It is one of the most important books I’ve read this year. One I will return to again and again.
“Writing helps me expose disparate fragments and make new wholes.”
Nancy L Meyer, she/her, intrepid cyclist and grandmother of five lives in the unceded Ohlone lands of San Francisco. She has published in nine anthologies and over 50 journals including: Tupelo Quarterly, Feral, Museum of Americana, and the Colorado, Laurel, McNeese, and Sugar House Reviews. Recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency.
Her first full-length collection, The Stoop and The Steeple, will be published in Fall 2024 by Frog on the Moon.
In The Stoop and the Steeple Nancy introduces us to Mel, a Jamaican artist she met on a New York stoop, and Zebulon, a man her ancestors enslaved in Massachusetts, a man who climbed a steeple and crowed! Nancy and Mel married for 15 years, raised a son, divorced. Zebulon ran away, was captured and sold.
Nancy’s poems reveal complexities of race and power through intimate family moments, imagined dialog with her ancestors, and searing encounters with herself.
