9th Ave: Amanda Moore, Benjamin Gucciardi, and Shelley Wong

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 6:00pm


Join us on Tuesday, October 26 at 6pm PT when Amanda Moore reads from and celebrates her debut collection, Requeening, with Benjamin Gucciardi and Shelley Wong at 9th Ave!

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About Requeening
A collection of poetry from the 2020 winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Ocean Vuong.

Engaging the matriarchal structure of the beehive, Amanda Moore explores the various roles a woman plays in the family, the home, and the world at large. Beyond the productivity and excess, the sweetness and sting, Requeening brings together poems of motherhood and daughterhood, an evolving relationship of care and tending, responsibility and joy, dependence and deep love.

The poems that anchor this collection don’t shy away from the inevitability of a hive’s collapse and consider the succession of “requeening” a hive as “a new heart ready to be fed and broken and fed again.” The collapse is both physical—there are poems of illness and recovery—and emotional, as the mother-daughter relationship shifts, the daughter becoming separate, whole, and poised to displace. The liminal spaces these poems traverse in human relationships is echoed in a range of poetic and hybrid form, offering freedom and stricture as they contemplate the way we hold one another in love and grief.

Requeening is a vivid and surprising collection of poems from a winner of the National Poetry Series Open Competition. 

About Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore
 is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New PoetsZZYZVA, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting; a poetry editor at Women’s Voices for Change; and a reader for VIDA Review and Bull City Press. She is also a high school English teacher and lives by the ocean in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter.

About Benjamin Gucciardi
Benjamin Gucciardi
was born and raised in San Francisco. His first book, West Portal, (University of Utah Press, 2021), was selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry. He is also the author of the chapbooks Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage (Quarterly West, 2021), winner of the 2020 Quarterly West Chapbook contest, and I Ask My Sister’s Ghost (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in outlets such as AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, Orion Magazine and Poetry Daily. In addition to writing, he works with newcomer youth in Oakland, California.

About Shelley Wong
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, March 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize, and the chapbook RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts whose poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and The New Republic, and are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2021 and They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets. She has taught creative writing at the Ohio State University; led workshops for Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, Asian Pacific Islander Equality Northern California, BreakBread Literacy Project, and University of California at San Francisco; and was the 2020 API Visiting Scholar at Pasadena City College. She holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BA from UC Berkeley.

 

Requeening: Poems By Amanda Moore Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063096288
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Published: Ecco - October 26th, 2021

“A rare feat for any book of poems, let alone a debut, in that the lines, wrought with such deft precision and care, mark the sum total of a life richly lived and felt at the seat of poetry...These poems care, first and foremost, for what they write of and through, which is a much needed—yet increasingly rare—achievement.” -- Ocean Vuong


West Portal By Benjamin Gucciardi Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781647690403
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Published: University of Utah Press - July 30th, 2021

Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
 
West Portal is the name of the neighborhood in San Francisco, California, where poet Benjamin Gucciardi grew up. It is also one of the names of the Pillars of Heracles—the entryway to the afterworld.


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