and doodle poems into the books," she [Zohra Saed] begins, her smile widening with each spoken word. "The teachers thought I was defacing school property but what I was actually trying to do was put myself up on a library shelf." It's now nearly three decades later and Saed's goals have not so much changed, as expanded. As co-publisher of the Brooklyn-based UpSet Press, she and her business partner and close friend, Robert Booras, seek to print poetry and prose that takes readers out of their social and political comfort zones.
from The Brooklyn Rail: Upsetting Brooklyn
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