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“Deeply felt and grounded in an intimate acquaintance with contemporary China, these wide-ranging stories portray villagers, protesters, artists, and petty thieves alike with empathy and grace. Nothing is easy for them, and the questions they raise are not easy for us. What an absorbing, probing debut! Wonderful.”—Gish Jen, author of Bad Bad Girl
I’m loving M Lin’s story collection The Memory Museum, and it’s really neat that the author (and book) has so many Pittsburgh connections. In her Instagram post, the author mentioned Wang Xiaobo and Li Yinhe, who studied at the University of Pittsburgh. I should also mention that Li-Young Lee began writing poetry in Pittsburgh, and I recall meeting Huang Xiang and seeing his House Poem when I was an undergrad at Pitt.
This is going to be a great event, and I hope you can make it!
The Bay Area Book Festival kicks off in just a few weeks! Don't miss these events featuring Graywolf authors D. A. Powell, Susan Steinberg, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Daniel Moysaenko, Max Delsohn, and M Lin. 🖇️ Link in bio for details!
Join us tomorrow May 8th for a conversation between David St. John and David Ulin about SWIRL & VORTEX: Collected Poems by Larry Levis at Beyond Baroque in Venice at 7:30 pm PST, or live on YouTube! @bblitarts
Included here is David Ulin’s brilliant review of the book for @altajournal in which he writes “I defy anyone to read those lines without feeling the presence of the poet. We sense him alive in the language as he’s writing, even as he reminds us that to move through this world is already, in its way, to be gone.” Wow!!
Link here and in bio: /e/book-launch-swirl-vortex-by-larry-levis-david-st-john-david-l-ulin-tickets-1988347611230?aff=oddtdtcreator
Coming up at City Lights LIVE! this week...
🎉 TONIGHT Tuesday 5/5 7pm PT
ZYZZYVA Literary Magazine Issue 32 & Cinco De Mayo Celebration
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❔ Wednesday 5/6 7pm PT/10pm ET
Questions 27 & 28: A Novel
Karen Tei Yamashita with Paul Yamazaki
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📖 Saturday 5/9 11am PT/2pm ET
Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, Yohann C. Ripert, and Cheikh Thiam
THE ESSENTIAL SENGHOR: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics & SENGHOR: Writings On Politics
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Find the rest of our upcoming events at the link in our bio!
What a profound honor to publish Fanny Howe's final collection THIS POOR BOOK, completed just before her death. Across this brilliant reconfiguration of her work, we follow the poet as seeker, both faithful and foolish, searching for language and existence beyond the machines of economy, judgment, and war. These spare lyrical shards move with a jagged but persistent direction—leading us between doubt and belief and toward Howe’s enduring vision for a life of humility, justice, and imagination. 🖇️ On shelves today.
Your life is still worth something, even if you don’t have a pregnancy.
Author, essayist and one of the defining voices of millennial womanhood, Chloe Caldwell talks honestly and openly about fertility, trying for a baby and the moment she stopped.
Chloe, James and Kalvin explore the pressure society places on women to make motherhood their identity and the liberation that can come from living your life beyond the one you thought you were supposed to have.
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To kick off AAPI month, we’re featuring celebrated Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita. Her new book, QUESTIONS 27 & 28, is officially out with Graywolf Press!
Karen’s backlist includes a magical realist take on Los Angeles (TROPIC OF ORANGE), Jane Austen characters reimagined (SANSEI AND SENSIBILITY), and a memoir about Japanese internment (LETTERS TO MEMORY). She is one of the most widely taught contemporary Asian American writers, and we couldn’t be more proud to publish her work.
☁️ GIVEAWAY! ☁️
To celebrate M Lin's new collection, The Memory Museum, we're giving away a copy of the book and a copy of Ploughshares' Winter 2023-24 issue, which features her EWC-winning short story, "野火烧不尽/no prairie fire can destroy all the weeds."
To enter:
☁️ Follow @graywolfpress and @psharesjournal .
☁️ Tag a friend in the comments.
Entry limited to U.S. residents only. Enter by May 9th for a chance to win!
"Being present costs us nothing," Maggie (@maggiesmithpoet ) shares in episode 1506. "It requires no special equipment. No special location. We can all do better at noticing, and at keeping ourselves open to what we’re experiencing right now."
Read "You Reading This, Be Ready" by William Stafford — from ASK ME (@GraywolfPress ) — and our full episode transcript at the link in our bio.
Did #NationalPoetryMonth inspire you to write? Keep your creative practice going with this poem and prompt inspired by Carolina Ebeid’s mesmerizing new poetry collection HIDE: Write a poem that uses both text and negative space on the page for formal invention. Explore visual experimentation and play, and see what emerges 📝
Thank you @mybluedress for sharing this gorgeous video excerpt ❤️
#Poetry #Bookstagram #poetryprompt
What better way to celebrate the last day of #NationalPoetryMonth than to announce Pulitzer Prize-winner Diane Seuss's next collection ALTHEA, a wild and resonant new work exploring the outer limits of the lyric and the elusive figure of Althea. Coming May 2027, but you can read new poems *now* in @adroitjournal and @brickliterary (link in bio) 🎉🎉
