Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
United States
Free and open to the public.
Poets Cathy Barber, Martha Collins (Night Unto Night, 2018), and Holly Jensen will read at Mac’s on Saturday, April 13th at 7 p.m.
Cathy Barber has an MA in English from California State University and an MFA in Poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in a wide range of journals and anthologies, from the San Francisco Bay Guardian to the Australian Medical Journal. Her first chapbook, published by Dancing Girl Press, is Aardvarks, Bloodhounds, Catfish, Dingoes.
Martha Collins is the author, most recently, of Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018), Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pittsburgh, 2016), Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2014), White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012), and Blue Front (Graywolf, 2006). Collins has also published four earlier collections of poems, three books of co-translations from the Vietnamese, and two chapbooks. She co-edited (with Kevin Prufer) Into English: Poems, Translations and Commentaries (Graywolf, 2017). White Papers and Blue Front won Ohioana awards. Blue Front also won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was chosen as one of “25 Books to Remember from 2006” by the New York Public Library.
Holly Jensen is the author of Lost Footnotes of the Gospel and her poetry has been published in numerous print and online journals including Pank Magazine,The Midwest Quarterly and Pear Noir! Her traditional and free ghazals (a Persian poetic form) have appeared in Kestrel, Tilt-a-Whirl and Damazine. She was the 2015-2016 editor of The International Journal of English Langauage Ghazals.
Martha Collins
Martha Collins is the co-translator of Dreaming the Mountain and Black Stars. She has also published eleven volumes of poetry.
During one month each year, for six years, the author wrote a short poem each day. The resulting six sequences of this masterly collection offer haunting reflections on time, and capture the aching, liminal beauty of one day becoming another.
This masterful companion to Day Unto Day finds common ground between contradictions—beauty and horror, joy and mortality, the personal and the political.
Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, this collection suffuses image with memory and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations—printed alongside the original Vietnamese—the poems sing out with the wisdom that comes to those who have lived through war, traveled far, and seen a great deal.