The Center for Environmental Studies, English Department, Sustainability Office, and Fondren Library Green Team present a reading by poet Sasha West from her new book How to Abandon Ship.
According to Erika Meitner, “How to Abandon Ship is equal parts prophetic and apocalyptic, and Sasha West doesn’t shy away from the exigencies of the world: its floods and fires and earthquakes, its wars and disease and mass graves… How to Abandon Ship is a haunting book of grief and warning, but also one of caregiving and survival.”
Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship and Failure and I Bury the Body, winner of the National Poetry Series, a Texas Institute of Letters award, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Recent poems and interviews have appeared in American Poetry Review, Ecotone, Tupelo Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, Georgia Review, and the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. As part of eco-arts collaborative Hammonds + West, her multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize Michigan, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University, where she runs the Environmental Humanities program.