"blackprint" by allia abdullah-matta: THRASH Press's first chapbook

"I can’t always say all of what they did to me / till today"

We are proud to announce that THRASH Press has published blackprint, a new chapbook from poet and professor allia abdullah-matta. Each is hand-printed in Queens, NY, (staple-bound, linen paper, 16 pages)—and we'll include a free half-page broadside of one of the visual or experimental poems with your purchase ($12). Look here to find out how to make a purchase: https://www.thrash.press/publications.

abdullah-matta writes about the culture and history of Black women and explores the presence of Black bodies and voices in fine art and poetry. She is working on a collection of poems inspired by archival and field research in South Carolina and Georgia, funded by a CUNY BRESI grant—a project that has influenced blackprint.

The poet was the co-recipient of The Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize in Poetry (2018) from The City College of New York (CCNY). Her poetry has been published in Newtown Literary, Promethean, Marsh Hawk Review, Mom Egg Review, Vox, Global City Review, the Jam Journal Issue of Push/Pull, and Queensbound. Her chapbook(s) washed clean & blues politico (2021) were published by harlequin creature (hcx).