Lot Six named one of the best books of summer 2020 by the Chicago Tribune
The Tribune writes that David Adjmi's memoir "touches upon something deep and complex in the human condition."
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The Tribune writes that David Adjmi's memoir "touches upon something deep and complex in the human condition."
Literary Hub features an excerpt from Adjmi's new memoir about the importance of his mother's influence. "I was frozen solid in the bucket seat of my mother’s Impala," it begins. "It was summer, a Wednesday afternoon in the year 1979, and I was eight years old."
Grise will spend the three-year residency developing new works with the local community, working alongside a cohort of Dallas-based women of color to interrogate questions of land, autonomy, and the tools necessary to “build and sustain healthy and vibrant communities.”
Jackson is included among fellow authors Eula Biss, Natasha Trethewey, and more on Newcity 's list of 50 notable Chicago writers.
Adjmi discusses abandoning and then reclaiming his past on his own terms in his new memoir, Lot Six, about queer identity and growing up in New York's Syrian Jewish Community.
In a new poem for The New Republic, Levin writes, "Trying the long view—in which years breathe/ and the Great Wheel always turns, but/ so much damage done as ash and seed/ change places, as they always do—was that/ still true?".
In a new poem on Poets.org, Jackson reflects "Show me your grin in the middle of winter./ In the eighties we did the wop; you, too, have your dances. It is like stealing light from a flash in the sky."
The Times writes that, in his latest book, Mehta makes a compelling case for wealthy countries taking in migrants as reparation for damage done to their homelands.
In her introduction to the section (which features new work by fellow Whiting Award winner Diannely Antigua), Aber writes that during the current challenging state of the world, "poetry offers shelter, by shaping language to hold us."
The Review praises Brown's depiction of the body, and writes that "with [Brown]s] extraordinary poems and new forms, we might learn to heal our own damaged histories and selves, to make our own new myths, and to bring our whole person to the world."