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers) for events, and we have experienced both organizations' vital community-sustaining contributions.

28/12/2023

Congrats to Tram Editions' author Nicola Andrews! Room Magazine features their poem, “Island Time,” in the Ghosts issue!

Check out our Tram Editions website to ⚡️preorder⚡️ & learn more about Nicola Andrews’ forthcoming Tram chapbook, MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT!

(Pics courtesy of Nicola Andrews)

18/12/2023

We’re so proud of Tram Editions author Cynthia Hogue who has a new poem in the latest issue of Shenandoah Literary Magazine !

02/12/2023

We’re proud to have Tram Editions author Priscilla Wathington reading today at The Red Poppy Art House tonight at 7pm pst!

If you’re in San Francisco, head over to the Red Poppy Art House this evening.

29/11/2023

We are so proud of our co-founding editor, Glenn Shaheen, whose poem, "Herring" is featured on Split This Rock this week!

Congratulation Glenn if you see him, and check out the link which features an awesome audio of him reading "Herring."

https://www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-database/poem/herring?fbclid=IwAR3XQRqVmjzIYXUnV-1oaW_ZsFK3qbgzOEVaOFsmnntt-afUWu1cMG8tW9g

Somebody suggested I buy pickled Herring in wine sauce— it didn't sound Like a bad idea, all these conversations Mired in capital's sloughed-off flesh. The dirt below the snow making its Presence known by each dig of the Shovel. I should buy a new one, I Should make my presence known In the annals...

17/11/2023

Congratulations to Tram Editions ' author Nicola Andrews! They are the winner of the University of Washington Information School’s 2023 Graduate of the Last Decade Alumni Impact Award!

To learn more about Andrews' forthcoming chapbook, MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT, check out our pinned post or Tram Editions' website !

Nicola Andrews believes education should be more accessible — and she’s working toward that goal in her academic and professional work. Andrews, t...

16/11/2023

It's an exciting day at Tram Editions--we want to share this with you: the cover of our latest chapbook, Nicola Andrews' MĀORI MAID DIFFICULT!

This collection ships at the start of 2024! Watch this space this week--we're posting the preorder link very, very soon.

Alice Te Punga Somerville writes, "....Ancestors, family, language and land are everywhere – invoked, described, present, pulsing, overlapping – in this stunning collection that speaks from, about, to, and towards Aotearoa. In so many ways, Māori Maid Difficult is a first yet it brings to mind generations of Māori poets who have gone..."

Andrews' chapbook cover features “Te Arero” by Hiria Anderson, courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville Gallery.
Photo of the work by Kallan MacLeod.

14/11/2023

We're extraordinarily proud of Tram Editions' author Priscilla Wathington--listen to NPR’s Here & Now interview her! Deepa Fernandes’ and the author discuss the specifics of the permit regime, military detention, and her poetry chapbook, PAPER AND STICK.

We really appreciated this conversation, and we so enjoyed hearing her read from the chapbook too. See the comments for the link to the interview.

20/10/2023

This last week, we have been rereading PAPER AND STICK, a chapbook by Priscilla Wathington, and we have been grieving. PAPER AND STICK is a Tram Editions' collection examining settler-colonial violence in occupied Palestine.

We wanted to share with you that, today, the author reached out to us, and she will donate her profit from current PAPER AND STICK sales to Palestinian humanitarian efforts.

"...by extension, we agree/ how we'll be punished/ for departures fits of fancy..." We're admiring "Terms" by Priscilla Wathington! Hear her, Mary Gilliland, and Aliah Lavonne Tigh and Cynthia Hogue read today, 4pm CST, in honor of Cynthia Hogue's CONTAIN!

(We'll add a link to the event in the comments section!)

27/07/2023

you’re in Houston, join us TONIGHT at 8:30 Poison Pen Reading Series where Tram Editions ’ Lauren Brazeal Garza reads w/ Zarlasht Diaz and Robert Lunday!

We’re excited to hear poems from Brazeal Garza’s Tram chap, SANTA MUERTE, SANTA MUERTE: I WAS HERE, RELEASE ME!

We’ll see you all there! 😎

25/07/2023

If you've been looking for ways to cultivate joy in the darkness of this social and political climate (without being delusional), we invite you to come share space with us! ​​​​​​​​
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National Book Award winner, Roger Reeves will be in the Kindred Stories' Reading Garden discussing his newest book, Dark Days: Fugitive Essays with Kindred's own Stevens Orozco on August 4 at 7:30 PM.​​​​​​​​
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In his newest work of nonfiction, award-winning poet Roger Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom, and ecstasy. He describes the history of the hush harbor—places where enslaved people could steal away to find silence and court ecstasy, to the side of their impossible conditions. Together, these groundbreaking essays build a profound vision for how to see and experience the world in our present moment, and how to strive toward an alternative existence in intentional community underground. “The peace we fight and search for,” Reeves writes, “begins and ends with being still.”​​​​​​​​
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Perfect for fans of Claudia Rankine, Ross Gay and Hanif Abdurraqib. ​​​​​​​​
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See ya'll in the garden!

21/07/2023

We want to wish Cynthia Hogue's CONTAIN a beautiful "Happy First Birthday!" Tram Editions is proud to offer this chapbook which is available on our website. Happy Birthday, CONTAIN!!!!

We're elated to launch Cynthia Hogue's CONTAIN next Tuesday, July 19th! CONTAIN is Tram editions' third chapbook, and we'll include the preorder link in comments.

Here's what Afaa M. Weaver, author of City of Eternal Spring, writes:
“As much as human beings were made to stay inside their homes in many places, pulled back like the awkward weeds we can be, threatened with culling by the mind of the garden, we were, in that way, contained by the pandemic. However, in Contain, the poet asks that we all remember what must not be held inside us...."