"Hawk Parable: A Poetry Reading" 

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Tyler did a poetry reading from the collection Hawk Parable.

Hawk Parable begins with a family mystery and engages with the limits of historical knowledge. These poems explore a space between environmental crisis and a crisis of conscience.

 

Hawk Parable moves from a meditation on the author's grandfather's possible involvement in the Nagasaki mission and moves into poems that engage with the legacy of nuclear testing on our global environment. This book enacts what it means to encounter fragments--of historical records, family stories, and survivor accounts--through exploring a variety of forms. Hawk Parable seeks what it means to be human in the spaces between tragedy and beauty, loss and life, in the relationships between the lyric speaker, history, and personal memory.

 

 

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Tyler Mills is a multi-genre writer. She is the author of two award-winning collections of poetry, Hawk Parable, and Tongue Lyre. She is writing a collection of essays titled Afterimage, selections of which have recently appeared in AGNI, The Rumpus and Poetry, as well as a  poetry manuscript-in-progress titled Children of the Flood.

 

Tyler Mills is editor-in-chief of The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, an online magazine of new writing that she co-founded, and she has taught at universities in Maryland, Chicago, and New Mexico. She is on faculty at 24PearlStreet, the online writing program for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and lives in Brooklyn.

 

Learn more about Tyler Mills. 

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