I founded Gasher in 2018 with the mission to provide opportunity, support, and visibility to a diverse community of emerging and established writers. In 2021, Gasher Press officially became a 501c3 nonprofit corporation and was a finalist at the CLMP's Firecracker Awards for Best New Literary Magazine 

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Gasher Press was awarded a Small Press Future Fund Grant in 2024 from CLMP!

 

Beginning as the literary journal, Gasher Journal, in 2018, Gasher Press was established in 2022 as a 501c3 nonprofit publisher of poetry books and chapbooks. We release five to eight titles per year and host several literary prizes aimed at uplifting a diverse range of voices in publishing including the Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize for a poem written by a transgender poet and the Two Languages Book Prize, which seeks to award publication to a manuscript written in any combination of Korean and English. 

 

Our editorial interest continues to echo the original mission from 2018, “We want art that guts with surgical precision. Make everything useful,” seeking poetry that is bright, bursting from the seams of tradition to embrace originality, potential, and risk. We pursue poetic frontiers: sites of vulnerable play, or the gift-making of a deepened understanding of self, history, and positionality in scalpel-like wielding of form and language. We offer support and space for dialogues surrounding identity, art, and resistance to move poetry forward. 

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