AWP '23 Offsite: Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, and The Rumpus

3861 1st Avenue South,Seattle WA 98134

10 March, 2023

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Join independent publishers Coffee House Press, Feminist Press, and The Rumpus for another amazing evening of literary readings, community, and an open wine bar at Structure Cellars! Featuring readings by... Courtney Faye Taylor (CONCENTRATE) Eleni Sikelianos (YOUR KINGDOM, WHAT I KNEW, MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY) Joe Vallese (IT CAME FROM THE CLOSET) Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (CHILDREN OF THE LAND, CENZONTLE, DULCE) Tom Comitta (THE NATURE BOOK, 〇, AIRPORT NOVELLA) YZ Chin (THE AGE OF GOODBYES, EDGE CASE, THOUGH I GET HOME) The price of admission includes access to the open bar at this event, featuring amazing local wines provided by Structure Cellars Winery while supplies last. Beer and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available for purchase throughout the evening. Sliding scale pricing is available, with discounted admission available to those for whom the standard admission price presents a financial hardship. Supporting at the higher end of the sliding scale helps us provide accessible ticketing options for this event. We appreciate your support! Note: Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test within 48 hour required for entry. ABOUT THE READERS Courtney Faye Taylor is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of Concentrate (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and finalist for the 2023 NAACP Image Awards. Courtney earned her BA from Agnes Scott College and her MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program where she received the Hopwood Prize in Poetry. A recipient of the 92Y Discovery Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize, Courtney’s work can be found in Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Ploughshares, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Eleni Sikelianos is a poet, writer, and "a master of mixing genres." She grew up in earshot of the ocean, in small coastal towns near Santa Barbara, and has since lived in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Athens (Greece), Boulder (Colorado), and Providence. Deeply engaged with ecopoetics, her work takes up urgent concerns of environmental precarity and ancestral lineages. Your Kingdom (Winter 2023) will be her tenth book of poetry, riding alongside two memoir-verse-image-novels. Joe Vallese is editor of It Came From The Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror and co-editor of the anthology What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey. His creative and pop culture writing appears in BOMB, VICE, Backstage, PopMatters, Southeast Review, North American Review, Narrative Northeast, VIA: Voices in Italian-Americana, among others. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee and a notable in Best American Essays for his essay “Blood, Brothers.” He is currently clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, and previously served as site director and faculty for the Bard Prison Initiative. Joe holds an MFA New York University, and MAT and BA degrees from Bard College. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Children of the Land: a Memoir (Harper Collins), Cenzontle, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. prize (BOA editions), and Dulce, winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize (Northwestern University Press). He is a founding member of the Undocupoets. He teaches in the St. Mary’s College MFA Program and the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. Tom Comitta is the author of 〇, Airport Novella, and First Thought Worst Thought: Collected Books 2011–2014, a print and digital archive of forty “night novels,” art books, and poetry collections. Comitta’s fiction and essays have appeared in WIRED, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Believer, BOMB, and Best American Experimental Writing 2020. They live in Brooklyn. YZ Chin is the author of Edge Case, a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR pick for best books of 2021. She also wrote Though I Get Home, which won the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the Asian/Pacific American Award For Literature honor title. In addition, YZ is a MacDowell fellow, translator of The Age of Goodbyes by Li Zi Shu, and member of translation collective the seams. Born and raised in Taiping, Malaysia, she now lives in New York. --- SAFER SPACE POLICY Feminist Press strives to create a safer space at all events. As an independent publisher striving to champion intersectional and nuanced works that move the feminist conversation forward, we welcome diversity of thought and encourage all those participating in Feminist Press events to express themselves creatively and respectfully. In order to foster a safer space for dialogue and expression, we urge everyone in the space to be aware of their own identity and privileges, and considerate of the personhood of their fellows. For these reasons, consider the following: - Be aware of the boundaries of others’ space, physical or otherwise, and respect their consent. - Do not make assumptions about someone’s gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, or experiences. - No racism, no sexism, no homophobia or transphobia This list is by no means exhaustive; these are basic guidelines set to foster a safer space at Feminist Press events. Any actions that intentionally violate this policy are not welcome and may result in your removal from the space. If you feel that someone has transgressed this policy, you may approach a Feminist Press staff member (wearing a Feminist Press logo button) who is available as a resource to assist you, or reference this safer space policy if you feel comfortable addressing it directly.