Poetry Flash Day | Oakland

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Peter Neil Carroll’s new book of poems is Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land. Robert S. Fogarty says, “Peter Neil Carroll’s welcome volume of delicious poems, Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land, is about American landscapes and the cartography of our inner worlds. He meditates at Grant’s Tomb, the Natchez Trace, and the Redwood Valley reminding us that what poets say echoes deep in the soul.” His two previous collections are Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem and A Child Turns Back to Wave: Poetry of Lost Places. He has also written the memoir Keeping Time. A former professor of American History as well as a poet, he has also been a host of Booktalk on Pacifica Radio.

Lucille Lang Day’s new books of poems are Becoming an Ancestor and the chapbook Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, co-winner of the 2014 Blue Light Poetry Award. Of a previous collection, The Curvature of Blue, F. D. Reeve said, “Is the sky blue? Lucille Lang Day’s poems paint it a hundred different ways, full of geometry and change, structure and feeling, as plangent as a sunset, as secret as an electromagnetic field.” She has published a number of previous poetry collections and chapbooks, including her first book of poems, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, which won the Joseph Henry Jackson Award. She’s also author of the memoir Married at Fourteen.

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