Somewhere in the I Ching, it says that to do good in the world, you should support “people of worth.” That’s always been EAP: The Magazine’s purpose—to support a creative community outside of the competitive structure of most publishing, one that allows writers to try different things, to contribute pieces that don’t need to be vetted by whatever the flavor of the month theme or literary style might be. And that’s the way we roll, the way we always have rolled, as a matter of fact.
There are a lot of people of worth to support, too. Step forward, Sean Murphy, the hardest working publisher/writer in rock and roll. His 1455 Books has just published not one, but two collections of the writings of people of worth. There’s the Young Poets Anthology. Outstanding, supporting not just poets, but young poets, the new generation who have a big stake in the game of making the world a better place (and what a lot of work they have cut out for themselves, too). And don’t miss 1455’s Women Writers Anthology, all pieces on the theme of Silence. I’m proud to have been asked to contribute, and you can read my short essay, “On the Silence of Women,” extracted here.
Support 1455 and you’re supporting work of worth. Huge shout out to Sean, who manages to do all this admin on top of all his manifold creative works. It takes a special talent, and special grit, too, to do all the producing, to write all the work, to promote all the work of others, as Sean has done and does and will continue to do.
Go, Sean!
Speaking of people of worth, don’t forget Yahia Lababidi’s book, “If You Cannot Say Genocide,” his searing collection of essays on Palestine and the crisis in Gaza, pubs in October, and is available for sale. We’ve excerpted one of the essays here, “My Encounter with Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Thank you, Yahia, for being a writer, a person of worth.
Other EAP contributors have books coming out. T.C. Eisele’s book, “ChatEntropy,” is excerpted in this issue. And Colin Dodds, a frequent contributor in the past to EAP, has his book, “Pharoni. ” Congratulations to them both.
And meanwhile, thank you for supporting EAP: The Magazine. I do want to mention something that’s a personal pleasure for me: when writers on the page reach out to each other and start an exchange of ideas off camera. I love that. It really makes me feel like I’m walking, stumbling really, down the path the I Ching laid out.
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