Thread by @thaoworra

One thing I lament approaching 10 years with @sfpoetry: I still find young poets afraid to center their work as #SFFPoetry especially when so many BIPOC poets, myself included modeled an amazing trajectory embracing it rather than relying on most "mainstream" poetry approvals

In the 2000s, when I initially presented my 1st book manuscripts and poems to literary and AAPI publishers, at best I was given a polite hard pass, but some REALLY RUDE AF rejections, too. Even from a MN-based @NewRiversPress SEAA anthology. WOW. But it WAS a lesson.

I still catch wind of professors and high school teachers pushing BIPOC poets AWAY from #SFFPoetry even though the author of Life on Mars won a pulitzer prize and served as the Poet Laureate of the United States.

WTAF. Stop that.

If you've got 5 minutes you can hear her reading from her @GraywolfPress collection. This IS #SFFPoetry

For emerging BIPOC poets writing #SFFPoetry: We try to confirm most of the markets listed here ARE inclusive & open to receiving poetry from you, subject to the journal's current tastes/needs. (Editors, if that's CHANGED, please let us know ASAP)
sfpoetry.com/markets.html