February - 2011

SWITCHBACK BOOKS

The Robin Becker Chapbook Prize

On March 1st, Seven Kitchens Press will begin accepting submissions for the Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, a competition for for an original, unpublished poetry manuscript in English by a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer writer. For official guidelines visit http://sevenkitchenspress.wordpress.com/series-guidelines/guidelines-the-robin-becker-chapbook-prize/

Responses to VIDA's The Count 2010

Responses to VIDA's The Count 2010

Lovely art by Jim Behrle! Here's a list of responses to VIDA's The Count 2010, however direct or indirect they may be. The dialogue has been exciting! * Eileen Myles on Being Female * Katha Pollitt wants more women editors * Patricia Cohen at The New York Times * Ruth Franklin at The New Republic * Annie Finch on how to publish women writers * Lidia Yuknavitch writes About a Boob * Bitch Magazine * Poetry Foundation * Stephen Elliott at The Rumpus * Meghan O'Rour

Being Female

BLESS YOU, EILEEN MYLES, for the below, and BLESS YOU, CAROL GUESS, for sending it our way... Eileen Myles on Being Female over at The Awl: "Interestingly the poetry world is getting celebrated for its VIDA showing of nearly equal gender parity in reviewing etc. The problem there though is that the majority of the poets writing are female. It’s true. That’s who takes workshops, that’s who gets MFAs, you can easily get some numbers there and frankly in the poetry scene the

Small Desk Press & Switchback Books Reading!

Switchback Books at Ms. Magazine

Sarah Carson's Twenty-Two Now Available For Pre-Order!

Sarah Carson's Twenty-Two Now Available For Pre-Order!

Finishing Line Press announces the publication of Twenty-Two, a chapbook of poems by Sarah Carson A keen observer of the small but significant things around our world and in our own lives, poet Sarah Carson has just had her second chapbook collection of poetry published, this time by Finishing Line Press. Becca Klaver (LA Liminal--Kore Press) says of Twenty-Two: “Sarah Carson pokes fun at the rhetoric of medical surveys, manual labor instructional guides, and employee rul

Becca Klaver on We Who Are about to Die

"Debunked fables, Santa Ana winds, crossfires, underworlds, beer, self-implication, spectacle, quitting smoking, dreams are poems, Manifest Destiny, superimposition, Southern California Gothic, American Beauty, Arrested Development, down-home midwestern elitism, playing with shards/matches, tropicalia-loves-melancholia, why can’t we all just live in one big house together." Switchback founding editor Becca Klaver talks about publishing her first book and why the world needs

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