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IN-PERSON EVENT: The Hive Poetry Collective with Amanda Moore & Dion O'Reilly

Tuesday, July 5, 2022 - 7:00pm

Join members of The Hive Poetry Collective as they pick up the baton from Poetry Santa Cruz and resume live poetry readings. This resurrection of what will be bimonthly readings with locally and nationally recognized poets, begins with the work of Hive Collective member Dion O’Reilly and Amanda Moore with and special guest Danusha Laméris.

Dion O'Reilly’s debut book, Ghost Dogs, (Terrapin 2020) was shortlisted for several prizes including The Catamaran Prize and The Eric Hoffer Award. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, Massachusetts Review, and The New Ohio Review. Her second book Sadness of the Apex Predator was chosen for the Portage Poetry Series out of University of Wisconsin's Cornerstone Press and will be published in 2024. She facilitates workshops with poets from all over the US and hosts a poetry podcast at The Hive Poetry Collective (dionoreilly.wordpress.com).

Poet Ellen Bass wrote that Ghost Dogs “will haunt you the way art should. Bristling with pain, wit, desire, and tenderness, these poems investigate not only "the daily harms" of an abusive childhood, but the deep solace non-human animals can offer.”

Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening (Ecco 2021), was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, LitHub, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting, and her essays have appeared in Catapult, The Baltimore Review, and Hippocampus Magazine. A reader for VIDA Review and Bull City Press's INCH series, Amanda is a high school English teacher in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and daughter. More at https://amandapmoore.com.

Poet and writer Ocean Vuong said of Requeening, “A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...”

 

Ghost Dogs By Dion O'Reilly, Lockward Diane (Editor) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781947896239
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
(Please note: This book cannot be returned.)
Published: Terrapin Books - February 17th, 2020

Requeening: Poems By Amanda Moore Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063096288
Availability: Not On Our Shelves, But Available from Warehouse - Usually Delivers in 3-14 Days
Published: Ecco - October 26th, 2021