LET THE DEAD IN Receives Glowing Review in Lightwood Press #10
"Agostini’s socially and spiritually aware poetry collection 'Let the Dead In' focuses on the duality between love and hate along with the way that these concepts integrate and clash"
Poet Robyn Hager reviews Saida Agostini's daring first collection let the dead in in the 10th edition of Lightwood. In her review, Hager praises Agostini's social and spiritual awareness as she contends with the violence and oppression facing black people in the United States. Below, read a small excerpt. Read the entire review in Lightwood's new issue here. Order let the dead in here.
Agostini successfully juxtaposes stark images from her life with deeply entrancing metaphors, and most poignantly in her poem "what love is" she compares the images of turmoil she witnesses between her parents with a dead buck on the side of the road whose
flesh ripped/exposing a dark black machine/so soft, stinking and fragile that years/later you’ll remember the risk of loving/something that wild
The author’s ability to display these powerful, and sometimes gruesome, epithets about life shines through in the entirety of her collection.
Rose Reads | S1 E3 (A Tribute to Stanley Plumly)
Rose Solari’s tribute to the late poet Stanley Plumly. Rose recounts her days as an MFA candidate studying under Stanley Plumly and reads several of his poems, as well as a few of her own written under his mentorship.
James J. Patterson’s Live from the Reading Room episode 2
In this episode of James J. Patterson’s Live from the Reading Room, JJP reads from the old masters, Delacroix and Yeats, as well as from his own work.
Elizabeth Hazen, Steven Leyva, and Dora Malech Virtual Reading and Discussion
The three Baltimore poets come together to read and discuss their work. The virtual hangout is designed to help raise funds for MD Food Bank.