Introduction to the Shout anthology

I am honored to be in the company of the writers in the new book Shout: An Anthology of Resistance Poetry and Short Fiction from Not a Pipe Publishing. My co-editor Zack Dye and I wrote the introduction, and I thought I would share it here and encourage you all to share it as much as possible. I often feel a bit ashamed of plugging things online, but in this case I am willing to be as tacky and desperate as necessary because Not a Pipe Publishing will make a donation to the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood, and Raices: Texas for every copy sold, so I want this to get into as many hands as possible. Also, I’m hopeful it will inspire some of the readers to stand up and be counted in the same way the brave authors in the collection are standing up by sharing their writing. So check it out, share it, and please consider getting a copy.