Airea D. Matthews
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Bread and Circus • 2024 Guggenheim • LA Times Book Prize in Poetry • Booking @blueflowerarts • Repped by @mmqlit • IG: @aireadeefam
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I just did my last gig of the year and it was glorious AND I am all extroversion’d out. I’m out and off until 2024. Send a smoke signal, reach me through my website, or email [email protected] to stay in touch.
Be breezy.
Signed,
The Wind
“an understudy organist played the sorriest wedding march. the bride tripped down the aisle, busted her knee wide open. bled through her stockings and silk slip. her groom, many swigs in, balanced by his best men, could barely stand.” —Airea D. Matthews, “March, 1969” Feminist Press
Loser Ass Song happy to help! should also add Airea D. Matthews has a free resource of essays and texts that has great stuff in it too: x.com/toddedillard/s…
Tis book order season. If your class would benefit from studying various approaches to grief (by form & content) in poems & accompanying micros, request a desk copy and/or read what Jericho Brown & Airea D. Matthews have to say, & preorder today. Black Lawrence Press
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And then
there are those
who in the words of
artist
Mendel-Black, 'inherit
rebellion.'
Large lots of unbeing
passed
one generation to the next.
-- Airea D. Matthews
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So deeply moved by the National Book Foundation finalists statement advocating for a ceasefire and speaking unflinchingly against Islamophobia, Antisemitism and anti Palestinian sentiment and for the children. Solidarity is beautiful.