Baring the Device: Ethics in Publishing

The Gravity of the Thing’s editors have compiled a brief list of resources that relate to ethical practices in publishing. Here are a few ways writers, editors, and publishers are critically analyzing literary craft and publishing processes.

The Four of Coins Makes an e-Harmony Profile | Panika M. C. Dillon

"NAME: populate lonely places with weapons the negative space loves most. they are the host. AGE: the negative space doesn’t need agency when it has an incendiary device..."

The Strange Case of D | Juris d. Ahn

"...instead of an actorskooling floral like / GARDENIA, floridawater on altar / gold bell, honey, champagne-ya / and doing such a good job, bardlike convince / the flies..."

Selected Poems | Hibah Shabkhez

"There is a sunrise crawling up your toes, a sunrise you trust to hold you close, to whisper with you, I still live, you still live, we still live..."

Delegate | Meggie Royer

"The spatula clattered to the ground, carrying with it droplets of grease. A baby stood outside the window, though perhaps stood was not so much the correct word as hovered..."

Selected Poems | Randall Watson

"This is the lie I tell. / That I am South of Boston. / That I am the Great Bay, chop and white-cap, / north wind shouldering a tidal heave, / the fire burning in the house by the shore..."

Stitches | Marie-Andree Auclair

"Mother teaches me life skills / how to baste, embroider / hem and mend so I’ll understand / about silk and serge / satin, linings, padding / and about the necessity of scissors..."