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POETRY READING: Carol Moldaw, Kate Northrup and Madelyn Garner
Carol Moldaw is the author of Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018), and five other books of poetry, including So Late, So Soon: New and Selected Poems and The Lightning Field, as well as a novel, The Widening. Her work has been translated into Turkish, Chinese and Portuguese, and has recently appeared in The New York Review of Books, Taos Journal of Poeetry and Art, Poem-A-Day, Zocalo Public Square and The Los Angeles Review. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Carol Moldaw will be reading from Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018) as well as new poems. About Beauty Refracted, Dana Levin wrote: “In Carol Moldaw’s sixth collection, the veils between worlds shimmer and thin . . . . Life, time, and mind river and loop . . . as Moldaw investigates mystery and memory, the losses and lightness that accrue with all change. Earthy in diction, elegant in syntax, Beauty Refracted is . . . rich, surprising, and moving.”
Kate Northrop is a recent recipient of the Jeannette Haien Ballard Writers Award and fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her recent poetry collections are Clean (Persea Books) and cuntstruck (C and R Press). Her second collection, Things Are Disappearing Here, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and her first collection, Back Through Interruption, received the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Award. Northrop is a contributing editor at The American Poetry Review and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wyoming. She lives in Laramie.
Things at the edge are at the center of Kate Northrop’s cuntstruck: a man squatting on a roof with his arms around his knees, kids running over the roofs of row houses at night, ghost decorations tied into trees, the unfocused eyes of the Scrambler attendant at the fair, the circle of foam around a storm drain. The world of cuntstruck is at once the world that was there (the drive-in that now is only a field) and the world that wasn’t (the one we walk around and around but can find no way into); it is winter (a man in the empty road in the snow) and summer (grasses frothing up against a boat); it is certainty (the rain thumping against the house) and uncertainty (the neighbor’s dog in the middle of the pond in the middle of the night). In Kate Northrop’s cuntstruck, things “drop away from us,” and we see “as if on the brink.” cuntstruck changes what we see, and how we see it.
Madelyn Garner, poet, editor, master teacher, is the author of Hum of Our Blood, winner of the Tupelo/3: A Taos Press July Open Reading, and finalist for the Julie Suk Award for best book published in 2017 by an independent press and the Colorado Book Award in Poetry, 2018. Co-editor of the anthology, Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, Madelyn’s recent work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Florida Review, The Pinch, Western Humanities Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Water-Stone Review, among others.
Hum of Our Blood peels back time to the dawning days of the AIDS pandemic when the world seemed to be standing at the edge of a foreboding precipice. In an exploration that is both personal and universal, Garner’s poems expose the best and worst of humanity at times of peril. With language that cuts straight to the nature of grief as the author watches her beloved son’s body dying, Hum of Our Blood also stands as a love song to those, then or now, who would embrace one another despite what smolders in the blood: those who come to understand that death has its own rhythm, and grief, in its darkness, instinctively moves toward light.
Date and Time
Friday May 31, 2019
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM MDTFriday, May 31, 7-9 p.m.
Location
SOMOS Salon & Bookshop
108 Civic Plaza Drive
Taos, NMFees/Admission
Free
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