I launched as Headline Poetry in July of 2019 due to the kindness and generosity of Line Rider Press. They offered me a subpage and free reign to ride like the wind. Yeah, so things have changed a bit. In the spirit of launching a New Year, Line Rider and Headline Poetry & Press decided … well … it was time to fully launch! Yeah, (I) we are now www.headlinepoetryandpress.com.
Who knew the concept of Headline would have caught fire as it did? We’ve grown from a one-woman show struggling to find a weekly piece, to a staff of four and nearly 30 regular contributors. We have a steady stream of weekly features, collaborative projects, urgent calls, and our first print edition coming in 2020.
We rose up because of the brave, vulnerable, and galvanizing work of the small press community – creatives and presses alike. We are inspired by the diligence you model for us, working tenaciously on behalf of the mis- and under-represented voices that we walk with, and pass by, every day.
From this six-month “internship,” of sorts, we have concluded the following:
- We must rest and reflect from time to time. Take note of our power and privilege, as well as our behavior and biases.
- THEN, we must take that inner work to the page, and to the streets.
- We must do it so often and so automatically that we soon don’t require a crisis for us to rise. Instead, we rise as we do for our morning cup of Joe.
We believe this to be the process of our collective evolution, the process that will save our Earth, and is the call behind our slogan:
Rest. Resist. Repeat.
You’ve done an amazing job!
taking a bow.