Poetry is Normal Presents

Please join us on YouTube live! for Poetry is Normal Presents. Lannie Stabile is our guest on January 16, 2024 at 6:30.

Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry and a back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Lannie was also named a 2020 Best of the Net finalist. Her debut poetry full-length, Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus, was published in 2021 by Cephalopress. Her fiction debut, Something Dead in Everything, is out now with ELJ Editions. Her latest book of poetry is The Inconvenience of Grief. Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile or her website www.lanniestabile.com.

In Lannie Stabile’s latest collection of poetry, The Inconvenience of Grief, we find a writer who has come into her own. Stabile builds upon the themes previously explored in her chapbooks, Little Masticated Darlings, Strange Furniture, and Hi Lonely, I’m Dad – family, intergenerational trauma, poverty, abuse, and loss – and brings a new perspective and maturity to her craft. Now with a family of her own and reeling from the sudden loss of her mother, we find an evolution from (understandable) anger, resentment & blame to something more tender, more vulnerable, more forgiving. The scope of this collection is immense & complex and asks the reader to reimagine the definition and nature of grief.

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