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“I felt like someone was talking to me and I had to write it down.” Natashia Deón talks about vivid dreams and how events from her life inspired the opening lines of her debut novel, Grace (Counterpoint, 2016), in episode 1 of Are You There, Ghost? It’s Me, Chiwan with host Chiwan Choi. Deón’s second novel, The Perishing (Counterpoint, 2021), is featured in Page One in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Fiction | Natashia Deón | Grace | The Perishing | Counterpoint Press | 2021 | Chiwan Choi | ghosts | Page One | November/December 2021 -
“I could say grace was a woman with time on her hands, or a white buffalo escaped from memory. But in that dingy light it was a promise of balance,” reads Joy Harjo from her poem “Grace” in this 2019 reading at the offices of the Academy of American Poets.
Tags: Poetry | Joy Harjo | Grace | Academy of American Poets | poet laureate | 2019 | September/October 2021