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| Levis Remembered | ||
| This year’s Levis Remembered reading loop contains four poems from Leila Chatti’s prize-winning collection Deluge alongside three new poems from Chatti. The loop also includes a review of Chatti’s book by Brandon Young, and essays by Stephen Dunn and Gregory Donovan. Larry Levis is also represented by his poems “Linnets” and “To a Wren on Calvary,” as well as his essay “Some Notes on the Gazer Within.” |  |
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A Reading by Camille T. Dungy  |
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| On February 18th, 2021, poet and essayist Camille T. Dungy read from her most recent poetry collection, Trophic Cascade, and her nonfiction book, Guidebook to Relative Strangers, in a virtual event in VCU’s Visiting Writers Series. Of her work, David Wojahn says: “it is nothing less than an attempt to reconcile our divisions and reaffirm our bonds with nature . . . Dungy places such an utter faith in language’s incantatory and restorative powers.” |  |
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| A Conversation with Joan Gaustad |
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| On September 8, 2021, artist Joan Gaustad gave a reading from her memoir Someone’s Missing . . . and I Think It’s Me at an event at James Branch Cabell Library. After reading from the memoir Gaustad participated in a conversation about the book with Sara Monroe, M.D.—a former professor at VCU, and a friend of Gaustad who provided feedback through Gaustad’s writing process. The evening ended with a question-and-answer period with the audience. |  |
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| A Correspondence with torrin a. greathouse | ||
| In October 2021, torrin a. greathouse corresponded by email with Blackbird associate editor, Garrett Vesely. The conversation centers on her book, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound. and focuses on identity and the perception of identity; as torrin writes, “I must contend daily with others’ perceptions of me, and the way that language—often violently— characterizes these perceptions.” Two of her poems appear in this issue of Blackbird. |  |
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