Avid Poetry Series: Sarah Gordon for The Lost Thing

Avid Bookshop presents an Avid Poetry Series event featuring Sarah Gordon and her book of poetry, The Lost Thing. Hosted by Avid Poetry Series curator Hannah V Warren, this reading and conversation will take place on Thursday, March 17, 2022, from 7pm – 8pm ET via Zoom.

To attend, purchase a ticket (or scroll to the bottom of this page to request a no-cost ticket). You will receive a Zoom link via email at 6pm ET, one hour before the event begins at 7pm ET. (Don’t see it? Check your spam folder!) Please get your tickets early, as ticket sales will be cut off at 7pm ET on the day of the event (March 17, 2022).

We have 3 ticketing options:

Pay-What-You-Can ticket & book bundle (including a copy of The Lost Thing)
Pay-What-You-Can ticket only (no book)
No-cost ticket to get Zoom event access only (no book)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The Lost Thing is a collection of poems exploring absence and loss and the potential of language to witness that loss. These poems capture the certain fading away–of family, individuals, places, and emotions. The inevitable erasures of time are countered by poetry that is often startling and compelling, asserting the necessity for a clear-eyed sensibility that is both honest and humane. The poet steadfastly refuses to settle for a facile cheerfulness or inspiration. Her territory is wide-ranging, sometimes wry, and relentlessly probing, with an eye always to the ironic, the strange, and the downright curious. In images that are precise and memorable, Gordon’s poetry is hard-hitting and provocative, covering diverse subjects from the worlds of art, poetry, history, as well as the quotidian, topics often turned inside out to ensure the reader’s focus and renewed attention.

ABOUT THE POET:

Sarah Gordon, professor emerita at Georgia College in Milledgeville, is a widely published and award-winning poet, with work appearing in Christianity and Literature, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Confrontation, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of an earlier poetry collection, Distances, as well as Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia. A recipient of The Governor’s Award in the Humanities, Gordon lives in Athens, Georgia.

ABOUT THE AVID POETRY SERIES CURATOR:

Hannah V Warren is a doctoral student at the University of Georgia, where she studies poetry and speculative narratives. Her writing and research interests focus on monstrous aesthetics, post-apocalyptic literature, and representations of alterity. She is the author of two chapbooks: Southern Gothic Corpse Machine from Carrion Bloom Books (2022) and [re]construction of the necromancer from Sundress Publications (2020). Her works have appeared in Gulf Coast, Passages North, Crazyhorse, THRUSH, and Fairy Tale Review, among others.