From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons can be ordered from The Word Works website.

Cider Press Reviewer Susan Azar Porterfield finds "Jouissance" à la feminist critic Hélène Cixous in the anthology From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.

Poetry Mutual, a group of poets based in Washington, DC, compiled a list of books published in 2023 and then picked what they considered the best ten single-author books and the best three anthologies. Many good books in the long list!

Karren Alenier leads 36 other poets into the Steinian woods to create: From the Belly: Poets Respond to Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons.

The Sailors Review published Karren Alenier's poem "Kabuki Dragons" in a breath-taking flash and in beautiful page layout.

The Word Works announces the Tender Buttons Resource Project by Karren Alenier. Volume I of III to be published in 2022 features poems inspired by Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons. These poems are by Karren Alenier and 36 other poets.

Visit Madam Mayo's blog to read a comprehensive interview with Karren Alenier on writing, publishing, her time with Paul Bowles, her work with The Word Works & more.

A teacher at the Writer's Center of Bethesda, MD writes a letter of praise for how we hold on and asks permission to use a poem in her curriculum.