Author Talk + Book Signing w/ Julie Marie Wade at Novel in the Neighborhood

Come meet Florida International University Professor and published poet + creative non-fiction writer Julie Wade! Julie will do a reading from two of her poetry collections followed by an audience Q+A and book signing.

Quick Change Artist: Quick Change Artist is a postmodern paean to Whitman's pronouncement, "I am large, I contain multitudes." From her "Fortieth Birthday Poem," through a series of secular psalms, to a "slanted crown" of sonnets written during the global pandemic, Wade's speaker in Quick Change Artist never stops evolving, in content or in form. She traverses physical and social geographies, dropping pins across the overlapping maps of popular culture, politics, lesbian identity, marriage, and middle age. From odes to elegies, lineated free verse to haibun and prose poems, Quick Change Artist is a stylish and subversive collection that wears many hats and strikes many chords.

Skirted: The poems in SKIRTED glisten with precise and honest lines that chart how their queer speaker measures and crosses water in all its incarnations. Myth and memory intertwine to reveal the simultaneity of chasm and connection. In this dissonance, the discomfort of being a slowly ripping apart and reforming continent, Wade exposes new lyric heights pushed up from the grit and magma of realizing "impeccable geotropic design."