Book cover for Born Backwards: Poems by Tanya Olson (YesYes Books), with a hog standing on a bit of grass. Olson’s third poetry collection “reports from inside butch culture in the 1980s American South as it traces how geography, family, experiences, and popular culture shape one queer life.” Finalist for the 2024 Indies Book of the Year Awards, 2024 Big Other Award in Poetry, 2025 Golden Crown Literary Society Goldie Award in Poetry, and 2025 Paterson Poetry Prize! https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/born-backwards
Book cover for Bad Forecast by Steffan Triplett (Essay Press), with hurricanes, fire, tornadoes and every kind of bad weather tearing apart a landscape. A hybrid memoir told in lyric and fractured prose, depicting grief not just in the aftermath of a tornado in southwest Missouri, but in all that is unearthed from the grounds of adolescence and young adulthood. The book explores the overlaps in the way we talk and think about weather, about queerness, about race: their disruptions, their pervasive pull, the isolation they can leave behind. What secrets are kept in the climate of Middle America? What spirals out after a storm? How do race and queerness, like the weather, inform a landscape? Bad Forecast considers how we interpret the forecasts that linger behind us and those still projected to come, brewing in the distance. https://www.essaypress.org/triplett/
Book cover for A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby, with Mary Louisa Plummer (University of Manitoba Press), with a photograph of the author playing a drum. Ma-Nee Chacaby, an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian who grew up in a remote northern Ontario community, tells the story of how she overcame experiences with abuse and alcohol addiction to become a counsellor and lead Thunder Bay's first gay pride parade. https://uofmpress.ca/books/a-two-spirit-journey
5/ #Pride #SmallPress #books: A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby (@umanitobapress.bsky.social), Born Backwards by @tanyaolson.bsky.social (@yesyesbooks.bsky.social) & Bad Forecast by @steffantriplett.bsky.social (@essaypress.bsky.social). See alt-text!
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