Dobby Gibson and Sarah Fox read from their new poetry

Dobby Gibson reads from his new book It Becomes You--and Sarah Fox gives a sneak preview of her next collection, The First Flag.

Meditative, lyrical, aphoristic, and always leavened with a wry wit, the poems in Dobby Gibson’s It Becomes You
explore the divergent conditions by which we’re perpetually defined—the
daily weather, the fluctuations of the Dow, the growth of a cancer
cell, the politics of the day. What surrounds us becomes us, Gibson
suggests, in a book that will ultimately become you.

“Dobby Gibson’s poetry... is equal parts tender, triumphant, exhilarating, disturbing, and thought provoking: it’s fantastic.”--The Corresponder

Dobby Gibson is the author of two previous poetry books, Skirmish and Polar. He lives in Minneapolis.

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Affirmation, indictment, and essay, The First Flag resists the confines an insidious patriarchy places on our bodies, sexualities, and selves.

“The First Flag
is a mystic alimentary, blood, bone, and pearl poetics—utterly engaging
in its seductive conversational tone. … Her sentences deliver. It’s not
just that her language is a trip; she is really saying something you
find you want to hear all the way down. And the footnotes are
delightful.”--Nor Hall

Sarah Fox co-imagines
the Center for Visionary Poetics, serves as a doula, and is a teacher
of poetry and creative writing. She contributes posts on feminism,
mysticism, astrology, and poetics to the blog Montevidayo
and has won grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the Bush Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota
State Arts Board, among others. Coffee House Press published her debut
collection, Because Why, in 2006.