A celebration of the publication of GHOST :: SEEDS by Sebastian Merrill, winner of the 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize from Texas Review Press and the 2022 Levis Prize in Poetry from Friends of Writers. Featuring readings by Leslie Sainz and Dane Slutzky as well as an author Q&A.

About the book:
Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, 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.

Books will be available for purchase and signing.