Poetry and Essays with Hannah Bonner with Sarah Minor at Tattered Cover

Join us for a night of beautiful prose and essays with these two stunning authors as they share about their books on February 28th, 2025 at 6PM at our Colfax location!

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed copy of Another Woman by Hannah Bonner … OR
• A signed copy of Bright Archive by Sarah Minor … OR

• A 5$ Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have additional books for guests to purchase in store!

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT ANOTHER WOMAN

In the tradition of confessional and lyrical poets like Cynthia Cruz, Linda Gregg, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Wright, Another Woman explores female sexuality, anguish, and abjection within the decline of a romantic relationship as well as through biblical, mythical, or pop cultural figures such as Delilah, Aphrodite, or Karen Carpenter.

Through compressed prose and a fierce attentiveness to the natural landscape, Another Woman depicts the atomization of heartbreak with, what Dwight Garner writes of Frank Stanford's poetry, a "dirt-flecked" urgency. The collection culminates in new gradations and understandings of what it means to be a woman-and the multiplicity of selves that live within one body.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hannah Bonner's criticism has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Senses of Cinema, The Rumpus, and The Sewanee Review, among others. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and a graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA in creative nonfiction.

ABOUT BRIGHT ARCHIVE

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Women's Studies.

In Sarah Minor's adventurous and investigatory debut collection of essays, BRIGHT ARCHIVE, place and space are inextricably linked through an imaginative exploration of the patterns, shapes, and systems that alternately organize and disrupt our ordinary intimacies. From a recollection of a summer spent working in an Italian commune to the business of mollusks in Minor's grandparents' hometown in Iowa; from the history of the mapping of the Mississippi River to the mythologies of the image of "the lean;" from studies of soffits and hidden spaces to the freedom found at the top of an island birch tree, these essays reach beyond the classically confined trajectories of literary nonfiction.

Using elements of memoir, concrete poetry, archival research, interview, performance, and design in a radiant kaleidoscope of storytelling, the essays in BRIGHT ARCHIVE delight in challenging the reader's habits of interaction with the page and its possibilities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sarah Minor is the author of The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated, a digital chapbook from Essay Press. Her work has appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Diagram, Mid-American Review, and was selected for the 2018 Barthelme Prize and featured in Gulf Coast. She serves as the video editor at TriQuarterly Review, a contributing editor at Essay Daily, and as Assistant Director of the Cleveland Drafts Literary Festival. Sarah holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Ohio University. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she teaches as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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