On Saturday, June 20, Methow Press will host a virtual release party for Blue Hunger, the new collection from Subhaga Crystal Bacon. The title is taken from the poem of the same name, which Subhaga workshopped with Confluence Poets.

The virtual release party will open with an interview with Subhaga, conducted by publisher (and fellow Confluence Poet) Greg Wright, followed by readings from Blue Hunger. It will conclude with moderated Q&A.

To participate, use the following Zoom meeting link. The event will begin at 4 PM Pacific time, Saturday June 20.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88476336916

Visit the Confluence Poets Facebook page to watch a series of other readings Subhaga has done from the new collection. It can be pre-ordered now via the Confluence Poets store.

“Initially, the poems in Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s in this collection show her keen eye for delivering the natural world. It’s tempting to think of her as a naturalist, but as her book progresses it becomes clear that, more broadly, she’s a human nature poet; poems of love and loss and community occur with the same acute precision. For example, in ‘Awake at Night’ (one of her complicated love poems) she begins this way, ‘I feel beautiful, young and dying / as the cricket song lifts and calls / and you are far away. No happiness / like this. The maples launch /their spinning seeds, such joy / in the deep air…’ All in all, a wonderful collection.” ~Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pagan Virtues