Join us for the launch of Paula Cisewski’s new poetry collection, Ceremonies for No Repair. She will be joined by poets Feng Sun Chen, Sarah Fox, Bridget Mendel, and Elisabeth Workman as well as musician Stephanie Was.

In Ceremonies for No Repair, Paula Cisewski challenges us to examine our grief for the depths of our care. Set in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, this hybrid of poetry, prose, and images is a collage of personal and universal sorrows: a surprise divorce, an uprising, a mother’s death in quarantine. Less narrative than aggregate, it is a book about staying present and moving both with and through. It is an accrual of small moments and actions that, together, gesture toward hope.