Poetry & Living Life in the Red
Past Event
Thursday, October 12, 2023 4:30 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor, Fenwick Library, 4348 Chesapeake River Lane, Fairfax
In their innovative poetry collection, Negative Money, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram pushes the binary thresholds of life: racial and gender identity, love and loneliness, and more, as well as the exhaustion created by these oppressive, constraining systems. Publishers Weekly says, “Bertram blends irreverence, honesty, and formal play in poems that bear witness to the precarity of living on the margins of society . . . This profound book will stir readers into necessary reflection.” Bertram is also the author of Travesty Generator, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
