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.
Watch
The Stoop and The Steeple Book Talk
(Organized with the Porter-Phelps Museum)
A book talk with author Nancy L. Meyer and PPH Board President Karen Sánchez-Eppler, hosted by the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum on Zoom, Tuesday, October 22, at 7:00 PM EST