Summer J. Hart and S. Yarberry celebrate BOOMHOUSE
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Monday, March 18th, from 7PM - 8PM
We’re excited to welcome Summer J. Hart and S. Yarberry to the store for an event in celebration of Summer’s new collection Boomhouse.
Boomhouse thrums with loss, with complicated love, with fortitude. These poems travel a chain of rivers and lakes from the great timber stands of Canada to the dying mill towns of Maine, bending and rippling through history, oral accounts, superstitious customs, family lore, and memory. As Summer J. Hart navigates the twisting dynamics of a family that is both Native and settler, she weaves stories and spells from the most delicate and indelible details.
Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Maine living in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. Her written and visual narratives are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. Summer is the author of Boomhouse (The 3rd Thing, 2023). She is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and the recipient of the 2022 Hellen Ingram Plummer Fellowship at MacDowell. Her poetry has been published in The Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current Press), Bedfellows, Denver Quarterly, Heavy Feather Review, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her mixed-media installations have been featured in shows and galleries including Kasia Kay Art Projects, Chicago, IL; SPRING/BREAK, NYC; Pen + Brush, NYC; Gitana Rosa Gallery at Paterson Art Factory, Paterson, NJ; LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA; and The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME.
S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. Their poetry has appeared in, or is forthcoming in, AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Berkeley Poetry Review, jubilat, Notre Dame Review, miscellaneous zines, among others. Smith‘s other writings can be found in Bomb Magazine, The Adroit Journal, and Annulet: A Journal of Poetics. They currently serve as the Poetry Editor of The Spectacle; they also run a small magazine called Tyger Quarterly. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University where they study twentieth and twenty-first century receptions of William Blake. Their first book of poems, A Boy in the City, is out now from Deep Vellum.
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