Headmistress Press

01/07/2024

Our fabulous poetry reading on June 30, Some Say Sappho, is now a video:

ALISON PRINEANNE MYLESELIZABETH WILSONANNIE CHRISTAINSAMANTHA PIOUSread from their poetry collections published by Headmistress Press.https://headmistresspre...

29/06/2024

"Who is there to tell about it?"
This is a quote from a poem by Anne Myles, and here she is reading the poem: https://youtu.be/CXtU-0Eolq0?si=Lzl8RhzQhSz0-cZt
SOME SAY SAPPHO is on Sunday, June 30, at 3 Eastern, 2 Central, 12 Pacific. Click here to register: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf--opjovH9A1UWJYrS1AKGNTL-Ljl6dj

13/06/2024

Here's Samantha Pious aka Sam the Man, entertaining us at the Drag Zoom Reading: https://youtu.be/rNut3BaeuhY?si=9Ikp-HwbqQ6l0LK8 Here's the link to register for Some Say Sappho, our reading on June 30, where Samantha will read from her new book, SAPPHO IS DEAD: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf--opjovH9A1UWJYrS1AKGNTL-Ljl6dj

Order POOLS OF JUNE from EXOT BOOKS: https://exotbooks.bigcartel.com/product/pools-of-june-by-mary-meriamFEATURING:Rita Book, aka R. Nemo Hill (introduction)...

07/06/2024

Here's a video of Elizabeth Wilson reading her poem "My Marriage" https://youtu.be/2nEHLNBzTUU?si=V7cfdA3825grL0ih&t=821
Elizabeth is featured at SOME SAY SAPPHO on June 30. Click here to register: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf--opjovH9A1UWJYrS1AKGNTL-Ljl6dj

04/06/2024

Click here for latest newsletter: https://madmimi.com/p/d5dca91
Susan Griffin: “We are a community of those coming to speech from silence. This is an elementary fact we share—a history of illiteracy, suffocations, spiritual and literal, burnings of body and work, the weight of the unutterable surrounding all of our lives. And in no way can this shared history be separated from what we write today, nor from our love of each other’s voices.”

01/06/2024

"Let us find happiness even in our sorrows, for we have been given / This gift of feeling and love and soft embrace of our very selves." (Karen Poppy) New issue of Lavender Review features art by Jane Kogan and poems by Elisheva Fox, Ava Serra, Kai Coggin, Karen Poppy, Lisa Kouroupis, Michy Woodward, Renée Vivien tr. Samantha Pious, Soon Jones, Jen Rouse, Sandra Yanonne, and Natalie Kaye Gunn.

26/05/2024

I've found that being familiar with a poet before she reads helps me hear her better. So I'll be posting videos of our SOME SAY SAPPHO poets once a week until our big event on June 30. Click here to register: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf--opjovH9A1UWJYrS1AKGNTL-Ljl6dj

ANNIE CHRISTAIN won the first Sappho's Prize in Poetry, in 2020: https://youtu.be/4xK-bVCG8_I?si=uR4fSDYIepu5SKn8

A poem inspired by the writing of kindergarten students at a hagwon. Performed at Tony's Aussie Bar and Bistro.

18/05/2024

!!!!!! 😍 !!!!!! Save the date: Sunday, June 30, at 2pm Central. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrf--opjovH9A1UWJYrS1AKGNTL-Ljl6dj

21/04/2024

Headmistress is very excited to announce the publication of the debut collection of Samantha Pious, SAPPHO IS DEAD. Jenna Lê writes: "Tartly epigrammatic, scintillatingly hyperliterate, these poems of Laforguian black wit play knowingly with the idea of constraint, disciplined in the sexiest sense of that word. Pious has an intuitive awareness of that inflection point where audacity tilts over into true authority, and her voice-rich poems speak to their times—and to all times—with an authority that cannot be denied." Click here to order: https://headmistresspress.blogspot.com/2017/07/books.html

26/03/2024

Alison Prine's LOSS AND ITS ANTONYM was selected by Mary Meriam as the winner of the 2023 Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Carol Potter wrote: "In Alison Prine’s stunning new collection, Loss and Its Antonym, we are asked to enter loss’s gravitational pull—losses that could pin a person to 'a house unhinged.' However, Prine provides the buoyancy, the antonym to loss via the beauty of her language—the music, the dazzling precision and command of line, image, tone, voice—and finally her ability to confront the sorrow and grab hold of that 'rope thrown into the water.' This is a book that acknowledges what threatens us—but ultimately celebrates what saves us." Click here for your copy: https://headmistresspress.blogspot.com/2017/07/books.html

06/03/2024

https://thepoetrydepartment.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/new-redmond-poet-laureate/

