Common Ground
Publishing-in-Transit: Tender Buttons Press
Editors and Writers in Conversation
1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
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Writer and critic Cole Swensen joins Lee Ann Brown, poet and founding editor of Tender Buttons Press, alongside authors Anne Waldman and Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola for a conversation on literary publishing. We conclude with a reading by Brown.
In this talk
Publishing-in-Transit is a new monthly series celebrating contemporary literary editors, all of the often-unrecognized work that they do, and the community-based and conversational nature of contemporary innovative literary publishing. This is our second installment.
View our first installment featuring New York Review Books →
View our third installment featuring New Directions →
View our (upcoming) fourth installment featuring Ugly Duckling Presse →
Cole Swensen
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Lee Ann Brown
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Anne Waldman
![Photograph of Anne Waldman seated on a bench wearing a gold sweater. Photograph of Anne Waldman seated on a bench wearing a gold sweater.](../../../../../media/files/anne-waldman.jpeg?nf_resize=fit&w=250)
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
![A photo of poet Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola in front of a tapestry. A photo of poet Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola in front of a tapestry.](../../../../../media/files/lucia-hinojosa-mx-city-2020.jpg?nf_resize=fit&w=250)
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