Headmistress Press

05/03/2025

Our 2025 series of 12 full-color, collector-worthy trading cards features a le***an poet each month, displaying the poet’s photo, biography, and words. With so many wonderful poets to venerate, this is our way of paying tribute to past and present poets, whether self-identified as le***an or not, whose work has not been promoted nearly enough. Purchase here:
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11/02/2025

Jenn Morea's THE HYACINTH LETTER, was selected by Mary Meriam as the winner of the 2024 Sappho's Prize in Poetry, and we're excited to announce its publication. Dan Beachy-Quick wrote: In the quietest of ways it is concerned with the largest of themes. It has—perhaps from Celan, Dickinson, and Niedecker—this astonishing ability to make of the emotions an elemental space. In this way, the relational concerns that course throughout the series of poems become not merely interpersonal in nature, but oddly, subtly, gently, cosmic. That allows “night” and “darkness” to gain the phenomenological importance they here carry, but allows them to be realized in the poem not through any theoretical apparatus, but through a sense of intimacy, through the personal. That is a true gift—and one given to the reader in the most accessible of ways. There are very few poets writing today (that I know of at any rate) so invested in the metaphysical and writing in that tradition with such lightness. Click here to order: https://www.headmistress-press.com/2017/07/books.html

14/01/2025

Late at night we gather to read the ancients.
Past the glass are scenes of a world on fire:
forests falling, hospitals overflowing.
Here, we escape it.
--Sophie Collins, from her poem "After Sappho" in a new anthology from Headmistress Press.
https://www.headmistress-press.com/2017/07/books.html
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31/12/2024

It was a great pleasure to read and consider the manuscripts submitted for the 2024 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, Jenn Morea, THE HYACINTH LETTER. Congratulations!

10/12/2024

Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson.

05/12/2024

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16/11/2024

Headmistress is publishing our Disorderly Quarterly newsletter via Substack, the next one on December 1. If you'd like to subscribe, it's free, here's the link: headmistresspress.substack.com/subscribe

30/10/2024

Looking for likely le****ns submitting to Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Deadline October 31. Here's the link, my pretties: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

15/10/2024

Submissions close on October 31. Submit here: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

05/10/2024

Risa's at the Skagit River Poetry Festival.

04/10/2024

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01/10/2024

Submissions are open for Sappho's Prize in Poetry! More info here:

I just turned 69. I started publishing poetry and art by le****ns in 2010, when I was 55. That makes 14 years I’ve been publishi...

23/09/2024

Submissions open on October 1. https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

14/09/2024

Submissions open on October 1. https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

Mary Meriam, Risa Denenberg, and Rita Mae Reese: publishing poetry books by le****ns.

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