Join us for a special online event to celebrate the launch of the winner of the Spring 2022 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, Maryan Nagy Captan’s Sixteen Rabbits. Enjoy readings by Brittanie Sterner, Gabrielle Grace Hogan, Rob Colgate, Molly Williams, and Maryan Nagy Captan.
No need to register, this event will be live streaming at 7pm (central) through the Malvern Books YouTube page: https://tinyurl.com/SixteenRabbitsLaunch.
Sixteen Rabbits transports us through dream, memory, place and time, by opening portals that exist in the liminal space between two worlds. These meditative journeys spring from a deep nostalgia, and one of the most urgent expressions of longing in Captan’s work is that of the displaced, yearning for home. Through displacement, religious persecution, and trauma, these poems come shimmering forth ‘in full-bodied reverie,’ seeking divine wisdom which echoes throughout Sixteen Rabbits like a summons to see this moment, this place, this life in all of its enchantment. As Captan writes: ‘reverence, / I am writing with reverence.’
Maryan Nagy Captan is a poet, screenwriter, gardener, and birder living in Austin, TX. She is an alumnus of The Michener Center for Writers and the Disquiet International Literary Program.
Order a copy of Sixteen Rabbits by Maryan Nagy Captan here: https://hostpublications.com/products/sixteen-rabbits