I reviewed DEAR YUSEF ed by @Nic_Sealey and John Murillo (@weslpress) for the Sep/Oct issue of @AmPoetryReview. Over the moon to see it (and hold it) in print. Please subscribe to the review and pick up a copy of DEAR YUSEF 📝📚
Jami Macarty reviews 'Deed' by torrin a. greathouse, poetry that crafts a new queer lexicon, exploring trans desire, intimacy, and liberation while moving beyond trauma narratives.
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This month marks 80 yrs since the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. A nuclear disaster in our own time, Fukushima, is remembered in an artful, tho drastic book by @EikoOtake , A Body in Fukushima @weslpress . https://t.co/TGJxS0HsKP
Aiden Hunt reviews 'I Ask My Mother to Sing: Mother Poems of Li-Young Lee' edited by Oliver Egger, new and older poems exploring a mother relationship and a family's exile from China.
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Poet and scholar Rachel Trousdale discusses "Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem" (@weslpress), which examines the intensity of romantic love, the entropic joys of parenthood, wild spaces, humor, and more. New interview by Stephanie Burt: https://t.co/SupNw84vHR
“When they took you out, / you would push the buttons of their jeans / with your thumb // and the stars stretched in Orion’s belt / like the three mysteries at the start of time.” —Brenda Hillman, “Orion’s Belt” @weslpress
Learn about Mura Dehn, the dancer who created The Spirit Moves, the doc about dancing at the Savoy. The best description of Dehn turned up in @EikoOtake 's letter in Dance Histories @weslpress . Essential dance history #HarlemRenaissance @DanceStudies
Our @LouisvilleConf book exhibit is underway & already we've met several authors. Delphine Munoz below with her @BrillPublishing book, Caryl Phillips's Genealogies & @weslpress editors Lauri Scheyer and David Grundy with The Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton. #Literature