Feb. 27 @ 5:30pm PST/ Virtual Release Party: Diana Fisher & Asako Shimazaki’s ALL OF IT, TINGED

This is a virtual Drop Leaf Press event that takes place over Zoom.

NOTE: Our reading will take place from 5:30 to 6:05pm (PST), followed by a (completely optional) Talking Circle, which will be from 6:10-7pm.

REGISTER FOR FREE IN ADVANCE. After registering, you’ll receive a confirmation email with info about joining the event. 

Drop Leaf Press invites you to celebrate the release of ALL OF IT, TINGED, a curated juxtaposition of the photography of Asako Shimazaki and the writing of Diana Fisher. Shimazaki’s quietly charged images from her solo wanderings across Northern Japan reflect and inflect Fisher’s diligent poetic narrative about a novitiate and her convent absorbing the results of a catastrophic national election. Supporting our featured reader, Diana Fisher, will be poems by Jennifer S. Cheng and an introduction to the book by Heidi Van Horn, editor, and Janet Bishop, Chief Curator at SFMOMA.

Following the reading, we invite you to join us for an optional 45-minute Post-Inauguration Talking Circle. In the vein of ALL OF IT, TINGED, this will be a facilitated safe space for anyone who wants to share how they are processing the impact of the recent election and the transition of power. All feelings welcome! <3

Get your own copy of ALL OF IT, TINGED, available in our store now.

Oct. 10 @ 5:30pm PST / Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson

Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River, 2016)’s Requisite is newly out from Platypus Press. Joining Tanya is Aricka Foreman, whose first full-length book Salt Body Shimmer just came out with YesYes Books and features cover art by Lorna Simpson, the same artist who did Requisite’s cover. We’re also thrilled to host Tanya’s fellow Platypus author Richard Georges and Bay Area poet-friends Elizabeth Robinson and Monica Mody!