Atena O. Danner and Kira Tucker celebrate INCANTATIONS FOR REST
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 7PM - 8PM
We’re so excited to welcome Atena O. Danner and Kira Tucker to the store for an event in celebration of Atena’s new book Incantations for Rest. A call to anyone who thought they were alone on the journey, Incantations for Rest is for kindred spirits: neurodivergent folks, parents up late past bedtime nursing resentment, Black people in predominantly white spaces—anyone who has found themselves at the edges of Beloved Community.
Incantations for Rest is an invitation to slow down and explore every kind of rest, providing sacred space for those exhausted by the demands of a racist, ableist society. This stunning collection of poems, meditations, and magic by poet-activist Atena O. Danner is an examination of spiritual spaces, a love letter to Black well-being, and medicine for BIPOC people. Within these pages you are invited to savor connection, question assumptions, admit to complicated feelings, and still make room for joy. It is a beacon of affirmation and a vital tool for ritual and reflection.
Atena O. Danner is an unapologetically Black time-traveling poet-activist who dwells in the past to survive the future. She writes toward Beloved Community, Black liberation, and collective imagination. Atena lives near the traditional homelands of the people of the Council of Three Fires and of the Menominee, Miami, and Ho-Chunk nations with her partner, pets, and two free Black children.
Kira Tucker (she/they) is a poet from Memphis and an MFA+MA candidate in Poetry at Northwestern University. Kira’s work appears in Tupelo Quarterly, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. A former editorial assistant for TriQuarterly and a current writing tutor for incarcerated students in the Northwestern Prison Education Program, Kira has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Tin House, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. She is currently at work on her latest creative project all about dreams and dreaming—a poetic investigation and hopeful debut book collection spanning the mythos of the American Dream and the landscapes of our collective unconscious.
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