The Mary, Jane, and Pat referenced are Mary Moore, Jane Barbe, and Pat Fleet, whose voices were used for The Bell System’s automated messages. Given my book’s focus on communicating with the economically and supernaturally displaced, these women’s soothing, spectral omnipresence in the world of disconnected numbers proved irresistible in exploring how we approach loss, so much so that they serve as a Greek chorus—or spirit guides—throughout my collection.
Adam O. Davis on "The Bell System" |
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Neurodivergent-Focused Literary Series
"Minnesota-based independent publisher Milkweed Editions announced a series of books centered on neurodivergence and what it calls 'different ways of languaging.' The literary series, titled Multiverse, will hit shelves in April, starting with the debut of non-speaking autistic poet Hannah Emerson’s debut collection The Kissing of Kissing."
via PUBLISHERS WEEKLY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Aaron McCollough on Denise Levertov's The Poet In The World
"We are, as she says, 'living our whole lives in a state of emergency' and therefore have no choice but to resist the petty politics of disenfranchisement peddled by nationalist revanchism and instead to embrace a truly radical form of conservatism—the effort to 'save that earthly life, that miracle of being, which poetry conserves and celebrates.'" |
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