CAAPP and Autumn House Press have invited our most recent Book Prize Winner, Jasmine Reid, to Pittsburgh on 10/17 where she’ll be in conversation with the inimitable Douglas Kearney. The pair will each give a reading and converse around poetics and Jasmine Reid’s book, Interlocutor Goddess, selected as the Winner of the 2024 CAAPP Book Prize by aracelis girmay.
***Seating is limited to the venu capacity and this event will require you to RSVP via Kelly-Strayhorn's website to reserve your spot: https://kelly-strayhorn.org/events/interlocutorbooklaunch/
“Interlocutor Goddess is a restless sensuality with that tongue in your mouth. Jasmine Reid coaxes every line to work, to wend, and sometimes to wound in her kaleidoscopic debut. Here collides the chain gang’s ‘Hah!’ with a ‘sticky & pretty’ hyme. And that’s two sec-tions from a lyric essay rattling with specters. And after that? She writes, ‘my head a black planet.’ Indeed, y’all. Reading Reid is to ready yourself for staying dazzled and addled stanza after stanza then coming to find out you weren’t ready. It’s OK: Interlocutor Goddess came to talk (and take) you through it. I’ll see you ’cross the other side.”
—Douglas Kearney, author of Sho
Friday 10/17—7:00-8:30pm at KST Alloy Studios (5530 Penn Ave)
Location and Address
KST Alloy Studios (5530 Penn Ave)