Ghost Fishing with Busboys and Poets Books and Split This Rock
Date and Time
Jun 24, 2018 8:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Jun 24, 2018 8:00 pm
450K
Join Split This Rock and Busboys and Poets Books for a reading from Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, hosted by editor Melissa Tuckey, featuring Hayes Davis, Ailish Hopper, Katy Richey, and special guest National Book Award Finalist Ross Gay.
Celebrate the publication of Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press) with renowned poet Ross Gay, anthology editor and Split This Rock co-founder Melissa Tuckey, and DC-area contributors Hayes Davis, Ailish Hopper, and Katy Richey. Bring your own eco-justice poem to read on an open mic after the features.
A gathering of poetry at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment, Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. As a new addition to the field of nature poetry anthologies, which have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cultural traditions.
This event is co-sponsored by Split This Rock, a national non-profit based in DC committed to cultivating, teaching, and celebrating poetry that bears witness to injustice and provokes change. Learn more at: www.splitthisrock.org
Ross Gay was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He is the author of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award and a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Books Critics Circle Award; Bringing the Shovel Down (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011); and Against Which (Cavankerry Press, 2006). He is also the co-author of the chapbooks Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens (with Aimee Nezhukumatathil) and River (with Richard Wehrenberg, Jr.). He currently teaches English at Indiana University, where he serves as Director of Creative Writing. Ross Gay featured at Split This Rock Festival in 2016.
Hayes Davis’ first volume, Let Our Eyes Linger, was published by Poetry Mutual Press. His work has appeared in New England Review and other journals, and many anthologies. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2016 and 2017, and was a member of Cave Canem’s first cohort of fellows.
Ailish Hopper grew up in Washington DC, and is the author of Bird in the Head (Center for Book Arts) and Dark~Sky Society (New Issues). Individual poems have appeared in APR, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Tidal Basin Review, among others, and in addition to page poetry, she performed with the band, Heroes are Gang Leaders. The recipient of awards from the MD State Arts Council, MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, she lives in Baltimore.
Katy Richey’s work has appeared in Rattle, Cincinnati Review, RHINO, The Offing and other journals. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops and The Cave Canem Foundation. She hosts the Sunday Kind of Love reading series open mic at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC, sponsored by Split This Rock and is a member of the Black Ladies Brunch Collective.
