New Website Design!
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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Platypus Press
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- Tanzania
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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Society of UMBRA
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