Poetry

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets John Sibley Williams and A. Molotkov to read from their new collections. What happens when metaphysics and social critique meet? Poetry that has to find a new form to express the tension it embodies. John Sibley Williams’ newspaper-like columns in As One Fire Consumes Another do just that. Here, transcendent vision and trenchant social insight meet, wrestle, and end up revitalizing one another. John Sibley Williams confronts the violent side of American history and its effect on our notions of self, fatherhood, and citizenship. The poems, which veer from elegiac to declarative to prayerlike, drill down into the beliefs and fears that underpin this violence." –Poets & Writers Join us for the launch of A. Molotkov’s Synonyms for Silence. His third…