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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Purchase: The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020)
Read: poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" (Ice Floe Press)
upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist dreaming of romanticisms and revolutionary coups. he is the author of 3 chapbooks and 3 full-length collections of poetry, Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), and The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023); a fourth collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in Fall 2025. he is a former co-founder of the defunct literary journal, Mythium, as well as the former co-owner of The Wild Fig Books & Coffee. currently, he serves as the in-house designer for Workhorse Publishing. upfromsumdirt resides in Lexington with his fellow Affrilachian Poet partner, author & college professor, Crystal Wilkinson.
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Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
--
Purchase: The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020)
Read: poems from "Fayre Gabbro Suite" (Ice Floe Press)
upfromsumdirt is a speculative poet & visual artist dreaming of romanticisms and revolutionary coups. he is the author of 3 chapbooks and 3 full-length collections of poetry, Deifying A Total Darkness (Harry Tankoos Books, 2020), To Emit Teal (Broadstone Books, 2020), and The Second Stop Is Jupiter (Wayne State University Press, 2023); a fourth collection, The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife, is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky in Fall 2025. he is a former co-founder of the defunct literary journal, Mythium, as well as the former co-owner of The Wild Fig Books & Coffee. currently, he serves as the in-house designer for Workhorse Publishing. upfromsumdirt resides in Lexington with his fellow Affrilachian Poet partner, author & college professor, Crystal Wilkinson.
Reading Recommendations:
Saida Agostini, let the dead in
Destiny Hemphill, motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo and "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra"
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