Join Women & Children First for a virtual reading for torrin a. greathouse’s Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, in conversation with Zeyn Joukhadar, author of The Thirty Names of Night. This free event will be hosted on Women & Children First’s Crowdcast Channel. Details here!
Join Auntie’s Bookstore at 7pm PT for the virtual launch of Kathryn Smith’s Self-Portrait with Cephalopod. Smith will be joined by poets Laura Read, Maya Jewell Zeller, and Ellen Welcker. Details here!
An historic presentation of a beloved, iconic, and enduring annual event, The Poetry Project’s 2021 New Year’s Day Marathon will be a 24-hour continuous, online broadcast featuring readings and performances from a global cast of more than 200 poets, writers, artists, musicians, dancers, and theatre-makers. RSVP here!
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Join BookBar for the virtual launch of Wayne Miller’s We the Jury at 6pm MT. Wayne will be joined by fellow Milkweed poet, Chris Santiago (author of Tula). Register here!
Join TPT for an evening of poetry focused on the four elements of the earth and their relation to political voice and the power of language. This virtual event will feature Su Hwang, author of Bodega, Roy Guzmán, Michael Torres, & Ray Gonzalez. Register here!
Join Milkweed Editions for the virtual launch of torrin a. greathouse’s debut poetry collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry! torrin will be joined by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, this year’s Ballard Spahr Prize judge and author of World of Wonders. RSVP here!
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Welcome, friends, to the latest installment of 5 Reasons to Teach This Book! In this interview series, we examine what we can learn from Milkweed’s titles by discussing our books with educators, authors, and booksellers. This month, we’re featuring the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry winner, torrin a. greathouse and her debut full-length collection of poetry, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound.
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a deftly transformative text—one that resonates with prosodic brilliance. torrin’s formal variety is electric enough on its own, but combined with her stinging imagery and unreserved depictions of disability, physical…
