By Elizabeth Gracen: The Flapper Press Poetry Café continues to feature the work of poets from around the globe. It is an honor to share their work and learn more about their lives, influences, and love of poetry. This week, we are honored to feature the poetry and art of Chris Biles. Chris Biles Chris Biles (she/her) is a writer/artist in Washington, D.C., where she enjoys playing with the light and the dark and losing herself in music, anything outside, and some words here and there. She...

By Elizabeth Gracen: The Flapper Press Poetry Café continues to feature the work of poets from around the globe. It is an honor to share their work and learn more about their lives, influences, and love of poetry. This week, we are honored to feature the work of poet Stephanie Laterza. Stephanie Laterza Stephanie Laterza is an Italian Ecuadorian-American author and attorney. Her books, The Lunasole Class (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) and The Boulevard Trial, were honored as finalists of the...

By Elizabeth Gracen: This past January, I had the distinct honor to be asked to sit on a judges' panel in Little Rock, Arkansas, for the annual Miss Gay America pageant and the Miss Gay America Femme pageant. Since I've been deeply entrenched in the drag community for the past couple of years filming interviews and performances for Natural State of Drag—an upcoming documentary feature film about the history of drag in my home state of Arkansas—I was made to feel right at home by my fellow...