Author Event: Las Palmas by Keith Jones

The poems of Las Palmas conjure, walk beside, and tarry with the entangled grief of the long histories and violences in which we are all still embedded. Join us in this book release celebrating the work and poetry of professor Keith Jones. Las Palmas is the winner of the 2023 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest.

Keith Jones is the author of the chapbooksshorn ellipses(Agape Editions, 2017),blue lake of tensile fire (Projective Industries 2017), the lucid upward ladder(finalist for Verse Magazine’s Tomaž Šalamun Prize, 2015),Fugue Meadow(Ricochet Editions, 2015), andSurface to Air, Residuals of Basquiat (Pressed Wafer, 2012). His manuscript echo’s errand was a finalist for the 2016 Numinous Orisons, Luminous Origins Literary Award (Agape Editions) and the 1913 Prize for 1st Books (1913 Press). His chapbook the lucid upward ladder was a finalist for the 2015 Tomaž Šalamun Prize (Verse Magazine). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Flag + Void, No Infinite,The Winter Anthology,Verse, and elsewhere. His prose has appeared in Consequence Magazine and Stylus, the blog of the…