Join small press independent poetry publisher blush for a celebration of our 2025 catalog. Readers include Christine Shan Shan Hou, Courtney Bush, M. Elizabeth Scott, and Francesca Kritikos. All will read from their recent published full-length collections. Copies of all books will be available for purchase. Poetry baby!
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Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and collage artist whose publications include Playdate (White Columns, 2022), The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing (After Hours Editions 2021), and Community Garden for Lonely Girls (Gramma Poetry 2017) amongst others. Their artwork has been exhibited at White Columns and various galleries in New York City. Their fourth collection of poems, A PROMISE (b l u s h 2025) is out now!
Courtney Bush is a poet, filmmaker, and childcare worker from Mississippi. She is the author of the poetry collections Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022), I Love Information (Milkweed Editions, 2023), A Movie (Lavender Ink, 2025) and The Lamb With The Talking Scroll (forthcoming, blush, 2025).
Francesca Kritikos is the editor in chief of SARKA, a journal and publisher focused on works of the flesh. Her latest book of poetry, The season of lilacs is monstrous, was published by blush in October 2025. Her writing has been published in English, French and Greek in numerous online and print journals. She also writes the Substack column Body Composition.
M. Elizabeth Scott is a poet and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of language, image, and ritual. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Scottish literature at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, examining the work of Roddy Lumsden through the lens of cognitive difference, personae, and poetics. She is the author of three pamphlets, including Apocalypsing (Blush Lit, 2023) and the forthcoming full-length collection Her Gloves Against the Mirror (2025). Her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Evergreen Review, The Poetry Project, and elsewhere. Currently based in Glasgow, Scott's practice spans poetry, curatorial work, and sound collaboration, investigating themes of mysticism, subjectivity, and altered consciousness.
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