Palimpsest Press
is pleased to announce
A FRIEND SAILS IN ON A POEM
available for presale in Canada and the United States
For the last forty-six years, poets Molly Peacock and Phillis Levin have read and discussed nearly every poem they’ve written—an unparalleled friendship in poetry. Here Peacock traces the development of their ideas about poetry across their lifelong back-and-forth, quoting their poems, investigating their childhoods, personalities, writing habits, reading habits, and startling differences. She speculates about their challenges as they meet across seminar tables, kitchen tables, coffee, tea and restaurant tables from their twenties through their sixties and seventies.
A Friend Sails in on a Poem offers a charming, psychologically wise, and metaphorically piquant look at navigating craft, creativity, and companionship. This is a book both for serious poets as well as for anyone who wants a deep dive into the impact of friendship on art itself.
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Molly is happy to announce events for
~A Friend Sails in on a Poem ~Flower Diary
~The Penguin Book of the Sonnet & the documentary My So-Called Selfish Life
Online & in person ~New York City & Toronto
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Friday, October 14, 2022, 7pm ET Online
The 20th Anniversary of the Penguin Book of the Sonnet
sponsored by White Whale Bookstore
with editor Phillis Levin and guests Bruce Bond, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock & Jason Schneiderman
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 7pm, Toronto
My friends in Toronto, you are cordially invited
to a screening of
“My So-Called Selfish Life,”
followed by a Panel that I am honoured to be on
at 8:30pm
Filmmaker Therese Schechter of Trixie Films will moderate.
Innis Hall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave,Toronto ON M5S 1J5
The event is free.
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Thursday, October 27, 2pm ET Online
Art Your Service, a Virtual Community
for those 55 or Better
Creative Aging
Jen Tindall interviews Molly Peacock
about the writing of
FLOWER DIARY:
Mary Hiester Reid Paints,Travels, Marries & Opens a Door
Register in advance for this meeting
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. |
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Thursday, November 3,2022 at 6pm ET
The Corner Bookstore, New York City
Celebrates
A Friend Sails in on a Poem
with
Molly Peacock & Phillis Levin
in discussion
1313 Madison Avenue (at 95th Street) NY, NY 10128
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Sunday, November 13, 2022, 2-4pm, Toronto
Palimpsest Press
Celebrates
A Friend Sails in on a Poem
at
The Women's Art Association
23 Prince Arthur, Toronto, ON ON M5R 1B2
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Molly's been working in the Groden and the Peacock archives with the very valuable assistance of Emily McKibbon (standing in the truck as 93 boxes of the Michael Groden Archive are being loaded for Western University). That trusty yellow chair has seen a lot of archive action.
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