Harlequin Creature

the latest in our social justice series is ready for your mailbox! "listen" is an excerpt from gina balibrera's novel "the volcano-daughters" and all proceeds will go to RAICES order it online here: https://harlequincreature.org/social-justice-subscription/

the next in our social justice reading series will be at Word Up: Community Bookshop - Libreria Comunitaria fri. nov. 8th @ 6.30pm // launching 3 new books in the series with featured readings by Robert Gibbons and Yasmine Lancaster

check out the small press union at the bk book fest this sunday - hc is represented by Sherese Francis

for #womenintranslation month, help us keep doing the work with a purchase or donation: https://mailchi.mp/526ae/women-in-translation-month-1575781

for #WomeninTranslation month, we've published an interview with Jennifer Zoble, translator of Asja Baki's Mars, out this year from The Feminist Press at CUNY

coming up friday 11/9 in queens!

Feng Zhi's Sonnet 27, translated by Emily Goedde is up on the hc home page:

hc translation editor Elisa Wouk Almino is teaching a 6-week course at catapult on writing in translation. register now to grab your spot!

"it is as if the poet is trying, desperately, to bring formal order to emotional chaos" // marina tsvetaeva's "homesickness" in a new translation with introduction by boris dralyuk now up on the hc homepage: https://harlequincreature.org/

When you support poets and our poetry events you are also often supporting small independent publishers that have published our books or included our poems in t...heir anthologies, journals, zines or on their poetry sites. Thank you for supporting poets, but please make sure to continue to support venues that publish/support us too! Buy books published by small presses at independent bookstores (ask them to order it if you don’t see it):, ask libraries to order books if you don’t see them, subscribe or donate when/if you can to online journals/sites that publish your fave poets, and when you share links to poets work online, make sure to shout out and tag editors, publishers, journals, websites, indie bookstores, and local libraries that carry/publish our work. I’ll start in my own backyard. This past Tuesday I was fortunate to curate and put together a poetry reading for my Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon at Bryant Park Reading Room. The feature poets were all magic and after, Kinokuniya New York Bookstore, sold our featured poets books to a packed audience. Some of the presses represented included: Belladonna* Collaborative (Pamela Sneed),Gramma Press, Black Radish Books (Anastacia-Reneé),White Pine Presss Patricia Spears Jones) and Three Legged Elephant Publishing & Harlequin Creature (Reese Francis). Ultimately, the event was a great way to celebrate both our poets and their publishers. I can’t complete this post without a shout out to my own publisher, the badass queer run and community-based press, The Operating System, curated by Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, who published my first poetry collection and to places like Poems2go, The Academy of American Poets, Mom Egg Review, Talking Writing, Justice Matters Press, Anhinga Press, Split This Rock, Haymarket Books, and more, that have provided a home for my poetry and for so many other poets. Also shout out to journals where I’ve had the honor to publish other folks work, including Sinister Wisdom, Harlequin Creature and Mom Egg Review. I’m grateful for all the spaces that make room for our poems and our voices. Let’s continue to support those spaces, as well as the poets they publish. See more