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Gabrielle! Gabrielle! And Gabrielle!
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Gabrielle! Gabrielle! And Gabrielle!

by Writ Large Press
written by Writ Large Press

Congratulations to Gabrielle Civil for getting on the longlist of The Believer Book Awards in the Non-Fiction category for Experiments in Joy.

She talks about her amazing book, her work and other dope ass things with Jeff Alessandrelli over at Full Stop.

Yes, vulnerability is definitely a big part of Experiments in Joy. I mention my lost fertility in the book, messages I received as a girl about my body, and certainly the piece with Moe brings in love, sexuality, anger, and desire. The use of the letter form helped these vulnerable topics appear organically in my writing.  So in my letter to Moe, I can both proclaim: “I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT” and go ahead and talk about it anyway.

Gabrielle also speaks on joy, especially during COVID-19 times at Playwrights’ Center.

What is irresistible to us?

Black feminist joy is uplifting survival and possibility.

Black feminist joy is transformation.

Black feminist joy is not a feeling but a practice.

And finally, here’s some Gabrielle video of her reading from Experiments in Joy for the Poetry Project. Enjoy.

 

henry hoke
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Watch Henry Hoke Read an Excerpt from ‘The Book of Endless Sleepovers’

by CCM
written by CCM

#CopingWith is CCM’s interview series run by managing editor Joanna C. Valente

Henry Hoke’s book,”The Book of Endless Sleepovers” came out on October 31, 2016 from CCM. Of the book, Maggie Nelson has said, “I love how Henry Hoke plays fast and loose with autobiography and genre. The Book of Endless Sleepovers is wry and finely-wrought, a philosophical fever dream studded with the pleasure of proper names and surprising turns of phrase, a lyric page-turner.”

Watch Henry read a clip below. Don’t forget to read his full interview here.

henry hokeHenry Hoke was a child in the South and an adult in New York and California. He authored The Book of Endless Sleepovers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and Genevieves(winner of the Subito Press prose contest, forthcoming 2017). Some of his stories appear in The Collagist, PANK, Gigantic and Carve. He co-created and directs Enter>text, a living literary journal.