On Monday, September 13, 2021, filmmaker and poet Lynne Sachs shared a selection of short films and read selections from her poetry collection Year by Year Poems (Tender Buttons Press) for The Flow Chart Foundation.

Writer and critic Cole Swensen joins Lee Ann Brown, poet and founding editor of Tender Buttons Press, alongside authors Anne Waldman and Lucia Hinojosa Gaxiola for a conversation on literary publishing. We conclude with a reading by Brown. Learn more at the Brooklyn Rail.
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The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses announces the winners of the 2019 FIRECRACKER AWARDS, given for the best self- and independently published books of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The LORD NOSE AWARD is given in recognition of a lifetime of superlative small press publishing.

This year’s LORD NOSE AWARD recipient is Tender Buttons Press, founded by poet Lee Ann Brown in 1989 with the aim of publishing the best in experimental women’s writing.

Here you will see Lee Ann's June 5, 2019 acceptance speech at Poets House in New York City.

Katy Bohinc reads from her book Dear Alain (Tender Buttons Press 2014).
Alain Badiou responds with the assistance of Sophie Malleret.
Filmed at the Verso Books loft in Dumbo Brooklyn 12/12/15.
Camera by Lee Ann Brown, Jennifer Fadel, Jon Leon Torn, Tony Torn.
Edited by Tony Torn

WE EAT OUT TOGETHER
Sonnets, Tender Buttons Press, 2014

My heart is a fancy place
Where giant reddish-purple cauliflowers
& white ones in French & English are outside
Waiting to welcome you to a boat
Over the low black river for a big dinner
There’s a lot of choice among the foods
Even a tortured lamb served in pieces
En croute on a plate so hot as a rack
Of clouds blown over the cold filthy river
We are entitled to see anytime while we
Use the tablecovers to love each other
Publicly dishing out imitative luxuries
To show off poetry’s extreme generosity
Then home in the heart of a big limousine