Announcing the winner of the 2025 New Constructions Hybrid Book Contest
My Prayer a Slit Throat by Ellen Kombiyil
A lyric visual essay, composed of erasures, collages, and military ephemera, My Prayer a Slit Throat is a timely work engaged in “erasing the inheritance of war.” Using text from the Iliad, with its startling clarity and energy, tenderness and horror, the work explores the narratives that continue to shape our conceptions of war. My Prayer a Slit Throat clears new territory for dialogue. Congratulations to Ellen, her book will be published in Spring 2026!
Ellen Kombiyil is a visual artist, poet, and educator from the Bronx. Her latest poetry collection, Love as Invasive Species (Cornerstone 2024) is a tête-bêche exploring matrilineal inheritances. Find her at www.ellenkombiyil.com.
Susan Schultz & John Keene reading at Unnameable Books.
Wed, Sep 27
|Brooklyn
Celebrating Susan Schultz's new book, Meditations: December 2019-December 2020 from Wet Cement Press
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
Brooklyn, 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA
About the event
Susan M. Schultz is author of many books of poetry and poetic prose, including two volumes of Dementia Blog, several of Memory Cards, and more recently of I Want to Write an Honest Sentence (Talisman), Lilith Walks (BlazeVox) and Meditations: Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2020 (Wet Cement). She's also a critic, a budding photographer, and a St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan.
John Keene is also author of many books, including Annotations (New Directions), Counter Narratives (New Directions), and Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave), which won the National Book Award. Keene has been a MacArthur Award recipient. He teaches at Rutgers (Newark). He is also a St. Louis Cardinals fan.