UNMET by stephanie roberts
Drawing on a wide range of poetics, from Wallace Stevens to Tony Hoagland and Diane Seuss, roberts's musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality, respectability politics, intimate partner, and ecological crisis, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what could be, negotiating the past without losing hope for the future. (From Biblioasis)
UNMET is available in April 2025.
stephanie roberts was born in Panama, raised in Brooklyn and has lived most of her adult life in Quebec. Her poetry collection, rushes from the river disappointment, was a finalist for the 2020 Quebec Writers' Federation's literary award 's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. She received the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence and is a grantee of the Canada Council of the Arts. Her work is featured throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe.
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