Dionne Brand : Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems | Milkweed Editions But today, with the release of the landmark work Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems, which gathers eight volumes of her poetry between 1982 and 2010, and includes a new book-length poem never before published, today we center her poetry, and look at why she considers herself a poet first and foremost
Introducing our Editors-at-Large and the Multiverse series Fady Joudah is among the most original and accomplished poets in America today Also a brilliant translator, Fady brings to this role an uncommon generosity of spirit, a luminous intelligence, and rich relationships extending far beyond the national poetry scene
Dionne Brand : Salvage : Readings from the Wreck We explore what we can salvage from the wreck, the wreck that is the book before us, the wreck that is us before the book For the bonus audio archive Dionne reads selections from the work of Canisia Lubrin and Christina Sharpe
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound - Milkweed Editions “A densely packed treasure trove of verse Bodies rise up here as sites of gender, trauma, ability, and violence A gut punch you won’t soon shake off, this is one of 2020’s absolute best releases ” — BUSTLE “Some girls are not made,” torrin a greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt ”
In person: Ama Codjoe appearing at The Poetry Project featuring John . . . What are the sense memories that forge in us the shapes of place, position, lineage? In her much anticipated debut collection Bluest Nude, Ama Codjoe poses question, praise, reflection, and reconsideration into the chorus of ancestors and descendants who sing into a self, the modes of looking outward, inward, and relationally which stitch together bravery and conviction In his equally
The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz - Milkweed Editions In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs—and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell—that take God as the beloved
Virtual event: Ama Codjoe at Green Light Bookstore Green Light will launch acclaimed emerging poet Ama Codjoe ’s first full-length collection, Bluest Nude —hailed by Tracy K Smith as “an ecstatic encounter ” “The end of the world has ended,” Codjoe’s speaker announces, “and desire is still all I crave ” Shifting between the role of artist and subject, seer and seen, these poems ask what the act of looking does to a person