Join us in celebrating the launch of Kimberly Lambright’s new poetry collection, Ultra-Cabin (2015 winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award). With readings from Kimberly Lambright and Ben Kopel.

About Ultra-Cabin:

Combining the raw confessional with post-ironic deconstruction, the poems in Ultra-Cabin catalog the uneven hardships of language and connection with so much triumph and backdoor playfulness that you may find yourself moved and utterly abandoned to your greater self.

“Artful and wry, smart and moving—Kimberly Lambright’s poems are made of such carefully rendered moments that the mundane becomes very wonderfully strange. Ultra-Cabin is a book that will knock you out and invite you in, sometimes in the same brilliant breath.”—Kathryn Nuernberger

“I am stunned by Kimberly Lambright’s verbal acuity, its lightning shifts and sudden, diamond-like stillnesses. And there are images in this book that would wake Breton from the dead. Hats off to this uniquely adventurous and mature first volume.”—Christopher Howell

“Emotive and cerebral, giving way to the surrealities of intuition and pushing back with a keen intelligence.” —Ruth Williams

Kimberly Lambright is a poet and scholar living in Austin, Texas. She studied cultural theory at NYU and creative writing at Eastern Washington University. She’s a MacDowell Colony fellow and her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, ZYZZYVA, Sink Review, Bone Bouquet, The Boiler, Wicked Alice, and Big Bridge. Her first full-length collection of poems, Ultra-Cabin (2016), is the winner of the 2015 42 Miles Press Poetry Award.

Ben Kopel is the author of VICTORY, which came out from H_NGM_N Books in 2012. He teaches classes on composition, creative writing, literature, and media studies at Skybridge Academy, an independent school in Dripping Springs. He is sporadically at work on a new collection of poems possibly titled Sutras of Love & Hate.