Vanishing

Join Byway Books and Set & Setting for Vanishing: an evening of compassionate contemplation of life & death through poetry honoring the publication of To See Yourself As You Vanish, a poetry collection by Andrea Werblin Reid about her experience with ovarian cancer. 

This event will commence with an open mic centering poems that contemplate life, death & grief, followed by a reading from Reid’s collection, To See Yourself As You Vanish. 

@ Set & Setting in the Art Portal Gallery, 1512 Portland Avenue

This is a *free* event - all ticket donations will be donated to Gilda's Club, which offers free cancer support to families in the Kentuckiana area. 

6:30 - Doors

• Open mic signups
• Cocktails, community, conversation

7:00 - Open Mic

• Please bring poems the contemplate life, death, and grief
• Poems can be self-authored or written by someone else

8:00 - Reading from To See Yourself As You Vanish by Andrea Werblin Reid

• Books for sale before and after the reading

More about the book: 

Andrea Werblin Reid's To See Yourself As You Vanish is a collection of unsparing and insightful poems about her experience with ovarian cancer. Frank, fierce and witty, her work does not hide behind cliches, platitudes, or tropes, but addresses the hopes, frustrations, fears, and longings that would be easy to leave unspoken.

As Ada Limón writes of the collection, "Often with illness narratives, we only honor the stories of recovery, of healing, of 'being cured,' but that ignores the full human truth that morality is the engine of our existence. With Reid's powerful poems we see a complex and brilliant rendering of the courage it takes to both fight the fact of death, and release to death at the same time. In these poems, I found something I rarely see, the feral urge to survive wrought into unique anthems that praise the dark as equally as the light."

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Set & Setting, 1512 Portland Avenue, Louisville, United States

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