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First Matter Press 2022 Book Release Celebration & Reading
September 17, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeOur community is invited to join us for a poetry reading and the launch of five new books from our 2022 cohort of authors!
Capacity is limited so please register for a ticket to attend. Our authors will begin reading at 5:30pm. We look forward to celebrating with you!
**This is an indoor venue. To protect the health of our community, masks are strongly encouraged. **
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Even the Air, Too Heavy by Riley Danvers
A vivid navigation through the experience of miscarriage, grief and the search for healing in a blend of text + image, experimental and traditional forms, affirming the transformational power of poetry.
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Between These Borders Wanders a Golem by ahuva s. zaslavsky
A hybrid book of poems, flash, and short stories that cast psychic investigations into memory, trauma, and repeated ideas that roam the body.
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Stories for When the Wolves Arrive by Hailey Spencer
An academic and psychological exploration into the deeper themes of our best-known fairy tales, leaving no stone unturned in its examination of feminism, anti-capitalism, trauma, and healing.
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Someone I Can Hold Gently by Xylophone Mykland
Discover alongside the speaker of these poems—wade through childhood pain that ripples over a young adult experience and tinker with the ever-elusive puzzle of self-love within the mirrors of foundational relationships.
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One Row After / Bır Sira Sonra by Sonya Wohletz
A multilingual and multimodal journey through polaroid memories, along earth-toned landscapes, down hospital corridors, and under the blessing of the indigo cosmos, toward an idyllic world.