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BookWoman is delighted to feature poets Sasha West and Radha Marcum in-store to celebrate the publication of poetry collections released this year: West's How to Abandon Ship (Four Way Books, 2024) and Marcum's Washington Prize award-winning collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone (Word Works, 2024). Cindy Huyser hosts this reading, which will take place simultaneously in-store and on Zoom.If you're joining us in-store, please bring your mask, as BookWoman continues to require them in the spirit of protecting the vulnerable among us. And if you're joining via Zoom, be sure to log into Zoom with your email and password before accessing the meeting.
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Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship and Failure and I Bury the Body, winner of the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters award, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. As part of eco-arts collaborative Hammonds + West, her multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize 2023 Michigan, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University, where she runs the Environmental Humanities program.
A poet with a keen interest in the landscapes of the physical world and of the mind, Radha Marcum won the 2023 Washington Prize for her collection Pine Soot Tendon Bone (The Word Works, 2024). She was also awarded the New Mexico Book Award in 2018 for her first collection of poems, Bloodline (3: A Taos Press, 2017), about her grandfather’s work building the first atomic bombs in New Mexico during World War II. Her poems appear frequently in journals including Bennington Review, EcoTheo, FIELD, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Northwest, and others. Working as a prose writer with a focus on health and environment, Marcum has written for American Rivers, Colorado Water Trust, Outside, and The Wilderness Society. A graduate of Bennington College and the University of Washington, Seattle, where she held the Klepser Fellowship in Poetry, she teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and privately.
Contact BookWoman to order your copy of How to Abandon Ship, Pine Soot Tendon Bone and other titles for in-store pickup, curbside delivery and direct-from-warehouse shipping: [email protected]; (512)472-2785; https://ebookwoman.com .
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