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The delicacy of embracing spirals: a reading with Mimi Tempestt
January 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
One of Publisher’s Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall 2023!
Recommended reading for October by LitHub and Alta Magazine
the delicacy of embracing spirals investigates the ways in which the personal narrative of Black queer womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens.
With a visual sensibility that explodes across the page, the collection begins with microcosmic poems of personal struggle and spirals out to macrocosmic texts of social and political critique. The book culminates in a fantastic account of the staging of a play with life-threatening consequences.
“To encounter the words of mimi tempestt on the page, or in performance, is to witness the rare transcendency of language where the line becomes an exacting blade.”—Truong Tran, author of book of the other
Mimi Tempestt (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. She has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. In 2021, she was selected for participation in the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices & writers, and was a Creative Fellow at The Ruby in San Francisco. She is the 2023 recipient of the SFF/Nomadic Press Literary Prize in Poetry. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is currently published with City Lights. Her works can be found in Foglifter, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Mimi will be reading from her new collection.