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Kelsey Street Press [1]

Basic Information
Address: 
2307 Henry Street
Zip / Postal Code: 
98225
City: 
Bellingham
Website: 
https://kelseystreetpress.org/catalog [2]
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State: 
Washington
Country: 
United States
Contact Information
Contact Title: 
Managing Editor
Contact First Name: 
Emgee
Dufresne
Contact E-mail: 
Details
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Publishes Through Contests Only: 
No
Reading Period: 
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 to Friday, December 26, 2025
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
Book Types: 
Poetry collections
Formats: 
Paperback
Charges Reading Fee: 
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
No
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Distributors: 
Asterism
Tips From the Editor: 

We are interested in experimental work that plays with language, visual art, and the senses.

 

Titles per Year: 
1 to 5
Editorial Focus: 

Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers. From the beginning, the editors linked their editorial policy to a poetics of allowance, and to a poetics of inclusion that embraces racial and cultural diversity. Their early books were handset and printed two pages at a time on a basement letterpress.

Representative Authors: 

Bhanu Kapil, Renee Gladman, Ching-In Chen, Barbara Guest, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Jocelyn Saidenburg, Susan Gevirtz, Etel Adnan

How many authors debut in each issue?: 
1
Publishing type: 
print only [3]
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices [4]
Experimental [5]
Feminist [6]
Visual Poetry [7]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/small_presses/kelsey_street_press

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/small_presses/kelsey_street_press [2] https://kelseystreetpress.org/catalog [3] https://www.pw.org/category/publishing_type/print_only [4] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/bipoc-voices [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/feminist [7] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/visual-poetry