Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election Pt. 7 -Final show

Thursday, March 20, at 2:30 PM on KPFK (new day and time) on Bibliocracy, I present another installment of a big multi-episode audio project…only on KPFK. Including contributions from a diverse group of over 100 poets, the anthology Winter in America (Again: Poets Respond to 2024 Election, arrives from Carbonation Press thanks to the efforts of a team of eight editors and its publisher Greg Bem, a poet and librarian based in Spokane.  You can learn more about the collection and the work of Carbonation Press at gregbem.com

Produced in six short weeks to launch before Trump’s January 20 inauguration, the book’s ethos is reflected in “a belief that the incoming administration will not relieve or heal us from our nation’s past: the destruction of the environment, the unbridled use of power, the pervasive narrative that Black lives do not matter, patriarchy, reproductive injustice for women, silent support for the US prison-industrial complex, and the lack of compassion for diverse gender identity, immigrants, the indigenous, and unsheltered populations.” The editorial team behind Winter in America (Again included lead editors Katie Sarah Zale and Paul E. Nelson with allia abdullah-matta, CChristy White, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Robert Lashley, Roxi Power, and Theresa Whitehill.

Today, the final edition of this series with eight amazing poets, each reading a single poem offered during the Zoom reading which assembled them online from all over the country and the world. You can learn more about the book by googling Carbonation Press, with whom I have worked on this project. Final readers: Natalie Anderson, Nina Borokas, Paul E. Nelson, Paul Hoover, Roxi Power, Susanne Dyckman, Terran Campbell, and Veronica Eldredge.

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