Open Book
1011 Washington Ave S
Target Performance Hall | 2nd Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
Celebrate the release of Mary Moore Easter’s new collection of poetry, THE BODY OF THE WORLD (Mad Hat Press, 2018), at this launch party and reading. LEARN MORE.
“The Body of the World astonishes, guides through history, lucid, vivid, artfully, powerfully rendered. Her artistry dares. She leads us through the tangled past and bristling present of race, slavery, gender, and cruelty, through China, France, and America. Easter offers beauty, breathe, and hope. She will leave you wiser––O, so much wiser.”––ANGELA JACKSON
“… poetry that surges and snaps with energetic language, strong currents of emotion, and clear-eyed observation.… riveting … Easter is wickedly sly as a feminist.… Like Lucille Clifton, she also celebrates the self, the voice in one of her poem insisting: … I got the road / wide open in me.’ The Body of the World releases its poetic power in narratives, lyrical free verse, persona poems, an ode, and a crowning centerpiece of 15 sequenced sonnets that … meditate on art’s capacity to embody and to entomb, and on human aggression coupled with the enduring desire for justice and peace.”––MARGARET HASSE
Hear Mary on Black Market Reads HERE.
MARY MOORE EASTER is the author of The Body of the World (Mad Hat Press 2018). A finalist for the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, she is also author of the chapbook Walking From Origins (Heywood Press). Widely published (Poetry, Waterstone, NY Times, etc.), she is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, Cave Canem Fellow, veteran dancer/choreographer, and emerita Professor of Dance at Carleton College. Easter has been honored by Bush and McKnight fellowships and The Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award.