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Open Books: Event Archive
May 08, 2008 07:30 PM
ELIZABETH BRADFIELD, SEAN HILL, & JASMINE DREAME WAGNER
We’re pleased to be a stop on the West Coast tour for these three traveling and quite active poets. Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of Interpretive Work ($20, Red Hen Press), the first book from the press’s Arktoi imprint, established by Eloise Klein Healy to encourage the voices of lesbian authors, and a collection the publisher explains, “explores the collision of natural history, work, queerness, and family.” A naturalist, teacher, web designer, as well as the founder and editor of Broadsided, a computer-based broadside press, Ms. Bradfield is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Sean Hill’s first collection, Blood Ties & Brown Liquor ($16.95 Univ. of Georgia Press), chronicles the African American community in his hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia, across two centuries, a volume Kevin Young calls “a transcendent debut.” The recipient of numerous awards, Mr. Hill is a Stegner Fellow as well. Jasmine Dreame Wagner’s limited edition chapbook, Charcoal, was commissioned by the Window Gallery and, as she describes the work, “surveys and deconstructs the language and visual field of the American urban ruin.” A visual artist and musician as well as a poet, Ms. Wagner performs in the experimental folk collective Cabinet of Natural Curiosities.
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