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Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
As one expects of a lyric poet.
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.
--Louise Gluck (Meadowlands)
The special edition of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS is out next month, and we are ~beside ourselves~ with glee 🌿🌿
In Robin's new intro, she calls this book "a braid of stories meant to heal our relationship with the world." Let's keep healing 💚
the rain exploding
in the air is love
the grass excreting her
green wax is love
and stones remembering
past steps is love,
—Sonia Sanchez, born #otd in 1934
poets.org/poem/ballad
I reviewed E.J. Koh’s memoir The Magical Language of Others for @adroitjournal. It’s one of my favorite books published this year, and I hope you make room for it in your reading and life. theadroitjournal.org/2020/09/15/re-…
If you find a single poem by a living poet & read it a lot, let the poet know. Even if it’s older work. They may not know their work is inspiring anyone now. Not everyone is on social media so send a card c/o the publisher or periodical. That helps the post office too.
I have a kind of homecoming coming up in Fall 2020: my second full-length poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER, will be hitting shelves by way of Chicago's @haymarketbooks! I've been quiet on things for a while, but hey, it's happening!
I’m beyond excited to announce that I’ll be making my prose debut with my memoir (and a forthcoming novel!) with Dawn Davis & the @37INKBOOKS / @simonschuster team. This is beyond my wildest dreams! I can’t wait to share these stories, and this history with the world.
Excited to announce our finalists for @bookcritics#NBCCAwards in poetry:
Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
@adalimon, The Carrying
@rikam99, Holy Moly Carry Me
@dlseuss, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl
Adam Zagajewski, Asymmetry
I'm excited to tell you my next collection of poems, RUE, will be published by BOA in Spring 2020. It's about plants historically used for birth control, 18th c botanists I have loved, and various sorts of addled feelings.
Friends! My second collection, SOFT SCIENCE, will be fleshy + in the world on April 2, 2019. Here's the cover! It features art by the amazing @JamesJeanArt
You can preorder this bb at alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/sof…
+ bring us to yr town in April through @CosturaCreative!
Without hyperbole, I can say @ilya_poet second collection, DEAF REPUBLIC, is one of the best books of poetry I’ve ever read.
It’s due out 3/5/19 from @GraywolfPress (thanks @JeffShotts1 and everyone at Graywolf for sending me the ARC), and needs to be on every spring poetry list
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