“Restlessness, Reflection & Revolution”: Dana Levin, Jana Prikryl & Jenny Xie

Dana Levin’s Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, working in a variety of forms, calling on beloveds and ancestors, great thinkers and religions – convened by her own spun-of-light wisdom and intellectual hospitality. In Midwood: Poems, Jana Prikryl probes the notion of midlife, when past and future blur in the equidistance, balancing formal innovation with deeply personal reflections on love and sex and marriage and motherhood in new language for confronting our present moment. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, The Rupture Tense: Poems by Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Moderated by Carlene Sawyer, Executive Director of the Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation.

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