Thresh & Hold: a poetry reading, book signing and Q&A with Winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.

About this event

Thresh & Hold is the newest work by 2021 winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize Marlanda Dekine. Dekine will read poems from her work and engage in a lively discussion + Q&A moderated by Faraday Publishing founder and winner of the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for Poetry Enzo Silon Surin. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase Thresh & Hold and get their copy of the work signed by Marlanda Dekine.

ABOUT MARLANDA & THE BOOK

"Marlanda Dekine's debut collection is a holy, radical unlearning and reclamation of self. What does it mean to be a Gullah-Geechee descendant from a rural place where a third of the nation's founding wealth was harvested by trafficked West and Central Africans? Dekine's poems travel across age and time, signaling that both the past and future exist in the present. Through erasure and persona, Dekine reimagines and calls to task the Works Progress Administration narratives, modern-day museums, and intergenerational traumas. Beyond gospel music, fear, and the stories of generations past, Thresh & Hold offers magic, healing, and innovative pathways to manifest intimacy. Dekine remembers, remakes, and brings forth their many selves, traveling far in order to deeply connect to a spiritual home within and all around them, calling: "I am listening to Spirit. I am not dying today." Marlanda Dekine is the winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize"