Hi everyone, This is Ama Bemma. I want to thank all of you who have been engaging with this website since it was created in the spring of 2019. The GPP is a year and a half old, and I decided that the project needed a bit of a facelift. I want to thank the […]
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Located in England, Platypus Press is an indie publisher of poetry, fiction and narrative non-fiction. It was founded in 2015 by Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather. It was featured in Entropy’s “Best of 2017: Presses, Magazines, Publishers and Journals” list and was also features in Poets and Writers. The books of poetry published include the
The Lounge (previously known as Lyricist Lounge Tanzania) was founded in March of 2014 by Shamsa Suleiman and Jennifer Eric as a response to the lack of places where local talent could be found in a communal and comfortable setting. The Lounge’s mission is to provide a positive, cultural safe space for artists to express
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The Umbra Poets Workshop ran from 1962-1965. They met for three years at Manhattan’s Lower East Side in New York City. As the first post-civil rights Black literary group (that we have record of), they sought to establish a voice distinct from the prevailing institutions of the 60s. They conducted readings, discussed writing, and engaged in
