To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are happy to present Poetry Daily’s April Celebration: 30Presses/30Poets (#ArmchairBookFair21). Please join us for new poetry from the presses that sustain us. We thank you for reading and hope you will consider supporting poets and poetry this month, and every month. Please be well.
Code-switching is something I learned early in life. There was one voice for school and work, and another for home. My parents turned "on" their respective voices for their jobs. As children, my sisters and I made fun of their modulated tones and precise diction. As an adult, I relish that I have this linguistic key that will let me back in my cultural home anytime I want it.
UDP is a small press for poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and artists books. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its publications often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the history of bookmaking.
"Washington state’s new poet laureate has been announced: Bellingham resident Rena Priest, whose debut poetry collection 'Patriarchy Blues' won an American Book Award in 2018. Priest, a member of the Lhaq’temish (Lummi) Nation, is the first Indigenous poet to hold the position."
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