Xander Gershberg

Come join us at AWP!! We'll have open-mics at our bookfair booth, and our editor @xandergershberg.bsky.social will be moderating a panel with editors from @juneroadpress.bsky.social @triohousepress.org @perugiapress.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @clmporg.bsky.social !!

Our new website is up!! Beautifully designed by @hadleyhendrix.bsky.social our site bridges our 90's DIY punk roots with contemporary style, including a store where you can buy our books and merch, direct from us. Take a look at our new digs!! 20% of all sales go to MN mutual aid spoutpress.org

Relief Funds for Families | The Park Place (Powered by Donorbox) We have prided ourselves on relationship as an organization, and now we're seeing our friends, families, and community members terrified.Since the first week of December, Latine community members and ...

Please consider donating to this local after-school program, which has been deeply impacted by ICE and still far short of its fundraising goals. Any little bit helps!

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“The chorus bears all of it for us”: A Dispatch from Minneapolis - Cleveland Review of Books Whistles and honks and encrypted messages and patrols and training and sit-ins and food drives and carpools.

I wrote an account that captures some of Minneapolis life right now amid ICE's occupation, the atrocities they wreck onto our communities, and the resistance Minnesotans have waged against it. Thank you @clereviewbooks.bsky.social for publishing!
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Organizations supporting Minnesotans targeted by ICE Organizations supporting Minnesotans targeted by ICE: Mutual Aid links Rent Relief for Impacted South Minneapolis Families Mutual Aid for Near North Minneapolis Families Affected by ICE Rent Relief fo...

@miracmn.bsky.social @unidos-mn.bsky.social

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Spout Press stands in solidarity with everyone targeted by ICE's occupation of Minnesota, and with the family of Renee Good. As a press that is rooted in the Twin Cities, we support and grieve with our neighbors. We continue on in the resistance against fascism and hope you consider donating to and following the lead of these organizations, and if you're local, getting involved.

The Hummingbird Network, Unidos MN, MIRAC, Immigrant Defense Network, Defend 612, Immigrant Law Center of MN, Immigrant Advocates Network. Links to offer financial support and to learn more about volunteering with these organizations can be found linked in the comments.

Spout Press stands in solidarity with everyone targeted by ICE's occupation of Minnesota, and with the family of Renee Good.

We want to amplify the work of organizations leading the resistance to ICE on the ground and mutual aid networks supporting affected families. Links and info in the comments

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Two exciting updates!:

1. We're fundraising to relaunch Spout Magazine, our historic literary magazine that originally ran from 1989-2015. Plus, we're giving thank-you gifts to donors. Donate here www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

2. We're on Substack now! Subscribe here: spoutpress.substack.com

We are relaunching Spout Magazine! Help us raise the money to do so and get a special thank you gift. Donate at www.givemn.org/story/wuj8ef

I hope people see in these poetics—and in our conversation—something helpful for them in their own writing and living now. 4/4

resistance, how documentary poetics like Santiago’s help us remember and assert truths elided from the record. The method actively resists against the state’s narrative, an exercise especially urgent in the context of Trump, but as Santiago demonstrates, has always been required. 3/4

another Trump administration that openly seeks to begin a new era of colonization, while twisting the language of oppression to censor BIPOC, Trans, and queer people, and anyone that allies with them.

I’ve been holding our conversation tight as a reminder of language as a potent tool for 2/4

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It was an honor to interview @santisugi.bsky.social about decolonial poetics in his new book Small Wars Manual, forthcoming @milkweededitions.bsky.social

Our conversation on language's erasure and changing context hits uncannily now in the first weeks of 1/4

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Women share stories of connection and support in ‘Locker Room Talk,’ up for MN Book Award For the first time since 2006, the Minnesota Book Awards include a category for anthologies. One of the finalists is the story collection “Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.”

We were delighted to talk about our new collection LOCKER ROOM TALK: WOMEN IN PRIVATE SPACES on @mprnews.org today with @ninamoini.bsky.social !!

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Cover of book "Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Space", nominated for the Minnesota Book Award Best Anthology

Red text saying "Through a prismatic series of essays, “Locker Room Talk” indexes the myriad shapes of women’s behind-closed-doors encounters: from the mammogram suite to the BDSM dungeon to P!nk’s backstage dressing rooms. These stories reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves, each other, their communities, and our world. Available only through Asterism Books"

We are delighted and humbled to have our book LOCKER ROOM TALK nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for Best Anthology!! It feels too appropriate to have this collection protesting Trump's misogyny to be recognized now at the onset of another Trump term. Buy @asterismbooks.bsky.social

We are extremely grateful to be named a grant recipient for the CLMP Small Press Future Fund! We are delighted to be named along with other presses that we admire. Please check out their books and support small presses.