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National Poetry Month: Erica Reid

About Blog Post Apr 4, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
National Poetry Month: Erica Reid   Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian Our National Poetry Month poet for today is Erica Reid.  Reid's debut collection, "Ghost Man on Second," was just published by Autumn House Press. From the publisher's description: "Reid's stories create new homes in nature, in mythology, and in poetic forms-including sestinas, sonnets, and golden shovels-containers that create and hold new realizations and vantage points. Reid stands up to members of her family, asking for healing amid dissolving bonds." The collection was awarded the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize. Poet Mark Jarman, judge of the prize, said of the collection it "gives us grief and endurance, loss and joy, transmuted by the play of verse and imagination into poetry. Its thematic concerns deal with an absent father, suggested by the book’s title, the troubles and determination of a young mother alone, and how these conditions have affected their child. Dilemmas, hurts, yearnings, and elusive retrievals are magically changed by the poet’s sophisticated technical skill into living poems, works of art that invite reading and rereading." You can find an interview with the author discussing the collection on Rattlecast 235. Give it a watch, then check out "Ghost Man on Second" today!
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