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Join Apogee’s Team Apogee Journal is currently looking for highly motivated writers, editors, and lovers of literature to join our team as interns. Apogee’s mission is twofold: to elevate underrepresented voices by publishing and supporting traditionally marginalized writers and artists; and to bring conversations about social justice and identity politics into creative expression. We are an ambitious young journal based in New York City, with a growing community of engaged readers who support our mission. Working with Apogee brings opportunities for networking with nonprofits, literary journals, writers, and artists in New York City and beyond, and the chance to be a part of a supportive and diverse team of writers and editors who are passionate about art and activism. Responsibilities include: Proofreading blog content for Perigee and posting it to WordPress; Mailing copies of Apogee to contributors, reviewers, and subscribers; Establishing connections with bookstores in NYC to sell Apogee; Tracking inventory of print issues; Building opportunities for reviews and interviews by connecting with like-minded organizations and individuals over e-mail; Copyediting/proofreading content for print issues. Qualifications: Experience managing social media campaigns for events, programs, or organizations; Experience event planning (coordinating with venues, ordering catering, selling tickets, advertising); Familiarity with Google Docs and...

Poetry

Poetry by Sara Lupita Olivares

Apogee Journal

18 Apr 2016

OPENINGS a small animal in your hands gives one expression the way trauma deepens in its ephemera a type of awe you can sometimes peel back to see yourself renegotiated & watching again Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of the chapbook Field Things (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared in Fourteen Hills, Horse Less Review, Columbia Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches in Harlem and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.

Folio Responses to Sexual Violence in Literary Spaces

TO BECOME LOUDER, EVEN STILL: Responses to Sexual Violence in Literary Spaces

Apogee Journal

13 Apr 2016

INTRODUCTION From my time as a crisis counselor, I learned that the term “crisis” refers to a moment when the body identifies intense danger, either in response to a new trauma or triggered by a former one, compelling it to make the most immediate choices for survival. In curating the following responses to the topic of sexual violence in literary spaces, I cannot help but return to this definition of crisis. On March 6, 2016, VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts published “Reports from the Field: Statements Against Silence,” a collection of anonymous testimonials from women naming a well-known poet as a perpetrator of sexual violence; someone who has leveraged the power and prestige of his reputation to ensure their silence. What does it mean that the responses that have followed are not one of shock and dismay but of the acknowledgment that sexual violence has historically pervaded the spaces in which we write and build community? That other writers have spoken up and forged connections between this incident and sexual transgressions of myriad other forms perpetrated by mentors, teachers, and others who wield certain power across literary spaces? I think of crisis now because these moments force us to...

Apogee seeks interns for 2016!

Poetry by Sara Lupita Olivares

TO BECOME LOUDER, EVEN STILL: Responses to Sexual Violence in Literary Spaces

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