Kelsey Street Press: A Berkeley, California poetry press publishing collaborations between women poets and artists


ANNOUNCING FIRSTS CONTEST WINNER
7 Days and Nights in the Desert (Tracing the Origin)
by Sabrina Dalla Valle



Yes, there are many ways to look at a crime a wing-slashed sky. You begin with a tincture of saltan animal thirst. Next, the facts can be ground through an iterative process and new theories float out like stardust. Like the exhalations we share, and share again. How could I know what happened? You left only photographsthe negativesmoisture has absorbed into the grains of the paper, temporarily resembling an unidentified body in the river.
~ Marjorie Stein, An Atlas of Lost Causes

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Word for Word review of An Atlas of Lost Causes



ANNOUNCING Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Four Year Old Girl Second Edition, 2011


The canopy of a tree, say a poplar, like a round house, removes the site of vulnerabil-
ity—the obvious entrance and back with no protection.
Privacy can creep about in the leaves and below them, hang here as lungs on the out-
side.
~ Hazel White, Peril as Architectural Enrichment

Listen to excerpts of Hazel White reading from PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT
(KSP recording, Ross Craig, sound engineer)

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textured relationships grasp how we
fragment where story
encourages relationship elements make decisions
desire strongly present escapes quickly
assertion's substance waking
what isn't what is
~ Rena Rosenwasser, Elevators

JACKET Review of Elevators
New York Quarterly Review of Elevators


Listen to excerpts of Rena Rosenwasser reading from ELEVATORS
(KSP recording, Ross Craig, sound engineer)

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The drenched sky whose light withers seeing, skies of insomniacs
plastered with sleep, little-known night skies for the sake of pollination,
navigating by fluorescent light the daunted night sky under which urban
cleaning occurs, Athena's sky palace, the sky whose character alters
according to the ages of ice. This is to divide the sky into some of its many
halves, some of which contain a moon, and some of which understand the
moon as a lamp lit by the night-candler.

~ Susan Gevirtz, AERODROME ORION & Starry Messenger

Listen to excerpts of Susan Gevirtz reading from AERODROME ORION
(KSP recording, Ross Craig, sound engineer)

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