Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Reads from Opinel: Poems

April 26, 2016 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson will read from her first full-length poetry collection, Opinel: Poems (Bauhan Publishing). The Opinel is a workaday knife from the French alps used by peasants, shepherds, and artists. In the title poem, Gibson writes that the Opinel can be used to scrape leather, /carve cheese, untangle vine, /release trapped lambs, hack/ out ice, slice flesh. Likewise, she uses these poems to untangle her thoughts on family, culture, nature, and the world we inhabit.

Free and open to the public.

 

“I’ve read and reread this book three times already, and I still don’t think I’m done with it yet. This is the highest form of praise I can give.” – Joanna Valente, Luna Luna Magazine

 

Rebecca Kaiser Gibson teaches poetry at Tufts University. She has been published in Agni, Antigonish, the Boston Phoenix, Field, the Greensboro Review, the Harvard Review, MARGIE, MotheringNorthwest Review, Pleiades, Salamander, Slate, the Adroit Journal, 236 Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, the Taos Journal of Poetry and Art, reprinted in an anthology called Cadence of Hooves, and featured in VerseDaily. Two of her chapbooks have been published: Admit the Peacock and Inside the Exhibition.

Details

Date:
April 26, 2016
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Categories:
, ,

Organizer

Abigail Welhouse
Phone:
6465172826
Email:
abigail@scottmanningpr.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.