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Mary Meriam, Risa Denenberg, and Rita Mae Reese: publishing poetry books by le****ns. Headmistress was born on January 1, 2013.

Headmistress Press publishes books of poetry by le****ns, Le***an Poet Trading Cards, and Lavender Review. Headmistress is a small book press dedicated to honoring le***an existence, discovering a range of le***an voices, and promoting le***an representation in the arts. Le***an-run and le***an-centered literary journals and book presses continue to be rarities. Headmistress is committed passionat

ely to growing the presence of le***an voices in the poetry community. Headmistress welcomes le***an-identifying writers from a range of backgrounds, styles and persuasions. To learn more about Headmistress and her mistresses, and to become a mistress of sorts, visit: http://headmistresspress.blogspot.com/

01/12/2025

Latest news in DQ: "The spirit of music will do for her sighing." Natalie Clifford Barney translated by Samantha Pious.

NEW BOOKS FROM HEADMISTRESS PRESS

18/10/2025

Headmistress re-designed the cover of our 2014 anthology, which includes sonnets by poets we've sadly lost since then:
Geoffrey Hill
Ann Drysdale
M.A. Griffiths
Anne Stevenson
Timothy Murphy
Kate Light
Wanda Coleman
Diann Blakely
Ted Richer
John Whitworth

https://www.amazon.com/Irresistible-Sonnets-Mary-Meriam/dp/0615931510/

08/10/2025

It's International Le***an Day! Looking for likely le****ns submitting to Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Deadline October 31. Here's the link, my pretties: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

01/10/2025

Submissions are open and here's the link: https://headmistresspress.submittable.com/submit

22/09/2025

Submissions open October 1. This picture shows book covers of the winners since Headmistress started Sappho's Prize in Poetry in 2020. Click here for guidelines: https://www.headmistress-press.com/2017/07/sapphos-prize-in-poetry.html

08/09/2025

Info about Sappho's Prize in Poetry PLUS Best of the Net nominations from Lavender Review: https://open.substack.com/pub/headmistresspress/p/disorderly-quarterly-925

04/09/2025

It's almost October 1, so get ready to submit your ms to Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Link in comments.

14/08/2025

“your white and slender form / has left me wholly senseless”“O teu corpo branco e esguio / prendeu todo o meu sentido …”About the Reading:Q***r Love Poems fr...

28/06/2025

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Here Come The D***s: A short documentary recounts the alternative history of photography by JEB (Joan E. Biren) with le****ns as central protagonists in The ...

13/06/2025

Sappho's Prize in Poetry winner Jenn Morea is reading in Chicago at Women & Children First bookstore on June 24. Jenn is a wonderful person Mary was lucky enough to meet in person in LA. As Dan Beachy-Quick said, in part, "...the relational concerns that course throughout the series of poems become not merely interpersonal in nature, but oddly, subtly, gently, cosmic."

06/06/2025

Headmistress is thrilled to announce the publication of Cactus Flowers: Selected Poems by Judith Teixeira, translated by Samantha Pious. Allison Grimaldi Donahue writes: "Samantha Pious’s translations from the Portuguese of Judith Teixeira’s poetry in Cactus Flowers resound with sensual energy and burning tenderness. Reading these poems, one is struck not only with the passion of Teixeira’s q***r love poems but by the way in which turbulent politics and social tensions are subtly traceable within the lines. Translations such as this renew literature across multiple languages; Pious is asking us not only to reconsider Teixeira’s place within the canon but to reconsider what makes the canon itself: whose stories are valid, which loves are counted, whose language is considered inventive or new." Click here to order your copy from Amazon or Headmistress Store: https://www.headmistress-press.com/2017/07/books.html

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Headmistress Press publishes books of poetry by le****ns, Le***an Poet Trading Cards, and Lavender Review. Le***an-run and le***an-centered literary journals and book presses continue to be rarities. Headmistress is committed passionately to growing the presence of le***an voices in the poetry community. Headmistress welcomes le***an-identifying writers from a range of backgrounds, styles and persuasions.

Headmistress books have received recognition and awards from Kirkus Reviews (starred), Golden Crown Literary Society, Lambda Literary Awards, Poets’ Prize, Massachusetts Center for the Book, Washington Independent Review of Books, and the American Library Association. Our Le***an Poet Trading Cards were lauded in the Chicago Tribune and featured at the Poetry Foundation and AfterEllen. To learn more about Headmistress and her mistresses, and to become a mistress of sorts, visit: http://headmistresspress.blogspot.com/