Welcome to Part 2 of Memorious‘s 2021 Contributor Book Round-up. You can find our list of books from the first half of the year here. Congratulations to all of our contributors! (Note: This year, by demand by avid chapbook readers and collectors, we expanded to include a few chapbooks at the end of the list.)…
2021 Contributor Book Round-up (January- June)
Congratulations to all of our Memorious contributors who launched books during the challenging first half of 2021! Stay tuned for news of upcoming contributor books including Fall 2021 poetry from Derrick Austin, M. Soledad Caballero, Sandra Lim, Eric Pankey, and Jacques Rancourt, and 2022 poetry from Brionne Janae, Karyna McGlynn, and Austin Segrest. You can…
Winter Reading: More 2020 Contributor Books!
Welcome to our latest round-up of contributor books, featuring books published in the last half of 2020. (You can catch our round-up for the first half of 2020 here.) Below, you will find a selection of poetry, short stories, novels, and essay collections to keep you company through the winter months ahead. Happy reading! For…
Contributor Spotlight: Nickole Brown
Memorious contributor Nickole Brown recently published Write It: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire with her wife, poet Jessica Jacobs. The book emerged from their experiences teaching poetry to students of all ages, from high school students to college students to seniors, and they have created a companion website that highlights the workshops they offer. Last spring,…
Summer Reading: Contributor Books 2020 (Jan-June +)
Looking for summer reads? Here’s a list of some 2020 contributor books to add to your shopping list for your indie bookstore or to order online from the wonderful online Bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores. Happy reading!
Contributor Spotlight: Yanyi
Yanyi’s debut poetry collection, Yale Younger Poets Prize winner The Year of Blue Water( Yale University Press, 2019), is a record and cultivation of the poet’s discovery of the self. The poems explore Yanyi’s relationship to his family and friends, his mental health, his experience as a trans person, his sense of belonging as a Chinese…
Contributor Spotlight: Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen’s latest collection, Nightshade, published by Four Way Books, surprises us again and again with a truth we only think we already know, that the most contrary experiences—hope and disappointment, departure and arrival, pain and comfort—are always present in our lives, and so often, occur at the same time. As the title poem teaches…
Contributor Spotlight: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers’ second collection, The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books), posits the intriguing question, what would happen if current climate change resulted in humans terraforming Mars? The result is a thought-provoking interrogation of sexism, colonialism, and the current climate crisis, in a collection as healing as it is harrowing. In this attentive…
Contributor spotlight: Nomi Stone
Nomi Stone’s second collection of poetry, Kill Class (Tupelo Press), captures the precarious dynamic between soldiers, role-players, and an anthropologist in mock Middle Eastern villages at military bases across the U.S. Her delicate attention to detail, even the smallest, such as yogurt still fresh on a wrist in the opening poem, vividly illuminates the complicated war…
Spotlight Interview: Grace Talusan
Grace Talusan’s first book, The Body Papers (2019) won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. A graduate of Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, she is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and…
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