D. A. Powell Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@MaximaKahn Nickel Boys by @colsonwhitehead All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Turner House by @AngelaFlournoy The Skin is the Elastic Covering that Covers the Entire Body by Bjorn Rasmussen and Bowlaway by @ElizabethMcCracken.

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One of the poets I keep returning to is Sandra Lim. This was the first thing I read today.

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@Carrie_Etter Kevin Young's Ardency, about Amistad. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' Phyllis Wheatley book. Mary Joe Bang's Louise in Love about silent era actress Louise Brooks. Jorie Graham's Overlord has an entire cast of soldiers speaking from the hedgerows at Normandy beach. Tyhemba Jess' Olio

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@mahendra_snark I just started on the book that was at the top of my pile and am loving it. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

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@savs_thoughts @Carrie_Etter Campbell McGrath also has a collection about a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. I believe it's called Shannon.

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A remarkable poem by friend and mentor @jorie_graham from her new book [to] the last [be] human. https://t.co/VPs0FQRA4g https://t.co/IpIfTj9tWu

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Listening to Denise Levertov, I scribbled down a line in one of her poems. I wanted to write her and let her know what I thought when I heard it. But alas I never did... https://t.co/LiFIJF7gVm

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Update: this impromptu discussion of pioneering LGBTQ writers of SF included readings of poems by @VampyreVamp, Judy Grahn and the late Thom Gunn. I hope they would all smile to think of their work being read aloud in the atrium of San Francisco's Embarcadero Hyatt.

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On First of April I'm hosting @Litquake's National Poetry Month reading at @gracecathedral. Special guest Daniel Redman will sing the poems of Walt Whitman, and we'll have Jesus Castillo, MK Chavez, Maw Shein Win and Randall Mann reading from their work. Do come! https://t.co/zrGtFgFvWv

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The book of poems you need right now. This collection by @theferocity is bountiful, with an emotional register that dips into blues and soars into ecstasy. Congratulations, Saeed!