Tag: Airlie Press
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virtual reading this thursday :)
Just a quick post to announce a virtual poetry reading I’m doing this Thursday with poet Megan Alpert! Here are the deets: Virtual Event: Megan Alpert and José Angel Araguzpresenting An Empty Pot’s Darkness and The Animal at Your Side Harvard Book Store’s virtual event series welcomes poets MEGAN ALPERT and JOSÉ ANGEL ARAGUZ for…
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into the octaves part three
This post is the third and last of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD (check out the first post here and the second here). For this final post, I’m sharing a sequence that did not make it into…
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into the octaves part two
This post is the second of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD (check out the first post here). Around the time of putting the early drafts of these sequences together, I remember having a conversation with a…
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into the octaves part one
This will be the first of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD as of this week! Back when I started experimenting with the octave form, I drew inspiration from a series of poems by Edward…
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community feature: Airlie Press book launch!
This particular community feature post is focused on the upcoming book launch of three of Airlie Press’s new titles: Ordinary Gravity by Gary Lark, Savagery by J.C. Mehta, and, winner of the 2018 Airlie Prize, Wonder Tissue by Hannah Larrabee! Here’s the info for those of you in the Portland, OR area: When: Tuesday, October 1st @ 7pm Where: Annie Bloom’s…
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new book: An Empty Pot’s Darkness!
I’m happy to announce the release of my newest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press)! This collection takes the octave form I worked with in my chapbook Corpus Christi Octaves and expands on it with new sequences on life, love, and death. Thank you to Ani Schreiber for creating the cover art! Special thanks also to…
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one more from Sarah McCartt-Jackson
In my recent microreview & interview of Stonelight (Airlie Press) by Sarah McCartt-Jackson, I noted how nature is often used as a lens in these poems to engage with human understanding and feeling. In detailing the narrative of Ora and her family, this lens feels natural, a kind of environmental intuition. Much like in poetry writing, the speakers…
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microreview & interview: Stonelight by Sarah McCartt-Jackson
review by José Angel Araguz In Stonelight, winner of the 2017 Airlie Prize, Sarah McCartt-Jackson adds to the tradition of lyric narrative collections that includes Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah, books that take on the materials of human life and through them evoke human presence. Informed by McCartt-Jackson’s background in folk…
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testamenting with Carolyn M. Rodgers
Over the summer, I got a chance to add to my forthcoming poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness, which will be published in 2019 by Airlie Press. This book is an expansion of my chapbook Corpus Christi Octaves (Flutter Press) and its series of lyric sequences about two late friends from my hometown in Texas. This new collection…
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* new CR blog microreview & interview!
Just a quick post to announce that my latest microreview & interview for the Cincinnati Review blog is up! This time around, I do a close reading of moments from A. Molotkov’s upcoming collection, The Catalog of Broken Things (Airlie Press). A. Molotkov edits The Inflectionist Review along with John Sibley Williams. Find out more about A.…
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