Sebastian Merrill will read from GHOST :: SEEDS with Meg Reynolds, author of Does the Earth (Harpoon Books, 2023), at Antidote Books in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Sebastian Merrill’s debut, GHOST :: SEEDS, incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity. The central tension of this book-length poem is a dialogue between a transmasculine speaker and a figure that he conceptualizes as his ghost, the girl-ghost of the self that he left behind to become the person he is today. Putting a queer spin on the myth of Persephone, the girl-ghost speaks from an underworld lit by glowworms, cut through by dark rivers, and connected to the world above through a sea cave.

Meg Reynolds is a poet, artist, and teacher from New England. As an instructor in writing and humanities, her work has been published in many literary journals including Mid-American Review, RHINO, The Offing, Iterant, amongst others. A graduate of the Stonecoast MFA program, her collection of poetry comics, A Comic Year, was published in October 2021 from Finishing Line Press.