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Pop-up: Meg E. Griffitts
General Admission Pass required for entry
Meg E. Griffitts pops-up in the Portland Art Museum galleries with her poetry collection, Hallucinating a Homestead.
Griffitts is paired with the artwork Living on the Moon by Reika Iwami; found in the Forces of Nature exhibit, on the 1st floor of the Portland Art Museum. Please reference the Portland Art Museum Map or the Portland Book Festival print program to find this location.
Praise for Hallucinating a Homestead (Winner of the 2020 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Traci Brimhall):
Hallucinating a Homestead is astonishing. From its first urgent poem through all the formally playful and surreal poems thereafter, this collection surprises at every turn. Both abundant and elliptical, these poems have all the hallmarks of a fairytale, but more than one wolf and witch resides here. Griffitts’ amplitude suffuses every line with surreal images and darkly joyful leaps into a hundred unknowns. Here, where “body becomes word,” the mouth is a weapon of both attack and defense. Pain is a raw material waiting to be used, waiting to be spun into something transformed, something that can be held, and maybe even forgiven. — Traci Brimhall, Contest Judge and author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod and Saudade
The poems in Hallucinating a Homestead are the megafauna of the poetry landscape, altering the air around them. Each one brims with the startling and the sensuous, from “a stone fruit in the mouth of a doe” to “the dark hours of my stockings.” Ferociously unapologetic for their ferocious femininity, these poems by Meg Griffitts muscle their way into the muscle of your heart. — Cecily Parks, author of O’Nights and Field Folly Snow
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