The Glass Chapbook Series Year Four (2019-2020)

We are proud to announce the fourth year of the Glass Chapbook Series.

Justin Rogers (Black, Matilda) is a Black poet, educator, coach, and editor from Detroit, MI. Rogers shares poems surrounding living and praying as a Black man in America. He most recently has work published in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Gramma Press, is author of micro-zine Nostalgia as Black Matilda (Rinky Dink Press 2017) and will release his chapbook Black, Matilda in 2019 with Glass Poetry Press. He is the coordinator of InsideOut’s after school program, Citywide Poets.

Allie Marini (This Apiary) is a cross-genre Southern writer. In addition to her work on the page, Allie was a 2017 Oakland Poetry Slam team member & writes poetry, fiction, essays, performing in the Bay Area, where as a native Floridian, she is always cold.

Chen Chen (Gesundheit!) is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, among other honors.

Sam Herschel Wein (Gesundheit!) lives in Chicago and specializes in aimless frolicking. His chapbook, Fruit Mansion (Split Lip Press, 2017) was the winner of the 2016 Turnbuckle Chapbook prize.

Cassandra de Alba (Ugly/Sad) is a poet living in Massachusetts. Her chapbooks habitats (Horse Less Press, 2016) and ORB (Reality Hands, 2018) are about deer and the moon, respectively. She is a co-host at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge and an associate editor at Pizza Pi Press.

Bailey Cohen (Self-Portraits as Yurico) is a queer Ecuadorian-American poet studying at NYU. The founder of Alegrarse, the Associate Editor for Frontier Poetry, and a Best of the Net nominee, his work appears in or is forthcoming from publications such as Boulevard, Raleigh Review, [PANK], Up the Staircase Quarterly, Boiler Journal, and elsewhere. Bailey can be found across most social media platforms @BaileyC213. He loves everyone Latinx.

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Glass Poetry Press would also like to acknowledge the following manuscripts, which were selected as finalists for the 2019-2020 Glass Chapbook Series.

out-takes/ glove box by Maya Jewell Zeller
The Suicide's Sister by Sarah Freligh
Some Metaphors Are Self Inflicted by Robin Gow
Forgive the Whiskey All the Way Down by Sally J. Johnson
Ordinary Aching by Duncan Slagle
The Aviary of Untamed Birds by Stephanie Tom
Folding Smoke by E. Kristin Anderson
Disastermath by Jacqueline Boucher
Prayer under eyelids by Karthik Sethuraman
In The Lap Of The City by Halee Kirkwood
Cut Back the Dead Parts and Wait by Sophia Starmack
Swallow by MJ Santiago
Apatite by Lannie Stabile
Keeping Up by Allison Blevins
Alive After Dark by Cynthia X. Hua
Party Guidelines by Dena Igusti