Poetry Reading with Jake Skeets
Join the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for a poetry reading with Jake Skeets on First Friday, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4, at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore (1738 E McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85006),
While encouraged, RSVPs are purely for the purposes of monitoring attendance, gauging interest, and communicating information about parking, directions, and other aspects of the event. You do not have to register or RSVP to attend this event. This event is open to the public and free.
The Piper Writers Studio will also be presenting Energy and Poetry, a class with Jake Skeets, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 5, at the ASU Tempe campus Piper Writers House. To learn more about Jake Skeets' class, visit our website at https://piper.asu.edu/classes/jake-skeets/energy-and-poetry.
About the Book
Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, "Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers" is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros.
Sculptural, ambitious, and defiantly vulnerable, the poems of "Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers" are coal that remains coal, despite the forces that conspire for diamond, for electricity. (Milkweed Editions)
About the Author
Jake Skeets is Black Streak Wood, born for Water's Edge. He is Diné from the Navajo Nation. A graduate of the Low-Rez IAIA MFA program, he currently resides in the Navajo Nation and works at Diné College. He is one of the winners of the 2018 "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize. His debut poetry collection, "Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers," was selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner for the 2018 National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Milkweed in September 2019.