Tuesday May 20th at 630PM
About Aspen:
As a full-time parent first and a writer as often as life allows, Aspen Everett is haunted by the casualties of modernity. Creating what they call Heathen Mythologies, Aspen hopes to return readers to reverence for the More-than-Human by creating new myths of mutualism. Aspen is the author of Tributaries, available from Middle Creek Publishing, an instructor with Lighthouse Writers, and chair of Geopoetics with Beyond Academia Free Skool. They live in Boulder, Colorado with their sixteen-year-old, beneath the shadow of Mt. Arapaho.
About Tributaries:
“Tributaries” is a pulse, a heartbeat of imprinted memories found within the land we all find ourselves in. Listen closely to the language of tree bark, owl howls, bison, coyotes, butterfly dreams. An eco-poetic journey that digs into the humanity and spirituality of nature and the one who travels its paths. As Everett writes, “My body is a land of limestone/karstic, hollow, just as malleable,/a living structure where the dead/carve their initials.” This is an encapsulation of what we swallow: animalia, hallucinogens, ancestral pain, all the maps we carry as we move on. It is a body nurtured by the trees, the mountains, and all the bodies of water. This collection is a tribute to the sounds and shifts that we sometimes forget to notice, and a testament to what transforms when we (finally) pay attention.
—Aimee Herman, author of Meant to Wake Up Feeling and To Go Without Blinking
About Sage:
Sage Marshall is a poet, essayist, and outdoors journalist from southwest Colorado. He has lived across the U.S. and currently resides in Western Montana. Marshall is a contributing writer and former editor of Field & Stream. His creative work has been featured in publications such as The Missouri Review, Sport Literate, swamp pink, and elsewhere. Echolocation (Middle Creek Publishing and Audio), his debut poetry collection, weaves the landscapes and ecologies of the American West against themes of violence, adolescence, and beauty. Check out more of his writing and drop him a line at www.SageMarshall.com.
About Echolocation:
"In this series, the body and the landscape are one. The night as well as our bodies are bruised; the fire on the hillside, which is watched like a drive-in movie, ends with ash in our mouths; the forgiveness we have swallowed turns to swallows bursting from deep thickets of grass. This is poetic echolocation. This is a sacred call and response between a writer and all the environments he inhabits."
—Alexander Shalom Joseph, author of Our Mother, The Mountain and Broken Light in a Burning Wood
"In Echolocation, Sage Marshall has crafted poems of brilliant reflection, finding his way through questions we all must ask of coming into our own, even when answers can be held but briefly. Marshall’s poems are vulnerable and inspired, acutely aware of both the beauty we inherit of the world and the pain we inflict on ourselves and others. This is a remarkable debut."
—Erin Block, Author of How You Walk Alone in the Dark, winner of the Colorado Book Award
"Tough and bloody, full of the grit of real life, of lives lived close to the land, lives lived in struggle and brotherly competition and the great stakes of father and son relationships, Sage Marshall’s debut, Echolocation, still manages to be a book of deep tenderness, of love and honor and the wisdom of hard years and the natural world."
—Joe Wilkins, author of Thieve and When We Were Birds, winner of the of the Oregon Book Award
