super / natural
NYC Launch + Reading
Featuring:
Gnaomi Siemens is a poet and translator based in New York City. Her words can be found at Asymptote, Words Without Borders, The Believer, Slice Magazine, Europe Now Journal,The American Journal of Poetry, Penny Thoughts (UK), and American Chordata, among others in the US and abroad.
gnaomisiemens.com
Tori Ashley Matos is a poet, actor, and activist born and raised in New York City. They are gender non-binary, queer, and Afro-Indigenous. Their work investigates the intimacy between the self, identity, poet, and reader, as well as the survival of love within structures of colonialism. Their work has been featured in Newtown Literary Journal, Name and None Magazine, and is forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom's 2020 anthology Lesbians in the City. Tori is a 2019 DreamYard fellow, recipient of Gaze Journal's Loving Gaze Poetry Prize, and is a fewllowship finalist with Brooklyn Poets. Their first chapbook is being published in 2020 through Papeachu Press. Follow them at @ToriAshleyMatos!
Timothy Liu’s new book of poems is Let It Ride (Saturnalia Books, 2019). A reader of occult esoterica, he gives I Ching and tarot readings at Mirabai (Woodstock) and the Omega Institute (Rhinebeck).
Robert Ostrom is the author of Sandhour, Ritual and Bit, and The Youngest Butcher in Illinois. He lives in Ridgewood, New York and teaches at New York City College of Technology.
https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781947817104/sandhour.aspx
Justin Boening
Justin Boening is the author of Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series, as well as Self-Portrait as Missing Person, which was awarded a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. He is a recipient of the "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University, and a Henry David Thoreau Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. His poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Narrative, and TYPO, among others. A graduate of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Boening is currently a senior editor at Poetry Northwest, and is cofounding editor at Horsethief Books.
https://milkweed.org/book/not-on-the-last-day-but-on-the-very-last
About The Anthology—
super / natural is a literary call to action. finding where we're headed and what our future(s) will look like when we get there. through art, poetry, and prose, twenty-three visionaries tackle the idea that to be the future we must first see the future.
the works are united through their themes of the supernatural, as in the mystical and fantastical, and/or the SUPER natural, going back to our true roots and the heart of our existence. above all, super / natural is a critical look at our relationship with the earth and with each other.
featuring short stories from Alex Benke, Madi Giovina, Donna J.W. Munro, Tiffany Niles, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Nisi Shawl, Keely Shinners and Fanni Somogyi, art from Apu, Amarise Carreras, Adrianna “Kaya” Clark, Joey Dean, Anthony Grimaldi, Antony Ohman, Caitlin Peck, and Theresa M. Pisani, and poetry from Doriana Gabrielle Diaz, Sage Katherine Enderton, Vincent Seadler, Gnaomi Siemens, Brandi Spering, and Anna Tregurtha.
**pre-orders will be shipped the week of november 14th**
150 pages, color and b&w
cover art by justin carder of wolfman books in oakland
chapter illustrations by tiny pink
https://www.perennial-press.com/super-natural-preorders