Kristen Case – In Relation: Poets & Writers on the Traditions

Tue Oct 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-04:00

SPACE | Portland

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Kristen Case \u2013 In Relation: Poets & Writers on the Traditions
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To celebrate Kristen Case’s new book, Daphne, several award-winning poets and writers gather to share work and talk about their traditions
About this Event

Please join the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and SPACE and six writers in celebration of Kristen Case’s new book, Daphne.

In celebration of Kristen Case’s new book, Daphne, forthcoming from Tupelo Press in June, four accomplished and award-winning poets and writers will gather to share work and talk about how their work is in conversation with various poems and traditions and what that means. The poets include Kristen Case, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Nina MacLaughlin, Jefferson Navicky, and Jeffrey Thomson.

In Daphne, Case writes, “The story goes like this: a girl/woman is chased after and lost. She becomes a lost thing. The man becomes a poet.”

The editors of Tupelo Press call Daphne “a powerful decolonization of the imagination” and note that in the book she “explores the relationship between predation and the lyric, particularly within the Western canon…[S]he does not merely critique or gesture at problems, but instead, works toward more just and equitable forms of discourse. By challenging the boundaries between literary criticism, prose poetry, hybrid forms, manifesto, and the lyric, Case ultimately works within received literary forms to expand what is possible within them.”

Please join us for what will be a one-of-a-kind reading and conversation. PRINT: A Bookstore will be on hand to sell copies of Kristen Case’s book and books by the others.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

SPACE, 538 Congress St, Portland, United States

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USD 0.00 to USD 6.51

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