The Chapbook

Noah Stetzer and Ross White
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Noah Stetzer and Ross White, editors at Bull City Press, reveal the secrets of chapbooks—writing, editing, and publishing them—and take you behind the scenes at some chapbook presses. Contact the podcast with questions & comments using chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com; look for Bull City Press online at www.bullcitypress.com. Twitter: @bullcitypress; Noah Stetzer @dcnoah; Ross White @rosswhite

  1. 10/13/2022

    50. Adrie Rose of Nine Syllables Press

    We chat with Adrie Rose the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of the brand new NINE SYLLABLES PRESS. UPDATE: Nine Syllables Press twitter: https://twitter.com/9SyllablesPress  Nine Syllables Press:  as of the posting of this episode, we haven't got any links yet, but we will update this space once 9SP goes live online Adrie Rose is the Tammis Day Editorial Fellow & Editor of Nine Syllables Press. Born and raised across the Southeast US coast, Adrie currently lives in western MA with her two children. She graduated from culinary school and owned a bakery for a decade, then returned to school to finish her bachelor's degree at Smith College as an Ada Comstock Scholar. She is currently attending Warren Wilson College for her MFA in Poetry. Her work has previously appeared in Nimrod, The Night Heron Barks, Underblong, Witness, and more.  She won the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize, the Ethel Olin Corbin Prize, and the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize in 2021, and the Anne Bradstreet Prize, the Eleanor Cederstrom Prize, and the Mary Augusta Jordan Prize in 2022. Her poem “The Anthropocene” was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and she has work forthcoming in anthologies with Anhinga Press and Porkbelly Press. She volunteers as a reader for Perugia Press, read manuscripts for the Juniper Prize at UMass Amherst in 2021, and was Editor-in-Chief of Emulate at Smith College in '21-22. Adrie Rose website: https://www.adrierose.com/about Adrie Rose twitter: https://twitter.com/AdrieLovesPie The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center/Smith College: https://www.smith.edu/academics/poetry-center Perugia Press: https://perugiapress.org/about/ VIDA: https://www.vidaweb.org/ Paper and Stick Priscilla Wathington (Tram Editions):  https://trameditions.com/paper-and-stick-by-priscilla-wathington/ Broadside Books (Northampton): https://www.broadsidebooks.com/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook we'll be back in 2023 with season three! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    20 min

  2. 10/06/2022

    49. Gaia Rajan: Killing It (Black Lawrence Press)

    In today's episode, we welcome the incredible Gaia Rajan to discuss her collection KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press). Gaia Rajan is the author of the chapbooks Moth Funerals (Glass Poetry Press 2020) and Killing It (Black Lawrence Press 2022). Her work is published or forthcoming in the 2022 Best of the Net anthology, The Kenyon Review, THRUSH, Split Lip Magazine, diode, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. She is the cofounder of the WOC Speak Reading Series, the Junior Journal Editor for Half Mystic, and the Web Manager for Honey Literary. She is the first place winner of the Princeton Leonard P. Milberg Poetry Prize, Sarah Mook Poetry Prize, and 1455 Literary Festival Contest, and a runner up for the Smith College Poetry Prize, Nancy Thorp Poetry Prize, and Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize. Gaia is an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, studying computer science and creative writing. She lives in Pittsburgh. Gaia Rajan website: http://www.gaiarajan.com/ Gaia Rajan Twitter: https://twitter.com/gaiarajan Gaia Rajan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gaiarajan/ KILLING IT (Black Lawrence Press): https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/killing-it/ K-Ming Chang: https://www.kmingchang.com/about Molasses Books (Bushwick): https://www.instagram.com/molassesbooks/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes & contact us with your chapbook questions & suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    15 min

