UPCOMING READINGS (with James Crews and Dede Cummings)
09/14 Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
10/16 Books Are Magic - Brooklyn, New York
(see Poetry page for list of past readings)
“How fierce and resilient, what a tremendous and tender heart. Clothesline Religion is gorgeous, powerful. I was utterly enrapt, reading it out in the yard under the full sun. And transformed—the book inspired me to take my own daughter out of school for a road trip, time for just her and I. Mother and daughter.” —Robin MacArthur, author of Half Wild
“Clothesline Religion offers each reader a chance to hang out in the opened air with the extraordinary Megan Buchanan. Each poem has a lived-in magic, longing transformed by candor, and candor, by music.” —Verandah Porche, author of Sudden Eden
“We need to coin a word for the feeling that happens when I read these poems. It’s singular and ecstatic and huge. It’s in my chest, near my heart. It makes me want to yell, but instead I remain silent and still inside of it, this feeling. I could stay here forever.” —Rachel Yoder, editor of draft, author of Infinite Things All At Once
“Megan Buchanan finds the sacred in the everyday and offers poems as fierce evidence, each one ‘naked as a hot pancake.’ This collection reminds us that the inevitable heartbreaks of being a person can provoke a more vivid awareness of the world around us, so that we see ‘the kid/across the teeter-totter’ and witness the hummingbirds’ ‘last sips before flying back to cacti in bisbee.’ What could be more enviable than to be ‘entirely possessed/by an ordinary magic’?” —Matthew Burgess, PhD, author of Slippers for Elsewhere and Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings
“Megan Buchanan manages to pack lines with beauty while simultaneously honing them to a sharp, succinct edge. Her work has sinew and muscle and yet extends an open hand.” —Tim McKee, director of publishing, North Atlantic Books
09/14 Battenkill Books - Cambridge, New York
10/16 Books Are Magic - Brooklyn, New York
(see Poetry page for list of past readings)
“How fierce and resilient, what a tremendous and tender heart. Clothesline Religion is gorgeous, powerful. I was utterly enrapt, reading it out in the yard under the full sun. And transformed—the book inspired me to take my own daughter out of school for a road trip, time for just her and I. Mother and daughter.” —Robin MacArthur, author of Half Wild
“Clothesline Religion offers each reader a chance to hang out in the opened air with the extraordinary Megan Buchanan. Each poem has a lived-in magic, longing transformed by candor, and candor, by music.” —Verandah Porche, author of Sudden Eden
“We need to coin a word for the feeling that happens when I read these poems. It’s singular and ecstatic and huge. It’s in my chest, near my heart. It makes me want to yell, but instead I remain silent and still inside of it, this feeling. I could stay here forever.” —Rachel Yoder, editor of draft, author of Infinite Things All At Once
“Megan Buchanan finds the sacred in the everyday and offers poems as fierce evidence, each one ‘naked as a hot pancake.’ This collection reminds us that the inevitable heartbreaks of being a person can provoke a more vivid awareness of the world around us, so that we see ‘the kid/across the teeter-totter’ and witness the hummingbirds’ ‘last sips before flying back to cacti in bisbee.’ What could be more enviable than to be ‘entirely possessed/by an ordinary magic’?” —Matthew Burgess, PhD, author of Slippers for Elsewhere and Enormous Smallness: A Story of E. E. Cummings
“Megan Buchanan manages to pack lines with beauty while simultaneously honing them to a sharp, succinct edge. Her work has sinew and muscle and yet extends an open hand.” —Tim McKee, director of publishing, North Atlantic Books
