Event

Mythic Women-Small Presses

Celebrate the release of Maiana Minahal's Legend Sondayo (Civil Defense Press) and Ching-In Chen's The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and these independent presses nurturing the voices of queer women! Gathering an exuberant range of voices, aesthetics, and thematic concerns, this creative showcase featuring the work of Robyn Brooks, Ching-In Chen, Ananda Esteva, Judy Grahn, Eloise Klein Healy, Vanessa Huang, Danielle Montgomery, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Maiana Minahal, Rajasvini Bhansali, and Aimee Suzara is a celebration of the possibilities of queer women poetics, incorporating movement, dance, visual arts, and other poetic languages to reflect on the power of myth, lineage and history to expand/ limit our vision. Civil Defense Press, local activist and collectively-run press, continues to publish work that wouldn't otherwise find a home in the mainstream publishing world. Arktoi Books seeks to give lesbian writers more access to "the conversation" that having a book in print affords.