Join us via Zoom to celebrate the release of Emily Bludworth de Barrios’ Shopping, or The End of Time (University of Wisconsin Press), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Emily will be joined by Laura Villareal.

“Marrying novelistic breadth and autobiographical intimacy, Shopping, or The End of Time invents a new poetic genre: the sociolyric. Impersonal and personal at once, these poems shift from collective to individual experience with dizzying rapidity. Their deft lines jump-cut across social experiences connected inequitably by a consumer culture thriving on violence against women and the Earth’s accelerating destruction. This is an innovative collection with impressive critical and emotional range.” —Brian Teare

Emily Bludworth de Barrios is a poet whose previous books and chapbooks include Women, Money, Children, Ghosts; Splendor; and Extraordinary Power. Her poems have appeared in publications such as The Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Oxford Poetry, and Cincinnati Review. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and now lives in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, with her husband and three children.

Laura Villareal is a 2019–21 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Fellow, a 2020–21 Stadler Fellow, and the author of the chapbook The Cartography of Sleep and the book Girl’s Guide to Leaving. She works on an interview series at F(r)iction called “Writers Talking about Anything but Writing.” Her work has appeared in AGNI, Grist, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere.

Zoom Information:

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