Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
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Join us at Milkweed Books to welcome Iowa poet Margaret Yapp and launch her new poetry collection, Green For Luck, out with EastOver Press on April 23.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Green for Luck wanders green city blocks, denying happen-stance and making lists. Margaret Yapp attends to mundanity as a string that holds us close to the earth, building quotidian divinities, landing jokes just to make sure we’re listening. In this book, words push the left and upper margins, forcing the body of the page to act as negative space, a place where the light gets in. Green for Luck speaks through Scrabble, through text messages, through gossip and snippets of conversation and well-worn idioms that crack open in Yapp’s steady hands. The cacophony of voices is a blurred, gentle cyclone.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She is the Managing Editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press. Margaret has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught classes in literature, creative writing, and book arts for the University of Iowa and Iowa City Poetry. Green for Luck is her first book.