Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Sarah Ghazal Ali, Erin L. McCoy, and Tawanda Mulalu.
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...moreBooks releasing in the first half of 2020 that we can’t wait to read!
...moreTrisha Low discusses her new book-length essay, SOCIALIST REALISM.
...more“I do think when I write it’s kind of therapy or having to tell someone everything or maybe writing it gets it out of my head?”
...moreWe admit ourselves to the list of conditions, confess to the hospitals we’ve entered over the years. Through my glowing phone screen the body pokes through.
...moreKhadijah Queen about her new collection I’m So Fine, the importance of including sexual assault as a part of everyday life, and how the poems in the collection found their form.
...moreWednesday 11/16: Readers at Lyrics and Dirges will focus on the theme of gratitude. Featured: Harold Terezon, Marguerite Munoz, Norma Smith, Mickey Ellinger, Josiah Luis Alderete, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free, 7:30 p.m., Pegasus Books Downtown. Thursday 11/17: Michael McClure celebrates a new collection of poetry: Mephistos and Other Poems. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore. […]
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