SHAME/less Launch Party
SHAME/less Launch Party 🎉
Come celebrate the launch of the new SHAME/less anthology with us!
SHAME/less brings together forty-nine poems by forty poets from across the world in a collection that moves, with honesty and tenderness, from shame to shedding. This is your opportunity to hear some of the poets read their work from the anthology, learn more about the creation of the book, and giggle about embarrassing moments together.
Shame thrives in isolation — let's meet up to break the cycle and celebrate poetry as a way of healing and being vulnerable.
These poems speak the things we have learned to keep quiet. They sit with inherited wounds and bodily discomfort, with cultural expectations and the silent weight of not-quite-fitting. They find the absurd and even the comic in our most human moments of embarrassment. Some poems simply hold space for the unspeakable; others move towards resistance, release, and recognition.
Your ticket fee is contributing to covering the costs of creating the anthology. Thank you so much for your support!
The book can be purchased on Amazon: SHAME/less on Amazon
These are the readings that are currently planned for the Launch Party:
Ella B. Winters: Lovely
Kelly Grace Thomas: Is It True Marriage Makes the Body Soft?
Haley DiRenzo: In the Hot Spring Locker Room
Lexie Rose: Twenty Years Later, I Remember the Rabbit
Jill Crammond: After the Divorce
Candace Kronen: Shedding
Bri Staton: Portrait of a Hungover Woman Eating a Tomato Sandwich
Isabelle Correa: Little Death at the Dining Table
Pratiksha Ahuja: Only This
Heather Kays: "as the spirit wanes, the form appears."
Alina Kalontarov (tentative): Rationale For a Kiss You Didn’t Want
Sarah Thompson: In the Afternoon, As Delight Creeps In
Tanja Lau: The Thing With Gravity
A recording will be sent out, so you can rewatch the event in case you cannot make it.
We can't wait to celebrate the launch with you!