Book Launch with Poet Nicole Caruso Garcia In-Person
April is National Poetry Month. Please join us for the book launch of Oxblood by Nicole Caruso Garcia.
About the book:
How do you survive an act of sexual violence that is also an intimate emotional betrayal? Oxblood, Nicole Caruso Garcia’s debut poetry collection, testifies unflinchingly about the short- and long-term effects of a college student's rape by her fiancé. As the poet engages with this serious topic, her arsenal includes wit, wordplay, and even humor. The diverse structures of traditional received forms—the sonnet, the sestina, various French repeating forms, the Afghan landay, blues tercets—form interesting contrasts with free verse poems in this collection. Oxblood was a finalist for the 2022 Able Muse Book Award and the Richard Wilbur Award. So listen—and watch—as Garcia performs poems from the book that has been hailed as “a fierce and fearless debut by a breathtakingly gifted and badass poet.”
About the author:
Nicole Caruso Garcia is the author of Oxblood. Her work appears in the 2021 Best New Poets anthology, Plume, Rattle, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT that emphasizes diversity, inclusiveness, community, and artistic excellence for an international community of poets, students, and scholars. Learn more at poetrybytheseaconference.org and nicolecarusogarcia.com.
Books will be on sale.