An Evening with Eve Alexandra

“I tried to love the sacrament of loneliness. Burnt and burnished, I bowed my

head and took nothing into my mouth.” - Eve Alexandra

Phoenix Books Burlington is thrilled to welcome Vermont poet Eve Alexandra to celebrate her new book, None of Us in White! Eve will be joined in conversation by fellow Vermont poet Sarah Audsley. Come enjoy a night of poetry and celebrate local arts at Phoenix Books Burlington on Wednesday, September 3, at 7PM.

Eve Alexandra is a lecturer in the English department with areas of expertise in creative writing, poetry, and American literature. She is an accomplished poet who actively publishes across a wide number of journals, including the Harvard Review and The Academy of American Poets. Her previous book is The Drowned Girl, which received The Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Sarah Audsley,  a Korean American adoptee, is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023), a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, a member of The Starlings Collective, and the Writing Program Director at Vermont Studio Center. Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.

About the book: 

Eve Alexandra’s None of Us in White brilliantly mines the lover’s condition, complicating its usual manifestations, romantic, filial, this work gathers through the human body itself. Alexandra’s stunning collection offers a measured recklessness, guiding through immediate necessity: “What if we unlocked all the doors? What if we took the doors off the hinges?” Opening through this work, piercing between sense and atmosphere, human and animal, is an embodied current: “electric with desire, fireflies with luminous bellies.” Alexandra’s poetry pulses, a gorgeous voice, resounding between the collective and singular, where supposition bleeds into query, “Does the mouth make a sound for gun, arrow, berry, or flee?” Rooted and inspiring, None of Us in White illuminates, a queer erotics of a strongly lived and living feminist desire: “the slit of your sex, the coal of hooves, so close, for a second, as if you were nursing at my breast. Then you were off, leaping defiantly…,” and so might we, through Alexandra’s poetry of deep intimacy and wide scope, of careful reckoning into powerful wonder.   --Ronaldo Wilson, author of Virgil Kills: Stories and Carmelina: Figures

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