BITCHREADS | 17 Books Feminists Should Read in June by Evette Dionne /  by Rachel Griffiths

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitchreads-june-2020-book-selections

“Rachel Elizabeth Griffiths is one of the best poets and visual artists in the United States, with work that interrogates a number of issues, including aging, grief, trauma, and racial terror. Seeing the Body, a collection that offers both poetry and photos, continues Griffiths’s growing canon of work by exploring the ongoing impact of loss on our physical bodies and our psyche. Across a number of poems, Griffiths delves into her mother’s death, the never-ending mourning process, and how we face personal grief at a moment when the world itself is in chaos—from police brutality, climate change, and a pandemic, among other things. Seeing the Body asks questions that can never be answered but are always worth asking: Is it possible to live multiple lives in a single life? Is it possible to be reborn over and over again? Is it possible for loss to become a catalyst for inner transformation?” - Evette Dionne

https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/bitchreads-june-2020-book-selections

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2020 Stella Adler Poet-in-Residence | Rachel Eliza Griffiths! /  by Rachel Griffiths

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series are pleased to announce that Rachel Eliza Griffiths will be the 2020 poet-in-residence. This year marks the sixth year of the program. Rachel Eliza Griffiths will join past residents Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Idra Novey, Gregory Pardlo and Grace Schulman in a public reading on Monday, March 9, 2020. More details coming soon!

https://stellaadler.com/2020/01/22/rachel-eliza-griffiths-named-new-poet-in-residence/

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bruise bullet flower | limited run chapbook published by Woodland Pattern /  by Rachel Griffiths

Published in celebration of Rachel Eliza Griffiths' exhibition and appearance at Woodland Pattern this spring, bruise bullet flower documents the strength, vulnerability, and beauty of black, brown, and mostly queer-identified individuals living under the daily threat of gun violence in the United States. The chapbook features Griffiths' photography alongside poems from Reginald Dwayne Betts, Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Rickey Laurentiis, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Safiya Sinclair, Tracy K. Smith, R.A. Villanueva, and Phillip B. Williams.

The exhibition, chapbook publication, and a reading and talk by Griffiths were facilitated by Woodland Pattern's participation in What Is It, Then, Between Us?: Poetry & Democracy, the Poetry Coalition's third annual programming initiative on a theme of social importance. 

To purchase, stop by our store or order online using the button below. All proceeds benefit Woodland Pattern's nonprofit mission of forwarding the literary arts.

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https://www.woodlandpattern.org/bookstore/

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