  3. 09/29/2022

    48. News You Can Use: September 2022

    We've got the latest chapbook titles and chapbook submission deadlines in this month's NEWS YOU CAN USE!  NEW TITLES Something Bright by Ryler Dustin (Green Linden Press):  https://www.greenlindenpress.com/books/something-bright At Night My Body Waits by Saúl Hernández' (Two Sylvias Press): https://www.twosylviaspress.com/at-night-my-body-waits.html The Stars With You by Stefani Cox (Cooper Dillon): https://store.cooperdillon.com/product/the-stars-with-you-by-stefani-cox Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone by Emily Pittinos (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press):  https://bullcitypress.com/product/animal-roadkill-ashes-gone-by-emily-pittinos/ Figment by Leila Chatti (coming in 11/8 from Bull City Press): https://bullcitypress.com/product/figment-by-leila-chatti-hardcover/ SUBMISSIONS THE FLORIDA REVIEW: https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/submit/chapbook-contest/ THE MASTERS REVIEW: https://mastersreview.com/chapbook-contest/ SIXTH FINCH: https://sixthfinch.com/submit MINERVA RISING PRESS: https://minervarising.com/submissions/chapbook-submissions/ DIODE EDITIONS: https://www.diodeeditions.com/chapbook-contest also check out submission databases at: HEAVY FEATHER: https://heavyfeatherreview.org/calls/ DRIFTWOOD: https://www.driftwoodpress.com/submission-opportunities CHILL SUBS: https://chillsubs.com PODCASTS POEMS ON AIR: https://www.lapl.org/books-emedia/podcasts/poems-on-air FIRST DRAFT: https://firstdraftwriters.com/about BETWEEN THE COVERS: https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    18 min

  4. 09/22/2022

    47. Tennison S. Black of Sundress Publications

    Get a glimpse behind the scenes at Sundress Publications with our guest Tennison Black. Tennison S. Black is the author of Survival Strategies, which was selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series by Adrienne Su for UGA Press. Black received an MFA at Arizona State University. They are the Managing Editor at Sundress Publications and also at Best of the Net. They are grateful to have had their work supported by fellowships from Virginia G. Piper as both a global teaching fellow and also as a research fellow. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in SWWIM, Hotel Amerika, Booth, Queer Words, and New Mobility, among others. Though Sonoran born, Black resides in Washington State. Tennison Black website: https://tennisonblack.com/  Sundress Publications website: http://www.sundresspublications.com/ National Poetry Series Competition 2022 announcement: https://nationalpoetryseries.org/announcing-the-2022-national-poetry-series-competition-winners-finalists/ Angela Narciso Torres podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e9105806 for the joy of it, anaïs peterson (free e-chap): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/forthejoyofit I Know the Origin of My Tremor, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara (free e-chap): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/tremor/ Liz Ahl podcast episode: https://share.transistor.fm/s/97710b88 Village Books & Paper Dreams (Bellingham):  https://www.villagebooks.com/ Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe): https://www.changinghands.com/ Powell's (Portland): https://www.powells.com/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    18 min

  5. 09/15/2022

    46. Raye Hendrix: Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press)

    We are excited to welcome Raye Hendrix to the show this week with EVERY JOURNAL IS A PLAGUE JOURNAL from Bottlecap Press. Raye Hendrix (she/they) is a writer from Birmingham, Alabama. She is the poetry editor at Press Pause Press and the author of two poetry chapbooks, Fire Sermons (Ghost City Press) and Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press). Their work has also appeared in Poet Lore, 68 to 05, Poetry Northwest, 32 Poems, Shenandoah, The Adroit Journal, Cimarron Review, and others. Raye is the winner of the Keene Prize for Literature and Southern Indiana Review’s Patricia Aakhus Award, and she has received scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Raye holds a BA and MA from Auburn University, an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon, where she has been awarded fellowships and grants for her dissertation work on disability poetics. author website: https://www.rayehendrix.com author twitter: https://twitter.com/_rayehendrix Every Journal is a Plague Journal (Bottlecap Press): https://bottlecap.press/products/journal Frank O'Hara at Poets.Org: https://poets.org/poet/frank-ohara Tsunami Books (Eugene, Oregon): http://www.tsunamibooks.org/  Thank You Books (Birmingham, Alabama): https://thankyoubookshop.com/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/   and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    19 min

  6. 09/08/2022

    45. Angela Narciso Torres: To The Bone (Sundress)

    In this episode, we welcome poet Angela Narciso Torres to discuss her collection TO THE BONE (Sundress). Angela Narciso Torres is the author of What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books 2021) Blood Orange, winner of the 2013 Willow Books Literature Award for Poetry, and the chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications 2020). Recent work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Cortland Review, and Poetry Northwest. A graduate of Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Angela has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Illinois Arts Council, and Ragdale Foundation. She received First Prize in the Yeats Poetry Prize (W.B. Yeats Society of New York). New City magazine named her one of Chicago's Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Manila, she currently resides in San Diego. She serves as a senior and reviews editor for RHINO Poetry. Twitter: https://twitter.com/angela_n_torres Author site:  https://www.angelanarcisotorres.com To The Bone (Sundress): http://www.sundresspublications.com/e-chaps/tothebone We All Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan by Naoko Fujimoto | author website: https://www.naokofujimoto.com Terrance Hayes: https://terrancehayes.com/about/ Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    17 min

