Join us in welcoming Sara Cahill Marron in discussing her new book of poetry Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here with Kristin Ferragut, author of Escape Velocity!

About Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here:

Sara Cahill Marron’s Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here is a portrait of a world tottering, laid low by COVID-19 in particular, but also by our political fragmentation. Echoes of Yeats, Whitman, and Tennyson, but also experimental language are threaded throughout: "As if the heat is a thing/ you can hide from." Mother Earth personified speaks to us in CSS, HTML, and luxuriant elegiac language, urging shared humanity after the accusation: “My Mountains Could Care Less About You.” From its vividly drawn, lyrically rich title poem to its digitally coded dialogues this book rails against the futility of urban living, wails against societal inequalities and clutches its loved ones close amidst viral fears. Susana H. Case, author of Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books) writes: this “cutely romantic but somewhat bewildered Apple product [...] carefully warns us, ‘some will die,’ and ‘Kiss10100love’ the screen says, despite the headlines.

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Sara Cahill Marron, a relocated New York poet and author living in Washington D.C., is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2021). She is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly. Her work has been published widely in literary magazines and journals, available at www.saracahillmarron.com.

Kristin Kowalski Ferragut teaches, plays guitar, hikes, supports her children in becoming who they are meant to be, and enjoys the vibrant writing community in the DMV. She is author of the full-length poetry collection Escape Velocity (Kelsay Books, 2021) and the children's book Becoming the Enchantress: A Magical Transgender Tale (Loving Healing Press, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Beltway Quarterly, Nightingale and Sparrow, Bourgeon, Mojave He[Art] Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Fledgling Rag, and Little Patuxent Review among others.

Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here and Escape Velocity are available at Lost City Books!