Gurlesque: a term that describes writers who perform femininity in their poems in a campy or overtly mocking manner, risking the grotesque to shake the foundations of acceptable female behavior and language.
This new digital anthology features poems and essays exploring grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics that pushes the aesthetic envelope through radical, femme, Third Wave strategies. Built from the bric-a-brac of girl culture, these works charm and repel: this work is fun, subversive, and important.
Gina Abelkop, Vidhu Aggarwal, Emily Brandt, Melissa Broder, Tina Brown Celona, Brenda Coultas, Sarah Cook, Marisa Crawford, Olivia Cronk, Katie Degentesh, Cleo Pam Dick, LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Stacy Doris, Maria Damon, Ailbhe Darcy, Kate Durbin, Natalie Eilbert, Thomas Fink, Carina Finn, B. K. Fischer, Sarah Fox, Jay Gabler, Sarah Gambito, Lara Glenum, Mira Gonzalez, Johannes Göransson, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Arielle Greenberg, Matthea Harvey, Ames Hawkins, Cathy Park Hong, Lauren Irelan, Min Kang, Amy Key, Geraldine Kim, Becca Klaver, Dylan Krieger, Sade LaNay, Dorothea Lasky, Ji Yoon Lee, Sandra Lim, Trisha Low, Caolan Madden, Monica McClure, Art Middleton, Megan Milks, Chelsey Minnis, Amanda Montei, Sawako Nakayasu, Jeff Nguyen, Maria Margareta Österholm, Helena Österlund, Morgan Parker, Kiki Petrosino, Niina Pollari, Khadijah Queen, Montana Ray, Kim Rosenfield, Trish Salah, Metta Sáma, Kim Gek Lin Short ,Carmen Giménez Smith, Sliilith-Sliidka “Sliik” Tcharek SliiBO-Bos’Slii, Heidi Lynn Staples, Kristen Stone, TC Tolbert, Sarah Vap, Will Vincent, Nadia de Vries, Kim Vodicka, Catherine Wagner, Ruth Williams, Trina Young
