Please join us to celebrate the publication of two new titles from our catalog!
Vivian Faith Prescott’s Fat for Our Stories
April 4, 9:00 p.m. (Central) / 6:00 p.m. (Alaska)
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”Vivian Faith Prescott's poems powerfully interweave stories of family, place, and life with wild salmon. Rich with memory, Fat for Our Stories is an intimate and authentic portrait of the deep, meaningful relationship between wild salmon and people in Alaska—and of the ways the rhythms of that relationship are changing.”
—Mary Catherine Martin, SalmonState Communications Director
Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry at The Poets Corner
with Rick Barot, Ellen Bass, Richard Blanco, Lee Ann Roripaugh, and Charif Shanahan
April 14, 3:00 p.m. (Central) / 4:00 p.m. (Eastern)
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“I come to this anthology having languished, having felt benumbed, having come to question, at my very core, poetry’s value, its potency, as we contend with our current brand of American tyranny, our Hour of Lead. As I read Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, I experience an incremental awakening, or re-awakening. Every poem, every phrase in every poem, clicks a small switch in me that had been shut down, repairs a blown fuse, brings a wound into the light, provokes it into being, or staunches it. The exhilarative truth-telling and wit, the poems that walk the page with a humble gait, and those that ego-strut, the foundational voices and the newly arrived, remind me of what poetry has been in similarly oppressive times, its capacity for liberative endurance. From the first lines of the opening poem, Frank Bidart’s ‘Queer’—Lie to yourself about this and you will / forever lie about everything—an entreaty against self-deception, we find ourselves in veracity’s realm, where language reigns free. … The lines of these poems accordion, inhale, exhale, serpentine, straighten, curl. A carnival of approaches to diction, positionality, structure, song. This anthology is not representative of a sector of American poetry. It is American poetry. The party contains multitudes and hints at multitudes to come. When I reach the last lines of the final poem, torrin a. greathouse’s ‘On Using the Wo|men’s Bathroom,’ I am no longer numb.”
—Diane Seuss, winner of the Pulitzer Prize