police violence
Shockley, Evie. suddenly we. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2023.
Lawz, Shayla. speculation, n. Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2021, pp. 25, 31, 43-44.
Lawz, Shayla. speculation, n. Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2021, pp. 47-51, 64.
Lawz, Shayla. speculation, n. Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2021, pp. 5-8, 18-19, 21.
Uncollected.
Doty, Mark. "In Two Seconds." American Poetry Review, vol. 44, no. 3, May/June 2015, p. 40.
Maldonado, Sheila. that's what you get. New York: Brooklyn Arts Press, 2021.
Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2019.
Herd, Niki. The Stuff of Hollywood. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2024, pp. 23-26.
Choi, Franny. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On. New York: Ecco, 2022.
Ostriker, Alicia. The Holy & Broken Bliss: Poems in Plague Time. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2024.
Shayla Lawz reads from her book speculation, n. (2021), which revolves around survival and Black life amidst police violence within the age of social media and the 24/7 news cycle. Lawz creates a unique performed version of her book through repetition and distortions not present on the page. This reading was originally given alongside Aria Aber as part of the Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading Series.
Charif Shanahan reads from his second collection of poetry, Trace Evidence (2023), which considers mixed-race identity and the construction of race alongside the struggle to find and make meaning in one's life.
Franny Choi reads from their third collection, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (2022), as well as briefly from Soft Science (2019). Choi's poems confront police brutality, violence enacted by borders, and legacies of war, while also reaching toward the future. This reading was originally given alongside Cameron Awkward-Rich as the inaugural H.D./Bryher Residency Reading.
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