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The Friday Collapse: March 2022

The Friday Collapse March reading

Please join us for The Friday Collapse, a monthly virtual reading series with featured poets and open mic. Hosted by Paul Corman Roberts and E. Lynn Alexander, this series brings poets together from all over to transcend the typical barriers of geography, travel, and access. We typically post the event details on the Collapse Press Facebook page and instagram @collapsepress. The vent is hosted on zoom with a livestream on Facebook. Our features for March are Ruth Crossman and Norm Mattox. This will be on Friday, March 25 at 9:30 EST and 6:30 Pacific.

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Book Launch: “deathaiku”

deathaiku book launch, poetry by Missy Church

Join Collapse Press and a great line up of featured poets for the virtual launch of “deathaiku” by Missy Church on Saturday, March 12, 2022. This event will be hosted by Collapse Press on zoom and on facebook live, streamed on the Collapse Press facebook page. The featured poets for the evening will be Andrew J. Thomas, Carla Christensen, Youssef Alaoui, Vaughan Barrow, and the author herself- Missy Church. There will be information about purchasing the book during the show. If you miss it, the recording will be available on the facebook page after it streams live.

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“Deathaiku” by Missy Church- Out Now!

Deathaiku by Missy CHurch

Collapse Press is pleased to announce the release of “Deathaiku”, by poet Missy Church.
“It takes the spirit of a death doula and the soulfulness of her carefully enlisted imagery to capture the dichotomous dance that is life and death, shadow and light. In DEATHAIKU, Missy Church divulges the seasons of the departed, the “eyes of death’s final cold sigh” while syllables later, she signals a sun that “rises soft,” breath of a baby and an ancestor within the Law of Three – so appropriately held in haiku structure.
In an era where more than ever, death seems to have the last word, Church bears a lantern for every reader wandering the veil, with eloquent yet humble diction that respects grief and loss while making room for new life, for the living who harbor light in the memory. DEATHAIKU is a necessary read for anyone who values a cycle we cannot escape.”
– K.R. Morrison, poet and educator, author of Cauldrons

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