To celebrate the publication of her latest volume, Snakes and Babies Jules Gibbs will join us for a virtual poetry reading with Northshire staff favorite Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Poets Jules Gibbs and Rachel Eliza Griffiths will present a poetry reading and discuss their work, in celebration of the release of Gibbs' new collection Snakes and Babies.
The one-word titles of Jules Gibbs's snakes and babies are potentialities of immense expansion. These poems are incapable of being singular, inert, quiet. They are manifold, animated, agitated by energies of politics, dreams, and desires--systems of menace and pleasure. She obeys Celan's advice to "speak, but keep yes and no unsplit," but in all other ways is disobedient to "love's old patterns." The weather is rain. The ecology is woman. The time is violence. The angels are emus, flightless and endangered. The voice talks back to our alienation and annihilation. In Gibbs's hands, poems are a "voodoo that eats through paper," an alternate history that wounds as it cures.
Griffiths joins us for a repeat reading from her collection Seeing the Body, a Northshire bookseller favorite.
Jules Gibbs is the author of the book of poems, Bliss Crisis, published by The Sheep Meadow Press. She was born in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, and lives in Syracuse, New York, where she teaches at Syracuse University and serves as vice president for the Adjuncts United teachers' union, representing part-time faculty.
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