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Hey friends! We have digital and physical copies of book of provocations by mónica teresa ortiz available for review. If you're a book reviewer, book buyer, librarian, and literary mover & shaker & you need a copy, email us at: editors [at] hostpublications [dot] com!

🎉 TONIGHT at ALIENATED MAJESTY | 7PM

🦪 Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu!

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

✨ Survived By pre-orders will be signed by Stephanie Niu tomorrow afternoon (& ship out early next week)! Order now to make sure receive a signed copy + a custom pencil by + a limited-edition postcard + a playlist curated by Stephanie! ✨

🌊Welcome to Season 5 of The Host Dispatch!! 🌊

We can’t think of a better way to kick off the new season than this conversation with Stephanie Niu—the most recent winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize! 🐚

Stephanie’s chapbook SURVIVED BY is a mesmerizing collection of poems, full of grief and wonder in equal measure. Niu’s work explores ecopoetics as we’ve never encountered before, maps and visual poems create a kind of “atlas of disappearance” centered around the species of Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, and the place of origin of many poems in this collection.

🐚 We talked about the shell wall at the American Museum of Natural History, the connections between poetic and scientific worldviews, what poetry as “atlas” might mean, and much, much more!

This conversation was dreamy, scholarly and enlightening, and through it we’ve come to love Stephanie and her chapbook in a whole new way 🥹💙

We hope you enjoy S. 5 Ep. 1: “In Conversation with Stephanie Niu” available now, wherever you listen 🎧

🐚 Party Alert: Host Publications is proud to celebrate the launch of Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance by Stephanie Niu next Friday (Feb. 23rd, 7pm) at

✨ Featured readers include: Stephanie Niu, cloud deflina cardona, Bianca Alyssa Pérez, and Catherine Niu.

🐚 Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Niu’s poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost—from the fleeting raptures of childhood to the species nearing and beyond extinction.

✨ Hosted by editors Claire Bowman and Annar Veröld, audience members will have the chance to win chapbooks and an Alienated Majesty bookstore gift card.

🐚Free & open to all lovers of poetry. Masks are strongly encouraged.

💖 Dozens of great reasons to attend WORK Conference this Saturday with but we’re so thrilled to see will be doing the morning welcome! We hope to see you there!!!

💖 “Launched by Future Front in collaboration with TEXAS McCombs in January 2018, WORK emerged from genuine conversations between women and LGBTQ+ leaders in creative industries, tech, nonprofit communities, small business and the arts. Now, this one-day annual gathering serves as a moment to share stories, community-source inspiration and get real about the frameworks & skills required to do big work.”

💖 grab your tix at meetyouatwork.com

🎉 Thank you to all who visited our author signings! We sold out of copies of both: SURVIVED BY & TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICS by & !!!! Thank you for celebrating incredible poetry, happy reading!!!! 🎉

✨ 💙 Hi 🎉!!! The brilliant Stephanie Niu, author of SURVIVED BY: AN ATLAS OF DISAPPEARANCE will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! 💙✨

🎉 Tremendous gratitude to our hosts , our readers & friends & guests for a stellar reading last night! Our hearts are so full—we had an extraordinary time celebrating incredible poetry! 🎉

🩵✨ Hi 🎉!!! Dear poet & author of TH*****ME IN THE LAST TOYOTA CELICA & OTHER CIRCUS TRICKS, m. mick powell will be signing at BOOTH 3130 at today noon! ✨🩵