"Let’s say that women’s lives still take place at least one third in the underworld. Despite Emma Goldman, Gertrude Stein, Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, Lady Gaga. Let’s say that the time women spend in the dark—whether a dark imposed by psychic or familial or economic or societal circumstance—is what catalyzes their singing and sense of purpose. That is what the old myths teach: that the imagination is the site to forge one’s reality.

In The Best of Kore Press, 2012, Kore celebrates twenty years of bringing women’s voices to light in artful publications and here marks their accomplishment with work gathered from the year’s first book and open submissions. The collection makes the point Kore has worked so doggedly to make: its commitment to promote new, aesthetically and culturally diverse writing by women."

from the Introduction by Alison Hawthorne Deming

"Read every poem in this fine collection to feel the beauty of women sounding and
shaping their way from silence into meaning."—Alison Hawthorne Deming

"Kore Press supports the voices of women, a revolutionary act even today, and does so with the utmost craftsmanship. They slay dragons with beauty and skill."—Niki Herd

"It is true that we are multitudes, and within this collection, you will hear the many songs and landscapes that help build the world of contemporary poetry. This is an important collection because it demands that we, as female writers, not conform, rather, we must only write the things that are in us to be written."—Natalie Diaz

"Twenty years ago two super women decided to found a press with a vision to publish and distribute excellent literary and artistic work by a diversity of women. Hold this astonishing anthology in your hands. Consider it like all the stars".—Joni Wallace