by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2016 | Drinking Gourd
The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, or, more specifically, to Chicago at a particular moment in the poet’s life. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how...
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2016 | Drinking Gourd
Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as...
by Avey Rips | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Events
Join us for an evening of poetry as we celebrate the fourth Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. The evening will include readings from Mayda Del Valle and Jenny Xie, the winners of 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize. Mayda Del Valle is a poet and performer. A proud native of...
