AMONG MARGINS: CRITICAL & LYRICAL WRITING ON AESTHETICS

ISBN 9781938900143
Publication date: September 2016
413 pages, 6.3″ x 8″
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OVERVIEW

This anthology is a collection of some of the most exciting voices in the field of writing, art, and activism. Each contributor considers different aspects of aesthetics, from what beauty means to them to how disability has informed their practice. Here artists and writers dive deep into how notions of identity, language, and history play out in their work.

CONTRIBUTORS

Kazim Ali, Jennifer Bartlett, Josh Bell, CAConrad, Camille T. Dungy, Mary Gaitskill, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Carmen Giménez Smith, Arielle Greenberg, Elizabeth Hall, Brenda Hillman, Bob Holman, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Bhanu Kapil, Douglas Kearney, Paul Legault, Sandra Lim, MANDEM, Shane McCrae, Lynn Melnick, Philip Metres, Ben Mirov, Eileen Myles, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, Mark Nowak, James Romberger, giovanni singleton, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Mathew Timmons, Marguerite Van Cook, Derek White, Simone White, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Emily Wolahan, Maged Zaher

EDITORS

Fox Frazier-Foley is author of two prize-winning poetry collections, Exodus in X Minor (Sundress Publications, 2014) and The Hydromantic Histories (Bright Hill Press, 2015), and editor of two anthologies, Political Punch (Sundress Publications, 2016) and this, Among Margins (Ricochet Editions, 2016). She is co-creator, with Hoa Nguyen, of the forthcoming Tough Gal Tarot deck and book. Fox is founding EIC of the indie-lit press Agape Editions, which is an imprint of Sundress Publications (a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization) dedicated to publishing literary works that engage with concepts of the mystical, ecstatic, interfaith/ intercultural, and the Numinous. Fox was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Binghamton University, was honored with merit-based fellowships at Columbia University, where she earned an MFA, and was a Provost’s Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she was a founding member of the small press Ricochet Editions and earned a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing.

Diana Arterian is the author of Playing Monster:: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), and the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017) and Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013). She is also a Poetry Editor at Noemi Press and a Managing Editor at Ricochet. Her work has been recognized with fellowships from Caldera, Vermont Studio Center, and Yadoo, and her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in Apogee, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Circumference, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Los Angeles Review of Books, Two Serious Ladies, and The Volta, among others.

DESIGNER

Book design by Cindi Kusuda.