Spinner Publications is pleased to announce the release of a new book, After Moby-Dick: An Anthology of New Poetry, edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Kylan Rice. To celebrate its release, there will be two “Meet the Authors” events on the weekend of June 21–22. An initial book launch and signing will be held on Friday, June 21, at New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, and will include readings by editors Schultz and Rice, as well as by featured poets, Everett Hoagland and Laurie Robertson-Laurent. On Saturday, June 22, an author-signing will take place in Westport at Partner’s Village Store.
After Moby-Dick is an anthology that includes sixty-one poems—all written since 2000 by contemporary American poets. All works in the collection are inspired by Melville’s seafaring epic novel, Moby-Dick; and two of the featured authors are New Bedford poets previously published by Spinner—Laurie Robertson Lorant, author of The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals, and former New Bedford Poet Laureate, Everett Hoagland, author of This City and Other Poems, and Ocean Voices: An Anthology of Ocean Poems.
In assembling After Moby-Dick, the editors conducted a search for 21st-century poetry inspired by Melville’s novel. In response, poets submitted more than 100 poems, and the editors selected representations from thirty-four poets — a stunning and memorable result. Besides Hoagland and Robinson-Lorant, other nationally-known poets include Dan Beachy-Quick, Susan Howe, Jeffrey Yang, Rachel Richardson, and Jessica Cuello.
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