zpires

reading

2024

poetry

january

  • punks: new & selected poems by john keene
  • nick virgilio: a life in haiku by nick virgilio, edited and introduced by raffael de gruttola and afterward by kathleen o'toole
  • the slow horizon that breathes by dimitra kotoula and translated by maria nazos

february

  • tiller north by rosa lane

march

  • the twelfth of never by ciaran carson
  • they feed they lion by philip levine

april

  • the phonemes by frances richard
  • the magic my body becomes by jess rizkallah

nonfiction

february

  • hood feminism by mikki kendall

march

  • human + machine by paul r. daugherty, h. james wilson

fiction

march

  • house of leaves by mark z. danielewski
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2023

poetry

  • how to cure a ghost by fariha roisin
  • you better be lightning by andrea gibson
  • night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong
  • the autobiography of red by anne carson
  • tender buttons (objects) by gertrude stein
  • life on mars by tracy k smith
  • summer snow by robert sass
  • freedom house by kb brookins
  • bad poetry night by e. christopher clark
  • nox by anne carson
  • journey to the sun by brent cunningham
  • the hexagon by robert kelly
  • selected haiku by nicholas a. virgilio
  • tomorrow's living room by jason whitmarsh
  • a camouflage of specimens and garments by jennifer militello
  • the stranger manual by catie rosemurgy
  • annonciade by elizabeth spires
  • lyric sexology vol. 1 by trish salah
  • slow lightning by eduardo c. corral
  • parts and other parts by charles stein
  • good, clean mania: collected poems 2020-2022 by jasper ezekiel

fiction

  • annihilation by jeff vandermeer
  • authority by jeff vandermeer
  • acceptance by jeff vandermeer
  • freshwater by akwaeke emezi
  • illusions: the adventures of a reluctant messiah by richard bach

nonfiction

  • other minds by peter godfrey-smith
  • otherlands by thomas halliday
  • the art of language invention by david peterson
  • the art of fiction by john gardner