About this Event
Title:
Poetry & Provisions
Who:
Robin Walter
Kat Tudor
Where:
Rockledge Lodge (Smokebrush Farm)
328 El Paso Blvd
Manitou Springs, CO 80829
When:
Tuesday July 9th, 2024
5:30 pm - 7 pm
Ticketing:
Free; (30 quantity)
Pre-Order Book at https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/little-mercy
Cash Bar
RSVP on our social media page or by emailing: [email protected]
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Robin Walter’s debut collection Little Mercy (Graywolf Press 2025) has just been released for pre-order. To commemorate the occasion,Join us for a fun evening of Poetry sharing and delicious treats; Beignets & hors d'oeuvres.
Robin Walter’s debut collection Little Mercy (Graywolf Press 2025) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets Award. To commemorate the happy occasion, Smokebrush will host a poetry reading at Rockledge, where Robin will be joined by her mother, Kat Tudor, who is known for her haiku and is the author of many multimedia books of her own.
The evening will feature Hors d'oeuvres & Pastries
This gathering will also be an invitation to explore the writing & sharing of your own poetry guided by our Mother - Daughter combo.
"In award-winning poet Robin Walter’s debut collection, Little Mercy, writing and looking—seeing feelingly—become a practice in radical care. These poems pursue moments of shared recognition, when looking up to see a deer across a stream, or when sunlight passes through wingtip onto palm, the self found in other, the river in vein of wrist.
Attuned to the transparent beauty in the natural world, Walter’s poems are often glancing observations unspooling down the page, their delicacies belying their powers of profound knowing. The formal logic of this work is the intricate architecture of a nest. Each line becomes a blade of grass, each dash a little twig, each parenthesis a small feather—all woven together deliberately, seemingly fragile but held fast with surprising strength. In their lyric variations, repetitions, and fragments, employed toward a deep attention to wren, river, and reflection, the human almost falls away entirely, a steady and steadying state of being that is unconscious, expansive.
Written out of a broken landscape in a broken time, Little Mercy is a book of gratitude, one that draws our inner selves to the present and living world, to the ways we can break and mend."
About the AuthorsRobin Walter is a poet, book artist, and printmaker. Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Seneca Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. She teaches at Colorado State University and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.Kat Tudor is the artistic creative director of Smokebrush Foundation and creator of SunWater Spa.
Author Statement:"So humbled, so delighted—what a happiness to witness LITTLE MERCY’s arrival into the world—four years after writing it and maybe a life time of learning how to be open to the thinking that made it. So many thanks to all those who’ve lifted me and this work up in so many different ways along the way.
All I know is that a book is not made alone but in company, and suspect that its life now that it’s (almost) a real object in the world will be the same. With this in mind, I would be so honored, so moved, so very happy if you might consider pre-ordering your copy now, a gesture that goes a long way in the early days of its arrival into the world and the best way to support debut authors. Thank you for supporting me, for supporting this work, for believing in poetry, thank you for every kind word you’ve offered, and thank you for sharing among your networks and friends. All my love and a bit more, link to order here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/little-mercy "
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
328 El Paso Blvd, 328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, United States
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