by Avey Rips | May 13, 2019 | Drinking Gourd
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The...
by Avey Rips | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog
We are truly excited to announce that the winner of the 2019 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize is Ama Codjoe, with her manuscript Blood of the Air. We are so happy to welcome you to the Drinking Gourd family. Congratulations, Ama! ...
by Avey Rips | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog
On Tuesday, January 29th, poets Thiahera Nurse & Andrew E. Colarusso will read from their newly released chapbooks: Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone and Creance; Or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite. Tuesday, January 29th @ 7pm at the Poetry Foundation (61 W....
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2018 | Drinking Gourd
In Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite, Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird. The word derives from the late fifteenth century, from the French créance (“faith”), also...
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2018 | Drinking Gourd
Thiahera Nurse’s Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape of...
