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Beloveds! Here's my new poetry collection, absolute animal, a romp through bodies and our planet, out from UChicago Press this fall. If you preorder a copy, please tell me so I can send you a love note and/or bookmark - preordering poetry is like preventative medicine for poetry books - it lets them live. THANK YOU!
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Poems that traverse and question the lines between human and animal behavior. Experimenting with time, language, and transgressing boundaries, the poems in absolute animal lean into Nabokov’s not...
hey new york friends! zayd is giving a mother country radicals talk at columbia on march 9th @ 6:30 - please come and see us! xxx,![]()
Mother Country Radicals — Lenfest Center for the Arts
www.lenfest.arts.columbia.edu
Zayd Ayers Dohrn ('06 GSAS), Jamal Joseph, and Carol Becker discuss the making of the podcast 'Mother Country Radicals,' a “family history of the Weather Underground.”
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i'm so happy to be arrowsmith's featured poet that the happiness makes me feel young, which then makes me happier, a cycle! thank you, thank you to arrowsmith's askold melnyczuk and ezra fox for honoring my poems with both care and gorgeous company. ![]()
www.arrowsmithpress.com
Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels: Someday We Will Fly (Penguin); Banshee (Dottir); Blind (Penguin); Big Girl Small (FSG); Repeat After Me (Overlook); and two collections o...
great news all around: our poems on wbez, and we're alive!
Seven poems that make you stop and appreciate Chicago
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These poems rhapsodize about everyday moments of city life — and show the deep well of talent on the literary scene. You can hear each read aloud by the poet who created it.