KPI is an intersectional feminist arts organization cultivating more just and radically connected communities with literature, publishing, and education.

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KPI has been selected as one of 313 nonprofit organizations that the Literary Arts Emergency Fundnwill distribute funding to across the U.S. that have experienced continued financial losses due to COVID-19. #KorePressInstitute #KPI #MellonFoundation #Grant #LiteraryArts
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My Sisters’ Country was released in January of this year. You can order your copy of the collection on our website: korepress.org/archives/66064. My Sisters’ Country was selected as the second-place winner of the Kore Press Institute Poetry Prize in 2019. #KorePressInstitute #KPI
Selected by Erica Hunt for the KPI Poetry Prize, Gash Atlas is Jessica Lawson’s debut poetry collection. The collection will be released this Spring and available everywhere. #KorePressInstitute
Thank you, Desiree for your past leadership and heart-centered service to the KPI BOD, The Motherfield storytelling project, and your help laying significant groundwork for sustaining memberships during the thick of the pandemic.
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We wish you well in your ongoing good works in the healing community! #KorePressInstitute #KPI #DesireeMaultsby #Thankyou #Grateful
Tracie Morris is a poet, author & Guggenheim recipient. She is the author of handholding: 5 kindswhich can be found on our website. Look out for her upcoming hybrid publication that includes visuals, sound and text: handholding: 5 kinds-on the other hand, in June of 2022!
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In exciting author news, Alexis V. Jackson the author of My Sisters’ Country was announced to be a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship. @Alexis_a_poet
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The fellowship awards five poetry fellowships annually in the amount of $25,800 each to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. My Sisters’ Country is now available from KPI direct, indie bookstores near you, or your go-to online retailers.
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In exciting author news, Alexis V. Jackson the author of My Sisters’ Country was announced to be a finalist for the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellowship.
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The fellowship awards five poetry fellowships annually in the amount of $25,800 each to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. My Sisters’ Country is now available from KPI direct, indie bookstores near you, or your go-to online retailers.
Happy International Women's Day! 🎇 In honor of an incredible woman, meet Aisha! Aisha is working on Membership & Development to help sustain the 30 year legacy of good works at KPI. #KPI #korepressinstitute #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday
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Check out our interview with Alexis Orgera here: korepress.org/archives/67397. Orgera is the author of Head Case: My Father, Alzheimer’s & Other Brainstorms, a memoir written in the immediacy of grief during the end stages of her father’s early Alzheimer’s diagnosis at age 52.
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You can order the book through our website now. #KorePressInstitute #KPI #HeadCase #AlexisOrgera #Alzheimers #Memoir #Grief @LexOrgera
Congratulations to writers K.M. English and Candace Opper for their work being nominated by the editors at KPI for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. @candaceopper
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We were proud to nominate “Life Below the Sea Level” by K.M. English and an excerpt from Certain and Impossible Events by Candace Opper. Visit our website to learn more about these two works.
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