Enjoy a night of poetry and fiction in DC on Mon., Oct. 5th, at 7 p.m.!
An evening of poetry and stories! Celebrating Melissa Crowe and Sarah Domet and their latest releases.
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
Equal parts sad, sexy, and searching, Melissa Crowe’s Abider opens with the central lament/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything — or anyone — behind. The origins of this abidingness are traced in odes and elegies for a rural girlhood beset with jeopardy and scarcity and neglect. But it was also good-wild, conducive to a reckless freedom she can’t help grieving, even as she falls in love at 16 and marries hard. Meanwhile, other, electric connections are painfully delimited by heteronormative expectations, and her growing dis-ease reveals that she has been trying (and failing) to heal by remaining where she is harmed...
Set in 1920 and 1986, when Halley’s Comet was last visible from earth, Sarah Domet’s Everything Lost Returns is a heartfelt, dual timeline historical novel following a soap opera star and a factory worker It’s 1910, and as Halley’s Comet approaches, the world is holding its breath. Opal, on the run from her abusive husband, has become an Earthshine girl - working in a factory owned by the illustrious Tuttle family to make the extremely popular Earthshine soap. Despite her newfound financial independence, Opal can’t help but notice that many of the Earthshine girls are falling sick, and they all suffer the same symptoms - is it possible that the soap, and the Tuttle family, are responsible?...
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Melissa Crowe holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and in 2021 she was awarded the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the chair of the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing.
Sarah Domet is the author of the novels The Guineveres and Everything Lost Returns, and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is a professor and the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs, and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.
Hosted by Lost City Books, 2467 18th St., NW, Washington, DC. Learn more here.
