Book Launch: Delilah McCrae and Book of Flowers

Join Hive Mind Books for the New York City launch of Book of Flowers, the debut poetry collection by writer Delilah McCrae. She’ll be joined for a reading by Lara Atallah & Chase Berggrun. After the reading, McCrae will sign copies of her book.

The Book of Flowers uses ecopoetic and surrealist imagery — as well as formal experimentation — to process grief in its many forms. McCrea explores the pain caused by losing a loved one, living on a dying Earth, and the violence queer and other marginalized bodies face through sharp imagery and cutting lines.

“The Book of Flowers is a vivid, touchable, and beautifully alive book of poems. Even when the poems ache, they are tender, and warm, there are whole worlds within them.” - Hanif Abdurraqib, author of The Crown Ain’t Worth Much

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ABOUT THE READERS

DELILAH MCCREA is a trans, anarchist poet living in Dearborn, Michigan. She loves the NBA and knows the lyrics to every Saintseneca song. Her work can be found in Vagabond City, Gordon Square Review, Petrichor, Night Coffee Lit, Hobart After Dark, and on her website.

LARA ATALLAH is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice explores the political dimensions of landscape, probing both the futility and fluidity of borders as manmade constructs. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally and is part of the NYU Langone Collection and the Met Museum, among others. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Camera Austria, Flash Art Italia, Koukash, 128Lit, among others. She is the author of Edge of Elysium, Vol.1 (Open Projects Press, 2019) and Exit signs on a seaside highway (Everybody Press, 2023)

CHASE BERGGRUN is a trans woman poet and educator. She is the author of R E D (Birds LLC, 2018), and the chapbook Somewhere a seagull (After Hours Editions, 2023). Her poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, , Poem-A-Day, , and elsewhere. She lives with her many houseplants in New York City.

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