About Us Find a Book Selling Books Events Calendar Contact Us Home » Author Readings » Last Friday Poetry Group Presents: Jennifer Perrine Last Friday Poetry Group Presents: Jennifer Perrine Posted on Aug 20, 2019 in Author Readings, Author Signings, Poetry | 0 comments Join us for an evening with Jennifer Perrine, author of No Confession, No Mass. An open mic will follow this event. Please bring your poetry to read. Jennifer Perrine is the author of three books of poetry: No Confession, No Mass; In the Human Zoo; and The Body Is No Machine. Jennifer’s recent poetry and fiction appears in Arc Poetry Magazine, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, Literal Latte, and Valparaiso Fiction Review, as well as in Broadsided Press’ special folio, “Bearing Arms: Responding to Guns in American Culture.” Honors include the 2017 K. Margaret Grossman Fiction Award, the 2016 Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, and the 2015 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry. Jennifer lives in Portland, Oregon. Whether exploring the porous borders between sin and virtue or examining the lives of saints and mystics to find the human experiences in stories of the divine, the poems in NO CONFESSION, NO MASS move toward restoration and reunion. Jennifer Perrine’s poems ask what healing might be possible in the face of sexual and gendered violence worldwide—in New Delhi, in Steubenville, in Juárez, and in neighborhoods and homes never named in the news. The book reflects on our own complicity in violence, “not confessing, but unearthing” former selves who were brutal and brutalized—and treating them with compassion. As the poems work through these seeming paradoxes, they also find joy, celebrating transformations and second chances, whether after the failure of a marriage, the return of a reluctant soldier from war, or the everyday passage of time. Through the play of language in received forms—abecedarian, sonnet, ballad, ghazal, villanelle, ballade—and in free verse buzzing with assonance, alliteration, and rhyme, these poems sing their resistance to violence in all its forms. An Animal Book Look at our complete events calendar Store Locations & Hours Corvallis Book Bin 215 SW 4th St 541-752-0040 10am - 6pm daily Face masks are required. Buying counter open Tuesday-Saturday, by appointment only. Call the store or email corvbookbuyer@gmail.com to set up an appointment. __________________________________________ Salem Book Bin 450 Court St NE 503-361-1235 10am - 7pm daily Face masks are required. Buying counter open daily by appointment only. Call 503-361-1235 to set up an appointment. Author Events Last Friday Poetry Group Presents: Jennifer Perrine Second Saturday Storytime – Poetry Edition 2nd Annual Salem Poetry Festival! Nadene LeCheminant with The Gates of Eden Last Friday Poetry Group Presents: Terra Incognita Caroline Kurtz with A Road Called Down on Both Sides All content copyright of The Book Bin, Inc. 2014