ERIN L. MILLER

Brute, Emily Skaja, Graywolf Press (2019) Winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, selected by Joy Harjo Emily Skaja’s Brute explores the things a person learns about herself while navigating the close of an emotionally complex relationship. The speaker is at times savage and raw, other times sophisticated, sober. While the “brute” in the title speaks to the non-human she is with him and the bright animal she becomes after, it may also allude t

One of the main efforts of the Charlotte Center for Literary Arts is bringing art to the public eye. Their primary focus is in the literary arts (as evident by their name) but they promote visual artists as well. Last Friday marked the latest poster release party for their quarterly 4x4CLT series. The project pairs four poems with four pieces of art on original posters that are displayed in over 40 venues across Charlotte. The event was hosted by The Light Factory, a local ga