Alta (poet)
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Alta (born 1942 Reno, Nevada
) is an American poet
, prose writer, and publisher.
and Jennifer Jaffe, and they published a variety of genres, including collections of poetry and a few children’s books. They were located for a time in the small suburban East Bay town of San Lorenzo - where Gerrey says she felt safer from people who did not appreciate what she was doing. Shameless Hussy Press published the first edition of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
., and Mary Mackey
's first novel Immersion in 1972. The press closed in 1989. The press archive is held at University of California Santa Cruz. In 2006, Alta started Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s (residential, family-oriented) Elmwood neighborhood.
She lives in Berkeley, California
.
Reno, Nevada
Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
) is an American poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, prose writer, and publisher.
Life
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in 1968. The first women-owned feminist press in California, it published over 40 books in the twenty years Alta operated it, from 1969 to 1989. Most authors they accepted were women, including Ntozake ShangeNtozake Shange
Ntozake Shange born October 18, 1948, is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism....
and Jennifer Jaffe, and they published a variety of genres, including collections of poetry and a few children’s books. They were located for a time in the small suburban East Bay town of San Lorenzo - where Gerrey says she felt safer from people who did not appreciate what she was doing. Shameless Hussy Press published the first edition of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange born October 18, 1948, is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism....
., and Mary Mackey
Mary Mackey
-Biography:Mackey was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her father was a physician. Her mother worked as a chemist in the Mead Johnson laboratories during World War II...
's first novel Immersion in 1972. The press closed in 1989. The press archive is held at University of California Santa Cruz. In 2006, Alta started Alta Galleria in Berkeley’s (residential, family-oriented) Elmwood neighborhood.
She lives in Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...
.
Works
- Traveling Tales (Acapella, 1990)
- Deluged With Dudes (Shameless Hussy Press, 1989)