  7. 09/01/2022

    44. I.S. Jones: Spells of My Name (Newfound)

    In this episode, we welcome the remarkable I.S. Jones to discuss her collection SPELLS OF MY NAME (Newfound). I.S. Jones is an American / Nigerian poet, essayist, and music journalist. She is a Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer’s Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. She is the co-editor of The Young African Poets Anthology: The Fire That Is Dreamed Of (Agbowó, 2020) and served as the inaugural nonfiction guest editor for Lolwe. She is an Editor at 20.35 Africa: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, freelanced for Complex, Revolt TV, NBC News THINK, and elsewhere. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, LA Review of Books, The Rumpus, The Offing and elsewhere. Her poem “Vanity” was chosen by Khadijah Queen as a finalist for the 2020 Sublingua Prize for Poetry. She received her MFA in Poetry at UW–Madison where she was the inaugural 2019­­–2020 Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship and the 2021-2022 Hoffman Hall Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient. From 2019 to 2022, she served as the Director of the Watershed Reading Series with Art + Literature Laboratory, a community-driven contemporary arts center in Madison, Wisconsin. Her chapbook Spells of My Name (2021) is out with Newfound. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Poetry. Twitter: https://twitter.com/isjonespoetry Author site:  https://www.isjones.com Brooklyn Poets: https://brooklynpoets.org Spells of My Name (Newfound): https://newfound.org/shop/i-s-jones-spells-of-my-name-print-e-book/ What We Are Not For by Tommye Blount: https://bullcitypress.com/product/what-are-we-not-for/  Bound by Claire Schwartz: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/bound/ Aricka Foreman author website: https://www.arickaforeman.com A Room of One's Own (Madison): https://www.roomofonesown.com Women & Children First (Chicago): https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite  You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/  and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

    19 min

  8. 08/25/2022

    43. News You Can Use: August 2022

    Coming in right under the wire, we've got August 2022's NEWS YOU CAN USE! Titles NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH DRAMAMINE by David Greenspan (The Offending Adam): https://theoffendingadam.com "Announcing the winners of the 2022 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowships" https://poetrysociety.org/about/news/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2022-poetry-society-of-america-chapbook-fellowships MINESWEEPER by Judge Munson (Diagram): https://thediagram.com/contest.html LICHT by Dan Kraines (Seven Kitchens Press): https://sevenkitchenspress.com/robin-becker-chapbook-series/dan-kraines-licht/ VISITING HER IN QUEENS IS MORE ENLIGHTENING THAN A MONTH IN A MONASTERY IN TIBET by Michael Mark (Rattle): https://www.rattle.com/chapbooks/c2022/ GHOST APPLES by Grace MacNair (Inch, Bull City Press) forthcoming: https://bullcitypress.com/product-category/inch/ Submissions Tiny Fork Chapbook Series, The Hunger: https://www.thehungerjournal.com/tiny-fork-chapbooks Podcasts TPQ20 The Poetry Question: https://thepoetryquestion.com/category/tpq20/ Of Poetry Podcast: https://ofpoetrypodcast.wordpress.com Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast: https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com Thank you for listening to The Chapbook! Noah Stetzer is on Twitter @dcNoah Ross White is on Twitter @rosswhite You can find all our episodes and contact us with your chapbook questions and suggestions here: https://bullcitypress.com/the-chapbook/ Bull City Press website https://bullcitypress.com Bull City Press on Twitter https://twitter.com/bullcitypress Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bullcitypress/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bullcitypress

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Noah Stetzer and Ross White, editors at Bull City Press, reveal the secrets of chapbooks—writing, editing, and publishing them—and take you behind the scenes at some chapbook presses. Contact the podcast with questions & comments using chapbook [at] bullcitypress.com; look for Bull City Press online at www.bullcitypress.com. Twitter: @bullcitypress; Noah Stetzer @dcnoah; Ross White @rosswhite

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  • Creator
    Noah Stetzer and Ross White
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    50
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    Clean
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    © 2022 Bull City Press
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