{"id":26026,"date":"2024-03-09T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T18:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=26026"},"modified":"2024-03-13T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T17:03:07","slug":"debut-4-poets-x-1st-collections","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/citylore.org\/events\/debut-4-poets-x-1st-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"DEBUT: 4 Poets x 1st Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">Wednesday, March 27th, 2024<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">6:30pm\u00a0 | City Lore Gallery<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">56 E 1st Street, NYC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With Ashia Ajani, Caitlin Cowan, Sebastian Merrill and Sahar Muradi<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Join debut poets Ashia Ajani (author of\u00a0Heirloom), Caitlin Cowan (author of\u00a0Happy Everything), Sebastian Merrill (author of\u00a0GHOST :: SEEDS), and Sahar Muradi (author of\u00a0OCTOBERS), as they read from their first collections and share about the processing of making a first full-length poetry book.\u00a0Books will be available for direct purchase by the authors.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Ashia Ajani&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Heirloom<\/i>\u00a0explores concepts of spiritual nourishment, physical and emotional sacrifice, environmental injustice, sexuality, waste colonialism, abolition, and Black migration; these poems seek to address the trauma felt from environmental injustice and the familial wounds that are passed down as a result of historical neglect.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Caitlin Cowan&#8217;s\u00a0<i>Happy Everything<\/i>\u00a0is a postnuptial ghost story that Diane Seuss has described as \u201cnecessary, witty, painful, and brilliantly made.\u201d\u00a0This domestic elegy is not a book about bad men or a bad marriage: it\u2019s a book about the ways in which women are asked to facilitate pleasure, be beautiful, and participate in capitalism as joy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sebastian Merrill&#8217;s\u00a0<i>GHOST :: SEEDS\u00a0<\/i>incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity.\u00a0Putting a queer spin on the myth of Persephone, the central tension of this book-length poem is a dialogue between a transmasculine speaker and a figure that he conceptualizes as his ghost, the girl-ghost of the self that he left behind to become the person he is today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sahar Muradi&#8217;s\u00a0<i>OCTOBERS<\/i>\u00a0traces the four great tumults of the author&#8217;s life, all of which originated in that jagged month of different years: The US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter. 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