Poetry at Papercuts: All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock

Join us for a night of engaging poetry in celebration of Iain Haley Pollock's latest collection All The Possible Bodies! Pollock will join fellow poet Quintin Collins for a reading, conversation, and Q&amp;A. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of three poetry collections, Spit Back a Boy (2011), Ghost, Like a Place (Alice James, 2018), and All the Possible Bodies (Alice James, 2025). His poems have appeared in publications ranging from American Poetry Review to The New York Times Magazine. Pollock has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry, the Bim Ramke Prize for Poetry from Denver Quarterly, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award. He serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY. Quintin Collins (he/him) is a writer, editor, and associate director of the Solstice Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program. His work appears in many print and online publications, such as Sidereal Magazine, Superstition Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Solstice Literary Magazine, and others. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and the 2019 Atlantis Award from the Poet's Billow, Quintin's publishing accolades include multiple Best of the Net Nominations, and he was a finalist for the 2020 Redivider Beacon Street Prize. Steeped in the myths we spin about self, family, and nation, All the Possible Bodies grounds itself in the physical world with evocative imagery and deft narratives that reach out to pose larger questions about violence, America, racial justice, and personal and national identity. Pollock’s third collection is an intimate portrait of an emotionally candid speaker asking himself and the reader to consider who we are in our complexities. These poems explore our varied identities as Americans: the ways we treat one another, the value we assign to each others’ lives, and the persistent internal conflict that tugs between our desires and greater duty. How do we make peace with our hypocrisy and complicity in the social order that harms others and ourselves? Can and should we? Singular in its telling and universal in feeling, All the Possible Bodies seeks to answer this question through its examination of the complicated emotional and spiritual states characteristic of contemporary American life. Resilience abounds here, along with clarity of story-telling, musicality of lyric, and crispness of language and image.

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