“It’s Only Vanity if It’s Not Good”: Daisy Aldan and Women Midcentury Small Press Publishers

Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing at Duke Kunshan University. Her research focuses on twentieth century poetry, small press publishing, and cultures of circulation. She is the author of three books of poetry, including If You Love Error So Love Zero (Trembling Pillow Press), as well as several chapbooks, most recently Bearings (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2024). She is also the editor of a book of interviews, Women in Independent Publishing (forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press in December 2024), and co-editor of All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer & Clark Coolidge (University of New Mexico Press). Her essays, poems, and interviews have recently appeared in Chicago Review, Fence Steaming, Gulf Coast, Post45, Textual Practice, Women's Studies, and elsewhere. She is finishing Dating the Poem, a study of calendrical poetics. You can read more of her work at www.octoberinapril.com.