Hanging Loose Press will publish Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri
ERICA MIRIAM FABRI’S “IMPRESSIVE” FIRST COLLECTION IS PUBLISHED BY HANGING LOOSE PRESS
BROOKLYN – Hanging Loose Press will publish Dialect of a Skirt by Erica Miriam Fabri on November 26, 2009.
Erica Miriam Fabri is known around New York City for her work as a teaching artist as well as for her efforts leading teen and adult poetry-writing workshops in various library, prison, and community literacy programs. In both her writing and her teaching, Fabri’s work has often focused on the power of the female poetic voice. Her first full collection of poetry, Dialect of a Skirt, explores the role of women’s voices in poetry and popular culture through surprising, sharply-defined character studies which include celebrities (Marilyn Monroe, Joan Crawford), women behind celebrities (Madelyn Dunham, Barack
Obama’s grandmother), and the less familiar or unknown women who embody so much of our culture and life.
Fabri graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and received her MFA in poetry from The New School. Her work has appeared in The Texas Review, Hanging Loose, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The New York Quarterly and Good Foot
Magazine, among others. She has lectured and led seminars at Cooper Union School of Art, New York University, Columbia University and Penn State University. She is also a teaching artist, spoken word mentor and curriculum writer for Urban Word NYC; and she currently teaches creative writing and performance poetry at The School of Visual Arts,
at Pace University, and for the City University of New York (CUNY) at Hunter College and Baruch College.
This is her first book. Praise for Dialect of a Skirt
“These aren’t poems. They’re ball gowns.” —Rachel McKibbens
“Wouldn’t you like to know what happened when Marilyn Monroe made love to Joan Crawford? (Hint: a webbed foot was involved.)
Why the secular world is holy?
What Barack Obama’s grandmother thought?
What the poet said to the truck driver?
And why a fourteen-year-old girl would throw her newborn out a window?
In Erica’s impressive first collection we hear a myriad of characters speak–some hilarious, some ironic, some
tragic, and we can’t help but listen. And learn.” —Sharon Mesmer
“The poems in Dialect…are raw, honest, and built of a dance that takes place in trees. They are that kung fu. This first book of Fabri’s challenges the landscape of contemporary verse and makes us joyful for having followed her in the end.” —Roger
Bonair-Agard
ISBN: 978-1-934909-10-2 (pbk.) $18.00
Poetry, 88 pages
For more information call:
New York, Robert Hershon: 212 206-8465
Boston, Mark Pawlak: 617 491-6416
Copies can be ordered directly from Hanging Loose
Press for $18.00 + $4.00 postage and handling.
Order form at:
http://www.hangingloosepress.com/orderform.html
