Jennifer Firestone, Assistant Professor of Literary Studies has had a book of poetry published by Belladonna* Collaborative. In dialogue with Emily Dickinson and other voices from the past, Gates & Fields maps a poetics of meditation and disjuncture, where loss is inconceivable and language, faith and the rituals of grief fall short. Gates and Fields demands an attention to the dead, the dying and those left behind.
http://www.belladonnaseries.org/gates-fields/
Since publication, the book has been reviewed in the following:
The Chicago Review of Books
Hyperallergic
Publishers Weekly
Tarpaulin Sky
Jill Magi’s Blog
Rob McLennan’s Blog
Gates & Fields was also selected by CAConrad for The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet 2017 reading list
An excerpt from Gates & Fields was selected for Poem-a-Day
And the wonderful poet Danniel Schoonebeek has created this new website for me http://jenniferfirestone.net
Take a look at this video of 25 poets reading from Gates & Fields!
Lang Alumni Emily Skillings (The Arts and Literary Studies, ’10) was one of the editors for this book. It was a nice full-circle experience in that Jennifer introduced Emily to Belladonna* Collaborative through her class. From there Emily began interning and then became a full board member. Emily will publish her first, full-length collection of poems, Fort Not, this fall.
