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Book Launch // Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Dont wash.

Join us for a celebration of Samuel Ace / Linda Smuklers Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Dont wash. (Belladonna* 2018), a timely republication of two poetry collections first issued in the mid-90s by Linda Smukler, and brought together here with a new introduction and poetry by Samuel Ace, as well as a collection of commemorative essays by a community of writers impacted by the works of Ace and Smukler both in the past and present.

For the occasion, Ace presents a sound performance and readings from Meet Me There, as well as his forthcoming collection Our Weather, Our Sea (Black Radish Books). He is joined by Ari Banias, Kay Gabriel, and Yanyi.

Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist, and the author of several books, most recently Our Weather Our Sea, (Black Radish Books, 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers and Firecracker Alternative Book awards, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry, PEN America, Best American Experimental Poetry, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts.

Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016). He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, NYFA, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Stanford University, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Ari lives in Berkeley and teaches in the Bay Area. His most recent chapbook, A Symmetry, was published by The Song Cave in 2018.

Kay Gabriel is the author of Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 (BOAAT Press, 2017), the finalist for the 2016 BOAAT Chapbook Prize selected by Richard Siken. Shes a PhD candidate at Princeton University and a 2018-19 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow at the Poetry Project.

Yanyi is associate editor at Foundry and the recipient of fellowships from Asian American Writers Workshop and Poets House. He won the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, awarded by Carl Phillips, for The Year of Blue Water (Yale University Press, 2019). Find him at yanyiii.com.