09/22/2021
I received this email today from Raven Chronicles Press. I was blessed to have a poem published in this anthology in 2020. What wonderful news for all us that were included including "Jericho Brown, Lucille Clifton, Tess Gallagher, Ilya Kaminsky, Dunya Mikhail, Marge Piercy and Danez Smith, Kathleen Alcalá, Gary Copeland Lilley, Claudia Castro Luna, Melissa Kwasny, Priscilla Long, Tiffany Midge, Carolyne Wright, and Gail Tremblay."
Not all of our contributors are in Washington. Thanks for being a part of our book, and for your commitment to truth-telling. Here is our glad announcement from last week:
On behalf of the Washington Center for the Book, we are delighted to let you know that you have won the Washington State Book Award for Poetry for Take a Stand, Art Against Hate, a Raven Chronicles Anthology! Congratulations!
Your book was selected by a panel of five judges who read more than 200 books. Judges for the 2021 Washington State Book Awards were: Kerry Halls, Manager, Auntie’s Bookstore, Spokane; Tiffany Midge, author and Washington State Book Award finalist; Zola Mumford, Reference and Instruction Librarian, North Seattle College Library; Betsey Stahler, Collection Development Manager, North Central Regional Library, and Jenna Zarzycki, Adult Services Librarian, King County Library System.
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Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, edited by Seattle-based writers Anna Balint, Phoebe Bosche, and Thomas Hubbard, contains poems, stories and images from 117 writers, 53 artists, 69 illustrations, divided into five fluid and intersecting sections: Legacies, We Are Here, Why?, Evidence, and Resistance. We begin with Legacies because the current increased climate of hate in this country didn't begin with the 2016 election, and to find its roots we must look to U.S. history. The work represents a wide range of proactively humanitarian and nonviolent stances that poets, artists, and activists have taken in response to the many troubles afflicting us in this era. We can regard Take a Stand: Art Against Hate as a print-form peace march, an ongoing campaign for justice for all of the struggles embodied in these writings and depicted in the photos and artwork included here. This is a deeply democratic anthology--standing alongside nationally prominent voices such as Jericho Brown, Lucille Clifton, Tess Gallagher, Ilya Kaminsky, Dunya Mikhail, Marge Piercy and Danez Smith, are luminaries renowned in the Pacific Northwest region and beyond, such as Kathleen Alcalá, Gary Copeland Lilley, Claudia Castro Luna, Melissa Kwasny, Priscilla Long, Tiffany Midge, Carolyne Wright, and Gail Tremblay. This anthology comes at a critical time in our nation's cultural discourse surrounding intersections of identity, resistance, and looking at the past to forge a path forward. This collection spans form, tone, and theme without feeling cluttered; you find yourself reading something new while experiencing the same emotions many of us have come to find all too familiar. Thought-provoking and heart-wrenching, this collection--which boasts the words of Danez Smith and the art of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Alfred Arreguin--flows seamlessly from poetry to visual art, creating an anthology that is not only a commanding and introspective read, but a necessary one.
THE RAVEN CHRONICLES PRESS is a nonprofit independent publishing press and literary organization, established in Seattle in 1991.
