About this Event
Join Us for a National Poetry Month Book Talk with Jean Gallagher and Tracy Zeman!
Get ready for an exciting evening as amazing literary bards share insights and inspirations behind their latest works and celebrate the legacy of fellow poet Lewis Meyers. This in-person event is a perfect chance to dive into great conversations and meet fellow poetry lovers.
About the Books
Jean Gallagher's Rivermouth Shouting:
"What a pleasure it is to encounter Jean Gallagher’s luminous new collection, Rivermouth Shouting. Here are spare, elegant, lyric poems that do what only the best poetry can do—register the mind in motion. And what a shining mind it is. Gallagher’s poems are lit from within by an idiosyncratic, wild, and vibrant consciousness—a river of “thought by thought” that moves along the page to reveal “what it’s like to be alive.” —Deborah Landau
Tracy Zeman's Interglacial:
"It’s an old art, ornithomancy, this reading the omens of birds. The ancient prophet looked to the sky to see what the world would become; the prophet now scries the birds to see what the world is. Tracy Zeman, in Interglacial, may well be our current poet-prophet, trekking the shore of Lake Superior, conjuring the power of the ostensive—naming the names—to work through the elements, seeking out the “atom knowledge” embedded in the world, a knowledge that allows the knower to be enfolded in the known. Old masters walk with her—Niedecker, Issa—and the voices of living poets whisper through every poem, fusing a moment’s living intimacy with time’s geologic sweep. The result is a book of nearly hypnotic beauty, lulling us awake into the sparrow-quick attention that is our earthly due." —Dan Beachy-Quick
Lewis Meyers' Field Notes of a Flaneur :
"This wonderful collection bears witness to a rare engagement with the world. An acute observer, Meyers sees, not more than others, but other than others. His piercing perceptions are so often slant in the best Dickinson tradition. A truly post-modern flaneur, he has abandoned the detachment of the 19th-century figure, adopting instead a wry, quirky compassion deeply committed to the daily in all its detail." —Cole Swensen, author of Art in Time
Ellen Doré Watson's most recent book is Mostly, I Tell the Truth, forthcoming from Alice James Books.
Don’t miss out on this fun, yet intimate gathering with Jean and Tracy with special guest author Ellen Doré Watson. Mark your calendar and come ready to talk with some exhilarating wordsmiths about the magic of poetry!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, United States
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