Laura Hershey On the Life and Work of an American Master by Meg Day, NikiHerd Paperback, 249 Pages, Published 2019 by Pleiades Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9970994-4-7, ISBN: 0-9970994-4-5
"Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Laura Hershey was a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. Her poems speak from the margins with the force of truth--eloquently, ferociously, and beautifully. This volume of the Unsung Masters Series, carefully curated by poets Meg Day an ..."
Laura Hershey On the Life and Work of an American Master by Meg Day, NikiHerd 256 Pages, Published 2019 ISBN-13: 978-0-9862470-9-5, ISBN: 0-9862470-9-X
"Selected from more than 400 full-length manuscripts, this collection of nearly 50 poems, published on the eve of Kore Press’s 20th anniversary, celebrates the publisher’s enduring commitment to promote new aesthetically and culturally diverse writing by women. The anthology gathers the voices of a diverse group of female poets, most of whom are up-and-coming, others established, all of them with an original, fresh way of viewing the wor ..."
"The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in The Ringing Ear alongside some of ..."
"The South: to render all that it means to an African American takes someone with acutely tuned senses, someone with a patience, a passion even, for the region's history and contradictions. It takes a poet. In this new anthology, the first of its kind, more than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to--the South.Voices new to the scene appear in "The Ringing Ear" alongside some ..."