1455 Literary Arts and The Potter’s House are excited to have poet, Dan Brady read from Songs in E——.

1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy will speak with Dan about this book and the craft of poetry, followed by a Q&A.

ABOUT Songs in E———.

The vagaries of faith and desire are transliterated into the philosophical and revelatory in this playful Winner of the Barclay Prize for Poetry.

Songs in E————, Dan Brady ran Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and Robert Browning’s “One Word More” through an unreliable internet translator into Portuguese and then back into English. The resulting raw material was reshaped into the two poem sequences that make up this strange and startling collection.

“The poems in Songs in E———— are love missives, meditations on mortality and desire, at once elegiac and playful. Dan Brady writes about love and conscience and forgiveness through the lens of a philosopher and then creates such beauty by turning everything upside down and looking at it again. Section by section, poem by poem, line by line, these poems reimagine and dismantle what it means to love each other in multiple voices. ‘Heartbreak makes adults of us’ Brady writes, and this book is going to grow us all up.”

—W. TODD KANEKO, author of This Is How the Bone Sings

ABOUT Dan

Dan Brady is the author of two poetry collections, Strange Children (2018) and Subtexts (2022), along with two poetry chapbooks. He is the long-time poetry editor of Barrelhouse. Previously, he served as the editor of American Poets, the journal of the Academy of American Poets, and worked in the Literature Division at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he received a Distinguished Service Award for his work on the Big Read, the largest community reading initiative in US history. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife and two kids.

Website:  danbrady.org
Twitter:   @danbrady82

ABOUT 1455

At 1455, storytellers are sacred, and we’re dedicated to showcasing the written word and other forms of creative expression. Curating community through year-round free programming, 1455 connects art and audience via intimate conversations and the promotion of diverse voices. Taking our name from the year Gutenberg’s printing press helped democratize content on a global scale, 1455 continues the tradition of using technology to advance an understanding and appreciation of impactful storytelling. 1455 exists to serve anyone who appreciates the arts and is interested in the sort of community commonly found only in academia or online book clubs. Every day, 1455 will augment the passion for the literary and creative arts in adults and young people through programs that sponsor expression, education, and sharing of stories.

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