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Our Weather Our Sea: Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund
May 17, 2019 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeJoin Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund on May 17 at 7 pm to celebrate two new books from Samuel: Meet Me There, a reissue of two early works from Belladonna, and Our Weather Our Sea, a new collection from Black Radish.
Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, including Our Weather Our Sea (Black Radish Books, 2019) and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts, 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in or is forthcoming from Poetry, Aufgabe, Fence, The Atlas Review, Black Clock, Mandorla, Versal, The Collagist, Posit, Vinyl, Troubling the Line: Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other publications. He teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College and divides his time between western Massachusetts and Tucson, Arizona.
Marcus Lund lives in Portland, OR and has an MFA from Mills College. His work has appeared in Paper Darts, 580 Split, 34thParallel, and APT Magazine, among many others. In 2016, Quiet Lightning Books published The Sacred Text of Rosa Who is Great. He is currently seeking representation for a completed novel.