Design, letterpress print and publish limited editions chapbooks and broadsides of poetry by contemporary women poets.

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ROOMS was a quarterly “publication by contribution” designed to provide a forum and a consistent means of communication among women writers and artists interested in formal and visual experimentation. It was a unique and important publication for both its method and its resultant content – a density of new work in its original presentation by a group of women writers whose contribution to writing at the cusp of the 20th-21st centuries was as challenging as that of Stein and the other Modernists at the beginning of the 20th century.With roots in zines, mail art, book arts, HOW(ever) – Kathleen Fraser’s important magazine of modernist and contemporary feminist innovative writing – and in Stein’s exhortation in “Rooms” (Tender Buttons) to “Act so that there is no use in a centre,” ROOMS was founded by Jaime Robles along with Dale Going, Sari Broner and Denise Liddell Lawson (later joined by Margaret Butterfield and Erin Corrigan). The sole editorial procedure of these “non-editors” was an invitation to approximately 150 women writers to become “Roommates.” The contributors each sent 50 copies of their work on letter-size paper, which was then collated with front and back matter and cover art, spiral bound and mailed to them. A contributor received the issue she was in and the following one.ROOMS published whatever the contributor chose to send, in her own presentation. The work included poetry, short fiction, a serialized novel, essays, responses to the work of other Roommates, and a variety of visual and visual/text art. The work was in a limited edition of 50, often original (as in a poem by Brenda Hillman contributed as fair copies handwritten with graphite on typewriter paper – her method of composition, or Marina LaPalma’s painted pages). Each issue contained 20-30 pieces.