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Book Release: Sky Responds to Our Holler
Tue, Apr 15
|JustBook-ish
Join writer and performer, Zenaida Peterson for the book release of Sky Responds to Our Holler. This event will feature readings from Emmanuel Oppong Yeboah, Golden and Truj and JR.
Time & Location
Apr 15, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
JustBook-ish, 1463 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
Guests
About the event
“A veiless vehicle, verse-rich, vehement & vesselled, Sky Responds to Our Holler holds this realm of earth-living and American-loss to the fire. Zenaida’s thunderous collection of poetic incantations unleash softness, memory, and gumption. Revealing the super-natural acts we can make interpersonally to redefine family, order, and kingdom in our wilderness. These poems are nature; bending pastoral and spoken word poetry traditions to breach their own path. Even gathered & gutted by loss, love, community, nationalism, addiction, and doubt, Zenaida reminds us Weren’t we meant to be this alive? That hope starts with querying & vulnerability. It makes sense that the first and last words of this boundless collection are In love.”
—Golden, author of Reprise and A DEAD NAME THAT LEARNED HOW TO LIVE
“Sky Responds to Our Holler sings in the spectacular and achy home where hope and despair meet, page after page is a devotion that eclipses sorrow but refuses to…