Writers
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Andrea Clark Libin reading from, Orphan of the Moon. “A living, breathing, hybrid work unlike anything I've ever read—an orphan's notebook exhumed from the Moscow station and entrusted to your own red heart.” —Karen Russell
Poetry, Ensos, Koans, & Meditation
in the Current Political Landscape of the Social Justice Movement
& the Pandemic
Without Dragons Even the Emperor Would Be Lonely
Thursday, October 29th at 6:30pm EASTERN / 3:30pm Pacific
With Ninso John High, Omotara James, Andrea Clark Libin,
Thoreau Lovell, Uche Nduka & Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
New Books Fall 2020
Three visually inspired and inspiring books in a beautiful 6.5" square format.
Enter code Fall20 at checkout for 20% off our new books.
Andrea Clark Libin
Orphan of the Moon
Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow Station
88 pages
Michael Sohn
Still Forms
Visible Poetry
116 pages
Ninso John High
Without Dragons Even the Emperor Would Be Lonely
Ensos, Parables & Koans
152 pages
Forthcoming
A Boy Named Boy
Growing Up Black in “Whitetown” During the 1960s, Hampstead, NC
by Earl S. Braggs
“People have long told stories like our story but most never quite as long.”
And so begins Earl S. Braggs complex jazz memoir of growing up black and poor in rural North Carolina. What is long about Braggs’ story is not its length but how deeply the roots of race and history reach through the narrative in every unexpected direction. From the haphazard pleasures of a childhood in a rural shack in segregated “fishtown” to the civil unrest of Wilmington NC in the Civil Rights Era to the poet’s coming of age as a writer in San Francisco. In the midst of familiar injustices, Braggs blows open our conceptions about good and bad, revealing violence where we expect safety and friendships where we expect derision. A white man presses a revolver into the boy’s head, the bookmobile lady stops so he can get on. While the borders of Hampstead were segregated black and white, the design of this narrative never is.
