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Reading: Sherri Levine and Elisa Carlsen
About I Remember Not Sleeping:
In Sherri Levine's I Remember Not Sleeping time and space collapses like a star. This poem is good company for anyone who has struggled with mental health, for anyone who has felt alone, for anyone being bounced around in the sea of life. Which is to say, it’s a poem for all of us. —Matthew Dickman, author of Husbandry
Sherri Levine believes that poetry saves lives. She is a poet, a mental health advocate, a teacher, a former poetry series host, and a squirrel lover living in Portland. Her poem "Facedown" won the Lois Cranston Memorial Prize. She also won First Prize (Poet's Choice) in the OPA Contest. Sherri has published the poetry collections In These Voices (Poetry Box 2018), Stealing Flowers from the Neighbors (Kelsay Press 2021), and A Joy to See (Just a Lark Books 2023)—an ekphrastic poetry book of prominent poets responding to her late mother's paintings. Her illustrated poetry book, I Remember Not Sleeping (Fernwood Press), will be released this year. She escaped the long harsh winters of upstate New York and has ever since been happily soaking in the Oregon rain.
About Cormorant:
Elisa Carlsen's Cormorant is a work of contrition. The poems are political and personal. A response to the federal government's plan to kill thousands of cormorants in the name of salmon recovery and a tribute to the person who died from heartbreak because of it.
Elisa Carlsen grew up in Humboldt County, Nevada. A queer, outsider poet and artist, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Trumpeter, Cirque, Argentum, Brushfire, Nevada Arts Council, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa's poems have won awards from the Writer's Guild of Astoria and the Oregon Poetry Association. She was a finalist for the Editor's Prize at Harbor Review and has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Elisa is a Poetry Editor at New American Press and the author of Cormorant (Unsolicited Press 2023), a short poetry collection addressing the human dimensions of a controversial salmon recovery project in the Pacific Northwest.
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