Join Us for a Virtual Reading and
Book Launch February 7, 7pm ET
Please join us for a virtual poetry reading and book launch with CPR authors Elizabeth C. Garcia and Jo Brachman on Friday, February 7th at 7pm ET. Hosted by Cider Press Review Poetry Editor Caleigh Stephens.
This is a FREE event. Pre-registration required. Please click here to link to the Zoom event information and pre-register.
Elizabeth C. Garcia reads from Resurrected Body, the winner of the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, published in August 2024.
Mario Chard writes: "How high motherhood ranks among the muses poets keep returning to matters little to the challenge poets face: how to make it new? Sing, as Elizabeth Garcia does, from the mouth of mothers who have become ‘an archive, / evidence of all the bodies [they have] given / and received.’ This is astounding work."
Jo Brachman reads from Prayers to a Small Stone, winner of the 2023 CPR Book Award and newly released in January, 2025.
Frank X. Gaspar writes: "Jo Brachman’s collection is wonderfully titled, and its poems know no boundaries, no maps, no roads, no signposts, and talk in a dream tongue that bears no translation. What stands out here is that Brachman is a poet who understands that familiar modes of navigation are useful but not necessarily enough. Prayers, indeed. To a small stone? Yes. And this reader would add, prayer to something far more, and perhaps, except for the art of poetry, unsayable."