The Redmond, Washington, City Council has appointed Ching-In Chen as Redmond’s poet laureate for 2024-25. Chen takes over from, most recently, Laura Da’. Chen is a lifelong educator, communit…

06/03/2024

Two new reviews of Annie Christain's THE VANGUARDS OF HOLOGRAPHY: At Literary Shanghai (second one down): https://www.literaryshanghai.com/category/review/ and Apogee Journal: https://apogeejournal.org/2023/09/13/we-never-really-touch-anyone-because-of-molecules-distance-and-disconnect-in-annie-christains-the-vanguards-of-holography-2021-headmistress-press/

A hologram is an illusion. You think you’re looking at something three-dimensional and lifelike, but what you see is only an image, a reconstruction of reality rather than reality itself. What could be a more fitting image to encapsulate the illusoriness, isolation and distance that pervade collec...

06/03/2024

"At present this is the unrivalled translation of Vivien. The other attempts in English ... do not, to my mind, present any serious challenge." Terrific review of A CROWN OF VIOLETS, translated by Samantha Pious.

One would always like to expand the slender record we have of Sappho’s work. The few poems that remain . . .

02/02/2024

20/01/2024

It was a great pleasure to read and consider the manuscripts submitted for the 2023 Sappho’s Prize in Poetry. Thanks to all the submitters for giving us the opportunity. As both co-founding editor of Headmistress Press, and judge for this contest, Mary Meriam is pleased to announce the winner, Alison Prine, LOSS AND ITS ANTONYM. Congratulations!

18/01/2024

Headmistress is excited to announce a new poetry collection forthcoming in 2024 by Samantha Pious, SAPPHO IS DEAD. Read the title poem here: https://www.biwomenquarterly.com/sappho-is-dead/

22/12/2023

FROM RAIN TAXI: In “Late Epistle” (Headmistress Press), Anne Myles “works to uncover and accept her own sexuality, the loss of her parents, and her identity as a poet”; review by AE Hines in our Winter Print Issue, out now:

VOLUME 28, NUMBER 4, WINTER 2023 ( #112) To purchase issue #112 using Paypal, click here.To become a member and get quarterly issues of Rain

01/12/2023

New issue of Lavender Review features art by Kate Graham. https://www.lavrev.net

01/12/2023

Disorderly Quarterly https://madmimi.com/p/3c04281 has live links to poems nominated for prizes here. Congratulations and good luck!

23/10/2023

Le***an poets!! Submissions are open until October 31 for this year's Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Here is the link to submit: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit Here's a link to learn more about Headmistress Press: https://headmistresspress.blogspot.com

19/10/2023

My tribute to Minnie Bruce Pratt is up at the Gay&Le***an Review.

By Risa Denenberg Minnie Bruce Pratt—cherished poet, teacher, and activist in the LGBTQ+ community—died on July 2. I learned about it on Facebook, and found it devastating. I owe a lot to this cour…

15/10/2023

There's a place at the table for the winner of Sappho's Prize in Poetry. The deadline is October 31. Click here to submit: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

02/10/2023

The window is open! Submissions are open until October 31 for this year's Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Here is the link to submit: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit Here's a link to learn more about Headmistress Press: https://headmistresspress.blogspot.com

09/09/2023

The latest news from Headmistress Press is here at this link!

enter Sappho’s Prize in Poetry is awarded annually for one full-length poetry collection. Submissions are open to le***an-identified poets at any sta...

27/08/2023

RIP Maureen Seaton

26/07/2023

Take a look at Maureen Bocka's fabulous Barbie. "These dazzling, clear-eyed poems deftly explore love, loss, betrayal, and inequality in a world where Dreamhouse closets are shut so tight, even President Barbie declares, “If it’s ever known my friends and I / are le****ns we’ll be incinerated for sure.” Thank goodness Bocka is here to rip those pink doors open and report fearlessly on the secrets behind them."
—T.A. Noonan
https://www.amazon.com/First-name-Barbie-last-Doll/dp/0692604766/

05/07/2023

Anne Myles' LATE EPISTLE was selected by Mary Meriam as the winner of the 2022 Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Robin Becker wrote: "A sensual imagination informs these poems with startling images and line turns that astonish. I love the childhood narratives, the family sadnesses and secrets revealed, the tender, wise observations. Formally inventive, the poems that showcase a woman-loving-woman anchor the speaker in a story of self-invention and a sustainable life." Click here for your copy: https://headmistresspress.blogspot.com/2017/07/books.html

03/07/2023

RIP Minnie Bruce

29/06/2023

Headmistress is having a Pride sale! We are so proud of our Le***an Poet Trading Cards. On sale now for $12.00. Today (June 29) and tomorrow only. Click here to see the full lineup of le***an poets: https://headmistress-press.square.site

02/06/2023

Many thanks to the contributors. We hope you enjoy Issue 27!