Jill Stengel

Poet Jill Stengel celebrates the chapbook form as publisher of the prolific micropress a+bend press, with 41 chapbook titles and more in the works. Her engagement with the chapbook form is also apparent in her own poetry: she has seven published chapbooks, with two more due out this year.  Several of her chapbooks, including lagniappe, late may, and may(be) can be viewed online at www.dusie.org. Her first full-length collection is due out in early 2011 from Black Radish Books. Stengel’s poetic community activities have included teaching poetry and book arts at various levels; participating in publishing collectives and writing collectives; participating in poetry community list-servs, including the Poet-Moms listserv; publishing mem, a journal of writing by poets who are mothering young children; and curating a poetry reading series, Second Sundays at BlueBar, in San Francisco’s historically poetically rich North Beach district.

Jill Stengel performed on August 19th, 2010.