Emily Dickinson said poetry makes it feel like the top of your head has been taken off. Hold on to your heads! 🙆

This September, Pearl’s Books and Bee Balm Arkansas are creating space together, hosting this dual-poet reading, featuring Sy Hoahwah and Marisa P. Clark. 💞

🗺️ Sy Hoahwah’s Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma, “remarkably represents a Comanche-centric narrative that creatively migrates through our tribal geography and history. There is a hero’s journey in search of vengeance, justice, and redemption in a creative world that reflects our own mixed, and mixed-up, selves in search of something deeper and more meaningful as human beings.” —Dustin Tahmahkera

🦜 Marisa P. Clark’s BIRD “is not just a collection of poems—it’s an intimate and captivating conversation that unfolds across pages rich with the complexities of the human spirit. Her poetry navigates the multifaceted skies of love, family, childhood, identity, queerness, and self-discovery with vulnerability and resilience.” —Kelli Agodon