In-Person | Saturday | March 1 | 4-6pm
Join us in celebration of Imani Elizabeth Jackson and Gabrielle Octavia Rucker’s collections that explore Black diasporic experiences through the topographical and the surreal. Jackson’s poems in Flag (Futurepoem, 2024) study land and sediment with precise, tidal verse. Rucker’s Dereliction (The Song Cave, 2022) refracts images through language both dreamlike and haunting.
Readings in Kray Hall with a reception to follow. Copies of Dereliction and Flag will be available for purchase.
By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement. Events at Poets House are popular, and seating is first-come, first-seated. We have several seats reserved for people with access needs. If events reach capacity, seating will be available in an overflow viewing room.
About the poets:
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is the author of the chapbooks Context for arboreal exchanges (Belladonna*, 2023) and saltsitting (g l o s s, 2020), and, as mouthfeel, coauthor of Consider the tongue (Paper Machine, 2019) with S*an D. Henry-Smith. Flag (Futurepoem, 2024) is her first full-length collection. Photo by S*an D. Henry-Smith.
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, teaching artist and editor from the Great Lakes currently living on the Gulf Coast. She is the sole operator and practitioner of The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional learning space for the poetically inclined. Her debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave.
Admission Free with RSVP