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 […]
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