RACHEL RICHARDSON'S new poetry collection is "Smother." Mathew Zapruder says, “How harrowing, how moving, how oddly comforting to read these casually masterful poems. No matter how great the fear, this poet finds the courage to make poetry within, and out of, the great perils of our time. Richardson keeps speaking, and breathing, in that necessary and singular record, poetry.” Her previous collections include "Copperhead" and "Hundred-Year Wave." Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Orion, Yale Review, on The Slowdown, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has been published in Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program at Stanford University, and Yaddo. She is a co-founder of the literary center Left Margin LIT, based in Berkeley.
MIA AYUMI MALHOTRA'S new poetry collection is "Mothersalt." Barbara Tomash says, "'Mothersalt' is an exquisitely tender book. Yet even its musicality reveals Malhotra’s thinking as acute, precise, fierce, and finally, haunted. Childbearing and motherhood are not merely ‘subject’ or ‘story’; an existential storm blasts through these pages tearing at the borders between body/world, self/other, memory/timelessness. Alive with the unresolvable, with shapeshifting, 'Mothersalt' creates a space to hold opposing emotions and contradictory thoughts without hedging or hiding...” Her previous collection is "Isako Isako," a Northern California Book Award finalist, California Book Award finalist, and winner of the Alice James Award, Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, National Indie Excellence Award, and Maine Literary Award. Her poetry has appeared in Indiana Review, The Greensboro Review, Best New Poets, DISMANTLE: An Anthology of Writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow, founding member of The Ruby SF, a space for women and nonbinary artists, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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