Remi serves as Senior Book Editor for Gasher Press, a 501c3 nonprofit publisher of poetry books and chapbooks. Previously to establishing itself as a press, Gasher was the literary magazine Gasher Journal, for which Remi served as Reviews Editor from 2021-2022. Gasher Journal‘s reviews and interviews are archived here. Remi’s position then transitioned into Book Editor and, finally, to Senior Book Editor in September of 2025.
Gasher releases five to eight titles per year and hosts several literary prizes aimed at uplifting a diverse range of historically underrepresented voices in the publishing industry, including the Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize for a poem written by a trans* poet and the Two Languages Book Prize, which seeks to award publication to a manuscript written in any combination of Korean and English. Gasher makes an annual appearance at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference. You may learn more about Gasher—including our submissions policy—here.
Remi also acts as the poetry editor for LETTERS Journal. Funded through the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) at Yale University, LETTERS seeks to engage religion, spirituality, and belief within contemporary experience. We publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. The latest issue of LETTERS is available to read here.
TRANSMASCULINE POETICS: FILLING THE GAP IN LITERATURE & THE SILENCES AROUND US (SUNDRESS PUBLICATIONS, 2024)
“Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us is packed with wonderful poems. It is an important anthology of trans voices echoing a desire to be and be accepted, but also, to be expected. From the anxiety of public restrooms and identity gaslighting to the euphoria of being truly seen by the self or a partner, this collection takes readers on an authentic journey. It is sensual, visceral, and resonant.”
–Aly Allen, author of Paying for Gas with Quarters
“To be transformed, to become a new self, to become what one always was, changed yet restored. What does it take, how does it happen, what courage, what secrecy, what tender comparisons, what many moments of trust and fear? In this groundbreaking anthology, Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us, Remi Recchia offers us a selection of poets whose powerfully imaginative insight into these questions bespeaks the boldness and challenge of poetry itself. There is humor here, and sweetness, and the magic and terror of the body as it fulfills or fails what the mind knows. The liminal and the determined—the overdetermined—are forever in tension in these poems, in company with the world and in the privacy of the probing soul. In bars, in bathrooms, in clothes, in hair, in plants, in animals, in everything that grows, these poets find their way through their lives, through all our lives, with unforgettable depth and breadth.”
–Lisa Lewis, author of The Body Double
Remi Recchia 