Substrate

I am my own space station and astronaut. Drifting, drifting. So slight the tether yet how pliable.

I’m really happy to announce that t’ai freedom ford’s poetry collection & more black won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. It was a honor to publish t’ai’s book through my press Augury Books.

may also be because of the nature of poetry itself: since each poem is its own complete aesthetic experience, maybe readers feel less inclined to engage with poetry books, no matter how much they’ve enjoyed individual poems. ​ Our hope is that readers who like the prose we publish may discover, as they poke around our catalog, that they like the poetry too

Poems "Tell me about last night" and "Thirteen years and this is what you are to me now" by Augury Books founding editor Kate Angus.